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 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 University of Arizona, and her MFA from Hunter College, where she also taught creative writing. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also lived Mississippi, where she taught and worked in grassroots organizing. Currently, she’s hard at work on her first novel while attending writing residencies.

Marci Erspamer – Salt Lake City, UT
Marci Erspamer was born on May 29, 1974 in Salt Lake City, UT. Marci remembers from a young age being unusually contemplative and in constant wonder about the world around her. Throughout Erspamer’s youth she struggled with the meaning of life and felt constrained and unsatisfied in the classroom. It wasn’t until she took an Art class that anything made any sense to her. Marci realized that the answers she was looking for were found in shape and color. This began her voyage into the world of art and luckily, this relationship has slowly blossomed over the years.

Katya Grokhovsky – Brooklyn, NY
New York based Australian/Ukrainian artist Katya Grokhovsky works across disciplines including performance, video, installation, photography, sculpture, drawing and text. She has an MFA in Sculpture (2011) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and a BFA in Painting (2007) from Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. Grokhovsky’s work has been widely exhibited in Australia, USA and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in residencies and performance art events and received various awards and scholarships. In 2011, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson’ s Watermill Center, New York, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. In 2012, Grokhovsky’s Projects include The Art School – an Innovative Educational Project – Residency in Queens, NY, awarded by chashama, space to create, a “Wonderwomen” residency in _gaia studio in Jersey City, and numerous various group and solo exhibitions as well as performances in various venues, including  Art Fairs, non-profit, university and commercial gallery spaces in USA and Australia.

Joe Hall – Baltimore, MD
Joe Hall received his B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland in 2004 and his Master’s of Fine Arts from George Mason University in 2008. In this time he has been employed as a light industrial laborer, assistant sawmill operator, video production assistant, hand model, produce stocker, and educator. He was the recipient of the 2007-2008 George Mason Thesis Fellowship. His first book, Pigafetta Is My Wife (Black Ocean), was published in 2010. It appeared on the SPD best-seller list and has received positive reviews in The Colorado Review, HTML Giant, and elsewhere. His next two collections will be published in 2012 and 2013. He currently lives in Baltimore with his partner, Cheryl Quimba.

Agnés Hémery – Normandy, France
Born in 1951, Agnés Hémery has been making national and international exhibits for more than 30 years. She works and lives in Normandy, France. Agnés Hémery is known for her large Caravagesque pastels and her vibrant oil on canvas and mixed media on paper displayed in contemporary art galleries and museums, in Paris, in France and abroad, i.e. Glaerie d’Avignon in Montreal (2002-03), galerie des Talents in Switzerland (2003-04), Galerie GNG in Paris, Gallery Het Swandepand in Belgium (2005-06). The perfect adequation between Agnés Hémery powerful enigmatic work and vast historical places such as Abbayes, cloisters or priories, has naturally permitted large displays in prestigious sites such as Vivoin (Sarthe) 1989, Avranches (Manche) 1992, Le Thoronnet (Var) 1995, Salpetriére Paris (2001), Mont Saint Michel (2009), which are only examples. Agnés Hémery’s work is also presented in art fairs, such as Gand in Belgium (2003, 2004) and Geneva (2003). Representative catalogues of her work are available as well as two illustrated books she is the author of, “The Songs of Destiny” and “The Songs of Time.” Her work is supported by state institutions such as the Conseil General of la Manche, France, who organized large retrospectives of her work in 1992 and 1999.

Aimee Lee – Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Aimee Lee is an interdisciplinary artist who received her BA in Visual Arts from Oberlin College and her MFA in Interdisciplinary Book and Paper Arts from Columbia College Chicago. As a Fulbright fellow, she researched traditional Korean hand papermaking and allied crafts. In 2010 at Cleveland’s Morgan Conservatory, she built the first Korean papermaking studio in North America. She has exhibited internationally, and her artists’ books reside in collections that include the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, Museum of Modern Art Library, and Yale University Library. She teaches and lectures extensively while traveling as a resident artist and her first book, Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking, will be published in Fall 2012 by the Legacy Press.

Cheryl Quimba – Baltimore, MD
Cheryl Quimba received a BA in English from St. Marys College of Maryland in 2005 and an MFA in Creative Writing from Purdue University in 2010.  Poems of hers have appeared in Dusie, Phoebe, Tinfish, 1913, and Everyday Genius.  She lives in Baltimore and works as a publications assistant at Johns Hopkins University.

Christopher Robinson – Federal Way, WA
Christopher Robinson is a writer, teacher and translator currently living in the wind. He earned his MA in poetry from Boston University, where he studied with Louise Glück and Derek Walcott, and his MFA from Hunter College where he studied with Tom Sleigh. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Chiron Review, Umbrella Factory, FlatmanCrooked, McSweeney’s Online, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Sante Fe Art Institute, the Lanesboro Arts Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has been a finalist for numerous prizes, including the Ruth Lilly Fellowship (in 2010 and 2011) and the Yale Younger Poets Prize (2012).

Lynette Smith – Victoria, Australia
Lynette Smith completed her honours degree at RMIT University in the mid-nineties and has been working since. Her practice has taken a course through painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, and more recently, animation where she has started to work with change over time and the symmetries that can be found there. She also spent a considerable chunk of 2000-2010 studying linguistics and philosophy. Lynette’s time here is supported by the Victorian Government through Arts Victoria.

Brian Willmont – Brooklyn, NY
Bred in Boston, living and working in Brooklyn, Brian Willmont received his BFA with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. His paintings and installations have been featured in solo shows at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, LaMontagne Gallery in Boston, and the Mills Gallery in Boston. His work has been published in Juxtapoz Magazine, The Boston Globe, Beautiful/Decay, Hardcore Magazine, The Santa Fe Reporter, The Boston Phoenix, and many other print and web publications. In 2005 Brian started Apenest, an experimental group devoted to book and print publishing.

Lecture/Reception – “Futurefarmers: A Collective Practice”
Monday, June 18
6pm @ Tipton Hall/SFAI
$10 general/$5 students/seniors

Exhibition
Monday, June 18 – Friday, July 27
9am – 5pm M-F @ SFAI
FREE (closed weekends and holidays)

 
Workshop
“Ethnobotanical Excursion with Futurefarmers and John Duncan” 
Sunday, June 24
Time TBD @ SFAI
$100 (generous scholarships available)

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to welcome – as part of our 2012 season of public programming, Half-Life – artist, educator, and award-winning web designer, Amy Franceschini to offer a workshop, exhibition, and lecture. The lecture, “Futurefarmers: A Collective Practice,” will present a lineage of work woven together by the common thread of food politics, organizing and poetics. Guests should bring a plant if they have one. They will be able to bring it home after the lecture.

Amy Franceschini
Amy Franceschini applies her multimedia talents to the multidisciplinary effects of globalization and its many environmental consequences. Her approach often combines strong graphics, interactive physical and website environments, with a commitment to “long-term engagements with the public.” In 1995, she founded the artists collective Futurefarmers, and co-founded Free Soil, another collaborative project in 2004. Franceschini’s solo and collaborative works have been included in the Whitney Museum, NY, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She is currently a visiting artist at California College of the Arts and Stanford University. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital, Guggenheim Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA Awards.

Futurefarmers
Futurefarmers is a group of artists and designers who have been working together since 1995. They are artists, researchers, designers, farmers, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems. Their design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, an artist in residency program and their research interests.

About the workshop, “Ethnobotanical Excursion with Futurefarmers and John Duncan” 
In preparation for Futurefarmers project, Ethnobotanical Station (more info about this project at www.sfaiblog.org) at the New York Hall of Science this year Amy Franceschini and Myriel Milicevic invite you along a research trip with John Duncan. This day long journey will take us out into the field to learn about the local flora and the history of human interaction with plants in this region.

About Workshop Co-Presenter, Myriel Milicevic
Myriel Milicevic is an artist, researcher and interaction designer based in Berlin. With her Neighbourhood Satellites she explores the hidden connections between people and their natural, social, and technical environments. These explorations are mostly of a participatory nature, emerging from collaborations with other artists and scientists, in the context of workshops, classrooms, exhibitions, residencies and out in the field.

Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

July 9  – 28, 2012
Three Group meetings: Monday evenings, July 9, 16 & 23,  6:30-9 pm
Four required private meetings by appointment

Discovery & Direction is a workshop for artists presented by the Santa Fe Art Institute that focuses on ways to identify barriers, renew meaning and facilitate movement in your art. It entails discussion, writing, reading, and—by its end—the production of an action plan for moving forward. Its basis is art but it acknowledges that obstacles to making art or changes in it may have a psychological component.  (As with so many areas of life, the anxieties, defenses, insecurities or whatever gets in the way of realizing goals are usually symptoms, rather than causes, of our problems.) We’ll focus on identifying and clarifying problems and transforming them into opportunities for change within the context of your circumstances and history, abilities and goals—whether you create art exclusively for your personal satisfaction or seek enhanced professional opportunities and standing.

Discovery & Direction:  An Art/Life Workshop lasts three-weeks and consists of 7 meetings–3 group sessions and 4 private, weekly “tutorials.” The mix of group and individual meetings helps ensure that every participant’s needs can be met. A wide range of goals is typically pursued by workshop members: From radically changing one’s art to identifying the ‘next step’ professionally; and from overcoming distraction and disorganization to sharpening the ability to critically consider (and write or speak about) your own art and the work of others.

Before the first workshop session (and after you’ve enrolled and paid for the workshop) reading will be (electronically) distributed and I will ask you to send me your CV and artist’s statement. You should arrive both having read the assigned reading and considered your workshop goal(s). They may be as general as “moving my art to the next level” (can you define level?) or as (deceptively) simple as “I’d like to be able to approach curators, dealers and critics in a professional way.” Because of its brevity and focus, benefiting from the workshop experience will require a few hours’ work each week.

Topics for consideration include:

• Art’s nature and purpose (as self expression, entertainment, therapy, knowledge production, community building etc)
• The nature, purpose and origins of your art
• Issues of presentation (both in writing & power-point)
• Criticism & feed-back, critical thinking & self-criticism)
• Grants & funding
• Collaboration & competitions
• Art history & your place in it
• Allegiance to community (& how to encourage it)
• Professional strategies
• Professional etiquette
• Goals & action plan

Dates:  July 9  – 28, 2012   Group meetings: Monday eves, July 9, 16 & 23,  6:30-9 pm, Four required private meetings by appointment

Tuition fee:  $225  /  $150  SFAI resident artists & students / 25% discount for enrollment by June 10  / Need-based, low-tuition-fee scholarships available and awarded on a case-by-case basis)

Robert Atkins is an art historian, curator and critic who has written for more than 100 publications, ranging from The New York Times to Wired. He is a former columnist for the Village Voice and co-author, in 2006, of Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression. His texts ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords and its modern-art companion, ArtSpoke, are among the best-selling art books of the past 25 years. He has organized more than forty exhibitions including From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, the first international traveling museum show of its kind, and Fusion! Artists in a Research Setting, for Carnegie Mellon University, where he is a Fellow of the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry. He is an online media pioneer and recently produced ArtSpeak China, the first bilingual “wiki” devoted to contemporary Chinese art. He is a co-founder of Visual AIDS–the creators of Day Without Art and the Red Ribbon and a former board member of the American branch of the International Association of Art Critics. For more information visit  www.RobertAtkins.net  or contact him at rdatkins@gmail.com

Responses to Robert Atkins’s workshops:

“I began Robert Atkins’s workshop last summer hating to write and finished it better at writing and at thinking…Our group discussions functioned as useful critiques: They were honest, challenging, and safe–thanks to Robert’s professionalism.”     
Krista Elrick,  Santa Fe

“Robert Atkins’s workshop is about communication: It offers insight into what’s current in the art world “out there” as well as an encounter with the personal art world within.”     Marcia Lyons,  Waiheke Island,  New Zealand

“Participating in Robert Atkins’s workshop helped me become more creative, confident and professional. Working with him for a few weeks was like getting an MFA in real-world art practice.”
Joy Wilson Gray, San Francisco

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

Axle Contemporary will join us from 9:30 – 11:00!

Nancy Holt: Sightlines 
Exhibition, Reception, Artist/Curator Talk

Sun Tunnels

EXHIBITION HOURS
Saturday, May 5 – Friday, June 29
Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm
SFAI Galleries I & II
Free

Exhibition Opening Reception
Saturday May 5, 4-6pm
SFAI
Free

Artist/Curator Conversation
with Nancy Holt and Alena Williams
Monday, May 7, 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students & seniors

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to present Nancy Holt: Sightlines, an in-depth examination of Holt’s early projects from 1966 to 1980, on view from May 5 through June 29. Holt’s pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media. The career of this important American artist took off in the late 1960s when she and other like-minded artists in the U.S. turned away from the emerging commercial gallery system to embrace the American landscape and its geological diversity. Located beyond the confines of New York gallery walls, Holt began working on large-scale outdoor projects that responded to the environment and offered novel means for observing natural phenomena.

