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FLASH FLOOD is almost here!

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FLASH FLOOD!

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

The FLASH FLOOD Advances!

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The FLASH FLOOD Advances!

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

What: FLASH FLOOD Cardboard Painting Workshops
Where: SFAI
When: Tuesday & Thursdays, 4:30 – 6:30pm through 11/18

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 →

CEC ArtsLink Fellows to Speak on November 4th!

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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 →

10/21 Artists & Writers in Residence Open Studio!

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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 →

9/30 Christy Hengst Artist’s Talk

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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 →

10/4 Lauren Greenfield Talk & Booksigning!

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Documentary Photographer & Filmmaker

Lauren Greenfield

Lecture & Booksigning

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 →

9/19 Community Open House!

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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 →

9/16 September Open Studio!

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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 →

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 →

August Resident Artists Open Studio

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Artist Millee Tibbs in her SFAI Studio

August Open Studios

Thursday 8/26 @ 5:30 pm SFAI

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.

SWAIA logo

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 →

What?! Yes! Winona LaDuke!

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“Warrior Womyn” Art by: Votan Ik’ahn (Maya-nahua) www.insurgentes.net

Winona LaDuke

Wednesday  August 18

Tipton Hall. 7:00pm

We must decide whether we want to determine our own future or lease it out for royalties.

CLIMATE CHANGE:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

Ojibwe prophecies speak of a time when we will have a choice between two paths. The first path is well-worn and scorched. The second path is new and green. It is our choice as communities and as individuals how we will proceed. We’ve already raised the average temperature of the globe one degree. The question is whether we can stop it from rising much more: this is at the core of our survival. It is essential for us to look at the world’s economic Continue reading →

Photographer & Installation Artist Will Wilson – Monday 7/19!

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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 →

6/24 June Open Studio

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Painter Melissa Oresky at the May Open Studio

Thursday, June 24th

5:30pm SFAI

Admission is free

We have another fantastic month of residents for you to visit with! There are three writers and seven visual artists working in a huge variety of mediums. Join us for Open Studio and get a sneak peek into studio practice as well as a taste of the kind of work these folks do in residence at the SFAI.

June Residents

Rita Ciresi – Wesley Chapel, FL
Rita Ciresi is the author of five works of fiction, including Mother Rocket (winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and finalist for the Los Angeles Times’ Art Seidenbaum Award for Short Fiction); Blue Italian (selected by Barnes and Noble for its Discover New Writers Series); Pink Slip (winner of the Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize for the Novel): Sometimes I Dream in Italian, (a Book Sense 76 pick and finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize) and Continue reading →

Elemental: Earth Air Fire Water – Exhibition

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With work by (clockwise from top left): Jennifer Levonian, Patricia Johanson, Mierle Ukeles, The Yes Men, Will Wilson, Victoria Sambunaris

Elemental: Earth Air Fire Water

Art and Environment

An Exhibition

Elemental: Earth Air Fire Water Exhibition Opening Reception
June 4 @ 5-7pm
Santa Fe Art Institute
admission is free

Elemental: Earth Air Fire Water Exhibition
June 4 – August 27, 9am-5pm M-F
Santa Fe Art Institute
admission is free

This year, as part of the 2010 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Elemental: Earth Air Fire Water – Art and Environment, the Santa Fe Art Institute has invited artists who focus on environmental awareness, presenting art as a vehicle for individuals, communities and leaders to address environmental concerns. The SFAI’s goal is to reveal the variety of approaches and range of innovations that artists are currently using in conjunction with their creative, Continue reading →

May Open Studio

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Writer and printmaker Tia Blassingame

May Open Studio

Thursday, May 27th

5:30pm SFAI

Admission is free

We have some great residents this month, and you should come check out what they’ve been doing since their arrival in Santa Fe! Some of them have just gotten here, while others have been here for a while. We have a 50/50 split of writers and visual artists this month, so we’ll have a nice bunch of short readings followed by a brief studio visits. Join us!

May Residents:

Jan Beatty – Pittsburgh, PA

Jan Beatty’s third book, Red Sugar, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 2008, was named a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. Books Continue reading →

Mierle Ukeles – NYC Sanitation Department Artist in Residence!

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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 →

SFAI Artists & Writers in Residence April Open Studio

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All but two of the artists & writers who were here in March are still here! Come to the April Open Studio on Thursday, April 29th, and see what they’ve done in the last month!

Painter Rebecca Silus in front of her work

April Open Studio

Thursday, April 29th

5:30pm @ SFAI

Admission is Free!

