2009 MacArthur Fellow – Rackstraw Downes

Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment

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

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October 22nd Open Studio

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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:

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SFAI Wins 2009 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts!

The SFAI Staff: (top row) Diane Karp, Deanne Brown, Ivy Fasko, Jennie Lewis, Michelle Laflamme-Childs, (bottom row) Bea, Shelby Chestnut

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. Continue reading

Global Warming = Global Warning

SFAI and VisionShift! present:

Global Warming = Global Warning

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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.

Join Us in Creating a Community of Artists

Creating a community of artists for the healing of Mother-Earth

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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

Israeli Photographer
Roi Kuper

Monday, October 12
6 pm
Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members

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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.