Although Holt’s work has regularly appeared in surveys and anthologies on the Land Art movement, many of her forays into film and video, landscape architecture, and environmental ecology have gone surprisingly unexamined. This exhibition includes some 40 works and archival documents and was organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery of Columbia University and curated by Alena J. Williams.

Nancy Holt was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1938 and grew up in New Jersey. Shortly after graduating from Tufts University in 1960 as a biology major, she moved to New York, where — alongside a group of colleagues and collaborators including Michael Heizer, Carl Andre, Eva Hesse, Richard Serra, and Robert Smithson — she began working in film, video, installation, and sound art. With her novel use of cylindrical forms, light, and techniques of reflection, Holt developed a unique aesthetic of perception, which enabled visitors to her sites to engage with the landscape in new and challenging ways.

Works like Sun Tunnels (1973–76), Views Through a Sand Dune (1972), and her extensive Locator series provided a new lens for observing natural phenomena (such as summer and winter solstices and sun and moonlight patterns), which transform specific geographic locations into vivid and resonant experiences. Her sculptural sites allow the viewer to channel the vastness of nature into human scale while creating a contemplative, subjective experience grounded in a specific location in real time.

Holt wrote in 1977 about her magnum opus, Sun Tunnels, located in the Great Basin Desert of Utah: “I wanted to bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale. I had no desire to make a megalithic monument. The panoramic view of the landscape is too overwhelming to take in without visual reference points . . . through the tunnels, parts of the landscape are framed and come into focus. . . the work encloses—surrounds. . .”

While Holt may be best known for Sun Tunnels, the construction of which is prominently featured as a large video projection, the exhibition includes a good deal of material being shown for the first time. Included are early color photographic works taken during trips to different Mid-Atlantic States, to the western states of Utah, Nevada, Montana, and California, and abroad to Wales, England, and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico. New digital photographic works document in color the passage of time at some of her sites such as Sun Tunnels. A number of archival documents including text-based works (such as scripts and concrete poetry), audiotapes, and drawings appear for the first time.

Sightlines Publication
The exhibition coincides with the release of Nancy Holt: Sightlines by the University of California Press, the first published retrospective account of Holt’s 45-year career. The book is edited by the exhibition curator, Alena J. Williams. The multi-authored book charts Holt’s artistic trajectory from initial experiments with new and unconventional media like sound, light, and industrial materials to the culmination of her development of major site interventions and freestanding environmental sculpture. The book is available for purchase through the Santa Fe Art Institute for $50.

This exhibition is organized by the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University. Presentation of Sightlines at SFAI is made possible by generous funding from the Burnett Foundation, Kindle Project, Lannan Foundation, McCune Charitable Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Oppenheimer Brothers Foundation, City of Santa Fe Arts Commission and the 1% Lodgers’ Tax, and New Mexico Arts, a division of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

This exhibition and tour are funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

The publication of Nancy Holt: Sightlines (University of California Press, 2011) is made possible by the generous support of the Lannan Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

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 University of Arizona, and her MFA from Hunter College, where she also taught creative writing. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has also lived Mississippi, where she taught and worked in grassroots organizing. Currently, she’s hard at work on her first novel while attending writing residencies.

Bernadette Esposito – Laramie, WY
For most of her life Bern believed that her recurring plane crash dreams were an augury of a crash to come. Rather than give up flying, she set up an elaborate belief system to inoculate her from a crash: she would not fly during inauspicious astrological aspects, on the eighth day of the eighth month or on flights whose numbers added up to eight. Then, on the eighth of August, she boarded flight 7685 to Paris. Following take-off, the engine over which she was seated exploded. The question of why she abandoned a belief system that otherwise would have prevented her from boarding the flight initiates an investigation into belief, proof and survival. In 2006 Bern trained to investigate Survival Factors in Aviation Accidents at the National Transportation Safety Board Academy. Her essays on plane crashes have appeared in several literary journals, including “Best American Essays 2011.” She teaches math in Laramie, Wyoming.

Bart Exposito – Los Angeles, CA
Bart Exposito was born in Amarillo, Texas in 1970. He is presently a working artist living in Los Angeles. His pursuits as an artist began with his studies and consequent BFA at the University of Texas Austin. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2000 and has exhibited consistently nationally and internationally since that time. He has taught painting and drawing at the university level for almost a decade now. He currently is represented by Thomas Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles.

Katya Grokhovsky – Brooklyn, NY
New York based Australian/Ukrainian artist Katya Grokhovsky works across disciplines including performance, video, installation, photography, sculpture, drawing and text. She has an MFA in Sculpture (2011) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and a BFA in Painting (2007) from Victorian College of the Arts, Australia. Grokhovsky’s work has been widely exhibited in Australia, USA and Europe. She has traveled extensively, partaking in residencies and performance art events and received various awards and scholarships. In 2011, Grokhovsky was an artist in residence at Robert Wilson’ s Watermill Center, New York, where she was commissioned to create a major installation/performance project for the annual benefit and Open House. In 2012, Grokhovsky’s Projects include The Art School – an Innovative Educational Project – Residency in Queens, NY, awarded by chashama, space to create, a “Wonderwomen” residency in _gaia studio in Jersey City, and numerous various group and solo exhibitions as well as performances in various venues, including  Art Fairs, non-profit, university and commercial gallery spaces in USA and Australia.

Christopher Robinson – Federal Way, WA
Christopher Robinson is a writer, teacher and translator currently living in the wind. He earned his MA in poetry from Boston University, where he studied with Louise Glück and Derek Walcott, and his MFA from Hunter College where he studied with Tom Sleigh. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Alaska Quarterly Review, Night Train, Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Chiron Review, Umbrella Factory, FlatmanCrooked, McSweeney’s Online, and elsewhere. He is a recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Sante Fe Art Institute, the Lanesboro Arts Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He has been a finalist for numerous prizes, including the Ruth Lilly Fellowship (in 2010 and 2011) and the Yale Younger Poets Prize (2012).

Teri Rueb – Buffalo, NY
Teri Rueb (www.terirueb.net) works at the intersection of interactive media, sound, land and environmental art.  She pioneered the form of GPS-based interactive installations and is the recipient of numerous awards including a Prix Ars Electronica Award of Distinction.  She is a CalArts Alpert Award nominee for 2012 and was twice nominated for the Rockefeller New Media Award and the Boston ICA Foster Prize.  Her work has been presented internationally and funded by the Banff Center for the Arts, Edith Russ Site for Media Art,Klangpol, LEF Foundation, Turbulence.org, Artslink, and various state arts councils.  Rueb is currently Professor in the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) where she is Founder and Director of Open Air Institute.  She holds a doctorate from Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Rueb will be collaborating with Carmelita Topaha and Larry Phan to produce a site-specific work for ISEA2012.

Carmelita Topaha is a member of the Navajo Nation, Newcomb Chapter.  She has an Associates degree in Anthropology from San Juan College, in Farmington, New Mexico, and a BA in Anthropology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.  She has worked as a consulting anthropologist, archaeologist, or ethnographer on a variety of projects.  For the past ten years she has been the primary Navajo consultant for David Mark, David Stea and Andrew Turk on their cross-cultural research on landscape and language conducted on the Navajo Nation.  She is a weaver, potter, and a writer.  Carmelita has taught in the Native American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico and currently teaches at San Juan College.

Larry Phan (www.larryphan.com) is a studio artist and teacher in Farmington, New Mexico.  As a first generation Asian American, his background is marked by strong family influences.  His experiences have shaped his stance on the importance of family, social necessity, and material function.  His artistic concepts utilize family unit ideals in a way that is symbiotic to daily ritual experiences.  He continues his expression as a maker of functional ceramic objects and as an educator at San Juan College.  Phan received his Ceramics and Sculpture BFA from Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona.  He has been a resident artist at The Clay Studio of Missoula in Missoula, MT.  Phan’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States.

Tom Shepard – San Francisco, CA
Tom Shepard produced and directed Scout’s Honor, a PBS-funded documentary that won 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) about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their contributions to medicine and civil liberties. Knocking broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in May of 2007. In 2009, Shepard directed WHIZ KIDS (whizkidsmovie.com), a coming-of-age documentary about high school youth who compete in the Intel Science Talent Search. WHIZ KIDS aired on PBS stations in 2010. Previously, Shepard worked as an editor at National Public Radio for Linda Wertheimer. At NPR, he co-produced Listening to America, an audio documentary on the history of public radio in America. He graduated from Stanford University where he majored in biology and film and is the former Chairman of New Day Films. Shepard’s latest collaboration with filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson is THE GROVE, a film about AIDS and the nature of remembrance (www.thegrovefilm.com). THE GROVE broadcast on PBS beginning December 2011.

Lynette Smith – Victoria, Australia
Lynette Smith’s work comes from a long-standing interest in how a thing, organism or any organised structure comes to be the way it is. She’s interested particularly in those things which we believe, rightly or wrongly, to be shaped by purpose. Lynette lives in Melbourne, Australia, where she completed her BFA at RMIT University in 1995. She also has postgraduate qualifications in linguistics and philosophy. In 2004-2005 Lynette was a member of the board

of West Space, an artist-led gallery in Melbourne. She exhibits regularly in Australia and, more recently, Europe. Her work is held in public and private collections in Australia and overseas.

Brian Willmont – Brooklyn, NY
Bred in Boston, living and working in Brooklyn, Brian Willmont received his BFA with honors from the Massachusetts College of Art in 2007. His paintings and installations have been featured in solo shows at Receiver Gallery in San Francisco, Space 1026 in Philadelphia, LaMontagne Gallery in Boston, and the Mills Gallery in Boston. His work has been published in Juxtapoz Magazine, The Boston Globe, Beautiful/Decay, Hardcore Magazine, The Santa Fe Reporter, The Boston Phoenix, and many other print and web publications. In 2005 Brian started Apenest, an experimental group devoted to book and print publishing.

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 by these ancient forms, can be seen in an exciting exhibition at SFAI – Acequias – where she will be spending the month of April working with and exploring the Acequias of northern New Mexico. In addition, while at the SFAI, Kleiterp will offer a one-day workshop (presented by the SFAI in collaboration with the Santa Fe Watershed Association and the Railyard Stewards) and will work with public school children on expressing their personal stories and meanings of water through art. You can see the work of previous children’s workshops from around the world at her “Acequias Around the World” Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Acequias-Around-the-World/264498990270528?sk=wall

Kleiterp’s artistic training began at the Free Academy in The Hague (1977) and the Summer Academy in Niederbipp, Switzerland (1981). After deciding to pursue art as a full-time career, she studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie for Fine Arts in Amsterdam (1983 to 1986). During that period she won the Uriot Prize two times. Since 1986 she has annually exhibited her work at various locations in the Netherlands and abroad. Kleiterp’s sculptures can be found in the Jewish Historical Museum Collection in Amsterdam, and in private collections throughout the Netherlands and in Spain, Italy, Greece, Papua, New Guinea and Cuba.

About the Acequia Art Workshop & La Llorona Performance
Saturday, April 21, 2012
10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.

The Santa Fe Art Institute and the Railyard Stewards will co-host an intergenerational workshop by SFAI visiting artist, Ida Kleiterp, to share a global perspective on acequias. Ida has studied these “trails” through the landscapes of Japan, Syria, and Peru to name a few, and comes to Santa Fe to embrace how acequias shaped Santa Fe. On this day, enjoy a lively performance of the ghost, La Llorona, by Rosalia de Aragon of the New Mexico Humanities Council Chautauqua program. Afterwards create acequia-inspired tiles to form a new cultural trail. Visit Ida Kleiterp’s website at www.acequias.eu. Space is limited, so save your spot today! Please RSVP with Rachel at sfwatershed@railyardpark.org by Thursday, April 19.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change:
Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

Teri Rueb’s
This is (not) a Map
lecture · reception

Artist Talk
Monday, April 16, 6pm
Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students & seniors

The SFAI is proud to present as part of our 2012 season of programming HALF-LIFE, site specific installation artist, Teri Rueb.

