2025
Art-Fueled Roadtrip
6808 Central Ave SE, 10921 Central Ave NE
Artist
WEMFER (Nasario Sandoval)
The City of Albuquerque department of Arts and Culture initiated a project titled Art-Fueled Roadtrip, in which artists created new, artistic signs along Central Ave in celebration of the Route 66 centennial. As partners in this project, we brought in abstract artist Wemfer to install two signs.
The first, Keep Sixty-Six Rolling, featured locally-sourced hubcaps welded together around a laser-cut steel emblem. The sign was painted in the graffiti style found in many of Wemfer’s murals.
The second sign, The Mother Road, is made of custom license plates collaged on both signs. One side reads “Welcome to Albuquerque,” and the other reads “The Mother Road.”