Current employees of the City of El Paso, their spouses, or members of the Public Art Committee are not eligible to apply. The City of El Paso does not accept qualifications from undergraduate students for Public Art Projects.

About the Project

The City of El Paso Public Art Program is seeking artists or artist teams to create a series murals on west facing façade of the Police Department Headquarters building located at 911 N. Raynor. Four panels have been identified on Piedras Street, each measuring approximately 8ft by 12ft for the design and development of a series of murals. The commissioned artist will be required to gather research and present an original design reflective of the history of the Five Points area.

Application

All interested artists are encouraged to apply and review further details of the RFQ at www.callforentry.org and submit application by February 29^th by 5 o’clock pm.

For more information please visit www.elpasoartsandculture.org and click on the “Public Art” tab. For questions or concerns please contact Patricia Dalbin, Public Art Coordinator, at (915) 541-4894 or dalbinp@elpasotexas.gov.

The goal of the exhibit is to provide a unique collection that will appeal to a wide audience. The bikes can be of any make or model. Being in perfect condition is not important; being unique is.

A short list of what has been offered:

• 1939 Harley knucklehead
• 1942 WLA Harley war bike
• a Russian ice racer with spiked wheels
• 1954 British Maxey
• 1959 650 Triumph
• 1975 750 Ducati
• a Shovelhead blown fuel drag racer
• a 1964 Harley panhead
• and others

If interested, remember that the bikes will be on loan to the museum for a six-month period. Old posters, parts, books, advertisements, clothing are also being sought. For information contact Jim Murphy at 915-351-3588.

The El Paso Museum of History exists for the educational benefit of the community and visitors. It promotes the understanding and significance of the rich multicultural and multinational history of the border region known as the Pass of the North.

What is the Wall? Dreamlike, the city will rise up before its audience as a 3D image. With a mere wave of your hand across the screen you are able to glide effortlessly from neighborhood to neighborhood through city streets and interact with El Paso’s rich cultural heritage and our present day City landscape. You are also able to stop the imagery and move closer to whatever catches your interest. By tapping on an image, related historical text appears. You can share information via sending postcards with El Paso images and emails from the Wall to anywhere in the world.

It is the intent of the Museum to become the Digital Visitor Gateway to area history, not only for El Pasoans and their guests, but for every visitor to El Paso and the surrounding region. The Wall will be built as part of the museum’s communication strategy to correspond with El Pasoans around the world, and become the Ambassador of El Paso’s Positive Image. Another goal is to become a single resource and recipient for historic digital imagery and fact-finding text. Students and teachers will instantaneously turn to the Wall to upload history projects and for project research. The depth of imagery and community input is endless.

Four Seasons of El Paso: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter by Hal Marcus, 1995 (images courtesy El Paso Museum of Art)

Hal Marcus Four Seasons
El Paso Museum of Art
January 24 through March 4, 2012

The El Paso Museum of Art will exhibit the 1995 artwork titled Four Seasons of El Paso by Hal Marcus in honor of his receiving the Diabetes Person of Vision Award from the El Paso Diabetes Association which will be awarded at the El Paso Museum of Art on February 11, 2012.

The vibrant colors of this Fauve-inspired, four-panel, acrylic on canvas depict the artist’s neighborhood in four seasons from four directions at four different times of the day. Using a similar composition, each panel is anchored by the green spire of the Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and the converging lines of a central street leading to a distant vanishing point near the mountainous horizon.

The El Paso native Marcus has worked as an independent artist since 1990, has mentored many artists while maintaining the Hal Marcus Gallery from 2000 to 2010, and has also generously donated artwork from his personal collection to the El Paso Museum of Art by artists such as: Manuel Acosta, Kate Krause Ball and Berla Emeree.

Parking

Parking is available at the Convention Center Garage, Mills Plaza Parking Garage and the Camino Real Hotel for a fee. Limited metered parking is available on Main Street.

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Kyle Durrie is a letterpress printing artist from Portland, Oregon, and owner of Power and Light Press. Inspired by history, road maps, vintage office supplies, road trips, and printing; Kyle figured out how to print and travel at the same time. Kyle converted a 1982 Chevy step van into a mobile letterpress shop through donations from the fundraising campaign, Kickstarter.com.

Kyle travels cross country teaching workshops and sharing her knowledge of traditional letterpress printing straight out of her truck. She attends schools, farmers markets, festivals, city parks, arts spaces, and anywhere that has a desire to learn about printing. “Letterpress printing, specifically, has so much history and tradition behind it. I think it’s a really powerful contrast to today’s computerized world, and can actually serve as a useful tool to better understand that world”, said Kyle Durrie.

The weekly market features artist vendors, food and free seasonal arts and crafts for children. Regular Artist Market hours will be 09:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. in the fall and winter months.  Market operations will continue every Saturday with the exception of the two Saturdays following the Christmas holiday.  Artists and food producers interested in vending must attend an orientation and should contact mcad@elpasotexas.gov or call (915) 541-4481.

Explore the world of art and literature while meeting fellow members with similar interests at the El Paso Museum of Art. Attendees are invited to join the group for any, or all, of the book discussions. Books may be ordered through the museum store, where members receive a 10% discount. Light refreshments will be provided at each book discussion.

January 19
The Gardner Heist by Ulrich Boser

February 16
Strapless by Deborah Davis

April 19
Vermeer’s Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World by Timothy Brook

May 17
The Art Spirit by Robert Henri

Reading the Easel Book Club is free to members and $10 per session to non-members. Entrance to selected ticketed exhibitions is free with attendance to Reading the Easel.