Teri Rueb will be in residence for the months of April and September and will participate in the Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness. ISEA2012 is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature. The ISEA symposium is held every year in a different location around the world, and has a 30-year history of significant acclaim. Albuquerque is the first host city in the U.S. in six years. ISEA’s “Santa Fe Day” will take place at the Santa Fe University of Art and Design on September 25^th. Rueb’s interactive sound walks, sculptures and site-specific installations explore landscape, architecture and spatial aspects of sound. She recently completed a doctorate on the topic of landscape and subjectivity in mobile network society at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Rueb’s work is firstly concerned with engaging the specificity of site, challenging and interrogating the terms on which space, place, and identity are understood, negotiated, represented and performed. Mapping is inherent to this process and walking is the primary mode of both production and reception. Through literally mapping sound to space using GPS and asking participants to generate the work through their movement, Rueb provokes audiences to explore and occupy public places in unconventional ways, engaging territorializing and de-territorializing operations as they do. The selection of site and itinerary itself constitutes the first act in this process. Through the design of media overlays at the scale of landscape, site itself becomes the interface.  Engaging with the people who inhabit these sites as locals is essential.  This usually involves extensive encounter, and oftentimes collaboration, with community members. In her talk on April 16^th, Rueb will discuss her recent projects and the processes through which they emerged, including her current collaboration with Carmelita Topaha and Larry Phan with whom Rueb is developing a new site-specific work for the Santa Fe area.

www.terirueb.net <http://www.terirueb.net>

In this hands-on workshop learn about water, the Santa Fe River and restoration through art, writing and science: culminating in creating willow wish poles–native willow adorned with your wishes that we will all plant along the river.  Offered by poet Valerie Martinez, artists Bobbe Besold and Dominique Mazeaud and ecologist Rachel Boothby.

Saturday, March 31, 2012, 1 – 3:30 pm : Community Room at the Railyard Park (metal building near the parking lot behind SITE), Santa Fe.  For All ages and skill levels, a great family project.

Admission: by donation (no one turned away for lack of funds). Workshop Limit:  25.

To register contact Bobbe: bobbebird@gmail.com or call 988-9244

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)

about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their contributions to medicine and civil liberties. Knocking broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in May of 2007. In 2009, Shepard directed WHIZ KIDS (whizkidsmovie.com), a coming-of-age documentary about high school youth who compete in the Intel Science Talent Search. WHIZ KIDS aired on PBS stations in 2010. Previously, Shepard worked as an editor at National Public Radio for Linda Wertheimer. At NPR, he co-produced Listening to America, an audio documentary on the history of public radio in America. He graduated from Stanford University where he majored in biology and film and is the former Chairman of New Day Films. Shepard’s latest collaboration with filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson is THE GROVE, a film about AIDS and the nature of remembrance (www.thegrovefilm.com). THE GROVE broadcast on PBS beginning December 2011.

Bart Exposito – Los Angeles, CA
Bart Exposito was born in Amarillo, Texas in 1970. He is presently a working artist living in Los Angeles. His pursuits as an artist began with his studies and consequent BFA at the University of Texas Austin. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2000 and has exhibited consistently nationally and internationally since that time. He has taught painting and drawing at the university level for almost a decade now. He currently is represented by Thomas Solomon Gallery in Los Angeles.

Brandon Shimoda – Tuscon, AZ
Brandon Shimoda was born in California and has since lived in eleven states and six countries. He has published three books of poetry—O Bon (2011), The Girl Without Arms (2011) and The Alps (2008)—as well as numerous limited edition chapbooks. He has taught for the Missoula Art Museum, the University of Montana, and the Kaohsiung Summer Institute (Taiwan), and has acted as Director of Marketing at Wave Books (Seattle) and Assistant to the Director of the Creative Writing Program, University of Montana. He is currently researching/writing a book of non-fiction and co-editing the selected writings of Lebanese-American poet Etel Adnan. He lives in Tucson, AZ.

Kim Krause – Cincinnati, OH
Kim Krause’s work has been included in more than 100 exhibitions both nationally and internationally, including eight solo exhibitions. The artist’s work has been purchased for numerous public and corporate collections. Krause has been awarded artist residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts; Rathausgalerie, Munich; The Cooper Union, New York; and the Chateau, Rochefort-en-Terre, France. Krause attended the University of Cincinnati and the University of London, England, earning his BFA from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and his MFA from Bard College, New York. He teaches Painting at the Art Academy of Cincinnati where he is also Chair of the Department of Fine Arts.

Up Heartbreak Hill 
Film Screening and Q&A with filmmaker Erica Scharf

What: Up Heartbreak Hill Film Screening and Q&A
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Monday, March 19
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to present accomplished documentary filmmaker and television producer, Erica Scharf and her award-winning film, Up Heartbreak Hill.

Up Heartbreak Hill is Scharf’s first feature length film. Shot in New Mexico, Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of three Native American teenagers in Navajo, NM — Thomas, an elite runner, Tamara, an academic superstar, and Gabby, an aspiring photographer — as they navigate their senior year at a reservation high school. As graduation nears, they must decide whether or not to stay in their community — a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their being. They hesitate to separate from their families, traditions, and the community that helps define them, and they wrestle with the idea of becoming the next generation to lead the Navajo Nation. Their battles to shape their identities as both Native American and modern American lie at the heart of the film.

Scharf has spent much of her career in documentary film and television and is currently producing HGTV’s hit show, House Hunters International. She has worked as an editor on Investigation Discovery’s documentary television series, The Shift and has shot, produced and edited numerous episodes of The First 48 (A&E). She directed and edited Marnee: A Garage Sale Retrospective, which was the First Place Winner at Movie Making Madness 2005, and edited City (Best Short Film, 2007 Aspen Shortsfest). Scharf is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has a B.F.A. in Film and Television.

P.O.V. will broadcast the film on PBS and SFAI will screen the film with Erica for her director’s commentary and a Q&A on March 19, 2012 at 6pm in Tipton Hall on the campus of the Santa Fe University of Art and Design. A small reception at the SFAI will follow.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change:
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

IFA Team Leader Brad Lichtenstein and workshop participants

The artists who participated in the workshops were selected from a pool of applications by a committee of local artists, curators, writers, and educators. The result was a group of artists at varying stages of their careers driven by the common goals of connecting to other artists and building up the foundations of their art practices with professional development training.

The weekend opened with Internet for Artists’ Friday Night introductions. In the Core Weekend workshop, each artist has 5 minutes to show slides and talk about his/her own work to the group. The Internet for Artists workshop puts its own spin on this by assigning each artist another participant to research on the Internet prior to the session, and then giving each artist 2 ½ minutes to present the artist they researched. It is a fast way to make it very clear that the management of your web presence must be a high priority in your professional practice and was a great way to bring the group together as a community of practicing artists.

IFA Team Leader Dread Scott in a breakout session

What followed was a weekend of learning, fun, bonding, and community building. We’d seen it before when we had a PDP Core Weekend here in 2006. The participants not only benefit from the wealth of experience and knowledge the workshop leaders bring, but coalesce as a community of artists who continue to grow and learn together in their artistic and professional practices. The IFA leaders, Brad Lichtenstein, Dread Scott, Carla Lynne Hall, and Blithe Riley, were fun, funny, knowledgeable, and approachable. Their varied artistic practices (from performance art, to filmmaking, to music) brought a diversity that made their examples applicable to most every circumstance and gave the participants many models to follow.

"Mocktails" (left) and workshop participants mingling at the cocktail party exercise

On Monday, 17 of the 24 IFA participants stayed and were joined by 3 new folks, for the Verbal Communications workshop with Kirby Teppert. Kirby was lively and fun and his exercises brought out even the most shy and quiet of the participants. By the end of the day, at the “mocktail” party exercise, everyone was comfortable, social, and had gained a little more confidence in themselves and their ability to talk about their work. Watching the transformation was quite extraordinary!

The bulk of the workshop participants worked together, ate together, and chatted together for 3 ½ days, exploring their personal and professional lives, and learning how to work together to forward their professional art practices individually and as a group.

The IFA Workshop Participants and Leaders

As folks were leaving on Monday night, most of them stopped to hug me, and thank me for bringing Creative Capital to Santa Fe, and for enabling them to have what most considered a life changing experience.

The Santa Fe Art Institute is a community arts organization with a strong focus on supporting and presenting art as a positive social force. To offer the IFA and VC workshops to the Santa Fe artist community and to help sow the seeds of galvanizing that community is truly an honor. We will continue to offer lectures, workshops, exhibitions, residencies, and youth education and outreach to our Santa Fe community and beyond. Art has the power to touch the mind and the heart at the same time, giving audiences new insight to important social, cultural, and environmental issues here and around the world.

Thank you, Creative Capital and the Kresge Foundation for helping to give artists the tools they need to keep making work.

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 works and rituals that reach beneath people’s defenses in respectful ways that support communities to configure new patterns of meaning and relationships. Panelists include Roberta Levitow and Daniel Banks, P.h.D., co-directors of Theatre Without Borders and founding members of the Acting Together project, and visual artists Jorge De la Torre and Issa Nyaphaga. Art event planner, producer, and coordinator Pati Sato will moderate.

About Theater Without Borders
Theatre Without Borders is an informal, volunteer, virtual community that shares information and builds connections between individuals and institutions interested in international theatre exchange. Founded in 2006 by a group of NY-based theatre artists, TWB has expanded to include two global symposia, an ongoing project in Iraq, a series of books with the Coexistence Project at Brandeis University, and work by members in Rwanda, Kenya, Israel, Palestine, Hungary, Azerbaijan, and many other locales. The founders are now looking at a succession plan and TWB’s time at SFAI will be used to bring together the founding members, the intermediary group of leaders, and the next generation of leaders. In addition to the Iraq-US-UK exchange, TWB has been invited to partner with FreeDimensional, looking at civil and human rights for artists internationally. As the core members live across the country, the residency at SFAI will permit TWB to generate a long-term plan. Attendees include TWB founders Roberta Levitow (Sundance East Africa) and Erik Ehn (Chair Playwriting, Brown University), Roberto Varea (Director, Center for Latino Studies in the Americas, Associate Prof. Theatre University of San Francisco), David Diamond (La MaMa Umbria), and Daniel Banks.

About Acting Together on the World Stage
54 minute documentary film
From the boundary of human suffering and human possibility emerges the documentary film Acting Together on the World Stage. Witness the plays that animated the US civil rights movement; watch ancient rituals enacted alongside Peru’s Reconciliation Commission; and experience the beat of African and Australian youth addressing conflict through call and response. A companion disc with eighteen short videos, plus guides for discussion, planning, action and assessment, invites you to join the global peacebuilding performance community with your own acts of courage, compassion and resolve.

About the Panelists
Daniel Banks, Ph.D., is a theatre director, choreographer, educator, and dialogue facilitator who has worked extensively in the U.S. and abroad . He is Co-Director of DNAWORKS, an arts and service organization dedicated to dialogue and healing through the arts, as well as Co-Director of Theatre Without Borders and a founding member of the Acting Together project. He is on the faculty of the MA in Applied Theatre at CUNY, on the Founding Board of the Hip Hop Education Center at NYU, and an advisor at the Gallatin School at NYU. Daniel edited and wrote critical commentary for the recently published anthology Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater (University of Michigan Press).

Roberta Levitow has directed over 50 productions in NYC, LA and nationally, with a particular emphasis on developing original writing and new American work. In 2004 she co-founded and directed Theatre Without Borders, an informal group supporting international theatre exchange (www.theatrewithoutborders.com) and became co-initiator of “The Acting Together Project” created with The Peacebuilding and the Arts Program at Brandeis University. As a Fulbright Specialist, she taught at universities in Hong Kong, in Bucharest, Romania and in Kampala, Uganda. She was a member of the Creative Team that created BENEDICTUS by Motti Lerner – a collaboration of Iranian, Israeli and US artists and she co-initiated and co-designs the Sundance Institute Theatre Program’s Sundance Institute East Africa program, where she is the Artistic Associate.

Jorge De la Torre is a visual artist that specializes in painting and installation. He has been with Working Classroom in Albuquerque for five years and has helped facilitate various public art projects and assisted resident artists during workshops. He has been teaching classes for three years and recently was the lead artist in the annual Day of the Dead project which was dedicated to the victims of human trafficking.

