Valley Gardens

A View of Valley Gardens 2004

Valley Gardens is a neighborhood in Albuquerque’s South Valley.  Once a marsh, the area is now home to several hundred people.  About two hundred neighborhood residents helped develop the design.  The community wanted one side of the sculpture to show the area as it had been in the past – a marsh with wildlife and the remains of earlier cultures.  The other side shows aspects of the community in the present and the recent past.  People in the neighborhood helped make tiles for the mosaic during a month of outdoor workshops in the park.

Assistant artists on this project were Angelica Lucero, Jen Horne, and Kate Kennedy.  The sculpture was funded by the City of Albuquerque 1% for Art Program.