T.I.M.E. 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.
During the past five years as part of the TIME initiative New Mexico Arts has spent $81,400 commissioning 44 works of art from 39 artists
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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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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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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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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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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