Thursday, February 25th
5:30pm
SFAI
Come see what are February artists and writer have been doing with their time in Santa Fe! Open Studio is such a great opportunity to see the studio process.
Residents this month:
Eric Cruikshank – Artist-in-Residence, Scotland, UK
Over the past 10 years artist Eric Cruikshank (b. 1975 Inverness, Scotland) has lived in Berlin, Edinburgh and London, but it is his home in the Highlands that truly informs the work he produces. Cruikshank’s art focus’ on the interiors and structural components of the farm buildings at this home, where he creates variations of these architectural spaces rather than documentations of them. The works simple composition exploits the subtleties of line and colour, tempo and rhythm, surface and space, with a palette tied to the Scottish landscape and a suggestion of delicate movement of light and shadow. Cruikshank’s most recent work has been shown in Paris, Berlin and Zurich, and Santa Fe will be his first Residency.
THE YES MEN!
Mike Bonnano & Andy Bichlbaum
Lecture/Performance & Screening of their 2009 Film
The Yes Men Fix The World
Monday, 2/22
7pm The Lensic
$20 $50 $100*
tickets available at the Lensic Box Office (505) 988-1234 or ticketssantafe.com
*these special $100 fundraising tickets get you the best seats in the house AND a special YES MEN t-shirt!
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present the world famous culture jammers, “Identity Correction” practitioners, and civil disobedients, The Yes Men to give a performance/talk about their work and to screen their 2009 film, The Yes Men Fix the World. Join us in celebrating the SFAI’s 25th Anniversary with these amazing disturbers of complacency.
The Yes Men say of themselves:
The Yes Men are a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players… but they play for the opposing team.
Wikipedia says of The Yes Men:
The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call “identity correction” by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. They express the idea that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public.
KSFR-SFAI Jazz Series
John Trentacosta & Straight Up w/ guest
Hillary Smith
Saturday, January 23rd
7pm
Tipton Hall
$15 tickets at the door (to pay the musicians)
Co-sponsored by SFAI and KSFR 101.1FM
With a deep soulfulness rooted in the Gospel-driven churches of her youth, a classically trained vocal instrument that’s a natural wonder, and a God-given instinct for swinging a lyric, vocalist Hillary Smith has been electrifying audiences across the United States for more than a quarter century. read more…
Rulan Tangen & Dancing Earth Welcoming Reception
Friday, January 15
3-5pm @ SFAI
Santa Fe Dance Company Makes History
DANCING EARTH is the first Indigenous contemporary dance ensemble to receive the prestigious award of a National Dance Project production grant! Santa Fe’s founder of DANCING EARTH, Rulan Tangen, was named “One of the Top 25 to Watch” by Dance Magazine in 2007 and her current production, “Of Bodies Of Elements” will launch its national tour with a preview in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 31st at NDI Dance Barns, and in Albuquerque on Feb 6th-7th at VS Arts North Fourth Theater. Selected from a competitive pool, DANCING EARTH will receive support alongside 20 other contemporary dance companies. Jane Forde, National Dance Project Manager states, “Artists are bridging cultures and creating work that will truly engage communities across the United States.” DANCING EARTH will bring their newest performance to communities across the nation.
“Of Bodies Of Elements” is a full length production of Indigenous contemporary dance. Rooted in Native American perspectives on environmental sustainability, the performance expresses the ensemble’s passionate exploration of the intersection of ritual, culture, and ecology. read more…
La Pocha Nostra is in the house!
Two of the founding members of La Pocha Nostra, Giullermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes, will spend 10 days (1/5-1/15) at the SFAI to collaborate on a book they are co-writing. The book is titled Radical Performance Pedagogy: Exercises for rebel artists and border crossers (Routledge, 2010) and is about the performance pedagogy that has grown for the nomadic Pocha Nostra workshops.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña Reading
Thursday, January 14
Tipton Hall
$5 general public | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members
Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Roberto Sifuentes
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist/writer and the director of the art collective La Pocha Nostra. He was born in Mexico City and came to the read more…
Painter Jerry R. West
screening his film “A Prairie Night”
Monday, December 21
6pm
Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/SFAI members
The film, A Prairie Night, by Jerry R. West combines a compelling sound track by West with visuals from his paintings, sculpture and sound installation of the same name. The sounds for this piece come from early tapes recorded by West in the 50’s and 60’s. The video was shot by Steina and Woody Vasulka during and after the artist’s installation at Heydt-Bair gallery in Santa Fe in 1982.
Thursday, December 17
5:30pm
Santa Fe Art Institute
Admission is Free!
Come join us on Thursday, December 17th to see and hear the incredible work that our artists & writers do in their time and space at SFAI. It’s a rare sneak peek into studio practice and process. We will have very brief readings by our three writers this month, and brief studio tours of the artists’ work spaces. We will then allow guests time to revisit the artists
December Artists:
Jeesoo Lee – sculptor
Pinar Yolacan – photographer
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig – writer
Edward Carey – sculptor
Maria Michails – installation
Liliana Orozco – painter
Joy Wood – writer
Merissa Nathan Gerson – writer
Artist Bios:
Edward Carey – Artist-in-Residence
Edward (Ted) Carey was born and raised in Wynnewood, PA just outside of Philadelphia. He has a BFA from The University of the Arts and an MFA from read more…
You Still Have Time!
All the info about the residency and applying is available here.
Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center
Estevan Rael-Gálvez
Lecture
Monday, December 14
Lecture
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Cultural Historian and Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Estevan Rael-Gálvez as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for his lecture on Monday, December 14th when Rael-Gálvez will talk about art, history, and memory.
A native son of the Southwest, Rael-Gálvez was raised farming and ranching in the closely-knit villages of Questa and Costilla, New Mexico and Jaroso, Colorado. His ancestral connections to indigenous villages and communities also profoundly shaped his worldview. It was in these villages, where his imagination was nourished somewhere in between the delicacy of what was spoken by his elders and the strength of the written word. He continues to maintain his ancestral home in the village of Questa.