Issa Nyaphaga is an exiled artist, activist, and the founder of HITIP. As a way of remaining in contact with his native country, Mr. Nyaphaga founded HITIP. In 1996, Mr. Nyaphaga left Cameroon to seek asylum in France, where he engaged in innovative social work projects with a wide variety of at-risk groups, including child soldiers from Africa. Because of his devotion to refugee and immigrant issues, Mr. Nyaphaga was invited to speak before the French National Assembly on the 50th anniversary of the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees for the U.N. High Commission on Refugees in 2001. Mr. Nyaphaga also co-founded the organization JAFE (African Journalists in Exile), which defends and protects journalists in danger. Mr. Nyaphaga currently divides his time between France and the United States, where he shares his work and advice with students and young artists. Mr. Nyaphaga 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. Mr. Nyaphaga has collaborated with organizations, schools, and institutions around the globe and has more than 10 years of teaching experience. Since early 2008, Issa has been co-directing “Return to the Belly of the Beast”, a documentary project with Nicoletta Fagiolo. Mr. Nyaphaga speaks seven languages and holds an MFA in French Literature.

Pati Sato, Brazilian born, moved to the U.S in 2001, spending almost ten years in New England. Recently moved to Santa Fe, she has been working on several arts projects. An Artistic Consultant, Event Planner/Coordinator, Producer, and Promoter since 1989, Pati has produced, promoted, managed, and coordinated numerous events for a variety of artists working in music, dance, and visual arts. She has also written (Portuguese and English) articles, press releases, artists’ biographies, and radio broadcast scripts. Pati has appeared on behalf of artists for radio and television interviews, and managed international tours for bands from Brazil, Jamaica, England, Germany, and the United States. Continuing to work as a music consultant, her latest project is the production of a multimedia presentation named The Life of Bob Marley, created and hosted by Roger Steffens. Pati holds a law degree in Brazil.

About the SFAI
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change
Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

Theater Without Borders is an informal, volunteer, virtual community that shares information and builds connections between individuals and institutions interested in international theatre exchange. Founded in 2006 by a group of NY-based theatre artists, TWB has expanded to include two global symposia, an ongoing project in Iraq, a series of books with the Coexistence Project at Brandeis University, and work by members in Rwanda, Kenya, Israel, Palestine, Hungary, Azerbaijan, and many other locales. The founders are now looking at a succession plan and TWB’s time at SFAI will be used to bring together the founding members, the intermediary group of leaders, and the next generation of leaders. In addition to the Iraq-US-UK exchange, TWB has been invited to partner with Free Dimensional, looking at civil and human rights for artists internationally. As the core members live across the country, the residency at SFAI will permit TWB to generate a long-term plan. Attendees include TWB founders Roberta Levitow (Sundance East Africa) and Erik Ehn (Chair Playwriting, Brown University), Roberto Varea (Director, Center for Latino Studies in the Americas, Associate Prof. Theatre University of San Francisco), David Diamond (La MaMa Umbria), and Daniel Banks.

About Acting Together on the World Stage
54 minute documentary film

From the boundary of human suffering and human possibility emerges the documentary film Acting Together on the World Stage. Witness the plays that animated the US civil rights movement; watch ancient rituals enacted alongside Peru’s Reconciliation Commission; and experience the beat of African and Australian youth addressing conflict through call and response. A companion disc with eighteen short videos, plus guides for discussion, planning, action and assessment, invites you to join the global peacebuilding performance community with your own acts of courage, compassion and resolve.

ERICA SCHARF – MAR

Scharf has spent much of her career in documentary film and television and she is currently producing HGTV’s hit show, House Hunters International. She has worked as an editor on Investigation Discovery’s documentary television series, The Shift and has shot, produced and edited numerous episodes of The First 48 (A&E). She directed and edited Marnee: A Garage Sale Retrospective, which was the First Place Winner at Movie Making Madness 2005, and edited City (Best Short Film, 2007 Aspen Shortsfest). Other credits include Celebrity Ghost Stories (Biography), SWAT (A&E), Miami Ink (TLC), Last Seen Alive (Discovery), and Worlds Apart (NGC). In 2005, Scharf was the assistant editor on God Grew Tired of Us (Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, 2006 Sundance Film Festival).

Scharf is a graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and has a B.F.A. in Film and Television. Up Heartbreak Hill is her first feature film. Up Heartbreak Hill chronicles the lives of Thomas, Tamara and Gabby – three Native American teenagers in Navajo, New Mexico – as they navigate their senior year at a reservation high school. As graduation nears, they must decide whether to stay in their community – a place inextricably woven into the fiber of their beings – or leave in pursuit of opportunities elsewhere. Largely isolated from mainstream America, they hesitate to separate from their families and traditions, rooted to home in equal parts by love, obligation and fear. Tribal elders urge members of the younger generation to leave – acquire an education or learn a trade – and return home with the skills to help their people. But, with a per capita income under $4,600, Navajo has few prospects. Thomas, Tamara and Gabby’s struggles to shape their identities as both Native American and modern American lie at the heart of the film.

TOM SHEPARD/LITTLEGLOBE – FEB-APRIL

Tom Shepard produced and directed Scout’s Honor, a PBS-funded documentary that won the Audience Award for Best Documentary and Freedom of Expression Award at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival as well as Grand Prize at the 2001 USA Film Festival and Best Social Issue Documentary by the Council on Family Relations. Scout’s Honor broadcast nationally when it opened POV’s 14th season on June 19, 2001. In 2006, Shepard co-directed and produced Knocking (www.knocking.org) in association with the Independent Television Service (ITVS) about Jehovah’s Witnesses and their contributions to medicine and civil liberties. Knocking broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens in May of 2007. In 2009, Shepard directed WHIZ KIDS (www.whizkidsmovie.com), a coming-of-age documentary about high school youth who compete in the Intel Science Talent Search, a competition in which Shepard was a finalist in 1987. WHIZ KIDS aired on PBS stations in 2010. Previously, Shepard worked as an editor at National Public Radio for Linda Wertheimer and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. At NPR, he co-produced Listening to America, an audio documentary on the history of public radio in America. He graduated from Stanford University where he majored in biology and film and is the former Chairman of New Day Films. Shepard’s latest collaboration with filmmaker Andy Abrahams Wilson is THE GROVE, a film about AIDS and the nature of remembrance (www.thegrovefilm.com). THE GROVE broadcast nationally on PBS beginning December 2011.

IDA KLEITERP – APR

Ida Kleiterp was born in Beverwijk in 1948 and lives and works in Amsterdam. She earned a degree at the Sociale Academy, and while employed as a social worker, she particularly enjoyed guiding and mentoring children. Her artistic training began at the Free Academy in The Hague (1977) and the Summer Academy in Niederbipp, Switzerland (1981). After deciding to pursue art as a full-time career, she studied sculpture at the Rijksakademie for Fine Arts in Amsterdam (1983 to 1986). During that period she won the Uriot Prize two times. Since 1986 she has annually exhibited her work at various locations in the Netherlands and abroad. Ida Kleiterp’s sculptures can be found in the Jewish Historical Museum Collection in Amsterdam, and in private collections throughout the Netherlands and in Spain, Italy, Greece, Papua, New Guinea and Cuba.

NANCY HOLT – MAY

Nancy Holt received a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, in 1960. She has received five National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships, two New York Creative Artist Fellowships, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Florida, Tampa. She has produced site-specific environmental works in numerous public places around the world, including Sun Tunnels (1976), a large-scale sculptural work in Great Basin Desert, Utah; Stone Enclosure (Rock Rings) in Bellingham, Washington; Astral Grating (1987) in a New York City subway station, and Dark Star Park, in Arlington, Virginia, among many others. She has also completed large-scale land reclamation projects, including Sky Mound (1988) in the New Jersey Meadowlands, and Up and Under (1998), in Nokia, Finland. Holt’s works, including her films and videos, have been seen in exhibitions at the John Weber Gallery, New York; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Dia Center for the Arts, New York, and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York.

In 2010, Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery in New York held the major retrospective exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines. The exhibition was accompanied by a monograph of the same name and edited by Alena J. Williams.

AMY FRANCESCHINI – JUN

Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator that constructs frameworks that encourage formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. She founded the artists collective Futurefarmers in 1995, and co-founded Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in the Whitney Museum, NY, the New York Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco. She is currently a visiting artist at California College of the Arts and Stanford University. She received her BFA from San Francisco State University and her MFA from Stanford University. She is the recipient of the Artadia, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship, Creative Capital, Guggenheim Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA Awards.

CHARLES LINDSAY – JUN

Charles Lindsay spent ten years covering environmental issues as a photojournalist in Asia before moving back to the U.S. Lindsay’s work can be found in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Hewlett Packard Contemporary Art Collection. Recently appointed to the Executive Committee of Musicians for the Environment, a branch of the Electronic Music Foundation, Lindsay is also the recipient of a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship for Photography and is the first artist-in-residence at the renowned SETI Institute.

He will be in residency for the month of June to prepare for the upcoming exhibition, Getting Off the Planet.

STEVE LAMBERT – JUL

Steve Lambert’s father, a former Franciscan monk, and mother, an ex-Dominican nun, imbued the values of dedication, study, poverty, and service to others – qualities which prepared him for life as an artist.

Lambert made international news after the 2008 US election with The New York Times “Special Edition,” a replica of the “paper of record” announcing the end of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other good news. He has collaborated with groups from the Yes Men to the Graffiti Research Lab and Greenpeace. He is also the founder of the Center for Artistic Activism, the Anti-Advertising Agency, Add-Art (a Firefox add-on that replaces online advertising with art) and SelfControl (which blocks grownups from distracting websites so they can get work done).

Steve’s projects and art works have won awards from Prix Ars Electronica, Rhizome/The New Museum, the Creative Work Fund, Adbusters Media Foundation, the California Arts Council, and others. His work has been shown at galleries, art spaces, and museums nationally and internationally, and in the collections of The Sheldon Museum, the Progressive Insurance Company, and The United States Library of Congress. Lambert has discussed his work live on NPR, the BBC, and CNN, and been reported on internationally in outlets including Associated Press, The New York Times, the Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, The Believer, Good, Dwell, ARTnews, Punk Planet, and Newsweek.

He was a Senior Fellow at New York’s Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology from 2006-2010, developed and leads workshops for Creative Capital Foundation, and is faculty at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Steve is a perpetual autodidact with (if it matters) advanced degrees from a reputable art school and reputable state university. He dropped out of high school in 1993.

MONIKA BRAVO/CURRENTS – JUL

Monika Bravo will conduct a workshop in conjunction with the Currents 2012 Exhibition.

Monika Bravo was born in Bogota, Colombia and has lived in NY since 1994. Her films have been screened close to 150 times around the globe in venues such as the MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, Museo di Arte Contemporaneo di Roma, New York Video Festival at the Lincoln Center, the Americas Society, MOCA in L.A, the Tate Britain and Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid. Her installation work has been shown at the Seoul International Biennial of New Media Art, SITE Santa Fe; the Centro de Arte Caja CAB de Burgos, Spain, Museo del Barrio, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Museo de Arte Moderno in Bogota, Colombia; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova & Fondazione; Ragghianti, Lucca.

Recent public permanent commissions include the Jackson Geoscience School, University of Texas at Austin, the LAX Tom Bradley International Terminal, The Peninsula Hotel in Hong Kong, the Comcast Building in Philadelphia, The AKA Hotels in Times Square and Central Park both in NYC. Awards include: Long wood Digital-Matrix Commission, Bronx Council on the Arts, the Art Scope Miami Emergent Artist award in 2002 and 2005 and on two occasions the NYSCA’s Electronic Media & Film Award; she has been selected to participate in 2001‘s LMCC’s WTC World Views, the Santa Fe Art Institute & 2003 ART OMI Artist-in-Residency Programs.

ANDREA BOWERS – AUG

Andrea Bowers has an MFA from CalArts and lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo shows include “The Weight of Relevance” at the Secession, Vienna and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; “Vows” at Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg; “Nothing Is Neutral” at REDCAT, Los Angeles and Artpace, San Antonio. Recent group shows include “Tanzen, Sehen” at the Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany; “Personal Affairs” at the Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany; “Particulate Matter” at the Mills College Art Museum, Oakland and the “Whitney Biennial 2004,” Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. She is represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Sara Meltzer Gallery in New York, Mehdi Chouakri in Berlin, Galerie Praz- Delavallade in Paris, and Van Horn in Dusseldorf. Bowers is currently a Visiting Artist at CalArts.

RULAN TANGEN – SEP

Rulan Tangen is an internationally renowned dance artist and choreographer. She is the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer of DANCING EARTH, noted in Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 To Watch,” and winner of the National Dance Project Production and Touring Grant, as well as the National Museum of American Indian’s Expressive Arts Award. She is also a recipient of the Costo Medal for Education, Research and Service by UC Riverside’s Chair of Native Affairs and is fellow of the Global Centre for Cultural Entrepreneurship.

