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 →
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.
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 →
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 →
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.
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 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 →
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 →
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.
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 →
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.
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
This is a call for all of you to take action… to get involved in a community art project that will raise awareness of the severe water and climate change issues in New Mexico.
We, at the Santa Fe Art Institute, believe art can be a powerful force in social, cultural, and environmental change and the arts are at the core of who we are and what we do. Our fundamental goal is to build community through the arts, but if we do not take responsibility for our actions we will not have a community to build.
This is why we urge you to JOIN US on November 20th in this incredible community art action.
The Santa Fe Art Institute has been selected by Bill McKibben and 350.org to take part in the global art project that will be presented at the Cancun Climate Change Conference this coming November in Cancun, Mexico. Santa Fe is one of five sites in the U.S. that were invited, and is the only community based art action, to participate in the global project. The event will be photographed on the ground and by satellite from outer space, as well as recorded by video to be broadcast around the world.
On November 20th, thousands of Santa Fe community members and other folks from around the state will gather in the dry Santa River bed to form a human “river of water”. With cardboard painted blue on one side, the people will be orchestrated to flip the brown side of the cardboard to the blue to create a rushing river – a human FLASH FLOOD.
JOIN US on November 20th, 9:30-11:30am at either San Ysidro Crossing or Caja del Oro Grant crossing, with your large piece of cardboard painted blue on one side (or blue tarp, blue tablecloth, blue sheet… whatever!), and make your voice heard around the world!
Check out this incredible video made with award-winning cinematographer Doug Crawford and the kids from the SFAI Youth Mentorship Program!
For more information, please contact the SFAI at (505) 424-5050 or sfai.org
FLASH FLOOD image created by artist Patrick McFarlin
What: FLASH FLOOD Community Art Action Where: The dry bed of the Santa Fe River between Camino Del Oro and San Ysidro Crossing When: Saturday, November 20, 2010 – time TBD
What: FLASH FLOOD Pre-event Party & Exhibition Opening Where: SFAI When: Friday, November 19, 2010 5pm
SANTA FE—The Santa Fe Art Institute, in coordination with Bill McKibben’s 350.org, is spearheading the New Mexico FLASH FLOOD for a living river project, which is one of five U.S. sites out of 20 global locations. Joining forces with an incredible list of community partners, the SFAI is recruiting 3,000 Continue reading →
SITE SANTA FE AND SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE COLLABORATE TO HOST INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS FROM CEC ARTSLINK:
TWO ARTISTS FROM FORMER EASTERN BLOCK TO RESIDE IN SANTA FE FOR FIVE WEEKS
SANTA FE, NM – SITE Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Art Institute are pleased to announce that they will collaborate in conjunction with CEC ArtsLink to host two Fellows for five weeks beginning in October 2010.
Azat Sagrsyan
SITE and SFAI are delighted to host Azat Sargsyan (Arts Manager/Curator, Armenia). As director and co-founder of the Gyumri Center of Contemporary Art (GCCA) and the Gyumri Biennial, Sargsyan is interested in how biennials and non-profit arts organizations fundraise, structure residency programs and collaborate with international institutions. Sargayan will be in residence at the Santa Fe Art Institute from 10/14 – 11/17. In addition to curating the work of hundreds of international artists for the Biennial and GCCA, Sargsyan has co-edited several arts magazines, including Art Today and Cord, which covers the arts of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Mykola Ridnyi
Mykola Ridnyi (multi-media artist, Ukraine) will be in residency with the Santa Fe Art Institute from 10/14 – 11/7, and will learn about and work with the Youth Education & Outreach program. Multimedia artist and founder of the SOSka gallery-laboratory in Kharkiv, Ridnyi aims to create an alternative to the commercial art market in Ukraine as well as examine social and cultural differences between youth culture in the East and West. Ridnyi’s work has been exhibited in Europe, Russia and the US, and through SOSka he has developed a series of exhibitions, lectures, screenings and workshops. He hopes to engage in collaborations with American social practice artists, curators and educators.
