May Artists in Residence Readings and Open Studio

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Artist in Residence Alexander Kroll speaking with a guest in his SFAI Studio

Artist in Residence Alexander Kroll speaking with a guest in his SFAI Studio

May Readings & Open Studios
Thursday, May 23
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

Emily Davis Adams – Brooklyn, NY
Emily was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley, California. Her work reflects her interest in and involvement with the landscape and artists of the American West, and is Continue reading

Invincible after Chemo – A Documentary Film by a Young Cancer Survivor

Invincible after Chemo
 A Short Documentary Film by
Jessica Olivas
Invincible

Screening and Q&A w/ Jessica Olivas
Thursday, May 30, 2013
6pm @ SFAI
$10 general | $5 seniors/students | FREE to Middle and High School Students
ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE SFPS ADELANTE PROGRAM!

Santa Fe, NM –The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is pleased to welcome young filmmaker, Jessica Olivas to premier her short documentary, Invincible after Chemo.

About Invincible after Chemo:
Jessica Olivas embarked on documenting her journey as a cancer patient when she participated in a short film workshop sponsored by the Santa Fe Art Institute and the SFPS Adelante Program – a local school and community-based program that supports children living in homeless situations. Her original short film chronicled only part of her treatment stage. When the initial project was completed, Jessica was driven to continue telling her Continue reading

Sculptor, Martha Russo

cavities and clumps: the psychology and physicality of contested space
A Lecture and Exhibition by Sculptor Martha Russo

Casting slips from Russo’s shibumi

Casting slips from Russo’s shibumi

Lecture & Exhibition Opening
Monday, June 3, 2013
6pm @ SFAI
$10 general | $5 students/seniors

cavities and clumps:
the psychology and physicality of contested space

Exhibtion
June 4 – July 12, 2013
9am – 5pm @ SFAI
free

Santa Fe, NM –The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) is pleased to welcome – as part of the SFAI’s 2013 season of public programming, Contested Space – a lecture and exhibition by sculptor and educator, Martha Russo.

About The Exhibition and Lecture:
Through the abject, the elegant, the tenuous, and the awkward, within the cavity of a single space or the accretion of clumps of forms, Martha Russo creates provocative, Continue reading

SFAI Names Sanjit Sethi as Executive Director

Santa Fe Art Institute Appoints Sanjit Sethi as Executive Director

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Sanjit Sethi

The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) Board of Trustees announced today the appointment of Sanjit Sethi as Executive Director, effective August 1, 2013.

Mr. Sethi joins the SFAI from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California where he is the Barclay Simpson Chair and assistant professor of Community Arts, and Director of the Center for Art and Public Life. From 2004 through 2008 he was Director of the MFA program at Memphis College of Art. He has taught at numerous institutions including M.I.T.’s Visual Arts Program, the Art Institute of Chicago, and Srishti School of Art, Design, and Technology in Bangalore, India. He is also a practicing artist with a background in sculpture, ceramics, and advanced visual studies, and has worked on projects in Canada, Ireland, Hungary, the U.K., India and the U.S.

As Director of the Center for Art and Public Life, Mr. Sethi’s accomplishments are many Continue reading