Joshua Breakstone
John Trentacosta & Straight Up w/ guest
Joshua Breakstone
Saturday, December 12
7pm
SFAI Lounge
$15 tickets at the door (to pay the musicians)
Co-sponsored by SFAI and KSFR 101.1FM
Estevan Rael-Gálvez
Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center
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
How Much: free
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:
Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway, 1980
Documentary Photographer
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
Shawn Hall at the October Open Studio
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.
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.