Both fellows will speak about their work on Thursday, November 4, 6pm, at Tipton Hall, and will attend a host of interesting cultural events while in Santa Continue reading →
The Santa Fe Art Institute Artist & Writer Residency Program presents:
October Artists in Residence Open Studio!
Animator Nathania Rubin in from of some of her drawings
Join us to see what the October residents artists (and writer) have been doing with their time in Santa Fe!
Thursday, October 21
5:30pm
SFAI
October Residents:
Jason Reed Brown – Bellingham, WA
Jason Reed Brown earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a graduate of Turley Forge School of Continue reading →
Bosque del Apache, New Mexico. 12/6/09. Photo: Maria de las Casas.
Christy Hengst
Artist’s Talk and “Birds in the Park” Landing
Thursday, September 30, 2010
6pm Tipton Hall
$10 general admission | $5 students/seniors/members
As the closing event to the two-year long “Birds in the Park” project by artist Christy Hengst, we are pleased to host the final bird landing and an artist’s talk and look back at the project.
“Birds in the Park” is a traveling public art project started in 2008. Both event and exhibition, it involves the temporary installation of a flock of porcelain birds, which appear one day and are gone the next. The birds have cobalt images and text silk-screened and fired onto them, investigating aspects of Continue reading →
Monday 10/4
6pm Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors/members
The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to present award-winning documentary photographer and filmmaker Lauren Greenfield to present an overview of her work on gender, media influence, and youth culture including some new work on the economic boom and bust as it relates to consumerism and overdevelopment with her projects kids + money, Foreclosure and Dubai. Following the talk Greenfield will sell and sign books.
Acclaimed photographer Lauren Greenfield is considered a preeminent chronicler of youth culture as a result of her groundbreaking projects Girl Culture and Fast Forward. She was named by American Photo as one of the 25 most influential photographers working today (May/June, 2003).
Her work is in many major collections including the Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Getty Museum, the San Francisco Continue reading →
Santa Fe University of Art & Design/Santa Fe Art Institute
Community Open House
Sunday
September 19
1-6pm
The Santa Fe Art Institute has a bunch of events going on for the SFUA&D Community Open House this Sunday, drop by and check ‘em out!
1:00-2:00 – SFAI Staff Readings/Performances – O’Shaughnessy Performance Space
Lisa Donahue
Michelle Laflamme-Childs
Guadalupe “Perish” Vargas
Jessie Workman
2:00 – SFAI Youth Education & Outreach Program Exhibition Opening – SFAI Gallery 1
Come Join us for a celebration of the Opening of the SFAI Youth Education & Outreach Exhibition. Enjoy music, light refreshments, hip-hop dancing and Continue reading →
The Santa Fe Art Institute Artist & Writer Residency Program presents:
September Artists in Residence Open Studio!
Blacksmith, Jason Reed Brown
Join us to see what the September residents artists have been doing with their time in Santa Fe!
Thursday, September 16
5:30pm
SFAI
September Residents:
Jason Reed Brown – Bellingham, WA
Jason Reed Brown earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a graduate of Turley Forge School of Blacksmithing in Santa Fe, NM. Throughout his years as a blacksmith, Jason has been featured in various American Indian Art Exhibitions and Continue reading →
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 →
Come by and see what this talented group of artists and writers have been doing with their time in Santa Fe!
The SFAI is pleased and proud to be partnering with the Southwest Association of Indian Arts (SWAIA) on their annual Artist Fellowship Program. Three of our August residents are SWAIA Residency Fellows, and we’re honored to have them in residence.
August Residents:
Jason Reed Brown (Koyukon Athabascan) – SWAIA Artist Residency Fellow, Bellingham, WA
Jason Reed Brown earned an Associate of Fine Arts degree from the Institute of American Indian Arts and is a graduate of Turley Forge School of Continue reading →