As performer and choreographer, she has worked in ballet, modern dance, circus, TV, film, theater, opera and Native contemporary productions in the USA, Canada, France, Norway, Mexico, Brasil and Argentina.

Ms. Tangen has been invited by Washington University as Visiting Distinguished Scholar, and for artistic residencies at Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, by Arizona State University, UC Riverside, and University of New Mexico, as well as extensive teaching work in indigenous communities across the Americas.

COURTNEY E. MARTIN – SEP

Courtney E. Martin is an author, blogger, and speaker. Her most recent book, Project Rebirth: Survival and the Strength of the Human Spirit from 9/11 Survivors, was published this fall. She is also the author of Do It Anyway: The New Generation of Activists, and Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women. She is Editor Emeritus at Feministing.com and a Fellow at Dowser.com. Her work appears frequently in The Christian Science Monitor, GOOD, and The Nation, among other national publications. Courtney has appeared on the TODAY Show, Good Morning America, MSNBC, and The O’Reilly Factor, and is the recipient of the Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics, a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Centre, and is a TED speaker. She is also the founder of the Secret Society for Creative Philanthropy, a guerilla-giving group with chapters all over the country. Read more about her work at www.courtneyemartin.com.

JOHN CARY – SEP

John Cary is a cultural entrepreneur, pioneering a career at the intersection of design and social change. As a freelance writer, John has contributed to publications such as The Christian Science Monitor, CNN, Fast Company, and GOOD, while blogging daily at www.publicinterestdesign.org. His first book, The Power of Pro Bono: 40 Stories about Design for the Public Good by Architects and Their Clients, was published in 2010. He is also a research fellow at the University of Minnesota and consultant to nonprofit, philanthropic, and private organizations, focused on building the public interest design movement. Among other honors, John is a senior fellow of the Design Futures Council, a fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and a resident of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center. John earned his Bachelor of Arts in architecture, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota, and his Master of Architecture from Berkeley. Learn more about his work at www.johncary.us.

ISEA – SEP-OCT

The Eighteenth International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2012 Albuquerque: Machine Wilderness is a symposium and series of events exploring the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art, technology and nature. The ISEA symposium is held every year in a different location around the world, and has a 30-year history of significant acclaim. Albuquerque is the first host city in the U.S. in six years.

The ISEA2012 symposium will consist of a conference September 19 – 24, 2012, based in Albuquerque with outreach days along the state’s “Cultural Corridor” in Santa Fe and Taos, and an expansive, regional collaboration throughout the fall of 2012, including art exhibitions, public events, performances and educational activities. This project will bring together a wealth of leading creative minds from around the globe, and engage the local community through in-depth partnerships.

Machine Wilderness references the New Mexico region as an area of rapid growth and technology alongside wide expanses of open land, and aims to present artists’ and technologists’ ideas for a more humane interaction between technology and wilderness in which “machines” can take many forms to support life on Earth. Machine Wilderness focuses on creative solutions for how technology and the natural world can sustainably co-exist.

The program will include: a bilingual focus, an indigenous thread, and a focus on land and skyscape. Because of our vast resource of land in New Mexico, proposals from artists are being sought that will take ISEA participants out into the landscape. The Albuquerque Balloon Museum offers a unique opportunity for artworks to extend into the sky as well.

The lead organizations hosting ISEA2012 are 516 ARTS, The University of New Mexico and The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History. There are a total over 50 partnering organizations to-date representing museums, colleges, nonprofit arts organizations, environmental organizations and the scientific and technological communities.

GETTING OFF THE PLANET – OCT

Co-curated by Patricia Watts and Jenee Misraje; GOTP will have a kiosk housed at SFAI. The imagined and real prospects of leaving our planet have inspired many intriguing works of art over time. Getting Off the Planet (GOTP) departs from more traditional art forms such as painting and sculpture displayed in galleries and museums to include site-specific residency projects created by emerging and established international artists at unique venues throughout the state of New Mexico from 2012 to 2013.

Each site work will be developed during a month long residency and will engage specific communities by exploring perceptions of the universe and the cosmos, space travel, and the science and ecology of outer space. It will be an exciting combination of artists and diverse citizen participants at the interstice of art, science and technology. Some of the projects will include technology- based, multi-site communications, including one that will access New Mexico’s statewide Supercomputing Gateways at 25 educational campuses, as well as a smart phone application, and digital dome multi-media experience. There will also be more community-oriented ephemeral projects, some with intentional engagement with the region’s Native American populations. Collaborations with STEM educators working with school age students will also be developed.

STEVE PETERS – OCT

Steve Peters makes music and sound for a wide range of contexts and occasions. Much of his work is focused on site-specific sound environments, using an array of location recordings, electronics, amplified natural objects, musical instruments, and spoken text to articulate a sonic relationship to place.

Based in Seattle since 2004, he lived in New Mexico for fifteen years, collaborating with artists such as David Dunn, Chris Shultis, Anne Racuya Robbins, Steven M. Miller, Marghreta Cordero, Tom Guralnick, and others. He was a founding member of Gamelan Encantada, produced two albums by Santa Fe diva Nacha Mendez, and composed the soundtrack for Mary Lance’s documentary, Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World.

In addition to his installation and studio work, he performs occasionally as a member of the Seattle Phonographers Union, and works as a freelance producer, curator, and writer. Recent projects include producing the soundtrack album for the award-winning feature film Winter’s Bone, a three-week artist residency in a tiny village in Portugal, a duo CD with Los Angeles visual/sound artist Steve Roden, and a sound installation in the Fern Room at the Lincoln Park Conservatory in Chicago. Since 1989 he has been the Director of Nonsequitur, a non-profit organization presenting experimental music and sound art, currently sponsoring the Wayward Music Series in the Chapel Performance Space at Good Shepherd Center in Seattle.

Steve Peters’ residency will be in collaboration with SFUAD’s Department of Contemporary Music.

CYNTHIA HOOPER – DEC

Cynthia Hooper’s videos, paintings, and interdisciplinary projects investigate landscapes transfigured by social and environmental contingency. Her work is meditative and poetic, but also takes a generously observational and generally factual approach toward the places she examines. She has worked with Tijuana’s complex urban environment and infrastructure, as well as contested and politicized water issues along the U.S./Mexico border. She’s also made a variety of videos about water and land use issues in California and Ohio, including projects about the Klamath and the Cuyahoga rivers. Her recent exhibits include the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles, the Museum of Modern Art in Mexico City, The Centro Cultural Tijuana, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco, and MASS MoCA. Cynthia has also been awarded residencies at the Headlands Center for the Arts and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, as well as a Gunk Foundation grant. www.cynthiahooper.com

HUGH POCOCK – DEC

Born in New Zealand and raised in the United States, Hugh Pocock’s work investigates the interdependent ecologies of nature, industry and culture. Over the past twenty years, he has exhibited across the United States, in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Antonio as well as internationally in the former Soviet Union, Germany and China. His work has been shown in galleries and museums including Portikus Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, the Wexner Museum, the Santa Monica Museum of Art and the Baltimore Museum of Art as well as in “non-art sites” such as private homes and movie theaters. Pocock is currently living and working in Baltimore, Maryland and is teaching Sculpture, Video and Social Practice courses that focus on the impact of Climate Change and issues of Sustainability at Maryland Institute College of Art.

INVITATION TO APPLY

Internet for Artists Weekend
&
Verbal Communications
Workshops
Open to Individual Artists Living and Working in New Mexico

Overview
The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased, with support from the Kresge Foundation, to partner
with Creative Capital to present two Professional Development workshops, Internet for Artists and Verbal Communications, for artists, writers, and performers in all disciplines living and working in New Mexico. The Internet for Artists weekend retreat will take place
at the Santa Fe Art Institute from Friday, January 20 to Sunday, January 22, 2012, and the Verbal Communications workshop will be held on Monday, January 23, 2012. The two workshops may be taken individually or in combination. Eligible New Mexico artists are invited to apply to attend.

Internet for Artists:
This weekend workshop will help participants expand their online presence and learn to harness the power of Internet tools such as social networking and media sharing sites, e-commerce, promotional websites, and blogs. Beginning with an overview of Internet terminology and applications, the workshop will explore how these resources can be used to build audience, expand community, amplify marketing, and extend administrative resources. Participants will develop a step-by-step, holistic strategy to apply online resources to promote specific career goals. Additionally, the workshop will help artists expand their thinking to quickly recognize and implement the possibilities of new technologies as they develop. The workshop employs a combination of lecture, small group breakout sessions, and one-on-one consultations to help participants gain the maximum of personalized attention while encouraging community-building as part of the workshop process.

Participants will learn:
• Strategies for identifying and planning for long-term goals
• The best practices for artist websites, blogs, social media and communications
• Strategies to increase efficiency and effectiveness of computer and internet-based tools
• The basic steps for setting up a personal website with WordPress (an open-source blog platform used by many artists to create their personal website)
• Information on special topics, such as generating revenue online, increasing traffic to one’s personal website and building audience online

Participants will leave the workshop with:
• A personalized plan of action based in the individual’s own goals for his or her art career
• Strategies and tactics that will help generate interest and awareness in his or her art practice
• Information about artist websites, social media, email outreach, blogs and other internet-based tools
• A cohort of peer artists in their community who can act as a resource going forward
• A fresh point of view about how the Internet can help artists to build community and support around their practice

DATES: 1/20-1/22
TIMES: Fri 6-9pm, Sat 8:30am-5:30pm, Sun 8:30am-5:30pm (Times may vary slightly. Participants are required to attend the entire workshop)
CAPACITY: For groups of up to 24 artists

Verbal Communications Workshop:
Designed and facilitated by a communications specialist with extensive experience training artists in public speaking and leadership skills, the Verbal Communications workshop includes lectures, small group activities and hands on exercises to improve interpersonal communications and public speaking skills. It covers such topics as how to be authentic and comfortable talking about your work in social situations such as gallery openings, and how to successfully pitch your work or ask for money in meetings with presenters and funders. Participants identify their goals and objectives in order to more effectively and accurately represent themselves and their work. During the workshop, they have an opportunity to give a short presentation in order to work on content, verbiage, physical behavior and body language.

DATE: 1/23
TIME: 9am-5pm
CAPACITY: For groups of up to 20 artists

For more information on the Creative Capital Foundation’s approach to professional development for individual artists, visit http://creative-capital.org/pdp/about

Eligibility:
Professional artists of all artistic disciplines residing full time in New Mexico are eligible to apply to participate in the January 2012 retreats. For the purposes of this opportunity, a professional artist is defined as an individual who creates, on an ongoing basis, original works of art within an artistic discipline, and is pursuing this work as a means of livelihood or a way to achieve the highest level of professional recognition. Creative Capital prefers artists who are generative, not interpretive (for example: the composer over the violinist; the playwright over the actor). Applicants must be at least 18 years of age. Individuals pursuing high school, undergraduate, or graduate degrees at the time of the workshops are not eligible.

Selection Process and Criteria:
Up to 24 applicants will be invited to attend the Internet for Artists weekend and 20 for the Verbal Communications. Selections will be made by a peer panel according to the below criteria. Accepted participants will be notified by January 2, 2012.

Emphasis will be placed on selecting artists who:
• Demonstrate a successful track record of ongoing, professional artistic activity and high quality work
• Have creation of new work as a primary artistic focus (as compared to interpreting existing works)
• Appear poised to transition to a new phase of his/her artistic career
• Could benefit from setting professional goals and building upon marketing, fundraising, and financial management skills
• Could benefit from a new network of professional contacts

Artists invited to participate in the Internet for Artists weekend will be required to attend all three days, beginning Friday evening, January 20, 2012, and running through Sunday evening, January 22, 2012 at the Santa Fe Art Institute, 1600 St Michaels Drive, Santa Fe, NM.

Actual cost of attendance, including meals, is estimated to total almost $2,000 per participant. Through generous grants from the Kresge Foundation, the McCune Charitable Foundations, and SFAI, your costs will be $200 for the Internet for Artists weekend, $75 for the Verbal Communications 1-day workshop, or $250 for both.

For artists invited to participate, the payment schedule includes a non-refundable advance fee of $50 to retain their placement (due upon acceptance) and the balance due by January 13, 2012.

Limited onsite housing is available for rural participants. Please contact Michelle Laflamme-Childs at (505) 424-5050 or mchilds@sfai.org for more information.

Application Deadline & Submission Process:
Applications are being accepted now and must be received by 11;59, MST, Thursday, January 5, 2012. Only electronic applications will be accepted. The application is available online at https://sfai.slideroom.com

Please contact Michelle Laflamme-Childs at (505) 424-5050 or mchilds@sfai.org with any questions.

