Youth & Community programs
Internships & Volunteer Opportunities
516 ARTS is always looking for volunteers and also offers internships for students and people of all ages interested in getting hands-on experience working with a busy nonprofit arts organization.
If you are an artist, art student, art educator, or anyone with an interest in art, please contact Barbara Geary, Education Coordinator, for more information: 505-242-1445 barbara@516arts.org
Download Volunteer Information Form: Volunteer PDF
If you are interested in applying for an internship, please fill out the Volunteer Information Form and also submit a letter of interest and resumé to Education Coordinator Barbara Geary.
Alley Art Mural Program
516 ARTS has developed the current Alley Art Mural program with Warehouse 508 participants, who are creating a series of temporary murals in 2010 on the back of the 516 ARTS building in the alley between 5th and 6th Streets. The murals are created under the mentorship of Juli Cobb and Lead Artist Mitchell Olson. The youth artists come up with their own visions for the murals in response to the exhibitions at 516 ARTS.
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“The Artificial Selection mural has been a welcome challenge of balancing individual expression with group ideas. It has been a colorful whirlwind in an already windy city that tested our patience and ended up being a vibrant visual representation of the concerns and reactions of Albuquerque youth.”
– Marron Cooney, Mural Artist
“I’d like to thank everyone who helped out on the mural. It takes a team to make art, and I really enjoy the community effort it symbolizes. It teaches us that as in all art, music, dance, painting, we all have to work together as a team just like in life. This mural was layers and layers of people’s ideas coming together to form our collaborative idea and image, and in life we should all work together to form an idea of our world and how it works…We all as people have egos and I think this mural helped us let go of them to a degree, and created a path for something wholesomely creative and energizing. Teaching us to let go and give our art back to the community. So thank you for letting me be a part of that.”
– Miles Anderson, Mural Artist
“The Artificial Selection mural project has been colorful, flaming hot at times, and full of constructing collaborative ideas, working and coming together with other people, and ultimately, collectively creating with people of Albuquerque! The ideas we spat out swirled into a smash of imaginary creatures, autonomy of the normality machine, and the mesh of two worlds interacting as natural under the siege of machinery.”
– Joanna Keane, Mural Artist
El Otro Lado: The Other Side
Save the date!
Public Storytelling Event: Saturday, November 13, 7pm
at the National Hispanic Cultural Center
El Otro Lado: The Other Side is a community-based arts project led by artist Chrissie Orr and writer Michelle Otero, engaging the creative process to explore our human connection to land and place, our sense of home and belonging, boundaries and cultural divides.
El Otro Lado: The Other Side - Albuquerque builds on the project in Santa Fe presented there by The Academy for the Love of Learning. In intergenerational, cross-cultural workshops, participants tell their stories through the use of journaling, recorded oral narratives, photography, visual arts and written expression. The public is invited to participate in free workshops at West Side Community Center and Barelas Senior Center among others. This project also includes workshops with Albuquerque immigrant communities through El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos as well as students and families at the Native American Community Academy. Work gathered in the workshops will be transformed into a public display at various Albuquerque sites along with a public storyteling event in the fall.
For information about workshops and events in both Albuquerque and Santa Fe visit elotroladoproject.org.
El Otro Lado: The Other Side - Albuquerque is presented by 516 ARTS, The Academy for the Love of Learning, Connecting Community Voices, and partnering organizations El Centro de Igualdad y Derechos, Southwest Creations Collaborative and Enlace Comunitario. This project is supported in part by the New Mexico Humanities Council, Albert I. Pierce Foundation and New Mexico Council on Photography.
Art X Change: A Series of Artist Talks & Art Making
Art X Change is an ongoing series of artist talks followed by hands-on art making sessions, in collaboration with OFFCenter Community Arts Studio. Exhibiting artists speak about their creative process and answer questions at 516 ARTS, followed by open studio time with provided art materials and refreshments at OFFCenter Community Arts Studio, located just a few blocks west. Art X Change events are free and open to all ages.
Educational Tours
Tours at 516 ARTS are an opportunity for a stimulating field trip and for teachers to reinforce APS Visual Arts Content Standards 2, 5 and 6. Our tours offer lessons related to the current exhibition, and teachers are welcome to request that tours be altered to better suit their needs.
Tours at 516 ARTS are composed of two parts: engagment/observation and discussion. For K-5th grade students, engagement/observation with the art is facilitated by a docent who requires them to describe the art in detail. For 6th-12th grade students, engagement/observation is an activity or worksheet completed in small groups. Both groups are taught new vocabulary words and provided opportunities to use the new words in describing the art. Finally, both groups are lead in a discussion about their interpretations and opinions on the art in the exhibit. K-5th students are also provided some time at the end to draw with markers and pens.
Tours may be scheduled 8am through 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday, and generally last between 60 - 90 minutes.
Curriculum
The curriculum provides educators with activities for the classroom before and after the visit, as well as a sample of the worksheet used for 6th-12th grade tours.
The packet includes:
• A list of vocabulary terms and discussion questions for classroom use prior to your visit.
• A worksheet for students to complete at the gallery.
• Discussion questions and project ideas for use in the classroom after your visit.
• A slide show of some of the art in the exhibit for classroom reference.
Transportation
A 60 passenger school bus may be provided free of charge within the Albuquerque metro area upon request. Resources are limited, so schools will be provided buses on a first come, first served basis.
Information & Scheduling:
For further information, to schedule an educational tour or receive a teacher packet, please contact us at 505-242-1445.
Volunteers
516 ARTS is currently seeking volunteers to assist with daily gallery operations, special events, installation of exhibitions and meeting the demands of our growing arts education program.
To sign-up to volunteer, please download and complete this form below:
Education programs at 516 ARTS are made possible in part by New Mexico Arts, a division of the Office of Cultural Affairs with the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009.
