Insight New Mexico - Sherri Brueggemann

October 31, 2014

By V.B. Price

V.B. Price talks with Sherri Brueggemann about planning a public art project in a city with no people. Brueggemann is the head of Albuquerque's Public Art Program and teaches a course in Arts Management at the University of New Mexico. The Center for Innovation Testing and Evaluation will be a 15 square mile unpopulated test city built to the scale of 35,000 residents. Brueggemann explores the idea of creating culture in an environment that is not populated and examines what defines "public art."

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V.B. Price

V.B. Price is editor and co-founder of New Mexico Mercury. He is the former editor of Century Magazine and New Mexico Magazine, former city editor of the New Mexico Independent, and long-time columnist for the late Albuquerque Tribune. His latest book is The Orphaned Land: New Mexico’s Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He retired as the editor of the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at UNM Press in 2010. He has taught in the UNM Honors Program since l986.