The E Pluribus Unum photography project will be in Los Alamos Aug. 26. Courtesy/LACDC
COMMUNITY News:
Since 2012, Santa Fe’s mobile art-space has been traveling across the state of New Mexico working on a statewide photographic portrait project, ‘E Pluribus Unum’.
The mobile gallery is outfitted as a mobile black and white photography studio. Visitors bring an object of personal significance and sit for a portrait, holding their special object.
Prints are made immediately using Axle’s solar-powered printer. One copy is given to the participant, another is pasted onto the exterior of the Axle mobile artspace. Over the course of each iteration of the project the exhibition grows to include many hundreds or thousands of portraits. At the close of each project, a book of the portraits and accompanying writing is published and the portraits are exhibited in local museums and art-spaces.
Each E Pluribus Unum project visits and documents a different part of the state. E Pluribus Unum: El Norte will visit communities spread across north-central and north-eastern New Mexico, Aug. 26 through Oct. 11. In the summer of 2023, The portraits will be exhibited at the Taos Center for the Arts.
Past E Pluribus Unum projects were created in Santa Fe (2012), Albuquerque (2014), Dinétah (2016), and Southeastern New Mexico (2018).
E Pluribus Unum: El Norte will be in these communities: Los Alamos, Espanola, Santa Clara, Pojoaque, Ohkay Owingeh, Chimayo, Raton, Clayton, Chimayo, Truchas, Dixon, Peñasco, El Prado, Questa, Costilla, Taos, Solano, Tucumcari, Las Vegas, Abiquiu, Chama, and Dulce.
SCHEDULE:
Exact dates and locations are still in-process. Check website for updates.
WEEK ONE:
- LOS ALAMOS – Aug. 26
Downtown by Ruby K’s noon-4 p.m.
Summer Concert Series, Ashley Pond, 6-9 p.m. - SANTA CLARA – Aug. 27
10 a.m. -1 p.m. Puyé (or the casino) check website - CHIMAYO – Aug. 27
2-5 p.m. Benny Chavez Community Center - ESPANOLA – Aug. 28
El Paragua/El Parasol 9-11 a.m. - POJOAQUE – Aug. 28
Poeh Cultural Center noon-4 p.m. - ESPANOLA – Aug. 29
Farmers Market 9 a.m.-noon
Moving Arts 1-4 p.m.
Find more information here.
The E Pluribus Unum photography project on the road. Courtesy/LACDC
