MAINSTREET News:
Los Alamos MainStreet and Creative District and SciArt Santa Fe, in partnership with the Los Alamos Arts Council, announce the opening of “Into the Realms of Possibility”. This exhibit and accompanying programming feature the work of 12 contemporary Southwest artists who are expanding the boundaries of art and science. With an experimental mindset, they explore a variety of materials, media, techniques, and methods to move past limits across disciplines. They question what art can be, what science can be, and how the combination of the two can expand knowledge and understanding.
The exhibit opens with a special LASER (“Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous”) panel discussion featuring three of the artists from the exhibition and moderated by Susan Latham. This event will be from 3-4:15 p.m. June 28 at the Bradbury Science Museum. Although this event is free and open to the public, it does require advance reservations. See the event website for more information. Following the LASER event, many of the exhibition’s artists will attend the opening reception 4:30-7 p.m. June 28 in the Fuller Lodge Art Center Gallery.
From 3-6 p.m. July 14 at SALA Event Center the captivating “Beyond the Realms of Possibility” event will take place. In celebration of the annual Los Alamos ScienceFest, this special event will feature a performance and talk by VJBK aka Britney King, a featured artist in the “Into the Realms of Possibility” exhibit. Following that, filmmaker and artist Michael Barnard will screen his “Secrets of the Sun – Journey into the Fire”, which explores the inception and creation of “Secrets of the Sun – Millennial Meditations” – a unique and transformational solar spectrum environmental artwork by Peter Erskine. Q&A’s with both artists will be moderated by Jaquelyn Connolly of Los Alamos MainStreet & Creative District and Andrea Polli of SciArt Santa Fe.
Collaborators
Los Alamos MainStreet and Creative District serves as a driver for the economic vitality of Los Alamos and White Rock. They empower the ecosystem of their local business community through education, promotion, catalytic projects, and strong support of our creative sector for a better quality of life for the community and region. As an award winning accredited MainStreet America program with more than 30 years of experience, they leverage state economic development programs and funding with local resources to support the entrepreneurial, the creative and the business-minded members of their community. They are also the organizers of the Los Alamos ScienceFest, a 17-year long signature festival for the county.
SciArt Santa Fe, founded in 2019, fosters artists across disciplines that reflect the cultural diversity of New Mexico, and supports research that addresses issues that disproportionately affect people of under-represented races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, citizenship statuses, and ages including climate change, species extinction, and migration, that often do not fit within a traditional gallery framework.
Since 1967, the Los Alamos Arts Council (LAAC) has been a catalyst for civic engagement through the arts, and supports lifelong creativity. With new ideas and a growing organization, it is expanding its offerings in and outside the community, focusing on outreach to the underserved and overlooked patrons, encouraging others to join “up the hill.” It recently merged with the Fuller Lodge Art Center, which has been a staple in the community, providing arts programming, as well as a gallery and shop.
The exhibit and events are presented by the three collaborators with support from David and Lisa Hampton on behalf of LAAC, the University of New Mexico and the National Endowment of the Arts.
