T.I.M.E (Temporary Installations Made for the Environment) Edgewood 2017 of New Mexico Arts: Art in Public Places, a project I was a part of in 2017, was awarded through the juried selection of the Public Art Network Americans for the Arts Year in Review!

The other artists include Allyson Packer, Joshua Willis, Sara Cummings and Jodi Miller. 

Each year, New Mexico Arts partners with a local community to commission up to ten temporary, visually engaging, and conceptually rich environmental artworks to be displayed for a short term exhibition in that community. The opening of the exhibit is often tied to another important community event. The artworks relate to a designated theme, and New Mexico Arts challenges artists to create environmental pieces that inspire, question, engage, and otherwise influence the citizens of and visitors to the host community. New Mexico Arts is interested in interactive art that encourages an audience response and transforms participants into active contributors to the creative process. The artworks are displayed for the length of the exhibit, and at the end of the exhibition they are disassembled and removed, leaving no trace of ever having existed. TIME was inspired by the emerging public art trend to engage artists interested in creating more spontaneous and immediate artworks with short life-spans. New Mexico Arts hopes that this kind of project will engage both communities and artists in the public art process. Projects and project details can be viewed at http://nmarts.org/2017-edgewood-persistence/