Environmentally focused Multi-media Artist – Amy Franceschini

Environmentally focused multi-media artist
Amy Franceschini
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Lecture/Reception – “Futurefarmers: A Collective Practice”
Monday, June 18
6pm @ Tipton Hall/SFAI
$10 general/$5 students/seniors

Exhibition
Monday, June 18 – Friday, July 27
9am – 5pm M-F @ SFAI
FREE (closed weekends and holidays)

 
Workshop
“Ethnobotanical Excursion with Futurefarmers and John Duncan” 
Sunday, June 24
Time TBD @ SFAI
$100 (generous scholarships available)

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to welcome – as part of our 2012 season of public programming, Half-Life – artist, educator, and award-winning web designer, Amy Franceschini to offer a workshop, exhibition, and lecture. The lecture, “Futurefarmers: A Collective Practice,” will present a lineage of work woven together by the common thread Continue reading

Discovery & Direction: An Art/Life Workshop

Discovery & Direction:  An Art/Life Workshop
Conceived & conducted by Robert Atkins


July 9  – 28, 2012
Three Group meetings: Monday evenings, July 9, 16 & 23,  6:30-9 pm
Four required private meetings by appointment

Discovery & Direction is a workshop for artists presented by the Santa Fe Art Institute that focuses on ways to identify barriers, renew meaning and facilitate movement in your art. It entails discussion, writing, reading, and—by its end—the Continue reading

Nancy Holt: Sightlines Exhibition

Featured

The SFAI Presents:

Nancy Holt: Sightlines 
Exhibition, Reception, Artist/Curator Talk

Sun Tunnels

EXHIBITION HOURS
Saturday, May 5 – Friday, June 29
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
SFAI Galleries I & II
Free

Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday May 5, 4-6pm
SFAI
Free

Artist/Curator Conversation
with Nancy Holt and Alena Williams

Monday, May 7, 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students & seniors

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to present Nancy Holt: Sightlines, an in-depth examination of Holt’s early projects from 1966 to 1980, on view from May 5 through June 29. Holt’s pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media. The career of this important American artist took off in the late 1960s when she and Continue reading

April Artists in Residence Open Studios

Kim Krause (right) in his SFAI studio

April Readings & Open Studios
Thursday, April 26
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

April Residents:

Carmiel Banasky – Portland, OR
Carmiel Banasky is a writer and teacher from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, Anderbo, Tottenville Review, and The Boy Bedlam Review. She earned her BA in creative writing from the Continue reading

Ida Kleiterp’s Acequias

Dutch Sculptor and Installation Artist
Ida Kleiterp’s
Acequias

Exhibition
Monday, April 9 – Friday, April 27
9am – 5pm M-F @ SFAI

Lecture/Reception
Monday, April 9
6pm @ Tipton Hall/SFAI

Workshop
in collaboration with Railyard Stewards
Saturday, April 21
10am-1pm, @ SF Railyard

Santa Fe, NM – The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to welcome Dutch sculptor and installation artist, Ida Kleiterp to the Santa Fe Art Institute for the month of April.

Sculptor and installation artist Ida Kleiterp was born in Beverwijk in 1948 and lives and works in Amsterdam. During a visit to Spain in 2001, Kleiterp was struck by the extraordinary architectural forms she saw in the mountainous landscape of the Alpujarras. They were the ‘Acequias,’ a network of reservoirs, channels, and moveable gates, which together formed a remarkable and ancient irrigation system. Kleiterp’s sculptures, inspired Continue reading

Teri Rueb – “This is (not) a map”

The SFAI Presents:

Teri Rueb’s
This is (not) a Map
lecture · reception

Artist Talk
Monday, April 16, 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students & seniors

The SFAI is proud to present as part of our 2012 season of programming HALF-LIFE, site specific installation artist, Teri Rueb.

Teri Rueb will be in residence for the months of April and September and will participate in the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. ISEA2012 is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature. The ISEA symposium is held every year in a different location around the world, and has a 30-year history of significant acclaim. Albuquerque is the first host city in the U.S. in six Continue reading

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

“Acting Together on the World Stage”

The SFAI and Theatre Without Borders Present:


Acting Together on the World Stage:
Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict
Film Screening and Panel Discussion

What: Acting Together on the World Stage Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Monday, February 13
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors

The Santa Fe Art Institute is very pleased to work with internationally recognized Theatre Without Borders to present a screening of the documentary film Acting Together on the World Stage immediately followed by a Panel Discussion.

The feature documentary Acting Together on the World Stage highlights courageous and creative artists and peacebuilders working in conflict zones. It features theatrical Continue reading

HALF LIFE 2012 Season of Programming

HALF-LIFE: PATTERNS OF CHANGE 2012
Season of Programming
Join our visiting artists for part II of HALF LIFE as we explore questions that underlie the basic concept of half-life: how do systems age, decline, and regenerate? How can we use the artistic and creative processes to make those actions sustainable, inclusive, and effective? The artists will wrestle with complex issues such as the history of culture and
society, the boundaries of cycles, how relationships with the natural environment build or destroy community, and meditations on self-identity and place.

