Category Archives: Lectures

Susan York Lecture — Monday, 11/9!

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What: Susan York Lecture

Where: Tipton Hall

When: November 9, 2009 @ 6pm

How Much: $5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you award winning, minimalist sculptor, Susan York 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, November 9th where York will talk about her work and how it fits this idea of the embodiment of memory.

York represents the new generation of minimal artists. Every aspect of her life demonstrates a spiritual determination to pare down to the essentials: the way she speaks and engages with issues, her studio practice, and her art reflect her strength of vision. York is an artist-alchemist who transforms basic carbon in the form of graphite into something silvery and magical. As has been York’s practice since she was young, her ideas reveal themselves slowly. Time is an important part of the process and the result is powerful and engaging art that takes the viewer to a place of immense calm and subtle tension.

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2009 MacArthur Fellow – Rackstraw Downes

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Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment

Rackstraw Downes in his New York apartment

The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to bring you realist painter Rackstraw Downes, a 2009 MacArthur Fellow, as part of our Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light, Art as individual/collective memory.

Rackstraw Downes Lecture

Monday 10/26

6pm Tipton Hall

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

Rackstraw Downes is a British-born realist painter and author. Downes’ work combines the familiar with a sense of minimalism. His long, sprawling landscapes lack human subjects, yet they highlight man’s interaction with the environment. The large public spaces in his work explore the effects of light

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Artist Talk with Larry Fodor

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Koan Box Blue Green Sienna

The SFAI Presents:

An Artist Talk

The Painting Process and the Enigma of Memory

w/ Santa Fe Painter

Lawrence Fodor

Monday, August 17

6pm

Tipton Hall

$5 general public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

Says Fodor, “Painting is a personal process involving the mechanics and materials of painting – choosing canvas, brushes, mixing color, etc – and rummaging the deep recesses of memory, all contained within the moment and the act of painting. As a painting develops I move farther away from a conscious state, accessing the indelible marks of my history, sometimes unlocking doors to the forgotten and buried past, which has a direct correlation or translation to discovery in paint. My hypothesis regarding this realm of painting is that through the highly personal, and only through it, can one enter a realm of the inventive and universal. This, I know, is my most effective way to ultimately relate and communicate to other human beings.”

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Blake Gopnik @ SFAI August 3rd

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Washington Post Chief Art Critic

Blake Gopnik

Lecture – Those who don’t know art history are doomed to repeat it
August 3, 2009 @ 6pm
Tipton Hall
$5 General Public | $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you chief art critic of the Washington Post, Blake Gopnik as part of our 2009 Visiting Artist & Lecture season, Memory: Shadow and Light | Art as individual/collective memory. Join us for his lecture, “Those who do not know art history are doomed to repeat it,” on Monday, August 3rd, and again on Tuesday, August 4th for a workshop addressing the same topic in a practical, hands-on way. Continue reading →

Tom Joyce – July 13 Lecture | July 14 Forge Demo and Bastille Celebration

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Artist, Designer, Blacksmith Tom Joyce
Lecture and Forge Demonstration

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

©2005 Tom Joyce "Quoin" Wood, books, iron 48" x 48"x 41"

July 13, 2009 @ 6pm, Tom Joyce Lecture, Tipton Hall
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

July 14, 2009 @ 10am-12pm,  Tom Joyce Forge Demonstration & Bastille Day Celebration
Tom Joyce’s Studio, $50 includes forge demo and pastries & coffee in celebration of Bastille Day
info: 505 424 50505
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to bring you Santa Fe based artist, designer, and blacksmith, Tom Joyce 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, July 13th, and for a forge demonstration on Tuesday, July 14th, that will serve as a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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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.’”

Laurie Anderson, June 8 and 9

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Laurie Anderson, Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories
6/8 Performance, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm

6/8 Performance, Lensic Performing Arts Center, 7:30pm$35, $50, $95*
*These special $95 fundraising tickets include a cocktail party, priority seating, and a special edition SFAI/Laurie Anderson T-Shirt

6/9 Lecture and Q&A with Laurie Anderson, 11.00am
Lensic Performing Arts Center, $10
Tickets for the Performance and the Lecture will be available through the Lensic Box Office at 505.988.1234 or http://www.ticketssantafe.org/

The Santa Fe Art Institute is honored to present internationally acclaimed musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson. Anderson will be performing her latest piece Burning Leaves: A Retrospective of Song and Stories and offering a workshop and Q&A Session as part of a fundraiser for the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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David Maisel, May 11 Lecture, May 12 Portfolio Review

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Library of Dust © David Maisal

Library of Dust © David Maisel

David Maisel Lecture

Tipton Hall
May 11, 2009 6pm
$5 General Public, $2.50 students/seniors/SFAI members

David Maisel Portfolio Review

SFAI
May 12, 2009 10am – 4pm
Cost: 424-5050 info

For more than twenty years, photographer David Maisel has chronicled the tensions between nature and culture in his large-scaled photographs of environmentally impacted landscapes. In the multi-chaptered series Black Maps, Maisel’s aerial images become sublime meditations on what the curator Anne Tucker has termed ‘the engaging duality between beauty and repulsion.’ In Maisel’s recent project, Library of Dust, he continues to investigate a zone bordered by aesthetics and ethics. The series depicts individual copper canisters, each containing the cremated remains of patients from a state-run psychiatric hospital, whose bodies have been unclaimed by their families. Maisel has recently been an Artist in Residence at both the Getty Research Institute and at the Headlands Center for the Arts

SFAI on the radio, 12-08-08

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Alfredo Jaar and Diane Karp interviewed by Mary Charlotte Domandi on Santa Fe radio KSFR 101.1 FM.

Use the player below to hear the broadcast.

Radio Café podcasts are available at http://www.santaferadiocafe.org/podcasts/

May 4, Issa Nyaphaga Talk and Performance, 6pm Tipton Hall

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Issa Nyaphaga

Issa Nyaphaga

SFAI Artist-in-Residence, Issa Nyaphaga, will give a talk about his work with the non-profit organization he founded, Hope International for Tikar People (HITIP). Following the talk, Nyaphaga will do a performative painting piece with the accompaniment of live, local musicians as part of his “Urban Way” philosophy.

Issa Nyaphaga was born in Douala, Cameroon (central Africa) in 1967 and grew up in the small village of the Tikar tribe, called Nditam, in the very heart of Cameroon’s equatorial forest. As a child of the fields, Issa was in contact with the earth and nature through artistic practice. “As a young artist, it wasn’t enough to be what I was. I needed to do more, getting involved in something significant and crazy”, Issa said. After High School, Issa started working as a political cartoonist and reporter in a weekly satirical newspaper, Le Messager Popoli. His opposition to the political regime in Cameroon, led him to several trips to jail in 1994 for his publications.

Issa currently divides his time between Paris and the United States where he shares his work and advice with students and young artists. Issa also has been working on the development of a philosophical concept called “Urban Way,” in which he paints his body and stages live performances that include live music. It is an act of protest against not being able to return home freely. Since early 2008, Issa is co-directing “Return to the belly of the Beast” a documentary project with Nicoletta Fagiolo.

6pm Tipton Hall
Entrance: Any comfortable donation