Monthly Archives: June 2009

July 5 Artist and Writer Residency Application Deadline

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Application Deadlines

Artist and Writer Residency Program
Application-Deadline: Postmark, July 5, 2009

The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) conducts a bi-annual competitive selection process for artist and writer residencies that focuses on the professional experience of the artist, the quality of their past work, and their potential to have a productive residency at SFAI. The selection committees are comprised of successful artists, gallery owners, art instructors, writers, and other arts professionals from our region. SFAI supports over 50 residents per year and offers a cohesive, arts-focused environment that creates the ideal working conditions for our resident artists. Residents are housed in handsomely appointed rooms with private baths and are provided with beautiful, well-lit studio spaces, allowing them to pursue creative projects without interruption. The overall physical layout of the residency space encourages daily interaction and fosters communication among residents from all over the world.

Witter Bynner Poetry Translator Residency
Application-Deadline: Postmark, December 31, 2009

SFAI, in conjunction with the Witter Bynner Foundation, offers two poetry translator residencies per year. The residencies are open to both published and emerging poetry translators and include stipends to subsidized transportation and accommodations and a modest living stipend. This residency is for one month.

For more information and to apply online
For more information on SFAI’s Residency program, please contact Residency Director
Michelle Laflamme-Childs at (505) 424-5050 or mchilds@sfai.org

Tom Joyce – July 13 Lecture | July 14 Forge Demo and Bastille Celebration

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Artist, Designer, Blacksmith Tom Joyce
Lecture and Forge Demonstration

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

July 13, 2009 @ 6pm, Tom Joyce Lecture, Tipton Hall
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

July 14, 2009 @ 10am-12pm,  Tom Joyce Forge Demonstration & Bastille Day Celebration
Tom Joyce’s Studio, $50 includes forge demo and pastries & coffee in celebration of Bastille Day
info: 505 424 50505
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Santa Fe based artist, designer, and blacksmith, Tom Joyce 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, July 13th, and for a forge demonstration on Tuesday, July 14th, that will serve as a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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June 27 Where Light Meets Water…

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Date:  June 27 – July 31  Where Light Meets Water;  Mumuru at the Equator- T12a
Presented by: The Santa Fe Art Institute Gallery, 600 Saint Michaels Dr, Santa Fe , NM
Opening Reception:   Saturday, June 27,  3-5pm

Where Land Meets Water

Where Light Meets Water features a 15’ scroll journaling a two-year portion of an extensive project focusing on the photosynthetic ingenuity of the Victoria amazonica, the world’s largest water lily from the Amazon Rainforest. From MacArthur’s first encounter with this organism in the Amazon in 1993, her work with light entered a chapter of deep engagement with photobiology and the equatorial zone of the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil. Friendships with the caboclos and river guides of the Amazon became her conduit to biologically come to understand this divine specimen, its habitat, and the underlying issues threatening the rainforest.

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June 25, Badland: A Discussion

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BADLAND: A Discussion

Featuring Contemporary Native Artists:
Rebecca Belmore
Lori Blondeau
Bonnie Devine
Erica Lord

Tipton Hall, June 25, 2009 @ 6pm, $5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members


The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute will cohost a special discussion by internationally renowned visual artists Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Bonnie Devine and Erica Lord. Moderated by Santa Fe Art Institute Director Diane Karp, and sponsored in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the discussion will focus on the upcoming exhibition BADLAND which opens to the public on June 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

The exhibition BADLAND will explore the ever-changing nature of land and bring attention to issues of sovereignty, destruction and culture as they relate to the land and its inhabitants. The artists will focus their discussion on their adopted definition of “bad land” which they borrowed from the Dakota Diary by Jean Day, “The Lakota Indians called it Makhosica, literally bad land, and the French trappers called it ‘les mauvaises terres à traverser’ – ‘the bad lands to cross.’”

June 22, Katherine Wells, Book Release Reading and Signing

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Katherine Wells

Book Release Reading and Signing

Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation

Tipton Hall, June 22, 2009 @ 6pm, $5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members
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Since the 1980s Katherine has devoted herself to mixed-media sculpture and writing and has had many solo exhibitions. In 1992, she moved to New Mexico where she purchased a rock art site with more than 6,000 petroglyphs. She has spent much of her time in New Mexico working for the protection of Native American rock art. In 2006, she received the American Rock Art Research Association’s Conservation and Preservation award.

Her memoir, Life on the Rocks: One Woman’s Adventures in Petroglyph Preservation will be published in May of 2009 by the University of New Mexico Press.