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NAVIGATION

HeARTbeats: Visual Arts Department Guest Artist

“Larry Bob Phillips is great at considering everyone’s ideas and interpreting ideas really well in metaphorical ways and literal ways. He’s really good at helping us coordinate and work as a team, which is surprisingly hard in a mural!

 -Maya Peña, class of 2018 (from Santa Clara Pueblo) & Carly Trujillo, class of 2018 (from Las Vegas, NM) 

The Visual Arts Department has had the exciting opportunity to complete an ongoing project with Guest Artist Larry Bob Phillips, who spoke with students on Monday, March 9 during New Mexico School for the Arts’ arts block! The culmination of this project will be a 9th Grade Arts Exhibition on March 19, 5:00pm at Warehouse 21, a teen arts and culture center in Santa Fe’s Railyard Park. The exhibition will highlight their recent work in Drawing and 3D-Design Fundamentals.

With Phillips’ guidance, students are undertaking an ambitious, architectural comic wall drawing, to be created directly on the east-facing gallery wall, inside Warehouse 21.

Phillips is best known for his densely-packed drawings and site-specific murals, created primarily in black and white. His recent exhibitions have included 516 Arts (ABQ), the Albuquerque Museum, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe.

Students sit in class with Guest Artist Larry Bob Phillips, March 9

Erin Ice-Johnson, class of 2017, greatly appreciates the variety of perspectives and experiences brought to NMSA by the Guest Artist program. “A lot of [Larry Bob Phillips’] work was similar to stuff I’m working on!” she says.  A lover of math and science, she particularly enjoys the Guest Artists who share methods of bringing art forms together with technology, such as Piers Watson, who visited NMSA in September to demonstrate the “luted crucible” technique of ancient metal casting, while also employing the use of the NMSA Visual Art Department’s 3D Printer as part of the process.

Erin, a sophomore residential student, hopes to see many more Guest Artists visit during her high school career. Working on her art form with her teachers and guest artists has “transformed me as an artist!”

Your support makes it possible for NMSA to impact the lives of students like Erin, Maya, and Carly by bringing great artists into the classroom through our Guest Artist Program — we can’t thank you enough!

 

More exciting Guest Artist news: NMSA will be bringing Cedra Wood to our Visual Arts Department on Wednesday, March 18 to work with the Drawing III class! Special thanks to Edwina & Charles Milner, Fullwood Foundation, Sulica Fund, and New Mexico Arts for their ongoing support of the NMSA Guest Artist Program!

Be sure to join us on 

May 22, 2015
for ARTSPRING 

An array of inspiring performances and a visual arts exhibition by NMSA students!