Up-Cycled Jeans Workshop

A little preview on how our Up-Cycled Jeans Workshop went!

Easter Time!

It's about that time! Don't forget to stop by the studio and check out our Easter things both in the artist shop and OFF-Stuff.

Congratulations Crystal!

Congratulations Crystal for being an iCreate guitarist graduate at OFFCenter!

Juan Diego

Juan Diego's Latest Creation

Juan Diego

Juan Diego Mariscal has been using the OFFCenter studio quite some time now and is an extremely accomplished tailor. He does all sorts of different sewing jobs and if you need any alterations done please contact him at 505-843-9405.

iCreate Recital & Celebration

Congratulations to Alexander Poltzer, who performed his recital on Friday, October 19th and successfully graduated from the iCreate guitar program. This is the first time iCreate has had the honor to graduate an entire family! Anyone who is interested in learning to play the guitar can attend classes each Friday for free from 2:30-3:30pm . Congratulations Alexander!

Big Brothers Big Sisters Print Making Workshop

The Big Brothers Big Sisters print making workshop on Saturday, September 29th was a great success. Using only simple styrofoam sheets, participants carved their designs and printed some great images!

Amy Biehl Interns

Amy Biehl interns are hard at work here at Off Center doing their senior service projects, featured in this photo are Val and Becca demonstrating their Photoshop skills.

Nutrition With Coach

Off Center artist Coach is brimming with nutritional and exercise knowledge, here he demonstrates a very rare cookie crumb eating method. As Coach would say; Its a carbo loading thing.......

We Art The People Folk Art Fair

Thanks to everyone that came out for this years Folk Art Fest, good times were had by all!

Friday in the Studio

Another busy Friday afternoon in the studio. Artists were hard at work, working on their own, in groups, and participating in weekly workshops.The ukulele workshop is really expanding and developing and the guitar workshop continues to be a well-attended hit. If you are interested in experiencing these, or our other free weekly workshops, please stop by the studio to get more information.

Wild Things at Reginald Chavez!

 The latest recycled activity at Reginald Chavez was the construction of squirrels. Making thee squirrels is extremely simply and requires minimal supplies. For this project we used paper cups, pieces of cardboard, newspaper, buttons for the noses, and an old Christmas wreath for the tail.

Albuquirky Little Houses Silent Auction -- A SUCCESS!

THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE ARTISTS who donated their precious, creative renditions of "Albuquirky Little Houses" for our annual fundraiser! Your creative energy and dedication allowed our fundraiser to be a success!

We had over 145 artists create 178 little houses which were put up for auction at Sumner & Dene during Frank McCullough's opening reception. 

(A huge thank you to Roy, Sumner & Dene & Frank!)

People were flurrying around from little house to little house to decide which ones to place bids on -- sometimes outbidding one another on a favorite artist/rendition. 

The end result is that all of Sumner & Dene's, OFFCenter's and other artists in the city helped to raise over $5500 for OFFCenter so that we can keep providing a safe studio space, art materials, workshops and outreach programming FREE of charge to the public!

 

Thanks also to the House Tour Committee volunteers, home owners and House Tour ticket purchasers which all helped to raise another $5000 for OFFCenter Community Arts Project.

We truly believe art making builds community and with this fundraiser, we see how the community cares to keep free art making opportunities for everyone available!

THANK YOU EVERYONE who attended, made or purchased little houses, went on the house tour, volunteered their homes or their time!

Reginald Chavez Mask Making

Things are winding down at Reginald Chavez Elementary as the last  of school are finishing up and summer days are fast approaching, last week students used recycled materials found around Off Center students set out constructing their own masks.

Rick Gutierrez Left-Handed Recital & Celebration

This is Rick's second iCreate recital. The guitar he earned for his first recital, July 30th 2010 was stolen. This event presented an adventurous challenge. He decided to embark on completing the iCreate program, but this time left handed.



Congratulations Rick and continue playing the sweet tunes that we all enjoy! Maybe put a GPS tracking device on this one? :)


( Rick playing "Only Blue Sky", right-handed)