For all of its small-city appeal, Traverse Metropolis possesses loads of huge-city sophistication – thanks largely to its established and thriving arts community. A stronger Santa Cruz County, the place creative expression thrives and the humanities are integral to all points of our numerous group. Establishing a Mentor Protégé program to connect rising and aspiring artists with established artists. There are many other artists doing time as victims of the conceptual art world – one paints nothing however vertical stripes, another places steel squares on the floor.

On this video, Mario García Torres contemplates the interconnections of artwork, tradition, and place through an imaginary letter written to Gerardo Murillo (1875-1964), a Mexican panorama painter and writer who labored below the pseudonym Dr. Atl.” The digital camera roves over Barranca de Oblatos, a canyon exterior Guadalajara that was a recurring subject of Murillo’s landscape paintings (and as soon as the urged web site of a proposed museum on which the Guggenheim consulted).