November was more of an Art Tech month. Quelab had moved next to the University of New Mexico, but had not yet reopened. However there was a lot of activity next door at the UNM ARTS Lab, and I went to three of their presentations.
The new Quelab building next to UNM
was still a work-in-progress
and off limits during the month of November
BEST DRAWINGS
- I am still editing the drawings with the GIMP
PRINTMAKING
I made two new entries on the BUCKET EXHIBITIONS blog:
- Tessellation Catch-Up (a good summary of the tessellation project so far)
Juan Wijngaard gave us this tessellation linocut
Jessi Cross sent her tessellation tile
from Santa Fe through the mail
I was fortunate enough to laser cut more tessellation tiles on someone's personal Trotec, as the laser cutter at Quelab was still not set up. The Trotec laser cut seven tiles from a 12 x 18 inch piece of linoleum, in three minutes:
Bobbie Fultz of Santa Fe passed along her printmaking materials to us. She had been part of a printmaking project making "Anti-Utopia" books in the late 1980s to 1990:
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Ivan Bautista huge print
showing at Hecho A Mano gallery
ART TECH
I went to a lot of ART TECH presentations in Albuquerque, and toyed around with a little AI ART and holograms.
UNM ARTS Lab
I went to three presentations at the UNM ARTS Lab, next to the new Quelab building:
I also visited the FUSE Makerspace, run by CNM. They have memberships as low as $25 a week, however one first needs to take a class to use the laser cutter (about $100), and they only take credit cards online:
AI ART
Last month (October 2024) I noticed a new icon in my Discord server, at the upper right of the images I generate in Midjourney, or upload. Clicking on this icon opens other apps like Viggle, which allow me to further alter the image:
EXHIBITIONS
It seems to me that there are a lot more venues to exhibit than before (I had listed all the Albuquerque venues I knew of in January 2018).
I showed my print at the New Mexico Veterans Art Exhibition at the Fine Arts Building on the EXPO/State Fairgrounds in Albuquerque, opening on November 1st, 2024. "Tan-Drian" is a silk screen print made from a drawing I made in 2012:
BARBARA ENDICOTT also showed paintings in the South Valley Studio tour in Albuquerque on November 17, 2024:
Barbara also showed her tessellation print
during the Open Studio Tour
NORM ROSENBERGER was participating in the Bolinas Open Studio, just north of San Francisco, during the Thanksgiving holidays:
PROGRAMS
- HAIPER
- PLAYGROUND
- CANVA
- RECRAFT
- (HuggingFace) FACEPOKE
- KREA
- VIGGLE
- (HuggingFace) stable-diffusion-3.5-large-turbo -- for Stable Diffusion 3.5
Other websites that she brought up:
- (YouTube) This Program Contains EVERY Image in History
- (YouTube) The Canvas of BabelThe Canvas of Babel
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- On November 5th Donald Trump was elected as the next president of the United States
- Sadly Martin Terry passed away on Thanksgiving. He curated the current "Protest 2024" exhibition at FUSION in Albuquerque.
- UNM is building a new Fine Arts Building (while the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts quit giving degrees, and the San Francisco Art Institute closed in 2022)
- CNM is building a Film School in the Albuquerque Rail Yards
- CNM is also building a new makerspace
- The owner of Por Vida tattoo shop was shot on November 14, 2024