Access your creative center with artist Monika Bravo!

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

Artist & Writer Greg Sholette

Gregory Sholette and Janet Koenig: Cannibal Tech, 2007

What: Greg Sholette Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Tuesday, September 13
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors

What: Greg Sholette & Monika Bravo Exhibition
Where: SFAI
When: 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 Artist and Writer, Greg Sholette, to give a lecture and show his work along with the work of Artist Monika Bravo as part of our ongoing season of visiting artists and Continue reading

Hip Hop Hope – 9/11 Ten Years Later

Still from Darrell Wilks' film Hip Hop Hope

A series of programs marking the ten years since the tragic events of 9/11/2001.

Please join us in this community centered creative response to the events of 9/11/2001 and the ten years that have ensued, with a focus on hip hop expression and its critical role as social commentary.

The Santa Fe Art Institute, along with the Santa Fe University of Art and Design, artist and filmmaker Darrel Wilks, Hip Hop Theatre anthologist Daniel Banks, The Youth Media Project, and students from the Santa Fe School for the Arts, is proud to present a weekend of programming remembering the events of September 11, 2001 and the role Hip Hop has played in bringing issues of social justice, environmental responsibility, and cultural freedom to the fore.

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August Open Studio

Artist Lenka Novakova in her SFAI studio

August Open Studios
Thursday, August 25
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

Judith Stein – Philadelphia, PA
Judith Stein is a writer and independent curator. Trained as an art historian, she taught at the Tyler School of Art and served as curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. She Continue reading

Rulan Tangen & DANCING EARTH


Dancer and Choreographer
Rulan Tangen
&
DANCING EARTH

Indigenous Contemporary Dance Creations

Rulan Tangen Artist Talk
Friday August 12, 6pm
SFAI Lounge
$5 (to support Of Bodies of Elements)

DANCING EARTH
Of Bodies of Elements
GALA Performance!
Friday August 19, 8pm
James A. Little Theater
$25 – $100*
Tickets available at Tickets Santa Fe at the Lensic
(505) 988-1243 or online at online ticketssantafe.org

*VIP Tickets include an exclusive Gala Reception with the Dancers; food provided by El Farol.

Rulan Tangen, director and choreographer of DANCING EARTH, the Nation’s foremost Indigenous contemporary dance ensemble, created an epic eco-production with multi-disciplinary collaborators in January 2010 with support from Santa Fe Art Institute. In Continue reading

Screening: Libby Spears’ Documentary, Playground

Libby Spears’ Documentary Film

Playground

Playground Screening and Talk by Libby Spears
Friday, June 3
Tipton Hall,  6pm
$5

The Santa Fe Art Institute and Helen Kornblum are pleased to present Libby Spears and her award-winning documentary film, Playground about the international and domestic child sex trafficking trade.

While traveling to the Philippines in 2001, filmmaker Libby Spears gained first hand knowledge of the horrific practice of trafficking human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation. She examined a little deeper, and discovered that most of these victims were young children.

Facing death threats to be “knocked off” for only $10, Libby went undercover to infiltrate brothels in South Korea and Thailand. She held first-hand Continue reading

Spoken Word Poetry with Janet Rogers and Alex Jacobs

Indigenous Spoken Word & Poetry Presentation

Janet Rogers

Alex Jacobs

Wednesday May 11
6pm
SFAI

Admission is FREE!

Seasoned spoken word poets Alex Jacobs and Janet Rogers, both of the Mohawk nation, will present spoken word and performance poetry. Their poetry reflects contemporary cultural, political and social realities as Indigenous people of Turtle Island. Both poets draw from a strong history of oratory and breathe new life into current poetic styles pleasing to both the ears and eyes.

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music. www.janetmarierogers.com

Alex Karoniaktahke Jacobs, born in 1953, is from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, which straddles the U.S. and Canadian boarders. In addition to working as an artist, Jacobs is also a poet and spoken word performer. He was the Editor of Akwesasne Notes, a CKON Mohawk Nation Radio dj, and an ironworker. He attended Manitou Community College (LaMacaza, QC), the Institute Of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM), and received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Creative Writing/Sculpture (1986). Jacobs’ assemblage/collage works garnered national and international recognition and has beencollected by the Museum of Anthropology (Berlin), the Museum of Anthropology (Frankfurt), Museum of FineArts (Boston), Heard Museum, the Southern Plains Indian Museum, the Institute of American Arts, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, and others. Jacobs lives and works in Santa Fe.

April Artists and Writers Residency Program Readings & Open Studios

Lisa Von Koch at March Open Studio

March Readings & Open Studios

Thursday, April 28
5:30 pm SFAI

Join us to check out the work of our incredible April artists and writers!