Danish Painter, Mathilde Jensen in her SFAI Studio (photo credit: Dianne Stromberg)

December Open Studio
Thursday, December 15
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

December Artists in Residence
Liza Buzytsky – New York, NY
Liza Buzytsky is a New York based artist working in installation, collage and writing. A graduate of Pratt Institute, her work appeared most recently in “Personal, Private, Public” at PPOW Young Curators III exhibition. She is the publisher of the artist’s book, “We Love Our Customers,” a collection of writing and photography, which was released in March 2010, and also creates mixed media sculpture from industrial materials and found objects.

Mathilde Jensen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Mathilde Jensen was born in Denmark in 1979. She holds her MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London and lives and works today in Copenhagen. Her main area is painting and she has been selected into several competitions for visual Art both in DK and UK, the most important being Charlottenborg Spring exhibition in Copenhagen. She won Frame your Talent in London in 2010, which resulted in a soloshow at The Royal Danish Embassy on Sloan Street. She was raised in a shipyard and explores topics related to the sea and water – currently the lack of water – in her abstract watercolour-acrylic paintings.

Annica Cuppetelli – Detroit, MI
Annica Cuppetelli is a fiber/installation artist and fashion designer based in Detroit, MI. Drawing on her past experience in the fashion world, her practice focuses challenging the notions that separate fashion, design and art. She is a recipient of the Daimler Financial Emerging Artist Award, the Searchlight Emerging Artist Award and was a nominee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008 and her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.

A community exhibition in response to an open call for work related to environmental issues.

Exhibition Hours
Monday – Friday
11/11 – 12/16
9am – 5pm

Including work by:
Diane Armitage
Jon Carver
Charlotte Dupont
Liza Buzytsky
Lauren Davies
Autumn Gomez
Nico Salazar
Dana Chodzko
Gerald Jacobi
Stacy Pearl
Monique Janssen-Belitz
Marion Wasserman
Sybille Palmer
De Haven Solimon Chaffins
Teressa Valla
Erikka James
Mark Lyons
Mary Dineen
Ai Krasner
Jerry and Raina Wellman
Tafadzwa Matamba
Cheri Ibes
Ana MacArthur
Pat Harris
Sherry Bishop
Bill Maxon
Rick Fisher
Don Kennell
Topaz Jones
Mayumi Nishida
Niya Lee
Ann Filemyr
Daniel Richmond
Elba Pineda Philips

Daniel Kyong's SFAI Studio

November Open Studios
an event
Thursday, November 17
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 Yale University, he has worked as a non-profit field worker, commodities trader, and high school teacher. He has studied at The Gotham Writers Workshop and is hard at work on his memoir, Coconut Milk, a story about roots, acculturation, and mobility. He has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and in 2011 he was named a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow.
Nancy Lord – Homer, AK
Nancy Lord, Alaska’s former Writer Laureate (2008-10), holds a liberal arts degree from Hampshire College and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. She is the author of three short fiction collections and five books of literary nonfiction (most recently Early Warming: Crisis and Response in the Climate-changed North, Counterpoint Press, 2011.) Her awards include fellowships from the Alaska State Council on the Arts and the Rasmuson Foundation, a Pushcart Prize, and artist residencies. She teaches part-time for the University of Alaska, Anchorage.
Erica Mott – Chicago, IL
Erica Mott is a choreographer, installation/visual performance maker, and cultural organizer whose work has been seen at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Market Theater, Johannesburg, and The Millennium Dome, London. Erica collaborated with renowned performance artists, Guillermo Gomez Pena and La Pocha Nostra, Tim Miller, and Sharon Bridgforth as well as numerous theater, dance, and gallery collectives in the US, UK, and South Africa. She’s devised specialized curricula for organizations including The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amnesty International, University of Tennessee, Memphis, University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). She’s a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Fellow.
Annica Cuppetelli – Detroit, MI
Annica Cuppetelli is a fiber/installation artist and fashion designer based in Detroit, MI. Drawing on her past experience in the fashion world, her practice focuses challenging the notions that separate fashion, design and art. She is a recipient of the Daimler Financial Emerging Artist Award, the Searchlight Emerging Artist Award and was a nominee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008 and her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI.
Liza Buzytsky – Bronx, NY
Liza Buzytsky is a New York based artist working in installation, collage and writing. A graduate of Pratt Institute, her work appeared most recently in Personal, Private, Public at PPOW Young Curators III exhibition. She is the publisher of the artist’s book, We Love Our Customers, collection of writing and photography, which was released in March 2010, and creates mixed media sculpture from industrial materials and found objects.
Lauren Davies – San Francisco, CA
Lauren Davies mixed media sculpture and installations explore our often-troubled relationship to the natural world. Her work employs a wide range of unusual materials combined with a labor-intensive “do-it-yourself” craft aesthetic that is underscored by an ironic dark humor. Davies’ work has been presented at the Oakland Museum, De Saisset Museum, Triton Museum, Islip Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 16 and ampersand international arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Djerassi, California Academy of Sciences, and La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers, France. Davies received her MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to her studio practice, Davies is also a curator and serves as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, a residency program that supports new works in photography, video, digital media, sculpture/installation and print media.
Mathilde Jensen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Mathilde Jensen was born in Denmark in 1979. She holds her MA in Fine Art from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London and lives and works today in Copenhagen. Her main area is painting and she has been selected into several competitions for visual Art both in DK and UK, the most important being Charlottenborg Spring exhibition in Copenhagen. Also she won Frame your Talent in London in 2010, which resulted in a soloshow at The Royal Danish Embassy on Sloan Street. Mathilde Jensen was raised in a shipyard and explores topics related to the sea and water – currently the lack of water – in her abstract watercolour-acrylic paintings.
Daniel Kyong – Seoul, Korea
Daniel was born in Seoul Korea and received a BFA from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, and graduated from Joe Blasco Special Make-up Effect Center in Los Angeles. She worked as a character designer at Samsung Everland from 2005-2006. Her work comes from her interest and admiration of imaginary entities. There is a process of self recognition, a search for meaning, a way of understanding thoughts and emotions, and reflection of life that comes out in the characters she creates. She has shown in Japan, China, and extensively in Seoul Korea.
Charlotte Dupont – Brussels, Belgium
Charlotte Dupont was born in Paris and moved to Brussels in 2003. She started as an actress at the age of 17 with director Nicolas Klotz, played in the movie En la Ciudad de Sylvia by Jose Luis Guerin (64th Official Mostra selection ) and in The Swing by Christophe Hermans (Official Magritte selection, 2010). She also works as a writer for several European directors. Acting and Writing led her to film direction. She shot her first short fiction La peau claire in 2007. While She was living in Taos, NM USA between 2009 and 2010, she developed autofiction videos in which she filmed herself living the ‘American Dream’ in a wild deserted landscape that became an experimental short movie named Everywhere you go. http://charlottedupont.tumblr.com/

POSTPONED UNTIL FEBRUARY 2012 – DATES TBA!

Financial Fitness for Life is a FREE workshop designed to help you think through what decisions you want to make with your own financial life and get the financial tools to help you achieve them.

Topics include:
1. Your relationship to money/Financial goal setting.
2. Debt reduction – Power pay your debt away.
3. Understanding Credit – establish, maintain and improve your credit.
4. Budgeting and savings strategies.

Classes will be held on December 5th, 6th, 7th, and 9th from 12:00PM – 1:00PM at the Santa Fe Arts Institute Library – participants must attend all 4 sessions.

For more information or to sign up, contact Cathy Kosak at: info@sfai.org or (505) 424-5050.

*Homewise is a non-profit organization that offers free financial counseling and educational classes designed to help Santa Fe’s moderate income residents become home owners. For more information on Homewise, please visit www.homewise.org.

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 Yale University, he has worked as a non-profit field worker, commodities trader, and high school teacher. He has studied at The Gotham Writers Workshop and is hard at work on his memoir, The New-American Dream, a story about roots, acculturation, and mobility. He has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and in 2011 he was named a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow.

Sarah Jane Lapp – Seattle, WA/Boston, MA
Sarah Jane Lapp has worked with film and visual art for the last two decades. Her experimental non-fiction films and hand-drawn animations often connect labor, comic personae, and the religious imagination including “Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist” and “Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper.” Her work has been supported by Fulbright Commission, Rockefeller Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Artslink, Jerome Foundation, Alpert Award in the Arts, Ucross, Washington State, and the City of Seattle.

Sarah Jane is currently creating visual content for a telematic concert with her long-time collaborator, the virtuoso contrabassist, Mark Dresser. She most recently resided in Boston where she taught at Wellesley and Harvard while simultaneously finishing a 16mm film that evolved from her production of 1,000 sugar packets by hand.

Mathilde Jensen – Copenhagen, Denmark
Mathilde Fiona Jensen was born on the island Funen, Denmark in 1979. She received her Bachelor in Fine Art from Kerteminde, Denmark in 2005. Soon after her graduation, she was accepted into several competitions for emerging artists, the most important being, Charlottenborg Spring exhibition in Copenhagen, which is the most highly respected competition in Denmark. Soon after this debut she was selected by different galleries in Copenhagen for group shows. In 2009, she graduated from Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London with an MA in Fine Art. Today she lives and works in Copenhagen.

Liza Buzytsky – Bronx, NY
Liza Buzytsky is primarily a Bronx-based writer and artist. A graduate of Pratt Institute, her work appeared most recently in “Personal, Private, Public” at PPOW Young Curators III exhibition. She is the publisher of the artist’s book, “We Love Our Customers,” a collection of writing and photography, which was released in March 2010, and creates mixed media sculpture from industrial materials and found objects.

Lauren Davies – San Francisco, CA
Lauren Davies mixed media sculpture and installations explore our often-troubled relationship to the natural world. Her work employs a wide range of unusual materials combined with a labor-intensive “do-it-yourself” craft aesthetic that is underscored by an ironic dark humor.

Davies’ work has been presented at the Oakland Museum, De Saisset Museum, Triton Museum, Islip Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Gallery 16 and ampersand international arts. She has been an artist-in-residence at Djerassi, California Academy of Sciences, and La Porte Peinte Centre pour les Arts, Noyers, France. Davies received her MFA in sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. In addition to her studio practice, Davies is also a curator and serves as Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, a residency program that supports new works in photography, video, digital media, sculpture/installation and print media.

Daniel Kyong – Seoul, Korea
Daniel was born in Seoul Korea and received a BFA from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, and graduated from Joe Blasco Special Make-up Effect Center in Los Angeles. She worked as a character designer at Samsung Everland from 2005-2006. Her work comes from her interest and admiration of imaginary entities. There is a process of self recognition, a search for meaning, a way of understanding thoughts and emotions, and reflection of life that comes out in the characters she creates. She has shown in Japan, China, and extensively in Seoul Korea.

Charlotte Dupont – Brussels, Belgium
Charlotte Dupont was born in Paris and moved to Brussels in 2003. She started as an actress at the age of 17 with director Nicolas Klotz, played in the movie En la Ciudad de Sylvia by Jose Luis Guerin (64th Official Mostra selection ) and in The Swing by Christophe Hermans (Official Magritte selection, 2010).

She also works as a writer for several European directors. Acting and Writing led her to film direction. She shot her first short fiction La peau claire in 2007. While She was living in Taos, NM USA between 2009 and 2010, she developed autofiction videos in which she filmed herself living the ‘American Dream’ in a wild deserted landscape that became an experimental short movie named Everywhere you go. http://charlottedupont.tumblr.com/

Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org and author of numerous books on climate change

SFAI Fundraiser with
Environmental Activist & Author
Bill McKibben

Wednesday, November 9
7pm, Lensic Performing Arts Center
Tickets $25-$100*
Available through Tickets Santa Fe
TicketsSantaFe.org
*$50 tickets include a signed copy of McKibben’s latest book Eaarth |  $100 tickets include a signed copy of Eaarth and a private dinner with Bill after the lecture

Author, educator, and environmentalist Bill McKibben is the author of a dozen books about the environment, beginning with The End of Nature in 1989, which is regarded as the first book for a general audience on climate change. He is a founder of the grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated 15,000 rallies in 189 countries since 2009. Time Magazine called him ‘the planet’s best green journalist’ and the Boston Globe said in 2010 that he was ‘probably the country’s most important environmentalist.’ Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College, he holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Bill McKibben PSA

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For more about Bill and his books and projects visit: billmckibben.com

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 her work and her ideas of perception, (in)tangibility, and illusion and how they shape our minds. Bravo will explore, step-by-step, ideas of process and intuition by showing samples of how several works have come into fruition – from early hunches to final documentation of the pieces. Bravo will also offer a two-day workshop called The Well, where she will help participants hone their own creative processes.

