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Artist: Pam Jaramillo
Lowriders: Riding High The coolest cars in the Southwest take it low and slow. Two museum exhibits and a new book fuel a native son’s journey of discovery into their blue-collar roots and metal-flake future. https://www.newmexico.org/nmmagazine/articles/post/lowriders-usner/
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Artist: Nani Chacon
Nani Chacon has more than twenty years of experience painting in public spaces. Early on, she began as a graffiti artist, learning and growing from the challenges the medium presented. Chacon worked to develop her technical skills as a large-scale painter, excelling in scale, color, design, composition and style. The experience also taught her about…
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Artist: Arthur LowLow Medina
Articles: Lowrider scene’s got girl power For the Medina sisters, lowriders have always been a part of life. https://www.abqjournal.com/1340121/lowrider-scenes-got-girl-power.html Lowriders Are the Beating Heart of Chicano Culture in the Southwest Outside El Santuario De Chimayo, 20 miles north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Arthur “Lowlow” Medina leans forward on his wooden staff. The local artist…
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Artist: Rose B. Simpson
Rose B. Simpson is a mixed-media artist from Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. Her work engages ceramic sculpture, metals, fashion, performance, music, installation, writing, and custom cars. She received an MFA in Ceramics from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011, an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 2018, is…
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Article: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now: Vincent Campos
Vincent Campos injects a sense of whimsy and strangeness into a form that is often serious and pious. Retablos, known as lámina in Mexico, depict saints or other Catholic iconography on a tablet of wood or tin, meant to be placed behind a church’s altar. Campos’s retablos stick to this script, representing saints and other…
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Video: How Does an Airbrush Work?
This is a short video that explains how an airbrush works. It is part of the newly organized “Airbrushing for Modelers 101” web pages
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Video: Lowriders Are a Perfect Mesh of Engineering and Craftsmanship
On any single car, you could easily have any, or even all of the following: https://makezine.com/2016/07/01/lowriders-are-a-perfect-mesh-of-engineering-and-craftsmanship/
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Video: 66th Annual Traditional Spanish Market | Robb Rael Artist
Interview with Rob Rael at the 66th Annual Traditional Spanish Market
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Article: A Question of Hardware
Will vehicles in the future be able to repair themselves, aerodynamically adapt to wind conditions or, if necessary, even mutate from a sporty two- into a family friendly six-seater? How smart materials are going to shape the automobile of tomorrow. https://www.schaeffler-tomorrow.com/tomorrow/220/index.html
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Article: Fabric sensors to make car seats smarter and safer
The problem with most car seats today is that the sensing devices in them can’t distinguish the difference between say an inanimate bag of groceries versus a highly fidgety child if both are similar in weight. BeBop Sensors is working to change that with fabric sensors it’s developed that are meant to make car seats…