Clockwise from bottom left: Susan York, Tom Joyce, James Drake, Gay Block, David Maisel, Rackstraw Downes, Susan Meiselas, Godfrey Reggio
What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition Opening Reception
Where: Santa Fe Art Institute
When: November 13 @ 5-7pm
How Much: free
What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition
Where: Santa Fe Art Institute
When: November 14 – December 31, 9am-5pm M-F
How Much: free

Roberto Diago's "Utopia"
In 2009, through the Memory: Shadow & Light visiting artist lecture and workshop series, the SFAI has been exploring the role art plays in the formation and preservation of societal or individual memory. Many of the outstanding artists participating in the season will have work in the 2009 Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition opening November 13th with a reception from 5-7pm: photographer Gay Block, realist painter Rackstraw Downes, photographer David Maisel, draughtsman & sculptor James Drake, blacksmith Tom Joyce, sculptor Susan York, photographer Susan Meiselas, and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. In addition, the SFAI is hosting an installation work, “Utopia,” by Cuban artist Roberto Diago.
Without memory we have no past and therefore no way of contextualizing the present or the future. Our memories provide knowledge about all aspects of life without which the world makes no sense. Memory, however, is also shaped by the present; our perception of the past is continually influenced by the present, which means that memory is fluid and therefore changeable. Because memory is not just an individual, private experience but is also part of the collective domain, cultural memory has become a topic in every part of study and practice.
Participating Artists:
Documentary Photographer
Susan Meiselas
Portfolio Review
Sunday, December 6
10am – 4pm SFAI
$100 (sliding scale fees available) Reservations Required
Lecture
Monday, December 7
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award-winning documentary photographer, Susan Meiselas as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for her lecture on Monday, December 7th where Meiselas will talk about how her work is, by its very nature, charged with the sometimes antagonistic ideas of memory versus history. You can also come by the SFAI between 9am – 5pm M-F through December 31st and see two of her photographs in our Memory: Shadow & Light exhibition.
Susan Meiselas is an American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s. Meiselas’ process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory. Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Meiselas. Her insistent engagement with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate on contemporary documentary practice.
You can see her work and learn more about her projects at susanmeiselas.com
November Artists & Writers in Residence Open Studio
Thursday November 19
5:30pm SFAI
Come join us on Thursday, November 19th to see and hear the incredible work that our artists & writers do in their time and space at SFAI. It’s a rare sneak peek into studio practice and process. We will have very brief readings by our three writers this month, and short studio tours of the artists’ work spaces. We will then allow guests time to revisit the artists and writers to chat further about their work.
November Artists:
Karl Cronin – movement artist
Jeesoo Lee – sculptor
Pinar Yolacan – photographer
Merissa Nathan Gerson – writer
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig – writer
Edward Carey – sculptor
Maria Michails – installation
Scott Bailey – painter
Joy Wood – writer
Jonatas Rodrigues dos Santos – painter
Everaldo da Silva Costa – sculptor
For more information, call us at 505 424-5050.
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What: Susan York Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: November 9, 2009 @ 6pm
How Much: $5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award winning, minimalist sculptor, Susan York as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for her lecture on Monday, November 9th where York will talk about her work and how it fits this idea of the embodiment of memory.
York represents the new generation of minimal artists. Every aspect of her life demonstrates a spiritual determination to pare down to the essentials: the way she speaks and engages with issues, her studio practice, and her art reflect her strength of vision. York is an artist-alchemist who transforms basic carbon in the form of graphite into something silvery and magical. As has been York’s practice since she was young, her ideas reveal themselves slowly. Time is an important part of the process and the result is powerful and engaging art that takes the viewer to a place of immense calm and subtle tension.

Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment
The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to bring you realist painter Rackstraw Downes, a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, as part of our Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light, Art as individual/collective memory.
Rackstraw Downes Lecture
Monday 10/26
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members
Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. Downes’ work combines the familiar with a sense of minimalism. His long, sprawling landscapes lack human subjects, yet they highlight man’s interaction with the environment. The large public spaces in his work explore the effects of light

Movement Artist Karl Cronin during one of his Weekly Offerings
SFAI Artists and Writers in Residence
Readings & Open Studios
Thursday, October 22nd
5:30pm @ the SFAI
Admission is free!
We have another wonderful group of artists and writers to share with you! Come by the SFAI at 5:30pm on September 24th and see for yourself!
October Artists & Writers in Residence are:

The SFAI Staff: (top row) Diane Karp, Deanne Brown, Ivy Fasko, Jennie Lewis, Michelle Laflamme-Childs, (bottom row) Bea, Shelby Chestnut
The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to announce that it has been awarded the 2009 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts for outstanding contributions in the area of contemporary arts.
The Mayor’s Recognition Awards for Excellence in the Arts were started in 1989 as a means of acknowledging living individuals, organizations and corporations that have made outstanding contributions to the arts in Santa Fe. Annually, the City seeks nominations of individuals or organizations by the public. A dinner held in late October or early November is an opportunity for the Mayor, the City, and the community to honor the individuals and organizations selected to receive the award that year. read more…
SFAI and VisionShift! present:
Global Warming = Global Warning

An exhibition as part of the VisionShift! project
Exhibition Reception
October 22nd 7:30-8:30pm
Immediately following the October Open Studio
Exhibition Runs Through October 30th
9am-5pm, M-F
SFAI Gallery 1
Admission is free
Explore the future of Santa Fe as we look at the opportunities ahead in the new energy economy. Come see work that re-imagines our future landscape – one powered by the sun, the wind, and the land, not fossil fuels.
For more info, call us at 505 424-5050 or email us at info@sfai.org. For more info about the VisionShift! project or for locations of the other exhibitions, visit www.visionshift.org.
Creating a community of artists for the healing of Mother-Earth

A community building workshop
Saturday, October 10th
10am-4pm
SFAI
We must trust in our own innate beauty and goodness and as artists and learn to work collaboratively to begin the healing of the earth and the restoration of our world.
Using the Cob natural building process, we will work together in earth to create a 2 by 2 healing image, or an image as a wake up call to mindfully pay attention to the great tragedy of this time in American history
“Holy Earth how can we heal you? We cover you like blight…Strange birds of appetite. If I had a heart I would cry.” –Joni Mitchell in a recent CD
We will lay our bodies on the earth for guidance and for images and then begin to play together in the mud and create an awesome sculpture. [You can do this today and bring your ideas] on October 10th from 10 am to 4pm at the Santa Fe Art Institute on the College of Santa Fe Campus at 1600 St.Michaels Drive.
Artists are some of the best thinkers in the world and yet we’ve been marginalized by the culture to only make art to sell and not be part of the bigger picture of changing the dark culture of corporate Nuevo Fascism.
“Yes our work on Earth is different. Some of us broadcast some of write, some of us dig, and some of us sing. But our real mission on this planet is the same. We are here to love and respect one another and share each other’s happiness, grief and melancholy. We are here to give to each other a part of our own being, in a non selfish and loving way.” –Bob Barth news director of KVSF
For more info, call us at 505 424-5050 or email us at info@sfai.org.
Israeli Photographer
Roi Kuper
Monday, October 12
6 pm
Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members