April Artists & Writers

Wesley Berg – Brooklyn, NY

Wesley Berg received his MFA in 2007 from the University of Florida where he was given an Alumni Fellowhip. His BFA is from Miami University in Oxford, OH. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and the Santa Fe Art Institute, and has an upcoming two-month stay at the Nelimarkka Museum in Alajarvi, Finland in the fall of this year. He has lived and worked in Brooklyn for the past three years. Some of his exhibitions around the US and the world include: the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art; 3rd Ward, Brooklyn; Rabbithole Studio, Brooklyn; Hun Gallery, NY; Gallery Ho, Seoul, South Korea; Redsaw Gallery, Newark; Nonstop Liberal Arts Institute, Yellow Springs, OH; and 18 Rabbit Gallery in Ft. Lauderdale.

Tia Blassingame – Woodbridge, CT

Tia Blassingame is a writer and printmaker exploring the history of African American architects, and the intersection of architecture, race, and perception. Continue reading →

Environmental Artist Patricia Johanson!

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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 →

March Open Studio – Thursday 3/25!

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Don’t you wanna see what our incredible group of March Artists and Writers are doing with their time at the SFAI? Come on over to the Open Studio and check it out!

March Open Studio
Thursday March 25th
5:30pm SFAI
Admission is free

Scot Bailey
Painter Scott Bailey at November Open Studio

Residents this month (brief bios below):
Wesley Berg – Painting/Drawing, Brooklyn, NY
Tia Blassingame – Writer/Printmaker, Woodbridge, CT
Karen Cantor – Filmmaker, Falls Chruch, VA
Eric Cruikshank – Mixed Media, Scotland, UK
Carrie Dickason – Mixed Media, Deer Isle, ME
Pierre Giquel – Writer, Nantes, France
Jonathan Harris – Mixed Media, Vermont
Cécile Paris – Mixed Media, Paris, France
Rebecca Silus – Painting, Minneapolis, MN
Hoyun Son – Mixed Media, Chicago, IL

For more about the event, call the SFAI at (505) 424-5050.

Artist Bios:

Wesley Berg – Brooklyn, NY

Wesley Berg received his MFA in 2007 from the University of Florida where he was given an Alumni Fellowhip.  His BFA is Continue reading →

Artist, Writer, Experimental Geographer – Trevor Paglen!

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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 →

Don’t Say “No” to the Yes Men!

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THE YES MEN!

Mike Bonnano & Andy Bichlbaum

Lecture/Performance & Screening of their 2009 Film

The Yes Men Fix The World

Monday, 2/22

7pm The Lensic

$20 $50 $100*

tickets available at the Lensic Box Office (505) 988-1234 or ticketssantafe.com

*these special $100 fundraising tickets get you the best seats in the house AND a special YES MEN t-shirt!

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present the world famous culture jammers, “Identity Correction” practitioners, and civil disobedients, The Yes Men to give a performance/talk about their work and to screen their 2009 film, The Yes Men Fix the World. Join us in celebrating the SFAI’s 25th Anniversary with these amazing disturbers of complacency.

The Yes Men say of themselves:
The Yes Men are a genderless, loose-knit association of some 300 impostors worldwide who agree their way into the fortified compounds of commerce, ask questions, and then smuggle out the stories of their hijinks to provide a public glimpse at the behind-the-scenes world of business. In other words, the Yes Men are team players… but they play for the opposing team.

Wikipedia says of The Yes Men:
The Yes Men are a group of culture jamming activists who practice what they call “identity correction” by pretending to be powerful people and spokespersons for prominent organizations. From their offices in Milwaukee, they create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they want to spoof, and then they accept invitations received on their websites to appear at conferences, symposia, and TV shows. They express the idea that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public.

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SFAI-KSFR Jazz Series Continues in 2010

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Soulful Songstress Hillary Smith

KSFR-SFAI Jazz Series

John Trentacosta & Straight Up w/ guest
Hillary Smith

Saturday, January 23rd
7pm
Tipton Hall
$15 tickets at the door (to pay the musicians)

Co-sponsored by SFAI and KSFR 101.1FM

With a deep soulfulness rooted in the Gospel-driven churches of her youth, a classically trained vocal instrument that’s a natural wonder, and a God-given instinct for swinging a lyric, vocalist Hillary Smith has been electrifying audiences across the United States for more than a quarter century. Continue reading →

Film Screening – Jerry West’s “A Prairie Night”

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Jerry West's “Oh, Prairie World, My Coney Island of the Mind” 1982 Acrylic on paper

Painter Jerry R. West

screening his film “A Prairie Night”

Monday, December 21

6pm

Tipton Hall

$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/SFAI members

The film, A Prairie Night, by Jerry R. West combines a compelling sound track by West with visuals from his paintings, sculpture and sound installation of the same name. The sounds for this piece come from early tapes recorded by West in the 50′s and 60′s. The video was shot by Steina and Woody Vasulka during and after the artist’s installation at Heydt-Bair gallery in Santa Fe in 1982.

