Local and International Artists Create Hot Air Balloon Themed Fine Art
Albuquerque, NM – The Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation and its board of directors announces the opening of the Fine Art Competition and Inaugural Exhibition. The exhibition features international and local artists fine art paintings featuring balloons in a variety of beautiful settings. The fine art paintings and artists were selected from an international competition and by a jury of artists and Balloon Museum leadership. The exhibition is both at the Balloon Museum and online at balloonexhibition.com.
The fine art works vary in mediums including acrylic, oil and watercolors while featuring familiar and imagined hot air balloons. The Balloon Museum Foundation partnered with Gloria Grace Blinn Art Studio to create a full call for artists, an interactive week of painting at beautiful settings around Albuquerque and the online and museum exhibition.
At the Balloon Museum, the exhibition opened on October 23, 2020 and will be on display until January 31, 2021. As noted by producer and curator, Gloria Blinn, “New Mexico is known both for fine art and ballooning. To see the artist’ interpretation of how to showcase such a deep part of our cultural experience has been inspiring to bring the varied paintings to one exhibition.”