V.B. Price talks with Sherri Brueggemann, who heads Albuquerque's renowned Public Art Program, about the city's collection, the philosophy behind it and where its headed. The program is known for its vast amount of work integrated throughout the city and its support for local artists. Albuquerque sets aside 1% of City construction funds to purchase or commission works of art for the public. Check out an amazing variety of of the City's collection on the ABQ Public Art Flickr page.
Insight New Mexico - Sherri Brueggemann
January 16, 2014
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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.
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