Public Art at the South Broadway Cultural Center

 

Shared Traditions: Mind, Body and Spirit, Native American Perspective, 1993

Artists: Norman Pacheco, with collaborators Arnold Puentes, Francis Rivera and Margaret Bagshaw-Tindel, and area youth

Temporary/portable mural, on long-term loan from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

Materials: Gesso primer, acrylic paint and matte medium, anti-graffiti coating on masonite, with wood surround

The overarching theme of the mural is of the importance of cultural survival for sustaining future generations. The circles in the composition represent various aspects of daily life, including the family unit, higher learning and technology, the traditional arts, government, earth-bound traditions, and future ingenuity.  Also represented are the planets and the solar system, day/night, and the seasons.

(Sister piece, Shared Traditions: Mind, Body and Spirit, Hispanic Perspective, is at

the John Marshall Senior Center on Walter, I believe?)

“© Norman Pacheco, Arnold Puentes, Francis Rivera and Margaret Bagshaw-Tinde, 1993, On Loan to the City of Albuquerque’s Public Art Program from the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center”

                                                           

 

Mestizaje, 1996

Artists: Design, Emanuel Martinez (Denver, Colorado); Muralist, Leopoldo Romero (Albuquerque); Muralist Coordinator, Rudy Miera (Albuquerque); with students Roxanna Haynes, Victoria Chavez Sparks, Andrew Barrios, and McRae Heard

Temporary/portable mural.

Materials: Gesso primer, acrylic paint and matte medium, anti-graffiti coating on masonite, with wood surround

Commissioned as part of the 4th Annual Hispanic Heritage Festival, 1996.

Recreated mural installed December 2007.

Oneness of Dance, 1995

Artist: Bernadette Vigil

Materials: Buon fresco

“Illustrates the rich and distinct folk dance traditions of residents of the South Broadway communities,” and the midnight blue sky unites all cultures, like the “oneness of dance.”

Includes an Aztec dancer (center), Eagle Dancer (lower left), Flamenco dancer (center left), African dancers (top left), Ballet Folklorico/blended Indigenous/Spanish bailadores (upper right), Apache dancer (center right), and Asian dance (bottom right).

Marquee, 1994

Artist: Robert Woltman

Tile Artist: Maria Baca, with neighborhood children

Materials: Steel and ceramic tiles

Artist intended the benches to be “street furniture” and corrugated roofing reflects “vernacular” building materials common in the community.