KUDOS to OFFCenter Promoters and Supporters and Workers!

Thanks to both Rick and Roy (Sumner & Dene Gallery) for your excellent promotion of OFFCenter's 2011 Albuquirky House Tour. Recently we had a couple of people come into OFFCenter because of the great recommendation they received at Sumner & Dene about OFFCenter and the 2011 House Tour (and they bought house tour tickets!). They loved OFFCenter, and were also impressed with the wonderful tour they received while visiting the OFFCenter studio. Way to go everyone! Here Comes the 2011 Albuquirky House Tour!

Margaret Lopez

OFFCenter Board President and Volunteer

Susan Zimmerman's Silent Auction House

A subtle rendering by Susan Zimmerman.

Visit Susan's website: http://www.szimmerman.com

A Message from the Board

Dear OFFCenter Community,

WOW! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone who helped make OFFCenter's 5th Annual Albuquirky House Tour such an amazing success.

We had TWICE the number of attendees this year compared to last year, largely thanks to the exposure we received in last weekend's Albuquerque Journal article. Volunteers (planners, house volunteers, musicians) did a fantastic job!! KUNM and Whole Foods helped out a ton also with promotion and refreshments!!!

A great success that helps OFFCenter to be able to continue to provide all the wonderful things OFFCenter does! We look forward to seeing all of you and more again next year.

Margaret Lopez, OFFCenter Board of Directors President

Photo by Deanna Nichols. Visit Deanna's website.

Thank you Silent Auction Artists

Your creativity inspired our new friends and community members. Your contributions of "little houses" helped us double our target goal for the 2010 Albuquirky House tour.
THANK YOU!

Visit our website for a complete list of Silent Auction artists. Stay tuned to this blog for more images and accolades.

We're still here -- thanks to you!

Sneak Peek Photo of another Albuquirky House

Here's a sneak peek, courtesy of Deanna Sauceda and crew at KRQE News 13, at another of the three homes ticket purchasers will get to tour on the 2010 Albuquirky House Tour fundraiser for OFFCenter.

Click the photo above to see the video that aired on KRQE. Click the Albuquirky House Tour links for details and tickets purchasing infor.

Thanks in advance for helping OFFCenter keep on serving up free art studio space for the good citizens of Albuquirky.

Tickets, by the way, are available right up to the Tour -- which begins at 1:00 this Saturday! (OFFCenter opens at 12:00).

Thanks, Stephanie Lerma

Let's add Stephanie Lerma to the list of local artists who have donated a "house" to our Silent Auction, to be held on Saturday, May 1, in conjunction with our annual Albuquirky House Tour.

Here's a bit of info about Stephanie, courtesy of OFFCenter friend Bethany (Buffy) Nelson's House of Figs:

http://www.house-of-figs.com/artists/stephanie-lerma/index.htm

Now House Tour Tickets at BOOKWORKS, too

Many thanks to Bookworks for helping us out with 2010 Albuquirky House Tour ticket sales. Bookworks is on Rio Grande north of Griegos next door to Flying Star. They are accepting cash only, $1 service charge. Hours are 9 to 9 M-Sat and 9 to 7 on Sun.

You can, of course, also purchase your tickets from our website, via Paypal, or by phone (credit card) or of course in person (check, cash, credit card, MO).

Yikes! Only a couple of weeks until the grand quirky fundraiser for OFFCenter on MAY 1! Find out more on our website -- where you can even get a VIDEO sneek peek at two of our quirky tour homes, thanks to Deanna Sauceda and KRQE:

http://www.offcenterarts.org/housetour.htm

We're still here -- thanks to you!

Purchase your House Tour tickets online

This year you have one more option for purchasing your Albuquirky House Tour tickets -- you can buy them right online at our website, via Paypal. Paypal is very secure, and you don't even need a Paypal account. You can use a credit card or bank transfer, or your good old Paypal account.

If this is an easier way for you to get your tickets, just click the link or image below to go to our House Tour page, then click on the Add to Cart button. We can mail them out to you until about a week before the event on May 1 (see the web page for more details).

OFFCenter's 2010 Albuquirky House Tour

Of course, you can still call 505-247-1172 to order your tickets (you'll need to give your credit card info), or stop in and pick them up.

We're still here -- thanks you YOU. We appreciate your support.

OFFCenter in the News:KRQE's Offbeat Homes story

Many thanks to Deanna Sauceda and crew at KRQE for their piece this morning about our upcoming annual fundraiser, the Albuquirky House Tour.

To read the story and see the video, which previews two of our three quirky homes, visit KRQE's website story below:

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/krqe_mornings/offbeat-homes-more-than-living-space

The video is AWESOME and we're sure you'll want to pick up your tickets early for this wonderful event (tune in over the next few days for more info, or visit our House Tour page on our website NOW):

http://www.offcenterarts.org/housetour.htm

Thanks again to KRQE, and thanks to you for supporting OFFCenter's free programs.

