Events

oin the Narrow Gauge Book Cooperative for a reading, discussion, and Q&A with M12 Studio at 602 Main Street, Alamosa at 6:00pm.

LANDLINES, created by M12 Studio, is the culmination of a multi-year engagement with Colorado’s rural San Luis Valley between 2018–2022. The largest alpine valley in the world, the San Luis Valley is characterized by an unparalleled range of physical geography and extraordinary environmental phenomena; social, cultural, and economic diversity. It is a land of sand dunes, wetlands, and farmland, all above 10,000 feet in elevation. The Valley has been home to mixed Hispanic ancestral villages, Spanish and Anglo settlements, Indigenous territories, and Catholic, Mormon, Amish, Hindu, and Buddhist communities. Dominated by the presence of the Rio Grande River, the San Luis Valley is the headwaters of lifeways that follow it and branch out. The San Luis Valley is truly “America’s Attic,” and an entryway into a deeper understanding of the American Southwest.

The mission of M12 is to support, encourage, plan and execute new projects in the realm of contemporary public art; to facilitate creative research regarding public art making, including forms of experimentation, exploration, and inquiry with respect to the creation, development, and facilitation of public art; to promote and facilitate public art as a vehicle for exploring community identity, contemporary issues, and the creative process; and to engage communities and individuals in explorations of art, including through exhibitions, residency programs, educational programming, or collaborative performing or visual arts programming.