About Monika Bravo:
Filmmaker, Photographer, and Installation Artist, Monika Bravo, was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1964. Since 1994 she has been living and working in Brooklyn, NY. In her work, she utilizes imagery, sound, industrial materials, and technology to create illusions of recognizable landscapes and environments that examine the notion of space/time as a measure of reality. Her films, video installations and photographic work have been widely shown, recent solo shows include venues like Ciocca Arte Contemporanea in Milan, SITE Santa Fe in New Mexico, Mullerdechiara, Berlin and Dechiaragallery, NY, Tyler Gallery at Temple University in Philadelphia, and Lehman Gallery at Lehman College in the Bronx. She has participated in numerous group shows at venues that include The New Museum of Contemporary Art and El Museo del Barrio in NY, Untitled Space in New Haven CT, Santa Fe Art Institute in New Mexico, Sala RG in Caracas, Museo de las Americas in San Juan de Puerto Rico, AboutStudio/AboutCafe in Bangkok and Espacio La Rebeca in Bogota. She is a recipient of the Electronic Media & Film Award from the New York State Council on the Arts, both in 2000 & 2002 and has been part of art-in-residency programs at the Santa Fe Art Institute in Santa Fe, New Mexico and the LMCC World Views at the World Trade Center in New York City.

Bravo works with ideas of the tangible and the intangible, examining the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction. Her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher her own existence during its process for she believes that people and events are hieroglyphs to be decoded. By using technology, she creates devices and/or situations where she can question her physicality in relationship to the mental, emotional and spiritual fields. You can learn more about Monika Bravo at her website http://www.monikabravo.com/

BREATHING_WALL_LAX video wall commission 2005-2011 from monika bravo on Vimeo.

About Bravo’s Workshop, The Well:
Wisdom that is not put into practical use is meaningless. The well supplies replenishment but is never exhausted, water in a stream is a gift of nature, water in a well results from the accomplishments of human beings, all the underground streams are there, but without digging the water is wasted.
-I Ching hexagram #48

THE WELL: A guide to the practice of observation and how to get in touch with the source of your own creativity.

Monika Bravo’s workshop, The Well, is designed for anyone in the community – artists and non artists alike (mothers, housewives, artists, photographers, writers, all are welcome). The workshop will expand upon the lecture’s theme of process and intuition and will explore, in depth, the process Bravo uses as an artist to create her work. She will teach you a set of exercises that, if practiced with certain frequency, will help you develop your own personal creative tools.

9/11, Ten Years Later Short Film Screenings:
Projected onto exterior walls of the SFAI from sundown to sunrise Monday-Friday 9/9 through the end of September:

• September 10, 2011 by Monika Bravo
• Nine Bend Stream by Carter Hodgkin
• Falling by Griminesca Amoros
• Washing by Jenny Perlin

Carter Hodgkin, Grimanesa Amoros, Jenny Perlin, and Monika Bravo all came to the Santa Fe Art Institute as Emergency Relief residents following the events of 9/11. Their videos will screen on the outside wall of SFAI’s entrance nightly, M-F from 7pm-7am, through September 30.

Made in 2009, the drawing animations of Nine Bend Stream by Carter Hodgkin, were inspired by the Korean landscape painting, “The Nine Bend Stream of Mt. Wuyi.” The animations explore instability and uncertainty, alluding to the behavior of atomic particles and emotional states of tumult, tension, and unease.

Grimanesa Amoros’ video describes the work she made while in residence at SFAI. A series of encaustic panels entitled, Falling, depicts the papers, building fragments, debris, and people that Amoros witnessed falling from the World Trade Towers.

Jenny Perlin used 16mm film for her 2002 video, Washing, which focuses on the empty skyline of Lower Manhattan, where the Trade Towers once stood. Perlin uses a simple gesture to comment on frivolous attempts to wash away collective memory and trauma.

Monika Bravo’s video, September 10, 2001, uno nunca muere la vispera, was filmed from her World Trade Center residency studio which sat on the 92nd floor of the north tower. She left late that night, grabbing her videotape that captured the storm on what would be the last night the towers stood. She edited the footage while in residence at SFAI; the work is dedicated to the memory of Michael Richards, a fellow artist in residence at the World Trade Center who lost his life on 9/11.

Also playing at SFAI during open hours are 800 Steps Apart by Brooke Singer and Brian Rigney Hubbard which depicts the contradictory approaches during post 9/11 cleanup, and the documentary The Second Day by fourteen-year old Brook Peters, whose second day of kindergarten was on September 11, 2001.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change:
Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

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 the Tyler School of Art and served as curator at the Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. She organized the award-winning exhibition of Horace Pippin’s paintings that traveled to the Metropolitan Museum; and co-curated Picturing the Modern Amazon for New York’s New Museum. Since 1974, her reviews and features have appeared in Art in America and other publications. Eye of the Sixties, her biography-in-progress of the Chinese American art dealer Richard Bellamy (1927-1998), received a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant (2008) and will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. www.judithestein.com

Hafeez Lakhani – New York, NY
Hafeez Lakhani was born in India and grew up in Suburban South Florida. A graduate of Yale University, he has worked as a non-profit field worker, commodities trader, and high school teacher. He has studied at The Gotham Writers Workshop and is hard at work on his memoir, The New-American Dream, a story about roots, acculturation, and mobility. He has been awarded fellowships from The Vermont Studio Center and The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and in 2011 he was named a PEN Emerging Voices Fellow.

Charlotte Dupont – Brussels, Belgium
Charlotte Dupont was born in Paris and moved to Brussels in 2003. She started as an actress at the age of 17 with director Nicolas Klotz, played in the movie En la Ciudad de Sylvia by Jose Luis Guerin (64th Official Mostra selection ) and in The Swing by Christophe Hermans (Official Magritte selection, 2010).

She also works as a writer for several European directors. Acting and Writing led her to film direction. She shot her first short fiction La peau claire in 2007. While She was living in Taos, NM USA between 2009 and 2010, she developed autofiction videos in which she filmed herself living the ‘American Dream’ in a wild deserted landscape that became an experimental short movie named Everywhere you go.

http://charlottedupont.tumblr.com/

Alyssa Phoebus – Lahore, Pakistan
Best known for her work in drawing, Alyssa Pheobus is an American artist living between Lahore, Pakistan and the U.S. Her projects foreground a symbolic language of abstraction and are often inspired by archetypes encountered in traditional textiles, geometry and architecture. Originally from Maryland, she received a BA from Yale and an MFA from Columbia, both of which she attended on scholarships. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions in New York and London and she has been recognized with a number of awards, including a 2009 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Murad Khan Mumtaz – Lahore, Pakistan
A native of Lahore, Pakistan, Murad Khan Mumtaz received a BA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and an MFA from Columbia University, which he attended on a Fulbright fellowship. His drawings and paintings have been included in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Pakistan, including the inaugural retrospective of Pakistani art at the National Gallery in Islamabad. Over the last decade he has contributed art criticism to the Lahori English-language weekly, The Friday Times. Since 2003 he has taught traditional Indian and Persian miniature painting in Pakistan and abroad. He lives and works in Lahore.

Daniel Kyong – Seoul, Korea
Daniel was born in Seoul Korea and received a BFA from Chung-Ang University in Seoul, and graduated from Joe Blasco Special Make-up Effect Center in Los Angeles. She worked as a character designer at Samsung Everland from 2005-2006. Her work comes from her interest and admiration of imaginary entities. There is a process of self recognition, a search for meaning, a way of understanding thoughts and emotions, and reflection of life that comes out in the characters she creates. She has shown in Japan, China, and extensively in Seoul Korea.

Sarah Jane Lapp – Seattle, WA/Boston, MA
Sarah Jane Lapp has worked with film and visual art for the last two decades. Her experimental non-fiction films and hand-drawn animations often connect labor, comic personae, and the religious imagination including Chronicles of a Professional Eulogist and Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper. Her work has been supported by Fulbright Commission, Rockefeller Foundation, MacDowell Colony, Artslink, Jerome Foundation, Alpert Award in the Arts, Ucross, Washington State, and the City of Seattle.

Sarah Jane is currently creating visual content for a telematic concert with her long-time collaborator, the virtuoso contrabassist, Mark Dresser. She most recently resided in Boston where she taught at Wellesley and Harvard while simultaneously finishing a 16mm film that evolved from her production of 1,000 sugar packets by hand.

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 exhibitions Half Life: Patterns of Change.

Gregory Sholette
Gregory Sholette, a politically engaged artist, argues that imagination and creativity in the art world originate and thrive in the non-commercial sector shut off from prestigious galleries and champagne receptions. This broader creative culture feeds the mainstream with new forms and styles that can be commodified and used to sustain the few artists admitted into the elite. This dependency, and the advent of inexpensive communication, and audio/video technology, has allowed this ‘dark matter’ of the alternative art world to increasingly subvert the mainstream and intervene politically as both new and old forms of non-capitalist, public art.

Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of REPOhistory (1989-2000) and Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988). His recent installations include “Mole Light” at Plato’s Cave/Eidia House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (October 2010), and “The Imaginary Archive” at Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington New Zealand (June – July 2010). Recent publications include Dark Matter: Art and Politics in an Age of Enterprise Culture (Pluto Press, Nov. 2010); Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination after 1945, with Blake Stimson (University of Minnesota, 2007), The Interventionists: A Users Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life, with Nato Thompson (MassMoCA/MIT Press, 2004, 2006, 2008), and a special 2008 issue of Third Text co-edited with theorist Gene Ray on the theme Whither Tactical Media. Sholette is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College: City University of New York (CUNY), a visiting faculty member of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (Spring 2010), and he teaches an annual seminar in theory and social practice for the CCC post-graduate research program at Geneva University of Art and Design.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change:
Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

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.

Schedule of Programs

Friday 9/9
6-8pm                Monika Bravo & Greg Sholette Exhibition Opening, SFAI
6-8pm                Hip Hop Dance Party & Guerilla Screen Printing,SFAI
7pm – 7am         9/11 Outdoor Film Screenings, SFAI

Saturday 9/10
10am-12pm       Guided Mural Painting & Guerilla Screen Printing, Barracks Wall, SFAI
6pm                   Daniel Banks & Staged Readings from Say Word, Tipton Hall
7pm                   Hip Hop Hope Screening and Q&A (with intro by Darrell Wilks), Tipton Hall
7pm – 7am        9/11 Outdoor Film Screenings, SFAI

Sunday 9/11
10am-12pm         Guided Mural Painting & Guerilla Screen Printing, Barracks Wall, SFAI
6pm                     Collapsing Hope, A One Act Play, Tipton Hall
6:30pm                Audio Revolution Youth Media Presentations, Tipton Hall
7:15pm                Spoken Word Performances, Tipton Hall
7:30pm                Hip Hop Hope Screening and Q&A (with intro by Darrell Wilks), Tipton Hall
7pm – 7am          9/11 Outdoor Film Screenings                                              SFAI
7pm – 11pm        9/11 Outdoor Film Screenings                                              SFUAD

Monika Bravo
Born in Bogota, Columbia, multi-media artist Monika Bravo works with ideas of the tangible and the intangible, examining the notion of perception by questioning whether the world we live in, is but a mental construction. Her artistic practice is used as a tool to decipher her own existence during its process for she believes that people and events are hieroglyphs to be decoded. By using technology, she creates devices and/or situations where she can question her physicality in relationship to the mental, emotional and spiritual fields. You can learn more about Monika Bravo at her website http://www.monikabravo.com/

Greg Sholette
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of REPOhistory (1989-2000) and Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988). He is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Queens College: City University of New York (CUNY), a visiting faculty member of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University (Spring 2010), and he teaches an annual seminar in theory and social practice for the CCC post-graduate research program at Geneva University of Art and Design. You can learn more about Sholette at his website http://www.gregorysholette.com/

Hip Hop Dance Party
Local b-boys & b-girls will break dance to the sound stylings of DJ Perish and you are invited to join in or just enjoy the talents of our local youth!

9/11, Ten Years Later Short Film Screenings
Projected onto exterior walls of the SFAI and SFUAD Visual Arts Center 9/9-9/11 and then on SFAI exterior walls throughout the month of September from sundown to sunrise Monday-Friday:

• September 10, 2011 by Monika Bravo
• Nine Bend Stream by Carter Hodgkin
• Falling by Grimanesa Amorós
• Washing by Jenny Perlin

Guided Mural Painting
Join SFAI muralists Guadalupe “Perish” Vargas and Pablo Ancona in painting the SFUAD Barracks Wall next to the SFAI building.