from Kuper's project "War Situation"
Roi Kuper is an Israeli photographer who is a visiting lecturer at UNM this fall. Kuper’s current body of work deals with the difficult socio- political situation in Israel. Please join us for his talk, “War Situations” to hear Kuper discuss his photographic career and his recent work about how he sees the conflict through his lens.
Born in 1956, Israeli photographer Roi Kuper has been working since the mid 1980’s in the photographic medium, philosophically exploring and investigating its nature both in black and white and in color work. His work is included in the collections of the Tate Modern, London, the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the Herzliya Museum of Art, , as well as in private collections in Israel and abroad.
Roi Kuper is also a prominent teacher both at Bezalel Academy of Art, Jerusalem, and at Camera Obscura School of Art, Tel Aviv.
For more information, call us at 505 424-5050 or email to info@sfai.org.

July Artist Kambui Olujimi Reading at Open Studio
SFAI Artists and Writers in Residence
Readings & Open Studios
Thursday, September 24th
5:30pm @ the SFAI
Admission is free!
We have another houseful of talent and would love to share it with you! Come by the SFAI at 5:30pm on September 24th and see for yourself!
September Artists & Writers in Residence are:

Bobby Shew - photo credit Paul Slaughter
The Santa Fe Art Institute and KSFR 101.1FM present:
Jazz in the Lounge
w/ John Trentacosta + Straight Up
& Special Guest Bobby Shew
Saturday, September 26
7-10pm
SFAI Lounge/Courtyard
$15 to pay the musicians ($10 if you’re an SFAI member!)
The Santa Fe Art Institute and KSFR 101.1FM are proud to announce the inaugural event of the newly created Jazz in the Courtyard Series!

VISION SHIFT!
Explore the future of Santa Fe as we look at the opportunities ahead in the new energy economy. We invite you to join us by using your creative power to help re-imagine our future landscape – one powered by the sun, the wind, and the land, not fossil fuels.
Install your 2’ x 2’ piece on 10/5 between 9am & 5pm in SFAI’s Gallery 1, de-install it on 10/30 between 9am & 5pm.
More info and prospectus at www.visionshift.org

James Drake's Take Up the Gauntlet, 2006 (charcoal on paper)
Internationally Acclaimed Visual Artist
James Drake
Lecture & Booksigning, Monday 9/14 @ 6pm
Tipton Hall on the CSF Campus
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors
Join us for Drake’s lecture on Monday, September 14th immediately followed by a sale and book signing of his first monograph, James Drake, published by University of Texas Press.
Renowned artist James Drake has presented his figurative, narrative art internationally, receiving early critical praise for his dramatic steel sculptures, drawings and video installations. Drake is one of those astoundingly versatile artists who has managed to create accomplished, distinctive work in a number of media. In the process, he has deployed a consistent vocabulary of images relating to art history, weaponry, the fine line between savagery and civilization, and life on the densely populated bilingual Juarez-El Paso border.
James Drake’s work is in the permanent collection of over thirty museums, including the Albright-Knox Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has had over sixty one-person shows and has been invited to participate in more than one hundred group exhibitions. Drake is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants.

