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Take Another Look:
"Art You Counted!?"
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Join us for the second episode in this three-part series about the background behind, process of, and the future of the Albuquerque, Bernalillo County Public Art Census data and report.
In this episode, host joni palmer is joined by Sarena Ulibarri and Jocelyne Garcia to talk about their experience working as canvassers for the Public Art Census.
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Sarena Ulibarri is a speculative fiction author and editor from the American Southwest. Her short stories have appeared in Lightspeed, DreamForge, GigaNotoSaurus, Solarpunk Magazine, and elsewhere, and nonfiction essays have appeared in Strong Horizons and Grist. Two novellas were published in 2023: Another Life, from Stelliform Press, and Steel Tree, from Android Press.
As an anthologist, she has curated and published several international volumes of optimistic climate fiction: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018), Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters (2020), and Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures (2021).
Sarena was a canvasser for the 2024 Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Public Art Census.
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Jocelyne Garcia is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and architecture major, who champions the arts and possesses a range of talents. Her proficiency in the humanities, spirituality, environmental and social activism allows her to view life in America through a unique perspective as the daughter of Mexican migrants and descendant of Aztec roots.
Through her art, she aims to heal from past traumas and express herself creatively. Art is a reflection of the times in which the artist resides, a form of communication that transcends time and space. Her goal is to evoke emotion and raise awareness in the viewer's soul, to cultivate empathy and understanding for others' realities, and to bring light to the hidden truths that are often swept under the rug. She also leads watercolor classes at the Gutiérrez Hubbell House.
Jocelyne was a canvasser for the 2024 Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Public Art Census.
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In October 2023, the City and County Public Art Programs put out a call for local canvassers to help highlight all of the public art and creativity in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County.
To qualify, canvassers had to have a smart phone/device and attend a multi-day training session to learn how to spot public art, understand the public right of way, review how to read a map, and participate in mock canvassing.
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Canvassers catalogued artworks visible from the right-of-way, traversing all publicly accessible roads, streets, and alleyways. Note that canvassers did not traverse walking/biking trails, highways, freeways, or interstates.
There were over 25 local canvassers who traveled over 20,000 linear miles total between December 2023 and October 2024, uncovering 11,364 total public art works in our public spaces!
| | Public art takes on many faces as it reflects the makers and the community. That's why public art is defined broadly, making room for emergence, transformation, and interpretation. The public art categories for the study in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County was shaped by a local advisory committee to include: | |
- Architectural
- Performance Art
- Hand-Lettered Signage
- Mosaics
- Murals
- Stained Glass
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- General Signage
- Sculptural & Installation
- Graffiti
- Roadside Memorials & Descansos
- Tactical Urbanism
- Multiple Forms
- Unidentifiable
| | Bernalillo County is one of New Mexico's smallest and most populated counties. Bernalillo's 1,167 square miles stretch from just west of the Rio Puerco valley to the East Mountains, with the Rio Grande running through the center. | | |
The Public Art Census included canvassing of land grants and Pueblo and Navajo territories within Bernalillo County borders. City and County Public Art staff (Sherri Brueggemann, Noel Begay, and Kent Swanson) and Danicia Monét Malone with Rokh requested permission to extend the Public Art Census into the Cañón de Carnué and Chilili land grants as well as To'Hajiilee Chapter of the Navajo Nation and Isleta Pueblo.
Canvassing of the land grants and tribal lands took place in October 2024.
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Cañón de Carnué
Land in the Sandia Mountains that was granted in 1763 by Spanish colonizers to mestizo and genízaro families. Their descendants have resisted dispossession by the United States, asserting their ancestral right to steward the land.
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Chilili
Originally the site of a Tewa pueblo, the Mexican government granted this area of the Manzano foothills to Pueblo descendants in 1841. Grantee heirs today are known for vibrant Chicano culture and proud resistance to land sale and encroachment.
The Public Art Census study only canvassed the part of Chilili land grant within Bernalillo County borders.
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To'Hajiilee
The To'Hajiilee (Navajo: Tó Hajiileehé) Chapter of the Navajo Nation derive their name from a Navajo phrase meaning "drawing up water." The territory was established in 1864 after the Long Walk, a time of forced relocation of Navajo people. Today both Pueblo and Navajo people share the land.
While the territory extends beyond Bernalillo County to the north and east, only the section within Bernalillo County was canvassed for this project.
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Isleta Pueblo
This Tiwa pueblo was likely established in the 1300s on the west bank of the Rio Grande and given the name of "little island" during Spanish settlement in the 1600s. A collision of Indigenous and Spanish came to characterize the area, which lies along a number of important trails and trade routes.
The scope of this study includes only the section of Isleta Pueblo that lies within Bernalillo County.
| | Public Art Census Report, Videos, and More! | | |
The City of Albuquerque Public Art Urban Enhancement Division, in partnership with the Bernalillo County Public Art Program and Rokh are excited to announce that the 2024 Public Art Census report for Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico is live!
The Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM Public Art Census is the second comprehensive initiative of its kind ever conducted in the United States, after Marion County, IN.
For this study, public art was defined as artwork in the public realm, regardless of whether it is situated on public or private property, whether it is publicly or privately funded, or whether it is in the City's or County's Public Art Collections.
Learn more about the Public Art Census, report, and findings.
| | Learn more about the Public Art Census and the experience of the canvassers! | | Public Art Census Podcast Episodes | | |
Want to learn more about Rokh and the Public Art Census in Albuquerque, Bernalillo County? Check out these podcast episodes:
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