March Artists in Residence Open Studios

Artist Murad Kahn Mumtaz in his SFAI Studio

March Open Studio
Thursday, March 22
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

March Residents
Tom Shepard – San Francisco, CA
Tom Shepard produced and directed Scout’s Honor, a PBS-funded documentary thatwon top awards at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival Scout’s Honor broadcast nationally when it opened POV’s 14th season in 2001. In 2006, Shepard co-directed and produced Knocking (www.knocking.org) in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS)

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Up Heartbreak Hill

The SFAI Presents:

Up Heartbreak Hill 
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Erica Scharf

What: Up Heartbreak Hill Film Screening and Q&A
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Monday, March 19
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to present accomplished documentary filmmaker and television producer, Erica Scharf and her award-winning film, Up Heartbreak Hill.

Up Heartbreak Hill is Scharf’s first feature length film. Shot in New Mexico, Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, NM — Thomas, an elite runner, Tamara, an academic superstar, and Gabby, an aspiring Continue reading

Notes from SFAI’s January Creative Capital Workshops

On January 20-23rd, the Santa Fe Art Institute, with support from the Kresge Foundation, brought the Creative Capital Professional Development Program to Santa Fe for two workshops: The Internet for Artists (IFA) Weekend Workshop, and a one-day Verbal Communications (VC) Workshop.

IFA Team Leader Brad Lichtenstein and workshop participants

The artists who participated in the workshops were selected from a pool of applications by a committee of local artists, curators, writers, and educators. The result was a group of artists at varying stages of their Continue reading