TIME Temporary Installations Made for the Environment
Each year, New Mexico Arts partners with a local community to commission up to ten temporary, visually engaging, and conceptually rich environmental artworks to be displayed for a short term exhibition in that community. The opening of the exhibit is often tied to another important community event. The artworks relate to a designated theme, and New Mexico Arts challenges artists to create environmental pieces that inspire, question, engage, and otherwise influence the citizens of and visitors to the host community. New Mexico Arts is interested in interactive art that encourages an audience response and transforms participants into active contributors to the creative process. The artworks are displayed for the length of the exhibit, and at the end of the exhibition they are disassembled and removed, leaving no trace of ever having existed.
TIME was inspired by the emerging public art trend to engage artists interested in creating more spontaneous and immediate artworks with short life-spans. New Mexico Arts hopes that this kind of project will engage both communities and artists in the public art process.
Since 2005, the TIME initiative New Mexico Arts has spent $131,300 commissioning 56 works of art from 46 artists
2010 - Buffalo Thunder "Green Technology/Innovation"
New Mexico Arts; Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino; The Hilton, and Pueblo of Pojoaque presented T.I.M.E. - Temporary Installations Made for the Environment at Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino from August to October 2010. New Mexican artists were invited to create temporary environmental artworks based on green technology and innovation. Seven artworks were exhibited in exterior locations at the Buffalo Thunder Resort and Casino. The artworks were displayed for over two months, and at the end of the exhibit were disassembled and removed, leaving no trace of ever having existed.
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2010 - Village Shops at Los Ranchos "Green Technology/Innovation"
New Mexico Arts; the Village of Los Ranchos; and the Village Shops at Los Ranchos presented T.I.M.E. - Temporary Installations Made for the Environment, at the Village Shops at Los Ranchos from August to September 2010. The exhibit marked the first appearance of the T.I.M.E. program in the greater Albuquerque Area, specifically the Village of Los Ranchos. The artworks were displayed for nearly two months, and at the end of the exhibit were disassembled and removed, leaving no trace of ever having existed.
New Mexico Arts partnered with Devdan Gallery and the Village Shops at Los Ranchos to commission five visually engaging and conceptually rich environmental artworks related to the theme of sustainability. The installations were displayed inside Devdan Art Gallery and Vernon's Hidden Valley Steakhouse, and in the outer courtyards of the Village Shops at Los Ranchos. The exhibit opening featured a community celebration and artist talks.
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2009 - Las Cruces "Regeneration"
New Mexico Arts, the City of Las Cruces Museums, and the Dona Ana Arts Council presented T.I.M.E. Temporary Installations Made for the Environment in Las Cruces in September and October 2009. The exhibit opened as part of the 16th annual Artshop in Las Cruces. Artists from Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas were invited to create temporary environmental artworks based on the theme regeneration.
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2008 - Carlsbad "Cielo"
New Mexico Arts and Carlsbad MainStreet presented the fourth annual T.I.M.E. Temporary Installations Made for the Environment in Carlsbad in fall 2008. New Mexican artists from throughout the state were invited to create temporary environmental artworks based on the theme cielo.
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2007 - Taos "Earth"
New Mexico Arts presented the third annual T.I.M.E. Temporary Installations Made for the Environment in Taos in fall 2007. New Mexican artists from throughout the state were invited to create temporary environmental artworks based on the theme of earth.
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2006 - Silver City "Alchemy "
New Mexico Arts presented the second annual T.I.M.E. ??? Temporary Installations Made for the Environment in Silver City. New Mexican artists from throughout the state created temporary, never-before-seen, environmental artworks based on the theme alchemy.
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2005 - Socorro "Migration"
New Mexico Arts commissioned ten temporary environmental artworks created by New Mexico artists that were exhibited in various locations in and around the county and town of Socorro.
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