Category Archives: Education

Notes from SFAI’s January Creative Capital Workshops

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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 →

CREATIVE CAPITAL IS BACK!

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INVITATION TO APPLY

Internet for Artists Weekend
&
Verbal Communications
Workshops
Open to Individual Artists Living and Working in New Mexico

Overview
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased, with support from the Kresge Foundation, to partner
with Creative Capital to present two Professional Development workshops, Internet for Artists and Verbal Communications, for artists, writers, and performers in all disciplines living and working in New Mexico. The Internet for Artists weekend retreat will take place
at the Santa Fe Art Institute from Friday, January 20 to Sunday, January 22, 2012, and the Verbal Communications workshop will be held on Monday, January 23, 2012. The two workshops may be taken individually or in combination. Eligible New Mexico artists are invited to apply to attend. Continue reading →

Access your creative center with artist Monika Bravo!

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Filmmaker, Photographer, and Video Installation Artist

Monika Bravo

Breathingwall, 2011

What: Monika Bravo Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Tuesday, October 11
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors

What: Monika Bravo Reception & Dance Party
Where: SFAI
When: 7:30-9pm Tuesday, October 11
How Much: FREE!

What: The Well, a Workshop with Monika Bravo
Where: SFAI
When: 10am – 4pm Saturday & Sunday, October 8 & 9
How Much: $200 – sliding scale fee and work trade options available

What: 9/11, Ten Years Later Short Film Screenings
Where: SFAI Building Exterior
When: 7pm-7am (dusk to dawn) M-F, September 9 – September 30
How Much: FREE!

What: Monika Bravo & Greg Sholette Exhibition
Where: SFAI
When: Exhibition 9am-5pm M-F, September 9 – October 31
How Much: FREE!

The Santa Fe Art Institute and the Santa Fe University of Art and Design are pleased to present filmmaker, photographer, and video installation artist, Monika Bravo, to give a lecture she calls, Process and Intuition on Tuesday, October 11, 2011. Bravo will talk about Continue reading →

Nancy Reyner Talk & Booksigning

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Nancy Reyner's New Book!

Nancy Reyner Talk & Booksigning

Monday, August 30

6pm

Tipton Hall

$10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members

American artist Nancy Reyner explores the artist as inventor through her art, life and her newly released second book Acrylic Innovation. A painter of more than 30 years experience Reyner exhibits, lectures and teaches internationally. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and MFA from Columbia University. Reyner shares insights on how artists keep their ideas fresh, create new styles and stay motivated from recent interviews with over 64 successful contemporary painters in her new book. Continue reading →

Check out our Amazing Youth Education and Outreach Programs!

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The SFAI has a bunch of great stuff going this summer for Santa Fe’s youth!

Check them all out below…

Hip-Hop Mentorship and Project Murals

Mentorship kids holiding up their work

SFAI holds hip-hop & mural project mentorship’s every Tuesday from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at the Santa Fe Art Institute.  Participants will learn Hip-Hop culture, the basics of graffiti and will get a chance to paint on free walls. Youth will also have the opportunity to be involved in the brainstorming process for the concept as well as the painting of murals that are part of SFAI’s youth mural project.  If you are interested in being involved please call 505-424-5050.

DeVargas Skate Park

This project, part of our ongoing mentored youth mural program curbs illegal tagging in the park and sends a message that the city cares about its youth and their creative engagement.  The Santa Fe Art Institute has been working for years to see this project through. It could not have become a reality without the Continue reading →

Education & Outreach Summer Workshops

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Summer Art Workshops for Youth and Adults

B-boys in the SFAI Courtyard

Site-Specific Playwriting: Writing Performance Pieces For The City of Santa Fe

Taught by Timothy Braun, SFAI writer in residence
July 10, 17, 24-25, 10am-2pm
In celebration of the 400th anniversary of Santa Fe, students will study the basic concepts of playwriting focusing on a specific location. Each student will have a one-act play completed by the end of the class.
Ideal for students ages 18 and up, $200 Continue reading →

Acrylic Painting with New Digital Imagery – Workshop

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Acrylic Painting with New Digital Imagery

An Acrylic Painting Workshop w/ Nancy Reyner

Mon-Fri 6/7-11

10am – 4pm SFAI

$495

need-based scholarships available

Give your art an exciting contemporary edge! Print images onto unusual papers, foils and actual layers of acrylic paint (called paint skins), then collage and overpaint, to transform, seal and combine into unique paintings. New acrylic painting techniques, surfacing, paints and products will also be explored. All levels are welcome. Printers and printing inks will be supplied. Golden provides free paint samples and product samples for experimenting. Additional supplies are needed – list is available upon registration. Continue reading →

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 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
wells

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.