Guests in Katya Grokhovsky’s SFAI studio
May Readings & Open Studios
Thursday, May 24
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!
May Residents:
Carmiel Banasky – Portland, OR
Carmiel Banasky is a writer and teacher from Portland, Oregon. Her fiction and nonfiction Continue reading
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
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
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)
Writer, Judith Stein, reading at the August Open Studio (photo credit Dianne Stromberg)
October Open Studios
Thursday, October 27
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!
Hafeez Lakhani – New York, NY
Hafeez Lakhani was born in India and grew up in Suburban South Florida. A graduate of Continue reading
Vesna Jovanovic in her SFAI Studio
September Open Studios
Thursday, September 22nd
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!
Judith Stein – Philadelphia, PA
Judith Stein is a writer and independent curator. Trained as an art historian, she taught at Continue reading
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
Brooke Singer Lecture
Friday, July 29
6pm Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors
Brooke Singer & Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga Rotoscoping Workshop (see below for details on this SUPER COOL workshop!)
Saturday & Sunday, July 30-31
10am – 2pm SFUAD MOV Lab
$100 (sliding scale fees available!)
Contact Cathy at (505) 424-5050 or info@sfai.org to register
Brooke Singer & Postcommodity Exhibition
Mon-Fri, 6/10-7/31
9am-5pm SFAI
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present interdisciplinary, multi-media artist Brooke Singer to give a lecture and Rotoscoping workshop with her partner Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga as part of our ongoing season of visiting artists and exhibitions Half Life: Patterns of Change. In addition Singer’s work will be up at the SFAI through the month of July.
Brooke Singer
Working across media and disciplines, Brooke Singer creates platforms for local knowledge to connect, inform and conflict with official data descriptions. She engages technoscience as an artist, educator, Continue reading
Janet Rogers
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.
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
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
Artist Barbara Mehlman's SFAI 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
SITE SANTA FE AND SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE COLLABORATE
TO HOST INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS FROM CEC ARTSLINK:
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:
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!
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
The Santa Fe Art Institute Artist & Writer Residency Program presents:
Blacksmith, Jason Reed Brown
Join us to see what the September residents artists have been doing with their time in Santa Fe!
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
Artist Millee Tibbs in her SFAI Studio
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.
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
Poet Jan Beatty reading at the May Open Studio
Thursday 7/22 @ 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!
Tim Braun – Austin, TX
Timothy Braun is a writer living in Austin, TX. He has been awarded residencies at the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Ucross Foundation, The Anderson Center for the Interdisciplinary Studies, Blue Mountain Center for the Arts and Humanities, and Edward Albee Foundation, Continue reading
Painter Melissa Oresky at the May Open Studio
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.
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
The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) explores the interconnections of contemporary art and society through artist and writer residencies, public lectures and workshops, exhibitions, and educational outreach. SFAI awards over 60 residencies per year and welcomes critically acclaimed artist-lecturers and visitors. The Night Resident will live at the Santa Fe Art Institute and provide on-site/off-hours support for artists in residence, visiting artists and Santa Fe Art Institute staff. The NR will have the opportunity to meet and interact with some of the most influential and exciting visual artists, writers, and scholars from all over the world.
The primary responsibility of the Night Resident is to be the after hours on-site and on-call point person for residents and visiting artists at SFAI. Responsibilities will equal approximately 10 weekly hours, with some additional hours during special events. Specific duties include:
The Night Resident will receive remuneration in the form of free lodging (room and private bathroom), basic breakfast foods, access to on-site laundry facility, and work-related access of SFAI vehicles. The Night Resident will also receive one free visiting artist workshop and access to College of Santa Fe facilities such as the library and gym to the extent they are available. The NR contract is for one year. The contract is renewable after one year upon review.
Interested applicants should email a current resume w/cover letter and the names and contact information of two professional references to Residency Director, Michelle Laflamme-Childs at nightres@sfai.org.
Writer and printmaker Tia Blassingame
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!
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
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
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
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!
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.
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
Jeesoo Lee speaking in studio at the November Open Studio event
Come join us on Thursday, December 17th 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 brief studio tours of the artists’ work spaces. We will then allow guests time to revisit the artists
Jeesoo Lee – sculptor
Pinar Yolacan – photographer
Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig – writer
Edward Carey – sculptor
Maria Michails – installation
Liliana Orozco – painter
Joy Wood – writer
Merissa Nathan Gerson – writer
Edward Carey – Artist-in-Residence
Edward (Ted) Carey was born and raised in Wynnewood, PA just outside of Philadelphia. He has a BFA from The University of the Arts and an MFA from Continue reading
Shawn Hall at the October Open Studio
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.
Movement Artist Karl Cronin during one of his Weekly Offerings
We have another wonderful group of artists and writers to share with you! Come by the SFAI at 5:30pm on September 24th and see for yourself!
October Artists & Writers in Residence are:
Guest at July Open Studio looking at the work of Marius Lehene
The Santa Fe Art Institute Artist & Writer Residency Program Presents:
Admission is free!
Please join us on Thursday, August 20th for our monthly Open Studio! The residency program is completely full yet again, and we have an incredible wealth of talent to share with you! We will start with a few short readings, then we will introduce the visual artists who will speak very briefly about their work and you will be free to wander through their studios where you will have a chance to talk with each of the artists and writers.
Alana DiGiacomo
Merav Ezer & Adi Shniderman
Rae Gouirand
Sonja Hinrichsen
Krista Knight
Elisa Lendvay
Dominic McLoughlin
Donna Ruff
Farrell Silverberg
Persheng Vaziri
Zelda Zinn
For more information, call us at 505 424-5050.
The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI) conducts a bi-annual competitive selection process for artist and writer residencies that focuses on the professional experience of the artist, the quality of their past work, and their potential to have a productive residency at SFAI. The selection committees are comprised of successful artists, gallery owners, art instructors, writers, and other arts professionals from our region. SFAI supports over 50 residents per year and offers a cohesive, arts-focused environment that creates the ideal working conditions for our resident artists. Residents are housed in handsomely appointed rooms with private baths and are provided with beautiful, well-lit studio spaces, allowing them to pursue creative projects without interruption. The overall physical layout of the residency space encourages daily interaction and fosters communication among residents from all over the world.
SFAI, in conjunction with the Witter Bynner Foundation, offers two poetry translator residencies per year. The residencies are open to both published and emerging poetry translators and include stipends to subsidized transportation and accommodations and a modest living stipend. This residency is for one month.
For more information and to apply online
For more information on SFAI’s Residency program, please contact Residency Director
Michelle Laflamme-Childs at (505) 424-5050 or mchilds@sfai.org
Thursday, May 21, 5:30pm, Admission is FREE
Tawanda Reading at April Open Studio
Please join us on Thursday, May 21st for our monthly Open Studio! The residency program is completely full this month, and we have an incredible wealth of talent to share with you at Open Studio! We will start with a few short readings, then we will do a brief guided tour of the visual artists’ studios and give you a chance to talk with each of the artists and writers after. Refreshments will be served and admission is FREE!
May Residents:
