Category Archives: Exhibits

HALF LIFE 2012 Season of Programming

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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!

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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 →

Artist & Writer Greg Sholette

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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

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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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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 →

All Elements – Youth Exhibition

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The Santa Fe Art Institute Youth Education & Outreach Program Presents:

All Elements – Youth Exhibition

Exhibition of Student Work, and Celebration of Positive Change

All Elements Exhibition Opening Reception & Celebration

Friday, May 7 @ 5-7pm
Santa Fe Art Institute
Admission is free
Exhibition runs through May 28th M-F 9am-5pm

The Santa Fe Art Institute’s Youth Education & Outreach Program is pleased to invite you to the opening reception and celebration for the youth exhibition, All Elements. The reception will be held at the SFAI from 5-7pm on Friday, may 7th, and the exhibition will be up until Friday, May 28th.

Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate the hard work and creativity of Santa Fe’s youth and the artists and mentors that have guided them throughout the year. Exploring the SFAI’s 2010 theme ELEMENTAL: Earth Air Fire Water – Art and Environment, this exhibition and performance is sure to be an inspiring event. Come see for yourself the creativity that has blossomed from the Santa Fe Art Institute’s youth education and outreach programs. All Elements will include the work of students from DeVargas Middle School, Capshaw Middle School, Tierra Encantada Charter High, SER Career Academy, Capital High School, La Otra Puerta Emergency Youth Shelter, Camino Nuevo Juvenile Correctional Facility, and the Youth Diagnostic and Development Center.

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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June 27 Where Light Meets Water…

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Date:  June 27 – July 31  Where Light Meets Water;  Mumuru at the Equator- T12a
Presented by: The Santa Fe Art Institute Gallery, 600 Saint Michaels Dr, Santa Fe , NM
Opening Reception:   Saturday, June 27,  3-5pm

Where Land Meets Water

Where Light Meets Water features a 15’ scroll journaling a two-year portion of an extensive project focusing on the photosynthetic ingenuity of the Victoria amazonica, the world’s largest water lily from the Amazon Rainforest. From MacArthur’s first encounter with this organism in the Amazon in 1993, her work with light entered a chapter of deep engagement with photobiology and the equatorial zone of the Amazon Rainforest of Brazil. Friendships with the caboclos and river guides of the Amazon became her conduit to biologically come to understand this divine specimen, its habitat, and the underlying issues threatening the rainforest.

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June 25, Badland: A Discussion

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BADLAND: A Discussion

Featuring Contemporary Native Artists:
Rebecca Belmore
Lori Blondeau
Bonnie Devine
Erica Lord

Tipton Hall, June 25, 2009 @ 6pm, $5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members


The Museum of Contemporary Native Arts and the Santa Fe Art Institute will cohost a special discussion by internationally renowned visual artists Rebecca Belmore, Lori Blondeau, Bonnie Devine and Erica Lord. Moderated by Santa Fe Art Institute Director Diane Karp, and sponsored in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the discussion will focus on the upcoming exhibition BADLAND which opens to the public on June 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts.

The exhibition BADLAND will explore the ever-changing nature of land and bring attention to issues of sovereignty, destruction and culture as they relate to the land and its inhabitants. The artists will focus their discussion on their adopted definition of “bad land” which they borrowed from the Dakota Diary by Jean Day, “The Lakota Indians called it Makhosica, literally bad land, and the French trappers called it ‘les mauvaises terres à traverser’ – ‘the bad lands to cross.’”

May 12, Birds in the Park

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Birds in the Park

Birds in the Park Installation

SFAI (exterior, front entrance), May 12, 2009 9am – 5pm FREE
Made from porcelain and printed with cobalt blue, these birds are, in a sense, carrier pigeons, carrying images and text related to war and peace side by side. Inherent to this work is the question, what kind of future do memories create? Layering newspaper articles and photographs from the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, with poetry and other evidences of the strength and depth of our common humanity, Hengst explores how we are connected, and also the unthinkable ways in which that bond is disregarded.

Hengst Bio:
For twenty years, visual artist, Christy Hengst’s work has followed a double track of more intimate art meant for inside, and site-specific art out in the public realm. Solo shows of Hengst’s paintings have been presented in museums and galleries in the US, Germany, and Ecuador. Public art projects have spanned the range from a guerilla text installation to elaborately tiled bus shelters. Hengst lives in Santa Fe and has two children.