We’re sorry to announce that Greg Sholette had an unexpected death in the family and will not be speaking on September 23rd.

Still from Levonian's "Take Your Picture with a Puma"

The SFAI Welcomes Painter & Animator

Jennifer Levonian

Lecture & Screening

Monday August 23

Tipton Hall 6pm

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

Jennifer Levonian is a Philadelphia-based artist who creates cut-paper and watercolor animations that explore the ambivalence of everyday life by Continue reading →

image from Wilson's "Auto Immune Response" series

The SFAI Welcomes Photographer and Installation Artist

Will Wilson

July 19, 2010 @ 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general admission | $5 students/seniors/members

As part of our 2010 season of visiting artists and scholars, Elemental: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, the Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present photographer and installation artist Will Wilson.

Will Wilson was born in San Francisco and moved permanently to the Navajo Reservation at the age of 10. He attended the Bureau of Indian Affair’s Tuba City Boarding School from 1978 to 1983. He holds a bachelor’s degree in art history and studio art and a master’s of fine art in photography. Wilson has worked in a variety of media and has produced large-scale multi-media installations that incorporate photography and sculpture, monumental art pieces and intimate photo essays. Most recently Wilson’s work provides a glimpse into the complex contemporary negotiation with a land we have become alienated from, our dis-ease in understanding who we are, and possible paths for healing.

Wilson says of his work:
“Throughout my work I have focused on photographing Navajo People and our relationship to the land. While portraying this relationship I have always Continue reading →

The SFAI Welcomes Public Artist and Artist-in-Residence for New York City’s Sanitation Department

Mierle Ukeles

What: Mierle Ukeles Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: May 10, 2010 @ 6pm
How Much: $10 general admission | $5 students/seniors/members

As part of our 2010 season of visiting artists and scholars, Elemental: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, the Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present public artist and Artist-in-Residence for New York City’s Sanitation Department, Mierle Ukeles. Ukeles will talk about her work at Tipton Hall on May 10th at 6pm.

Public artist, Mierle Ukeles’ work reminds us that when we need our spaces cleared of snow, garbage, or other inconveniences, we don’t will it all to be gone – other people take care of it for us. Ukeles re-conceptualizes this first world perk into an active learning process that brings discussions of politics, environment, and society to the forefront. Through her work, she creates a springboard for rethinking urban ecology and the consequences of our current actions, both toward the environment and society.

Mierle Ukeles received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History and International Relations in 1961 from Barnard College in New York, writing her graduation Continue reading →

Fair Park Lagoon, Dallas: "Pteris Multifida"

Multi-media, Environmental Artist

Patricia Johanson

Lecture & Booksigning
Monday, April 26
6pm Tipton Hall

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

As part of our 2010 season of visiting artists and scholars, Elemental: Earth, Air, Fire, Water, the Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present multidisciplinary, environmental artist Patricia Johanson. Johanson will talk about her work at Tipton Hall on April 26th at 6pm. Her book Art and Survival: Patricia Johanson’s Environmental Projects will be available for sale and signing after the lecture.

In her 2006 book about Johanson’s work, Art and Survival, Caffyn Kelley says, “For over twenty years Patricia Johanson has patiently insisted that art can help to heal the earth. For the last ten years she has been creating large-scale projects that posit a radical, yet utterly practical vision. She works with engineers, city planners, scientists and citizens’ groups to create her art as functioning infrastructure for modern cities. Continue reading →

Trevor Paglen

Trevor Paglen Lecture

Monday, March 22nd

6pm Tipton Hall

on the College of Santa Fe Campus

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

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work deliberately blurs lines between social science, contemporary art, journalism, and other disciplines to construct unfamiliar, yet meticulously researched ways to see and interpret the world around us.

Click here to see Trevor Paglen on the Colbert Report talking about his book I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me!

Paglen’s first book, Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights (co-authored with AC Thompson; Melville House, 2006) was the first book Continue reading →