The town of Albuquerque’s Division of Arts and Tradition has introduced the 2023 Artistic Bravos Awards.
The Artistic Bravos Awards started almost 35 years in the past and have since acknowledged the inventive work of greater than 290 artists, packages, organizations, companies and occasions which have made important impression on the lives of space residents, neighborhoods and communities.
“We’re glad to honor the exceptional inventive achievements of this yr’s winners and eagerly anticipate the joyous moments of sharing their inspiring tales with the group as soon as extra,” mentioned first woman Elizabeth Kistin Keller, who chairs the choice committee. “The colourful and distinctive skills inside our native inventive group actually paint Albuquerque as a full of life and extraordinary haven for dwelling, working, and having fun with life to the fullest.”
The ceremony is on Wednesday, June 28, at 6 p.m. on the KiMo Theatre. Tickets are $5, plus charges, and on sale now for a night of reside leisure, performances, celebration and extra at holdmyticket.com.
This yr’s recipients are:
Tom Guralnick is the 2023 recipient of the Artistic Bravos Legacy Award recognizing his sustained management, mentorship {and professional} excellence in Albuquerque’s inventive financial system. Because the founding father of Outpost Productions, in addition to an achieved musician himself, he has led, nurtured and grown the Outpost Efficiency Area and the Outpost group of patrons, musicians, college students, volunteers and companions. Guralnick is admired and revered nationally and internationally for his dedication to jazz and efficiency alternatives for native, nationwide and worldwide musicians, and his dedication to create an intimate venue that facilities the connection between performer and viewers.
AirDance New Mexico is a collaborative efficiency firm that presents progressive theatrical reveals with a particular emphasis on aerial arts. The corporate’s distinctive reveals are created and carried out cooperatively by artists from completely different disciplines and cultures working beneath the shared perception and follow that collaborative expressions make for efficiency works that may really change the world, whilst they entertain. The various and multi-talented artists of AirDance New Mexico are educated in aerial arts, dance, theater arts, music, literary arts, numerous different circus arts, and visible, photographic and filmic arts.
Laura Ferrary and Richard Chapman are widely-known within the arts group because the kindest and most beneficiant hosts and humanities lovers. Collectively they’ve been internet hosting artists, creatives and guests from across the globe at their dwelling in Downtown Albuquerque for greater than 15 years. Initially they opened Bella Roma as a mattress and breakfast, however even within the midst of operating their enterprise they prioritized welcoming artists visiting as members in festivals, exhibit openings and reside efficiency. Working with native arts nonprofits like 516 Arts, The Outpost, Tricklock Firm and others, Ferrary and Chapman not solely hosted artists freed from cost but in addition contributed assets from funds to meals in an effort to bolster under-resourced arts occasions.
Adrian Gomez is a veteran journalist of 20 years, with greater than 15 years writing about and overlaying arts and leisure in Albuquerque. As the humanities and leisure editor for the Albuquerque Journal, Gomez covers all sides of arts and tradition with ardour, dedication and longevity. In line with town, Gomez’s writing and publishing about arts locally is a vital a part of the broader arts ecosystem.
La Chancla is a DIY house in Barelas led by Adri de la Cruz and Bethany Baca centered round equitable improvement for native artists, musicians, organizers, thespians and all-around creatives. La Chancla was created to serve and help creatives in Albuquerque who didn’t match the standard archetype of the inventive tradition and scene in Albuquerque. La Chancla goals to be a nonexclusionary protected house for all sorts of creatives to experiment and develop inside their follow whereas specializing in creatives that won’t have the identical alternatives as others.
Adelio Lechuga is a younger inventive and multi-disciplinary artist working on the intersection of written phrase, efficiency and advocacy. As an organizer, Lechuga has labored to make sure the protection of Albuquerque-based youth. As an artist, Lechuga has labored within the medium of motion, exploring the bodily physique as a mode of storytelling. Using the equipment of aerial hammock, Lechuga combines his love of motion and music in a method uniquely his personal. Lechuga has written and carried out many authentic poetry items together with performing on the 2021 metropolis of Albuquerque’s State of the Metropolis and was printed within the e book, “22 Poems and a Prayer for El Paso” in 2020. He additionally works with the SouthWest Organizing Challenge, was a member of the inaugural Mayor’s Artistic Youth Corps, a core artist for ListenABQ, and has labored as a facilitator for the Nationwide Latinx Author Gathering
Marya Errin Jones is at the moment a Grasp of Positive Arts candidate in dramatic writing with expertise as a journalist, artist, musician and actor. She additionally based and served as managing director of The Tannex, one in all Albuquerque’s most acknowledged areas for impartial music, writing and artwork. Virtually single-handedly, most frequently using solely her personal private funds, Jones produced greater than 400 occasions, performances and fundraisers offering alternatives for marginalized and/or underrepresented artists. She is the co-founder and co-producer of ABQ Zine Fest, an annual free-to-the-public occasion to have a good time DIY literary tradition within the type of zines.
Mariposa Gallery stays one of many oldest modern craft galleries within the nation, exhibiting the best modern artwork, jewellery and ceramics in New Mexico since 1974. Mariposa Gallery rotates artists, hosts openings, promotes dozens of artists in dozens of medias yr in and yr out, they usually have been doing so for almost a half century.