Visit www.elpasoartmuseum.org for more information.

The Last Call by David Quintanilla, 2009 (image courtesy the artist)

The El Paso Museum of Art presents Artists on Art with David Quintanilla on Thursday, December 15, 2011, at 5:30 p.m. This event is free to the public.

Artists on Art – located at the El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) provides local artists an opportunity to exhibit one work of art in any media accompanied by a 30 minute discussion on their work and its relation to the Museum’s permanent collection. There are six exhibits per year and the work is exhibited for a two-month period. Artists interested in being featured in Artists on Art are encouraged to contact Christian Gerstheimer, Curator at (915) 532-1707 x 20.

David Quintanilla was born in 1983 and currently lives and works in El Paso, Texas.  He is a photographer mostly known in the southwest for his surreal portraiture. His celebrity and fashion work has included Hilary Clinton, Kim Kardashian, Ty Pennington as well as politicians, athletes, and models.

Quintanilla stages his provocative photographs to juxtapose past with present and to reinterpret popular images from the history of art. His tableau photography work is influenced by artists of the Renaissance such as Leonardo Da Vinci as well as contemporary artists such as David LaChapelle and continually seeks to push the boundaries of the norm in the cultural realm.

Quintanilla studied at the Art Institute of Phoenix form 2001-2003 and at Arizona State University in 2004. In 2010 a collection of his work was published in the book entitled Complicated Artists. Quintanilla has exhibited his work in New York, New Mexico, Arizona, El Paso and on the artist’s website www.davidquintanilla.com.

Parking is available at the Convention Center Parking Garage, Mills Plaza Parking Garage and the Camino Real Hotel for a fee. Limited metered parking is available on Main Street.

The Big Great American Auction hosted by Ty Pennington

TV special features historic comics, currency, historic Ty Cobb memorabilia; filmed aboard The Queen Mary

ABC has announced that it will air The Great Big American Auction, starring Ty Pennington of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, one of America’s leading reality TV personalities, and featuring exclusively Heritage Auctions’ experts, auction services and staff, in a very special television first made-for-TV auction event, at 10 p.m. (ET) on Thursday, Dec. 8.

The special was produced by Cineflix (Auction) Inc. for ABC. Executive Producers are Lisa Levenson, Ty Pennington, Joe Houlihan and Simon Lloyd.

Ty Pennington has been transforming people’s homes and lives for several years now as the host of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and has now found an exciting new way to change lives by turning their memorabilia and assorted hidden finds into treasures worth life-changing amounts of money.

After scouring flea markets, cellars, attics and yard sales to find one-of-a-kind items whose owners have no idea of their real value, Pennington, with a team of experts from Heritage Auctions, tags the best items and brings them to The Queen Mary oceanliner in Long Beach, CA for The Great Big American Auction. The exceptional collectibles range from first edition classic comic books to rare American currency to an early 20^th century baseball icon’s checkbook, and much more in-between, all chosen for their rarity, value and the uniqueness of the consignor’s story.

“It’s a great thrill to be part of this major network, prime time show, to work with Cineflex and ABC and a star the magnitude and class of Ty Pennington,” said Greg Rohan, President of Heritage Auctions. “We went to great lengths with our staff and experts to make sure that all these unique items have great stories and that they live up to Heritage’s exacting consignment standards. We hope that everyone will enjoy the show as much as we enjoyed being a part of it.”

Objects originally bought for mere dollars, or literally plucked right out the trash will go for thousands of dollars as their lucky owners’ lives are changed for the better.

The Great Big American Auction will air on Thursday, December 8, 2011, at 10 p.m. (ET) on The ABC Television Network.

Heritage Auctions is always seeking “consignments with a story” for possible future TV projects. If you think you might have a unique item and a unique story, email to TVShow@HA.com.

Heritage Auctions

Heritage Auctions, headed by Steve Ivy, Jim Halperin and Greg Rohan, is the world’s third largest auction house, with annual sales more than $700 million, and 600,000+ online bidder members. For more information about Heritage Auctions, and to join and gain access to a complete record of prices realized, along with full-color, enlargeable photos of each lot, please visit HA.com.

The Big Great American Auction hosted by Ty Pennington

Sueños en Pesadillas/ Dreams to Nightmares by John Valadez,1996

Members play a vital role in supporting the El Paso Museum of Art. Every year the Museum hosts Members’ Choice, where members review a selection of art work for possible acquisition. During this special event, Museum members cast votes for their favorite work. The work with the most member support is purchased with Museum funds. Over the years Members’ Choice has brought many important works into the collection, from old master prints to contemporary sculptures.

On November 17, 2011, from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. Members will gather once again at Members’ Choice to select a piece of art work to add to the permanent collection. This is a private event for Museum Members. To inquire about becoming a Member please call Barbara Read at (915) 532-1707 x 64.

This year’s art work choices include four selections of Chicano Art.  Each work of art is currently on view through Nov. 28, 2011 in the Roderick Gallery: Retablo Niche.

Parking is available at the Convention Center Parking Garage, Mills Plaza Parking Garage and the Camino Real Hotel for a fee. Limited metered parking is available on Main Street.

Pride of the Southside by Vincent Valdez, 2005

Bato Con Sunglasses by Cesar Martinez, 2011

A Dream is the Shadow of Something Real by Judithe Hernandez, 2008

Sueños en Pesadillas/ Dreams to Nightmares by John Valadez,1996