Friends of the Orphan Signs is excited to announce a new Call for Artists!
We are seeking an artist to lead a team of youth in collaboratively developing designs to transform a vintage Albuquerque road sign into a work of permanent public art.
This is part of our Signal and Turn initiative to revitalize vintage road signs for the Route 66 Centennial.
The sign for this initiative is located at 2411 Central Ave NW, Albuquerque, NM.
The lead artist will facilitate a design team of four to six paid youth collaborators with Working Classroom. You will develop and implement a series of workshops for the design team with the end goal of producing plans that can be presented to a sign company for fabrication.
Design workshops with youth will take place in Albuquerque, two afternoons a week for the month of April. Artist will attend an initial Listening Session, and Final Summit, and help design a small showcase exhibition of the sketches and prototypes created during the workshops.
The artist will be paid a $5000 stipend.
Anyone from the Albuquerque Metro Area is invited to apply, especially who have a background in one or more of the following:
Public art
Working in a collaborative
Graphic and/or sign design
Art education
Working with teens
Working with immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers
Experience in skilled trades and design
An art practice that engages with themes of social or cultural identity
More information about Friends of the Orphan Signs can be found here: https://orphansigns.org/
More information about Working Classroom can be found here: https://workingclassroom.org
Application opens January 20th, and closes Sunday, February 22nd at midnight.