Koan Box Blue Green Sienna
The SFAI Presents:
An Artist Talk
The Painting Process and the Enigma of Memory
w/ Santa Fe Painter
Lawrence Fodor
Monday, August 17
6pm
Tipton Hall
$5 general public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members
Says Fodor, “Painting is a personal process involving the mechanics and materials of painting – choosing canvas, brushes, mixing color, etc – and rummaging the deep recesses of memory, all contained within the moment and the act of painting. As a painting develops I move farther away from a conscious state, accessing the indelible marks of my history, sometimes unlocking doors to the forgotten and buried past, which has a direct correlation or translation to discovery in paint. My hypothesis regarding this realm of painting is that through the highly personal, and only through it, can one enter a realm of the inventive and universal. This, I know, is my most effective way to ultimately relate and communicate to other human beings.”
The Santa Fe Art Institute Artist & Writer Residency Program Presents:
August Residents’
Open Studio
Thursday, August 20
5:30 pm
Santa Fe Art Institute
Admission is free!
Please join us on Thursday, August 20th for our monthly Open Studio! The residency program is completely full yet again, and we have an incredible wealth of talent to share with you! We will start with a few short readings, then we will introduce the visual artists who will speak very briefly about their work and you will be free to wander through their studios where you will have a chance to talk with each of the artists and writers.
August Residents:
Alana DiGiacomo
Merav Ezer & Adi Shniderman
Rae Gouirand
Sonja Hinrichsen
Krista Knight
Elisa Lendvay
Dominic McLoughlin
Donna Ruff
Farrell Silverberg
Persheng Vaziri
Zelda Zinn
For more information, call us at 505 424-5050.
Tonight’s the Night! The fate of College of Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Art Institute is in the City Council’s hands!
There are a couple of critical things you can do to help:
1) Call these City Councilors who may still be undecided and voice your support!
Patti Bushee (505) 955-2345
Carmichael Dominguez (505) 955-6814
Miguel Chavez (505) 955-6816
Ron Trujillo (505) 955-6811
2) Be at City Council Chambers at 7pm to show your support.
This is the public hearing at the full City Council, and **you and everyone you know who can advocate for CSF and the SFAI should be present, and willing to speak up.** CSF is scheduled for the 7 p.m. session of the City Council. Please arrive right at 7 p.m. or earlier.
Thank you, again for your help and support.
We couldn’t do what we do without you.
Please come to both of these meeting to show your support for the city of Santa Fe’s acquisition of the CSF campus, and the continuing operation of the Santa Fe Art Institute.
If you need more info about the proposal you can get it here.
Your presence is critical, both tonight and Wednesday to show those City Councilors who are still planning to vote “NO” how much community support there is for this proposal.
Thank you, again, for your support.
The details are:
On TUESDAY, July 28th, there will be another informational open house on CSF/Laureate at the Southside Library, beginning at 4. I also recommend arriving to this on time, as they will likely have a formal presentation. Your presence at this meeting is critical as at least one of the City Councilors representing the district where this meeting is being held is planning to vote “NO” tomorrow!
WEDNESDAY JULY 29th is the BIG DAY; this is the public hearing at the full City Council, and **you and everyone you know who can advocate for CSF should be present, and willing to speak up.** CSF is scheduled for the 7 p.m. session of the City Council. Please arrive right at 7 p.m. or earlier.
If you need inspiration for speaking at tonight’s meeting and Wednesday’s meeting or to the Councilors privately here are some things to keep in mind:
-CSF was conservatively estimated to contribute $20 million by CSF’s director of institutional research
-There is no taxpayer burden in this plan– the bonds issued will be payed for completely by a 26-year lease to Laureate
-Laureate has committed to invest $20 million into CSF
-The State of New Mexico has committed to invest $10 million
-CSF’s creditors have negotiated CSF’s debt down by about $11 million in order to help the City acquire the campus for a mere $19.5 million.
EMPHASIZE WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF THE COUNCIL DOES NOT VOTE YES:
-The CSF property will likely be tied up in lawsuits for 5 or more years. What will that mean for the St. Michael’s area, and its future for redevelopment?
-Brain Drain! Talented professionals who taught and worked at CSF are gradually migrating, and will continue to do so, if the City lets this go. This article outlines a little bit of this phenomenon:
-Young people! Santa Fe has a serious problem with the attrition of its own local youth, and now without a traditional 4-year college, this city is losing many more. Don’t Santa Fe’s designations as a UNESCO city and one of the largest art markets in the country lose a bit of meaning without the presence of young people and an innovative arts college?
-These young people and professionals are significant contributors to the intellectual and artistic life of this community. What do we lose without them?
-What will happen to the Santa Fe Art Institute, if the City lets this go, and the campus property is mired in lawsuits for years?
July Open Studio!

Please join us on Thursday, July 23rd for our monthly Open Studio! The residency program is completely full yet again, and we have an incredible wealth of talent to share with you! We will start with a few short readings, then we will do a brief guided tour of the visual artists’ studios and give you a chance to talk with each of the artists and writers after. We begin at 5:30 and ddmission is FREE!
July Residents:
Mike Brohman
Stefan Chinov
Joy Davis
David Groff
Marius Lehene
Meredith Nickie
Stephanie Patton
Kambui Olujimi
Stephen Tapscott













