Monthly Archives: April 2009

Time’s as short as money for keeping college going

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Santa Fe New Mexican Editorial Page 4/29/09

A task force on the College of Santa Fe, convened by Gov. Bill Richardson to try to salvage the troubled institution, has been meeting for a month. The group, of more than 30 members, is composed of public university administrators, elected officials, CSF students and teachers, finance experts from state government and local business people.

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http://www.santafenewmexican.com/Opinion/Time-s-as-short-as-money-for-keeping-college-going

Zane’s World | Santa Fe Reporter

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Zane’s World

Derring-Do or Derring-Don’t?

By: Zane Fischer 04/27/2009

The College of Santa Fe is playing lead actress in a drama with a twist: It has become a comedy or, if you prefer, a farce. CSF is a damsel in distress if ever there was one, but she has been now lying on the train tracks of impending doom through the heroic but failed efforts of so many suitors, she herself must be wishing the damned train would just round the bend and finish the job.

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via Zane’s World | Santa Fe Reporter.

May 14, Memory Preserved: Sefarad Hidden and Revealed

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Memory Preserved: Sefarad Hidden and Revealed

5/14 Concert, Readings & Panel Discussion, 6pm Tipton Hall
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

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Santa Fe Art Institute in conjunction with Gaon Books presents an event remembering the Sephardic and Crypto-Jewish experience of New Mexico, featuring a concert by Vanessa Paloma with music from the Spanish colonial period and the launching of two books by New Mexico authors on the same period.
Author Isabelle Medina-Sandoval
Singer Vanessa Paloma
Author Mario X. Martinez

May 12, Birds in the Park

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Birds in the Park

Birds in the Park Installation

SFAI (exterior, front entrance), May 12, 2009 9am – 5pm FREE
Made from porcelain and printed with cobalt blue, these birds are, in a sense, carrier pigeons, carrying images and text related to war and peace side by side. Inherent to this work is the question, what kind of future do memories create? Layering newspaper articles and photographs from the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, with poetry and other evidences of the strength and depth of our common humanity, Hengst explores how we are connected, and also the unthinkable ways in which that bond is disregarded.

Hengst Bio:
For twenty years, visual artist, Christy Hengst’s work has followed a double track of more intimate art meant for inside, and site-specific art out in the public realm. Solo shows of Hengst’s paintings have been presented in museums and galleries in the US, Germany, and Ecuador. Public art projects have spanned the range from a guerilla text installation to elaborately tiled bus shelters. Hengst lives in Santa Fe and has two children.

David Maisel, May 11 Lecture, May 12 Portfolio Review

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Library of Dust © David Maisal

Library of Dust © David Maisel

David Maisel Lecture

Tipton Hall
May 11, 2009 6pm
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

David Maisel Portfolio Review

SFAI
May 12, 2009 10am – 4pm
Cost: 424-5050 info

For more than twenty years, photographer David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black Maps, Maisel’s aerial images become sublime meditations on what the curator Anne Tucker has termed ‘the engaging duality between beauty and repulsion.’ In Maisel’s recent project, Library of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics. The series depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from a state-run psychiatric hospital, whose bodies have been unclaimed by their families. Maisel has recently been an Artist in Residence at both the Getty Research Institute and at the Headlands Center for the Arts

Santa Fe Art Institute: Beyond

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John Sena | The New Mexican, 3/1/2009 -
“Our deepest hope, and our first plan, is to stay where we are,” Karp said, referring to the possibility that a state university or college would honor the institute’s lease. “This building was designed for us and for our program.”

If not, Karp said, the institute’s board has discussed buying its current building and the property on which it sits or looking for an alternative space.

In the end, though, Karp said the institute will continue to do what it has always done: empower young people to find their voice, and provide the community with a place to view and create art that stimulates.

“Our mission is what really drives us,” she said. “It’s not our building that drives us.”

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Santa Fe Art Institute: Beyond a building – SantaFeNewMexican.com

May 4, Issa Nyaphaga Talk and Performance, 6pm Tipton Hall

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Issa Nyaphaga

Issa Nyaphaga

SFAI Artist-in-Residence, Issa Nyaphaga, will give a talk about his work with the non-profit organization he founded, Hope International for Tikar People (HITIP). Following the talk, Nyaphaga will do a performative painting piece with the accompaniment of live, local musicians as part of his “Urban Way” philosophy.

Issa Nyaphaga was born in Douala, Cameroon (central Africa) in 1967 and grew up in the small village of the Tikar tribe, called Nditam, in the very heart of Cameroon’s equatorial forest. As a child of the fields, Issa was in contact with the earth and nature through artistic practice. “As a young artist, it wasn’t enough to be what I was. I needed to do more, getting involved in something significant and crazy”, Issa said. After High School, Issa started working as a political cartoonist and reporter in a weekly satirical newspaper, Le Messager Popoli. His opposition to the political regime in Cameroon, led him to several trips to jail in 1994 for his publications.

Issa currently divides his time between Paris and the United States where he shares his work and advice with students and young artists. Issa also has been working on the development of a philosophical concept called “Urban Way,” in which he paints his body and stages live performances that include live music. It is an act of protest against not being able to return home freely. Since early 2008, Issa is co-directing “Return to the belly of the Beast” a documentary project with Nicoletta Fagiolo.

6pm Tipton Hall
Entrance: Any comfortable donation