EVENTS 2006

November 30, 2006

PROJECT LAUNCH: BERMAN TURNER PROJECTS, at BERGAMOT STATION, Santa Monica, California

November 19, 2006

Presentation at the  PETER BLAKE GALLERY to the  CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS OF ORANGE COUNTY

November 18, 2006

STUDIO PRESENTATION: Studio presentation to FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL MUSEUM

November 15, 2006

Lecture presented by CARL SHLOSBERG at THE PENINSULA HOTEL, Beverly Hills, California

November 15, 2006

Studio presentation to MOCA PROJECT COUNCIL

November 02, 2006

Studio presentation to OCMA VISIONARIES

October 17, 2006

Designed Maria Shriver's MINERVA AWARD for the GOVERNOR'S CONFERENCE ON WOMEN

Studio presentation to ART CENTER 100 GROUP.

September 7, 2006

LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART COUNCIL Q & A WITH HOWARD FOX

August 23, 2006

Women for the Arts Studio presentation to group

August 13, 2006

Palos Verdes Central Library Stellar Axis: Alignment and Lecture (See below for details of event)

July 29, 2006

Edward Goldman Contemporary Art Collecting Class Studio Presentation

OUTREACH:

POLE PROJECT/Stellar Axis:

Preliminary Planning workshop at California Institute of the Arts

In June 2004 Albuquerque worked with high school students from across the state of California in the inaugural Inner Spark summer arts program at California Institute of the Arts to develop the initial planning phase of the Pole Project. Albuquerque received a teaching fellowship from the state of California and the Frederick R. Weisman Philanthropic Program for this residency. Albuquerque led the students through an environmental art course that charted the importance of the stars from pre-history to archaeoastronomy and ethnoastronomy and provided an overview of the history and relevance of site-specific art and earthworks. She addressed how to make art in extreme conditions and the students learned about the constellations visible from the South Pole, the movement of the stars and conditions there through a lecture by National Science Foundation winter over astronomer Simon Balm. The students began materials testing and field mapping for the South Pole project which resulted in an art exhibition of photographs of their ice sculptures, South Pole markers and video of their outdoor star map installation charted by Simon Balm.

STELLAR AXIS

Public Event with Lita Albuquerque at the Palos Verdes Library and Community Center.

This community event hosted by the Palos Verdes Library and Community Center in August 2004 offered senior citizens, children and the community at large the opportunity to experience Lita Albuquerque’s public art work and solar alignment, “Stellar Axis” first hand with an explanation of the piece by Albuquerque and an astronomer from the South Bay astronomical society. As the sun traveled its path during the analemma it moved through a viewing tube tower Albuquerque crafted in the roof of the Library. This illumination and alignment caused an interior eclipse of the floor design, a circle directly below the viewing tube on the library floor. The audience was then invited to look at the sun and sun spots through a telescope positioned underneath Albuquerque’s viewing tube. After the alignment Albuquerque held a discussion about her Pole Project, including South Pole Stellar Axis, which is related to this earlier work at the Library, and answered questions from the audience.

 

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