August 23, 2024 -- Portrait

The portrait session on Friday nights is free -- FRIDAY NIGHT FACES -- but the artists had to give their drawings to the sitter. This session was at Art Buddies in Albuquerque:

E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon

Axle Contemporary mobile art van started their Western New Mexico leg of their E Pluribus Unum: Mogollon project in Belen, New Mexico.  I took the Rail Runner train down to Belen and had my photo taken on Friday, August 23, 2024:

My photo was one of the first

pasted onto the van

Matthew Chase-Daniel

printed my photo

T-shirt from Puebla, Mexico,

by Erick Nahual Rosas Silva

AUGMENT EL PASO

DAVID FIG -- of AUGMENT EL PASO -- enhanced the 1995 mural by Carlos Callejo in the El Paso County Courthouse -- the augmentation which was inaugurated on Friday, August 23, 2024:

David Fig of Augment El Paso,

speaking at the inauguration of the mural

El Paso County Courthouse

mural enhanced by Augmented Reality

One wall of the mural

Another wall of the mural

Muralist Carlos Callejo speaking

• Augment El Paso has enhanced some of our prints in the past

• Photos taken by Federico Villalba