DARK SKY LAND (HWY 60) ASTRO-WILDERNESS CORRIDOR

NETWORK

MAGDALENA

DATIL

The Cibola National Forest Service | Antoine Ribaut, Eye on the Universe Observatory. MK RAY, Wilderness Conservation.

PIETOWN . TOTW

OMEGA

Tim & Katie Havens Observatory

QUEMADO

The Lighting Fields. DIA Foundation, New York / La Casa Azul (AirBnB)

RED HILLS

GILA NATIONAL FOREST

RESERVE

Cosmic Camp Ground Sanctuary

SILVER CITY

Continental Divide Trail Coalition

ANIMAS

Michael & Diana Hensley, DarkSky New Mexico Remote Observatory

The Dark Sky Land HWY 60 Astro-Wilderness Corridor is home to world class federal and privately owned astronomical observatories, as well as to Wilderness Conservation Organizations, Natural Reserves and National Forests. High altitude, ranges from 10.5 TO 6.7 K above sea level. New Mexico’s HWY 60 is a scenic remote refuge to see the Milky-way (our Galaxy) with the naked eye. Dry Climate and temperatures dropping as low as 20 in winter time + no light pollution, makes it one of the best star gazing regions in the world. These high desert pristine, ancestral, magical forests where once home to ancestral Native Culture, a resilient biodiversity of nocturnal creatures, plants, soil, rock, are key to the beauty of its starry nights. The celestial darkness measurements are Bortle Class 1 - 2, the darkest in the Bottle scale.

DARK SKY LAND (HWY 60) ASTRONOMICAL WILDERNESS

The Dark Sky Land Corridor is home to world class Private and Federal Observatories as much as to Wilderness based organizations, Reserves and National Forests. High altitude, ranges from 10 TO 8K above sea level. New Mexico’s HWY 60 is a remote but not isolated refuge to see the Milky-way (our Galaxy) with the naked eye. Dry Climate and temperatures dropping as low as 20 in winter time + no light pollution, makes it one of the best star gazing regions in the world. These high desert pristine, ancestral, magical forests where once home to ancestral Native Culture, a resilient biodiversity of nocturnal creatures, plants, soil, rock, are key to the beauty of its starry nights. The celestial darkness measurements are Bortle Class 1 - 2, the darkest in the Bottle scale.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY BACKGROUND

Magnetic Laboratorium, productions and collaborations.
Photino Beam, LLC
Warehouse 1-10, Contemporary Art Space.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM

An inclusive Self directed Residency program where artists - space scientists, innovators of all ages may meet, Observe, rest, discover, investigate, study and create under the darkest skies in the Northern Hemisphere, in the context of remote simplicity.
DARK SKY LAND MEDIA PLATFORMS

Website | www.darkskyland.us
AI Powered Podcast Series | Live on Podbeam
You-Tube Channel | Dark Sky Land
Instagram | @darkskylandnewmexico
The Archives | Collected Media
Magnetic Laboratorium | www.magnetic laboratorium.com
CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALLITION

Right in the middle of Dark Sky Land's astro-wilderness corridor is the Continental Divide of the Americas (also known as the Great Divide - CDT). A hydrological divide of the Americas extends from the Bering Strait to the Strait of Magellan, and separates the watersheds that drain into the Pacific Ocean from those river systems that drain into the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, including those that drain into the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and Hudson Bay. From the Rocky Mountains to the Andes. Continental Divide Trail Coalition | https://cdtcoalition.org

MULTIDISCIPLINARY LABORATORY | TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERIES.

An Interdisciplinary investigation, conversation, related to COSMOS . TIME . SPACE . In The context of Night Ecology and Wilderness Preservation.

A contemporary Multimedia Art & Space Science Traveling Exhibition Series, featuring collaborations with a selected group of artists and space scientists, from around the country, regional astrophotographers and site-specific exhibition spaces from the 33 New Mexico counties. Intended to create, challenge and develop an experimental context where interdisciplinary practice, nature and the unknown converge.

