Thanks to a generous New Mexico Resiliency Alliance grant through New Mexico MainStreet, Phase II of the Downtown Gallup Tiny Art Project is starting. You can download the RFP prospectus below.
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 17, 2025
In 2023 Creative New Mexico, the state’s arts advocacy organization, worked with communities across the state, from Roswell to Hobbs to Albuquerque to Gallup, to coordinate the “Tiny Art Project” in April 2023.
The project is inspired by Golden, Colorado’s “Itty Bitty Art Project.” Its purpose in New Mexico is to visualize the healing and transformational power of the arts as we rebuild after three hard years, strengthen connections between communities across the state, and amplify our state’s arts and cultural identity.
Through this project, Gallup MainStreet Arts & Cultural District and gallupARTS aim to put Gallup on the map.
Vision:
In each community in which it takes place, the Tiny Art Project created three or more miniature works of public art by commissioning artists to beautify blemishes in built environment. Similar to the Japanese art of Kintsugi, which is the process of repairing ceramics traditionally with lacquer and gold, leaving a gold seam where the cracks were. The technique consists of joining fragments and giving them a new, more refined look than the original piece. In Gallup, our first phase was 6 pieces to beautify Historic Downtown Gallup.
To see the pieces click HERE for a Google Map and more information about the pieces.