Virtual lecture and studio tour April 29 April 07, 2021
Paula Wilson has been selected by The University of New Mexico Department of Art as the 2021 Frederick Hammersley Visiting Artist. She is an African-American mixed media artist creating works that examine women s identities through a lens of cultural history. She uses sculpture, collage, painting, installation, and printmaking methods such as silkscreen, lithography, and woodblock. In 2007, Wilson moved from Brooklyn, NY, to Carrizozo, NM, where she currently lives and works.
Hammerlsey Artist-in-Residence Paula Wilson
Wilson will be in residency at UNM for the Spring 2021 semester. She will give a public lecture discussing her process, influences, and experiences, and studio tour on Thursday, April 29, at 5:30 p.m. on Zoom. This event will be free and open to the public.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. For nearly a year, 516 Arts has been helping New Mexico-based artists with funding through its Fulcrum Fund.
The arts organization is currently taking applications for a fourth round of emergency relief grants.
Grants of $1,000 are available to individual artists statewide, which are intended to pay for essentials like rent, utilities, groceries, childcare, and medicine. Artist-run or alternative artspaces in New Mexico focused on visual arts are invited to apply for grants of up to $5,000 in support of their operations. The deadline is 11: 59 p.m. April 2, at 516arts.org/fulcrumfund.
The total amount to be awarded in the next round is $60,000, provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Frederick Hammersley Foundation.