The Cross-Cultural Art Exchange is a project where art students from around the world collaborate to create mixed-culture art. The 2019-2020 Art Exchange was between Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA and her sister city, Lanzhou, Gansu, China. Coming Soon: The 2022-2023 Art Exchange between Albuquerque and Silver City, New Mexico; San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; Winnipeg, Canada; and Lusaka, Zambia.
Over the course of the 2019-2020 school year, six Albuquerque students and six Lanzhou students worked together from over 7,000 miles apart to create twelve beautiful, mixed-culture paintings, bringing them to life with our defining differences.

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Learn more about this project!
- To know more about the overall outline of this project, please take a look at the Project Synopsis
- To see a detailed documentation of everything that happened, check out our Timeline
- To take a look at each student’s individual process, click on either the Lanzhou Team or Albuquerque Team under Individual Pieces
- To view our current pieces and progress, scroll through our Cross-Cultural Gallery
- To learn about the contrasts we noticed and knowledge we gained, visit Cross-Cultural Contrasts
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Our Teams
Albuquerque

Lanzhou

Funding
This project was funded by the Albuquerque Academy Ogawa Community Service Leadership Award and the ACES-NM Young Asian-American Student Award
You guys did a great job. The pieces showed the difference culture but also mixed the culture together. I like it very much!
这样的交流开阔眼界, 丰富思想, 不同文化的碰撞会激发深层次的想像力, 很不错的活动。
Oh,boy!you did it very well! Such a great work! I really like it, it shows me so many pieces of art works which i have never seen before, really open my mind,
My heart is filled with joy as I review this remarkable site and remember how fortunate I was to coach these incredible Academy students during their time at Albuquerque Academy.
MrN