tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60017962614116945782024-03-12T20:08:49.048-07:00Friends of the Orphan SignsFriends of the Orphan Signs makes use of abandoned road signs and creates collaborative, community-oriented public art projects in Albuquerque, New Mexico.Friends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-14221078287850515592012-09-14T00:27:00.001-07:002012-09-14T00:27:38.936-07:00Tradewinds Revival<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Friends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-71428653422164545082012-05-26T14:06:00.000-07:002012-09-07T14:06:55.007-07:00Friends of the Orphan Signs exhibition at 516 Arts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Pete and Lindsey painting in the back galleryFriends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-9428769640913218592012-05-16T14:07:00.000-07:002012-09-07T14:09:30.684-07:00FOS exhibition reviewed in Local IQ<span style="background-color: white; color: #003366; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px; text-align: left;">Clock work: Time Pieces at 516 Arts</span><br />
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With so many issues stirred up by current events in today’s world it seems impossible to narrow in on one subject, especially in art. Yet 516 ARTS is hosting a show featuring three vastly different art projects with various notions of time and place that come together seamlessly. <strong>Time Pieces</strong> is a collection of artist collaborations spanning such diverse elements as animals,landscapes and time.</div>
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“Wendover Landing,” a collection of ceramic messenger pigeons with specific messages, was organized by poet Miriam Sagan and utilizes the talent of textile artist <strong>Alisa Dworsky</strong>and sculptor <strong>Christy Hengst</strong>. Sagan described the process to<em>Local iQ</em>: “I’ve been writing about beauty, and then destruction. I’m working with two sculptors, though it doesn’t necessarily start with words or images.”</div>
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The unique way of combining words and objects is hauntingly beautiful. Sagan’s previous experiences led her to this project. “I had this experience of being in a very remote, solitary, scary setting on the edge of a bombing range,” she explained. “It’s a pretty masculine landscape. It was very lonely.”</div>
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Sagan said she wanted to work with the experience in her art, and what happened with the project as it evolved and she attempted to digest it was that “it became feminine, inviting. The words on the birds ... are an attempt to create a remoteness in a very different way.”</div>
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Beginning with digital cameras, their process of developing photographs is popular in Europe and Asia, but is rarely used in the United States. The high-process printing on aluminum gives a sheen and texture that is different than other prints, dually focusing on the aesthetics as well as the content of two diverse places.</div>
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<br />“Friends of the Orphan Signs” was arranged by <strong>Ellen Babcock</strong> as a way of creating beauty from abandoned signs. “After traveling, I came back to New Mexico for a position at the university. I realized I didn’t have much familiarity with the city, and the graduate students I was with didn’t have much either,” Babcock explained to <em>Local iQ</em>. “One of the students took us on a walking tour of Central, and I was struck by the lack of interior to the sign shapes. When I looked at them later that night, I realized they could be a great spot for public art.”</div>
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<br />Babcock described some challenges of working with signs: “They were mostly weather-related, but also dealing with incentive for property owners, and the kinds of negotiations we had to go through were complicated,” she said. And now she finds herself advocating for keeping the signs as they are.</div>
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The lights for the sign get turned on with the street lights! The city is paying to light the sign, and the technology only costs around 6 cents a day to light it. WOW!<br />
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What a fantastic day!Friends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-75979358779084036582012-03-10T13:01:00.000-08:002012-09-07T13:29:19.763-07:00Installing art on the Sprout-funded-fixed signIt was a COLD day, and Pete was up on a really tall ladder as it wiggled back and forth with the wind. It was pretty scary!<br />
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Pete wheatpasted his hand-made work onto the sign, but because of the cold weather it slipped off during the night, right after he installed it. This is our only record of this awesome artwork.Friends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-53038970929128192082012-03-06T13:00:00.000-08:002012-09-07T13:01:31.801-07:004119 Central Sign (Revivir), ready to go up!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On February 28th, 2012, Aline and Lindsey presented at Ignite NM12! It was an interesting night, we learned how to make a powerpoint, and how to fly a kite. We went a little over our time limit, but got some laughs and got the word out about FOS!Friends of the Orphan Signshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05900555267601244783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6001796261411694578.post-80918871120345931122012-02-13T12:06:00.000-08:002012-09-07T12:25:50.706-07:00Valentines posting!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Changing the sign with Highland Art Club students. It was SOOO cold that day, and the wind made it even colder! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We changed the sign to "Your fortune is taken" after a text exchange with a guy who asked me, "can you tell fortunes? can you tell me if I will be single or taken for valentines day?" We predicted he would be "taken"</span></td></tr>
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based arts collaborative with the mission of installing public art in Albuquerque’s
abandoned signs. We have permission to install artwork in a sign on the empty lot at
San Mateo and Central – but we need to repair the sign before we can continue with
one of our projects. We want to purchase and install sign-facing material and
lettering tracks so that we can continue our effort to revitalize and bring some fun to
a neglected part of the city.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2. The grant money will be used to purchase the Lexan (sign material), lettering
tracks, and will cover installation and repair fees for this sign. We have received an
estimate for the repairs at $500; the remaining $250 will support our team of artists
in designing customized plexiglass inserts for the sign tracks.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">3. Friends of the Orphan Signs was officially founded in January of 2010. We
are a collaborative of six local artists and educators, who share a common interest in
community generated art, and working with diverse local communities. Our 4119
Central project has been a long and complicated undertaking with many pitfalls
along the way, including tricky negotiations between property owners and
Albuquerque city officials and ordinances. We are excited that the rewards of our
perseverance will actualized in the final installation of this artwork for the
community to enjoy.
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">4. We have seen the extent to which the Albuquerque community is interested
in participating in and caring for and revitalization of their road signs. These signs
are an integral part of this city’s history and we are helping to preserve some of
these relics as well as creating alternative possibilities for the future experience of
these signs. This particular sign will host regularly changing displays, and local
communities including the Highland High School art club will have the opportunity
to display their artwork in public and have their creative voices heard. </span><br />
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Artist Pete Railand read all 168 texts submitted to the number posted on the sign, and made this artwork in response. He found discarded sign letters in a dumpster, and painted on them to make this. His black and white print of weeds is attached to the lower part of the sign.</td></tr>
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school. In January, 2011, a group of artist/educators formed an
afterschool art club at Highland with the goal of engaging local teens
in a collaborative design process to create new images to be
professionally produced and installed in a dilapidated sign along
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Friends of the Orphan Signs thanks Matthew Terry of Nob Hill Development Association, who worked with us to create a permanent easement that grants this sign to the city of Albuquerque as a site for public art.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">this is an excerpt from a very long poem recited by a young man waiting for the bus</td></tr>
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In March of 2011, one side of our sign was blown off during a night of fierce desert spring winds. There must have been a swirling explosion of letters, I found an H a block away.</div>
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Larry and Johnnie Plath, the mostly affable but sometimes gruff brothers who own Southwest Outdoor Electric sign company, had large pieces of used sign facing plastic lying around their shop- they cut it to size- approximately 15' x 5'. After I riveted new lettering tracks to the plastic, they used their lift to bolt it to the frame-we were back in business.<br />
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The new sign face doesn't fit exactly, and is somewhat bowed out, I got a submission not long after--- "he's fat, he's poofy, he's choska"--maybe this person was referring to the sign.<br />
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They could have been referring to their cat- this is Larry and Johnnie and their mouser, Princess.<br />
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