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Arts Fandango

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By Edgar Gonzalez, Staff Reporter

The Fine Arts Department will be hosting a silent auction for art made by students and staff of CNM as well as local artists.

On April 2 from 6p.m. to 8p.m., tickets at the door will be $10 and $5 for students at 1910 Broadway NE Albuquerque New Mexico 87102, said Andy Tibble faculty member in the school of adult and general education.

It is an event to raise money for a scholarship that they have created, the Ernest Garcia Emergent Artist scholarship, he said.

Ernest Garcia, who the scholarship was named after, was a founding member of their union and he also was the secretary of the union for many years, he said.

“It was very sad since he died within a year after his retirement,” he said.

The fundraiser raised the needed funds for the first scholarship that was offered so they decided to centralize the event and the scholarship under the name Ernest Garcia, Tibble said.

This is a silent auction, which means that people who decide to buy a piece that is available for bid will remain anonymous, he said.

“Most of the pieces in the gallery are of very good quality and I have even bought some of the pieces for myself, sometimes I cannot believe I am getting this level of art with only 20- 50 dollars,” he said.

There are many levels of art at different price ranges, some will go for $20 while others might go for hundreds of dollars depending on the quality of the piece and the interest of people on it, he said.

The types of art include but are not limited to drawings, paintings, and sculptures, he said.

They have several rooms depending on the type of art work and there is a room which will be filled with drawings which are very reasonably priced from five to twenty dollars, he said.

For the drawings there is no silent auction, it works as a first come first serve situation, he said.

The more money collected the more the scholarship will be worth, he said.

There is a lot of money collected at the end of the night, in fact the last time the scholarship raised well over five thousand dollars, he said.

All the work will be donated by artists which have been found through connections from the fine arts department, he said.

“The department is always looking for donations, for various kinds of art work from the event although they are very picky,” Tibble said.

They also donate pieces of their own work, he said.

Some students and ex-students donate their art works as well, he said.

There is a process for people who want their pieces to be auctioned off in the gallery, he said.

When they get pieces of art because of the scholarship there must be a tax form filled in for every single thing since it is a donation and it is maintained by the CNM foundation, he said.

There will also be an assortment of food, drinks and live entertainment for the people who show, he said

At First Glance; Student art show draws a crowd

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By Jonathan Baca, Copy Editor | Photos courtesy of Danielle Rae Miller and By Jonathan Baca

Photos by Jonathan Baca (Left to right) Students Jennifer Skirvin, Emily Snell, and Candice Chavez stand with their art.
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(Left to right) Students Jennifer Skirvin, Emily Snell, and Candice Chavez stand with their art.
Photos courtesy of Danielle Rae Miller “@ First Glance” featured art from 24 different students.
Photos courtesy of Danielle
Rae Miller
“@ First Glance” featured art from 24 different students.

On Friday, March 7, a crowd of students, friends, family and local art lovers crowded into the Freestyle Gallery in downtown Albuquerque for the opening night reception of “@ First Glance,” an art show fea­turing the best works from some of CNM’s art students.

The show will be running until March 19 at the Freestyle Gallery on 1114 Central Avenue SW, and each piece is for sale.

The walls of the gallery were filled with 24 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures, each created by a differ­ent student from the Art Career Concerns class, a course that deals with the realities of making a living as an artist, said the Art instructor, Danielle Rae Miller.

“I think it’s really exciting, because most of the students here have not had a gallery show and it’s something that they’ve probably dreamed about. So tonight is the first moment where it’s like the fulfillment of that dream,” Miller said.

The show was one of the main focal points of the Art Career Concerns class, where Miller moves the focus from the techniques and skills of making art to the skills needed to make it in the competitive world of pro­fessional artists, she said.

“I usually start the class by telling them I don’t feel, for most of us, that it is a choice. It’s just like we have to do it, so you’ve got to figure out how you’re going to make a life like that. Because art does not necessarily sell, so how are you going to make it work?” Miller said.

In the class, which is only offered once a year in the spring, students present Miller with the best work they have produced in their life. Miller then selects one work from each student for the show, she said.

Then she hands the work off to the students, who break up into dif­ferent committees and begin the work of plan­ning and executing a real gallery show, something that most of them have little or no experience in, she said.

Studio Arts major, Sara Cooney was in charge of promoting the event, writing the press media outlets, and said that the skills she learned in the process will definitely help her in her dream of becomrelease, and contacting ing a comic book artist. ­

“We’ve learned how to be confident in selling yourself, building com­munity and relationships with other artists, organi­zation, and really getting into the mindset that my art can really be a lifestyle and I can make a living,” Cooney said.

In the process of put­ting on the show, students had to learn the logistics of the art business, like getting their work matted and framed, professionally photographed, and making promotional materials like business cards, Miller said.

Students were forced to solve real-world prob­lems on the spot, learning how to hang up the pieces on the gallery walls, where to put them, and the reali­ties of working with a gal­lery space, like lighting and organization, she said.

“They learn how to have a show, and then they actually put one on. It’s a great learning experience for them,” Miller said.

Aside from the real-world knowledge students get from putting the show on, Miller said that the opening is valuable for another reason exposing the students to Albuquerque’s larger art community, and also exposing that commu­nity to CNM’s art program.

“We’re producing some really amazing graduates, I think the students are stellar, the faculty is great. I think what we’re doing is actually really amaz­ing, and I think this is an opportunity to go out into the community and show it off,” Miller said.