SERIES No 1. MAGDALENA, NM (2023)

SERIES No 2. ROSWELL, NM (2024)

SERIES No 3. PIE TOWN - KO’ SITE SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION (APRIL 2025)

SERIES No 4. SILVER CITY (IN PROGRESS)

DARK SKY LAND TRAVELING EXHIBITION SERIES,

TIMELINE (2023 - 2024 -2025)

EVENTS + EXHIBITIONS + TALKS + INSTALLATIONS

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2025

SEPTEMBER 13, 2025 | DARK SKY LAND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BOOTH, DURING THE PIE FESTIVAL, PIE TOWN NEW MEXICO.

OCTOBER 12.13.14.15 2025 | ENCHANTED SKIES STAR PARTY | MAGDALENA ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY | By Reservation only.

APRIL 25-26-27 2025 | STAR GATHERING EVENT | DARK SKY LAND + CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION - A partnership with the CONTINENTAL DIVIDE TRAIL COALITION | NATIONAL RELIGIOUS PARTNERSHIP FOR THE ENVIRONMENT, and local businesses.

THE EVENT INCLUDES STAR + SUN GAZING WITH LOCAL ASTRONOMERS - COMMUNITY DINNER SATURDAY 26 AT 5:30 (REGISTER ONLINE ) CDT TRAIL COALITION WEB SITE. A TALK BY JOHN W. BRIGG ON HIS ANTARCTICA ASTRO-EXPEDITION. KO’, STUDY No 1. A SITE-SPECIFIC LIVE PERFORMANCE PRODUCED BY MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM STARTS IN THE OUTDOORS AT 8:30 PM - IN COLLABORATION WITH: DAVID DUNN - JOHN SUMERLIN - MOVEWEST - ANRIKA RUPP - ELKE RINDFLEISCH - DONA GRANATA - CATRON COUNTY.

MAY 2023 - DECEMBER 2024

MAY 9 THROUGH OCTOBER 7 2023 | DARK SKY LAND EXHIBITION SERIES No 1. MAGDALENA, NM. WAREHOUSE 1-10 ART SPACE

JUNE 8 | GILA NATIONAL FOREST 100 YEAR CELEBRATION | COSMIC CAMPGROUND SANCTUARY CONTINENTAL DIVIDE COALITION | DSL SPONSOR

JUNE 15.16.22.23 | DARK SKY LAND INSTALLATION AT THE SANTA FE RAILYARDS | 8 TO 11PM

SEPTEMBER 27 to DECEMBER 21 | DARK SKY LAND EXHIBITION SERIES No 2. ROSWELL, NM. BONE SPRINGS ART SPACE

SEPTEMBER 27 | NEW MEXICO MUSEUM VLADEM CONTEMPORARY | VIDEO INSTALLATION BY MAGNETIC LABORATORIUM

OCTOBER 4-5-6 | THE ENCHANTED SKIES STAR PARTY MAGDALENA ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY. BY ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY

OCTOBER 12 | 10 TO 4 PM | ROSWELL SCIENCE & ART FESTIVAL | ROSWELL CONVENTION CENTER | DSL BOOTH WITH NM DARKSKY CHAPTER

DECEMBER 7 | JOHN W. BRIGGS LECTURE ON HIS ANTARCTICA ASTRONOMICAL EXPEDITION AT THE ROSWELL MUSEUM PLANETARIUM | THIS TALK WAS CANCELED DUE TO THE ROSWELL FLOODING.

APRIL 25-26-27, 2025 (NEW MOON) DARK SKY LAND + CONTINENTAL DIVIDE COALITION - STAR GATHERING IN PIEW TOWN, NM

SPRING 2025 | DARK SKY LAND EXHIBITION SERIES NO 3. PIE TOWN - SITE-SPECIFIC PERFORMANCE ART INSTALLATION

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