Cultural Historian Estevan Rael-Gálvez

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Estevan Rael-Gálvez

Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center

Estevan Rael-Gálvez

Lecture
Monday, December 14
Lecture
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Cultural Historian and Executive Director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Estevan Rael-Gálvez 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, December 14th when Rael-Gálvez will talk about art, history, and memory.

A native son of the Southwest, Rael-Gálvez was raised farming and ranching in the closely-knit villages of Questa and Costilla, New Mexico and Jaroso, Colorado. His ancestral connections to indigenous villages and communities also profoundly shaped his worldview. It was in these villages, where his imagination was nourished somewhere in between the delicacy of what was spoken by his elders and the strength of the written word. He continues to maintain his ancestral home in the village of Questa.

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Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition

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Clockwise from bottom left: Susan York, Tom Joyce, James Drake, Gay Block, David Maisel, Rackstraw Downes, Susan Meiselas, Godfrey Reggio

What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition Opening Reception

Where: Santa Fe Art Institute

When: November 13 @ 5-7pm

How Much: free

What: Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition

Where: Santa Fe Art Institute

When: November 14 – December 31, 9am-5pm M-F

How Much: free

Roberto Diago's "Utopia"

Roberto Diago's "Utopia"

In 2009, through the Memory: Shadow & Light visiting artist lecture and workshop series, the SFAI has been exploring the role art plays in the formation and preservation of societal or individual memory. Many of the outstanding artists participating in the season will have work in the 2009 Memory: Shadow & Light Exhibition opening November 13th with a reception from 5-7pm: photographer Gay Block, realist painter Rackstraw Downes, photographer David Maisel, draughtsman & sculptor James Drake, blacksmith Tom Joyce, sculptor Susan York, photographer Susan Meiselas, and filmmaker Godfrey Reggio. In addition, the SFAI is hosting an installation work, “Utopia,” by Cuban artist Roberto Diago.

Without memory we have no past and therefore no way of contextualizing the present or the future. Our memories provide knowledge about all aspects of life without which the world makes no sense. Memory, however, is also shaped by the present; our perception of the past is continually influenced by the present, which means that memory is fluid and therefore changeable. Because memory is not just an individual, private experience but is also part of the collective domain, cultural memory has become a topic in every part of study and practice.

Participating Artists:

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Susan Meiselas at SFAI!

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Soldiers search bus passengers along the Northern Highway, 1980

Documentary Photographer

Susan Meiselas

Portfolio Review
Sunday, December 6
10am – 4pm SFAI
$100 (sliding scale fees available) Reservations Required

Lecture
Monday, December 7
6pm Tipton Hall
$5 general | $2.5 students/seniors/sfai members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award-winning documentary photographer, Susan Meiselas as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for her lecture on Monday, December 7th where Meiselas will talk about how her work is, by its very nature, charged with the sometimes antagonistic ideas of memory versus history. You can also come by the SFAI between 9am – 5pm M-F through December 31st and see two of her photographs in our Memory: Shadow & Light exhibition.

Susan Meiselas is an American photographer best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and 1980s. Meiselas’ process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory. Since the 1970s, questions of ethics raised by documentary practice have been central to debates in photography. Perhaps no other photographer has so closely and consistently represented and participated in these debates than Meiselas. Her insistent engagement with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate on contemporary documentary practice.

You can see her work and learn more about her projects at susanmeiselas.com

November Open Studio!

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Shawn Hall at the October Open Studio

November Artists & Writers in Residence Open Studio

Thursday November 19
5:30pm SFAI

Come join us on Thursday, November 19th to see and hear the incredible work that our artists & writers do in their time and space at SFAI. It’s a rare sneak peek into studio practice and process. We will have very brief readings by our three writers this month, and short studio tours of the artists’ work spaces. We will then allow guests time to revisit the artists and writers to chat further about their work.

November Artists:
Karl Cronin – movement artist
Jeesoo Lee – sculptor
Pinar Yolacan – photographer
Merissa Nathan Gerson – writer
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig – writer
Edward Carey – sculptor
Maria Michails – installation
Scott Bailey – painter
Joy Wood – writer
Jonatas Rodrigues dos Santos – painter
Everaldo da Silva Costa – sculptor

For more information, call us at 505 424-5050.