April Residents:

Jennilie Brewster – Brooklyn, NY

Jennilie Brewster graduated with an MFA (2007) from Bard College in Upstate New York and with a BFA (2002) from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has traveled around the country making art including residencies at: Santa Fe Art Institute; Headlands Center for the Arts and Djerassi in Continue reading

Oil Spill: Information Gulf

OIL SPILL: information gulf

What: Oil Spill: Information Gulf Panel Discussion & Audio Webcast

Where: Tipton Hall

When: 6pm Friday, March 25

How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members


What: Oil Spill: Information Gulf Exhibition

Where: SFAI Gallery 1

When: March 1 – 31, 9am – 5pm M-F

How Much: Free!


Oil Spill: Information Gulf Panel Discussion

In Santa Fe, panelists Riki Ott, Aviva Rahmani, and Debbie Fleming Caffery, moderated by Patricia Watts will discuss the spill, its aftermath, and the role of the arts as tellers/revealers of truth. Ama Rogan and Douglas Meffert will join us online from New Orleans for a Q&A session.

To listen LIVE ONLINE to the audio broadcast and participate in an online discussion of the panel, follow the instructions below.

Scheduled Time: Date: Fri, March 25, 2011 Time: 08:00 PM EDT

Call in:

Dial: (724) 444-7444

Enter: 1210 # (Call ID)

Enter: 1 # or your PIN

Join from your computer:

Click here to join the call or just listen along

Oil Spill: Information Gulf Exhibition

Photographs by Aviva Rahmani and Debbie Fleming Caffery. Continue reading

March Readings and Open Studios

2D artist Jung In Kim at February's Open Studio

March Readings & Open Studios

Thursday, March 24
5:30 pm SFAI

Join us to check out the work of our incredible March artists and writers!

March Residents:

Britta Hallin – interdisciplinary artist, Minnetonka, MN

Britta Hallin is an interdisciplinary visual and somatic artist working in sculpture, video, photography, installation, public art, performance, the body and consciousness. Her process is an integrative practice of vinyasa yoga, mindfulness meditation, and art making. Britta’s union of the living and creative arts is based on the connection with the physical, energetic, and spiritual dimensions of existence. Embodying a spiritually connected life in the age of information and globalization is the complex phenomenon that drives her aesthetic search for meaning in the path of creating beauty.

Kristiana Kahakauwila – writer, Honolulu, HI

Kristiana Kahakauwila’s writing focuses on Hawai’i and the Pacific. Her current work, a short story collection titled “I Never See You For a Long Time,” Continue reading

David Wojnarowicz’s film “A Fire in My Belly” and C*NSORSHIP: a p*nel discuss**n

Still from "A Fire in My Belly"

Screening of David Wojnarowicz’s film “A Fire in My Belly”
SFAI Gallery 1 Projection Room 2
Now through February 25, 2011, looping continuously, 9am – 5pm, M-F
FREE

Screening of “State of the Art: Art of the State”
SFAI Gallery 1 Projection Room 1
Now through February 25, 2011, looping continuously, 9am – 5pm, M-F
FREE

C*NSORSHIP: a p*nel discuss**n
Tipton Hall
Friday, February 25, 2011 @ 6pm
$10 general admission | $5 students/seniors/members

In reaction to the National Portrait Gallery’s decision to remove David Wojnarowicz’s film, “A Fire in My Belly”, from the exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture, the Santa Fe Art Institute will screen the film through February 11, 2011. These screenings will act in support of Wojnarowicz’s important and complex work and in protest to the NPG’s conviction that the censorship of the work serves as an appropriate Continue reading

IN SESSION: Jolene Rickard and Lucy Lippard In Conversation

The Museum of Contemporary Native Art & The Santa Fe Art Institute Present:

Jolene Rickard (top), Lucy Lippard (bottom)

IN SESSION: Jolene Rickard & Lucy Lippard In Conversation
Friday, January 28 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors/SFAI & MoCNA members

The Museum of Contemporary Native Art and the Santa Fe Art Institute are proud to present IN SESSION: Jolene Rickard and Lucy Lippard in Conversation.

The MoCNA lecture series In Session: Conversations with Contemporary Native Artists and Scholars, will be an engaging cross-cultural dialogue providing unique perspectives on their ongoing contribution to contemporary Native art. Continue reading

12/16 December Open Studio

Artist Barbara Mehlman's SFAI Studio

December Open Studio

Thursday 12/16
5:30pm SFAI
Admission is FREE!

Join us for readings by our talented authors and studio tours of our amazing visual artists!

December Residents:

Kaveh Bassiri – Brooklyn, NY
Kaveh Bassiri is a co-founder of Triptych Readings and the Literary Arts Director of the Persian Arts Festival in New York City. His work has won the Continue reading