Sharie's Studio Journal

Hello everyone I do appologize for my extended absence but the winter hours for the studio have not been good for me to have the time in the studio but hopefully soon I will be back in the studio. I do want to remind you all to watch Breaking Bad a series on the AMC channel (65) this Sunday night at 8 pm I think. Now please I am not promoting the program because I cannot condon making and selling drugs for any reason. I am reminding everyone who can to watch and look at the props used because last summer a member of their production crew a set director came into OFFCenter and purchased some art to use as props in this seasons program and she told me the story line when I told her I had never watched the show. I still cannot "get into the story line" but I will watch because she purchased a few of the Albuquirky House Tour "Little Houses" and some other pieces as well and so I will be looking for those (smile) Remember the 2010 House Tour is coming up May First May Day get your tickets you can buy online just go to the OFFCenter website of to the studio. If you have started a collection of "Little Houses" there will be new ones in the studio and if you don't have a collection it is not too late to start one.
See you around. Watch Breaking Bad Sunday 8p.m. ?? Get your house tour tickets before they are gone. Sharie

Best House Tour Ever!

The tally is in, and thanks to YOU, OFFCenter just completed the best Albuquirky House Tour in the four years we have held this fundraising event. We raised $4,500 through sales of 180 tickets. Which means that 180 of you from the Albuquerque community walked through three beautiful, unique, artistic homes in support of OFFCenter's mission. We hope you were inspired, and made a new friend or two.

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A very special thank you to the folks who opened their quirky homes to us!

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Sharie reports that she sold about 18 tickets at the OFFCenter studio on the day of the tour, so thank you for popping in for your tickets!!! You know we need you, and you came through for us.

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Sharie also reported that lots of you made purchases from our current show -- Shelter: Space, Place and Belonging, as well as from our own quirky gift shop. Thank you for supporting our emerging artists!

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Your support helps us continue to offer a free, open creative art space for the downtown community and way beyond.

Albuquirky House Tour Photos

Feast your artsy eyes upon one of the beautiful houses our supporters visited
during the 4th Annual Albuquirky House Tour. Thank you, everyone,
for supporting OFFCenter.

These photos were sent in by OFFCenter Board Member Margaret Lopez.

Opening -- SHELTER: Space, Place & Belonging May 1, 2009

Friday, May 1, 2009 5-8 pm

An Artscrawl Event

First Friday Art Opening

5:00 p.m. Video screening of "Garbage Warrior," a timely portrait of visionary Taos architect Michael Reynolds

6:00 p.m. Music with singer/songwriter Cole Mitchell AND also The Two Roses, Folk Harp & Flute Duo.

The show is an inquiry about where we live -- how it defines us and our relationship to our environment and each other.

A grand warmup to the 4th Annual Albuquirky House Tour on Saturday, May 2, 1-4 pm (Call OFFCenter for tickets!)

Rolling Houses to City Councillors

OFFCenter community artists young and old have spent the last several weeks building, painting, and decorating little wooden houses to raise funds, as part of our cluster of activities around the 4th Annual Albuquirky House Tour May 2nd. FYI, you can come in and make a house too! Houses sell for about $20 to $30 each, and you can get yours in our gift shop.

So Sybil (left) and Molly (right and pulling the cart) decided to pack up some of these little gems and wheel them down to the offices of our city councillors and county commissioners, as a way of promoting OFFCenter and the House Tour event. Go girls!

Albuquirky House Tour VIDEO

Check out this video about the upcoming Albuquirky House Tour, a very important fundraiser for OFFCenter. Thank you Holly for creating it!

Find more videos like this on OFFCenter Arts

4th Annual Albuquirky House Tour May 2, 2009

Annual Fundraiser for OFFCenter

Saturday, May 2, 2009 from 1 to 4 pm

Cost: $25.00 per ticket

(Locations will be provided when you buy your ticket)

This is not your father’s house tour—unless your father owns 300 toothbrushes or has 500 pairs of shoes nailed to the telephone poles around his house…. these are genuine HOUSES, where creative, individual, unconventional people actually live. And they’re opening up their houses for one afternoon so you can enjoy their décor, interior design, personal zeitgeist.

Start the day, Saturday, May 2nd at 1 pm, by dropping by OFFCenter Community Arts Project where you can buy your tickets and get your map to three very unusual houses. (As always, at OFFCenter, you can stop to join us in some art making, and having a little snack.)

You’ll also be given the rules for a “quirky hunt”, where you’ll be eligible to win wonderful (need we say, quirky) prizes.

Then set out to see the houses; we call them “Shoes on a Telephone Pole”, “The Gate House”, “A True Collaboration: Art & Architecture”, and “A Home for Everyone”. You’ll see what we mean.

Return to “Home” at OffCenter by 4 pm. Bring your solutions to the “quirky hunt”, make some more art, enjoy the company… What a great day!

Get tickets: Call 505-247-1172 note: tickets can be mailed to you, or picked up the day of the House Tour at OFFCenter. Just remember to make OffCenter one of your stops on the tour.

Albuquirky House Tour Tickets Still Available

Last call for tickets to today's (May 03, 2008) Albuquirky House Tour.

Tickets are $30.00

Call (505) 247-1172

808 Park Ave SW
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102

Third Annual Albuquirky House Tour Tickets Still Available fore May 3, 2008

A beautiful Bart Prince designed home with a beautiful collection of international art.

A local artist's private gallery collection of OFFCenter art and other master pieces.

A house, studio & sculpture garden of an avid folk art collector & thin gauge enamel art.

Tickets $30.00 (505) 247-1172