Daniel Banks and the Say Word: Voices from Hip Hop Theater Anthology
The phenomenon known as Hip Hop encompasses a global, multi-ethnic, grassroots culture committed to social justice and self-expression through performance. Hip Hop Theater emerged from that culture, mixing spoken-word performance with music and dance and marked by Hip Hop’s strong sense of activism and resistance. Hip Hop Theater is engaged with questions of identity – culture, heritage, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and difference—narrating the experiences of historically marginalized peoples and putting them in dialogue with other oppressed communities.

Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theatercollects eight works by contemporary artists who confront today’s compelling issues, ranging from racial profiling and police brutality to women’s empowerment and from the commercial exploitation of Hip Hop to identity politics. Editor Daniel Banks has assembled work by Abiola Abrams, Zakiyyah Alexander, Chadwick Boseman, Kristoffer Diaz, Rha Goddess, Antoy Grant, Joe Hernandez-Kolski, Rickerby Hinds, and Ben Snyder, augmented with an extensive introduction and other informative commentary. The book also includes a roundtable moderated by Holly Bass featuring Hip Hop pioneers Eisa Davis, Danny Hoch, Sarah Jones, and Will Power, in a conversation tracing the roots of Hip Hop Theater and imagining its future directions.

Collapsing Hope, A One Act Play
New Mexico School for the Arts student Lexy McAvinchy, will direct an 8-minute one act play entitled Collapsing Hope featuring actors from NMSA.

Youth Media Project “Audio Revolution” Presentations
Radio pieces of personal stories and dreams written and edited by local youth in collaboration with the Youth Media Project.

Spoken Word Performances
Local spoken word artists Gabe Rima, Danny Solis and Lisa Donahue will perform pieces about hope and a better future.

About Darrel Wilks’ Award Winning Documentary Film, Hip Hop Hope (63 mins)
Immediately following the devastation of September 11, filmmaker Darrell Wilks captured the realistic yet persevering perspective of a group of New York hip hop artists, a welcome viewpoint not explored on the evening network news. The terrorist attacks simultaneously changed a lot and changed nothing for the spirited artists Wilks interviewed on the streets of Manhattan.

One rapper expresses the limitations of his world by commenting that New York seemed just as dangerous for him before the attack. A female singer is grateful, perhaps for the first time, that she lives in the ghetto because she knows terrorists aren’t going to be bombing her neighborhood anytime soon. A poet on a pilgrimage to Ground Zero, incredulously counts her blessings that she didn’t accept a job in the World Trade Center that would have placed her in one of the Towers on 9/11.

These artists continue their struggle to address issues of race, class, and evolving black culture in America as they help create it. The film offers up two not to be missed performances – one at the mid-point and one at the end – as these artists translate the pain and joy of the soul through the simplest yet most powerful of instruments, their voices.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

Dr. T. Allan Comp

Environmental Scientist
Dr. T. Allan Comp

What: T. Allan Comp Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Friday, August 26
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors/educators

What: Art, Science and Recovery: a Santa Fe River Exploration Workshop
Where: Various points along the Santa Fe River/Watershed & SFAI
When: 9am-5pm Sat August 27 9am-noon Sun August 28
How Much: $200 (sliding scale fees available!)
Contact Cathy at (505) 424-5050 or info@sfai.org to register

What: T. Allan Comp & Bobbe Besold Exhibition
Where: SFAI
When: M-F 9am-5pm August 12 – August 26
How Much: FREE!

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present Environmental Leader Dr. T. Allan Comp to give a lecture and then lead an incredible two-day workshop exploring the Santa Fe Watershed and the linkages among the Arts and Sciences in addressing the river — all part of our ongoing season of visiting artists and exhibitions Half Life: Patterns of Change. In addition, the results of this group-workshop-exploration will be up at the SFAI through September 16th.

About T. Allan Comp:
Dr. T Allan Comp holds a Ph.D. in history and is based in Washington D.C. He is the founding director of AMD&ART, a project that ran from 1994-2005. AMD stands for Acid Mine Drainage, and the project was managed in the Appalachian Region in the coal country of southwestern Pennsylvania. AMD is a metals-laden water, which seeps from abandoned coal mines and coats stream beds, and is the often the cause of the desolation of entire watersheds. The project pioneered the engagement of artists and scientists as equals in reclamation and received several awards including the 2005 EPA Phoenix Award, which was the first national EPA Brownfields award presented for community impact on mine-scarred lands. Comp now works in the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Surface Mining. He has said that, “it’s not the water that’s the problem, it’s us. And if we fix us, we’ll start fixing the water.”

Art, Science and Recovery: a Santa Fe River Exploration Workshop
In collaboration with the Santa Fe watershed Association and the Railyard Stewards
Start with a Friday evening presentation at SFAI by award-winning workshop leader T. Allan Comp, who will discuss his pioneering work in bringing artists and scientists together to address significant environmental challenges. Then join Allan and others for an experience in collaboration and trans-disciplinary exploration of our own Santa Fe River Watershed. On Saturday from 9 AM to about 5 PM, we will explore the many parts of our own river/watershed with special guest presenters at several locations. On Sunday, from 9 AM until about noon, we will gather to map what we have seen, see where collaboration might take us and perhaps create our own artful response to the tour and discussions. Please join our exploration of the ways the Arts and the Sciences together can collaborate to create a better future.

About Half Life: Patterns of Change:
Cycles of Creation, Decay, and Renewal in Art and Life
When an object or system stops performing its assigned function in contemporary society, we tend to replace it rather than repair it. However, artists redefine useless as useful by creating a new life for objects, and that renewed life alters the role of these objects entirely. Artists work similar magic with degraded landscapes, blighted neighborhoods, and other systems—infusing them with new purpose and expanding the potential for positive change. Ideally, this change is accomplished with the participation of the surrounding communities—transforming not only objects and systems, but also the communities themselves.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.

About the Santa Fe Watershed Association:
The Santa Fe Watershed Association is working to restore the Santa Fe River and its watershed through advocacy, education, and hands-on restoration work. They advocate for policies that will restore the Santa Fe River to a level of ecological health that sustains wildlife, trees and plants, and increases our ground water. The SFWSA’s programs both restore and build support for a healthy river through education and activities that connect people to their watershed.

About the Railyard Stewards:
The Railyard Stewards is a local organization working in partnership with the City of Santa Fe in a unique care, conservation and education effort to encourage residents to actively participate in our newest and largest city park and adjacent community plaza. The Stewards was originally a program under the nonprofit Trust for Public Land. The Railyard Stewards serve as the community ‘friends of’ group of the Railyard Park + Plaza in Santa Fe.

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 organized the award-winning exhibition of Horace Pippin’s paintings that traveled to the Metropolitan Museum; and co-curated Picturing the Modern Amazon for New York’s New Museum. Since 1974, her reviews and features have appeared in Art in America and other publications. “Eye of the Sixties,” her biography-in-progress of the Chinese American art dealer Richard Bellamy (1927-1998), received a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant (2008) and will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. www.judithestein.com

Lenka Novakova – Montreal, QC
Lenka Novakova was born in the Czech Republic currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada. She studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia and received her MFA from the Concordia University. Her practice is concerned with an ephemeral poetic quality a moment of recreation and reflective thought through constructed environments, simple technologies and moving light; with crossover in cinema and theatre technologies. She has been recipient of numerous fellowships, awards and has an active exhibition record in Canada, USA and abroad. Recent fellowships included Coring Museum of Glass, Corning, New York, Urban Glass, Brooklyn, New York, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont and La Chambre Blanche in Quebec. Recent solo exhibitions included Cambridge Public Art Gallery, Grimsby Public Art Gallery and others. Recent participation included Project Integral Sao Paulo-Quebec, Sao Paulo, Brazil and DMZ festival in Korea. Upcoming residencies and fellowships include Santa Fe Art Institute, New Mexico and NKD, Norway.

Alyssa Phoebus – Lahore, Pakistan
Alyssa Pheobus is an American artist currently based in Lahore, Pakistan. Originally from Maryland, she received a BA from Yale and an MFA from Columbia, both of which she attended on scholarships. Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Tracy Williams, Ltd. and Bellwether in New York (both 2009) and Holster Projects in London (2010). She has been recognized with a number of awards, including a 2009 Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has participated in residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Dieu Donné and the Yale in Norfolk summer program. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Art in America, NYFA Current and Étapes. She has taught at Columbia and Beaconhouse National University in Lahore, as well as guest lectured at numerous universities and art schools in New York state and Pakistan.

Murad Khan Mumtaz – Lahore, Pakistan
A native of Lahore, Pakistan, Murad Khan Mumtaz received a BA from the National College of Arts, Lahore, and an MFA from Columbia University, which he attended on a Fulbright fellowship. His drawings and paintings have been included in solo and group exhibitions in the U.S. and Pakistan, including the inaugural retrospective of Pakistani art at the National Gallery in Islamabad. Over the last decade he has contributed art criticism to the Lahori English-language weekly, The Friday Times. Since 2003 he has taught traditional Indian and Persian miniature painting in Pakistan and abroad. He lives and works in Lahore.

Priscilla Hollingsworth – Augusta, GA
Priscilla Hollingsworth is an artist who works primarily in clay; her output includes sculpture, installations, and vessels. She has shown her work in numerous individual and group exhibitions across the United States from 1985 to the present. Photographs of her work have been published in various books, including 500 Vases (Lark Books, 2010; cover image). Ms. Hollingsworth has received residency awards from the Kohler Company’s Arts/Industry Program, the Banff Centre for the Arts, the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Artpark, the Moravian Pottery and Tile Works, and others. She lives and works in Augusta, Georgia.

Marylyn Waltzer – Haverford, PA
Marylyn Waltzer is a botanical illustrator, she is a nationally recognized artist who paints and teaches. Her work can be seen throughout the year at many art exhibitions and also hangs in private collections. Drawing and painting has always been a part of Marylyn’s life. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Art and Design High School, Fashion Institute of technology and the New York Botanical Gardens certificate program for botanical art and illustration. Marylyn lived in New York State while raising her children. There she developed a passion for gardening and love of nature. She has combined horticulture and botanical art to enrich her life. Marylyn moved to Pennsylvania in 2004 and devoted herself to painting and teaching botanical art. She is a member of the faculty of the Arboretum School of The Barnes Foundations. A member of the board of the Philadelphia Society of Botanical Illustrators, a member of the American Society of Botanical Artists and a member of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators.

Marcia Lyons – Waiheke Island, New Zealand
American-born and New Zealand resident Marcia Lyons divides her time between Waiheke Island and Santa Fe, NM. Emerging in the early ‘90s as a performance artist and sculptor, she is best known for her extensive work as a media producer and educator. She established the Digital Media Fine Arts program at Cornell University, before becoming the Developing Program Director of Digital Media at Victoria University of Wellington, currently she is the CIRI Scholar in Arts Practice at Auckland University of Technology. Recipient of many awards including the prestigious Rome Prize (1997-8), Lyons has exhibited and has taught all over the world. The focus of her practice reflects Lyons’ interest in interactivity, perception, and live-media. “Over the past two years, I’ve been working with scientists in-the-field to understand imperceptible frequencies emanating from the earth’s biosphere. Recent work came out of a series of investigations where live data and the viewer create a two-way ‘creative interference’ activating a third, in-between, telepathic field.” She is represented by David Richard Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM, Stefan Stoyanov Gallery, NYC and Bartley & Co. Art, NZ.

Ryan Lee Smith – Tahlequah, OK
Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee, Choctaw) received a Bachelors of Fine Art from Baylor University and continued his graduate studies at the University of New Orleans until Hurricane Katrina forced his relocation to Tahlequah, OK. Smith began working for the Cherokee Nation in the Community Development capacity. It was this job that provided Smith with the opportunity to work very closely with Cherokee communities. “I became so immersed in culture and tradition that it changed my life and the direction of my work. It was life changing. I found out who I was and what I was missing.” And this innate passion and intensity are seen in his work. From piercing mustangs to roaring grizzlies, he describes his style as Contemporary Native Abstract. “I am representing the collective power, resiliency, and pride that exists in all Natives. I have the utmost respect for my people and the work I do is for them,” Smith says. His drive to continue his artistic endeavors also comes from wanting to provide the best for his two boys, four and six. “I am teaching my sons to embrace that pride, that inner drumbeat which exists in all Natives and is exactly what drives me to paint.” www.ryanleesmithart.com

Lisa Hageman Yahgulanaas – Haida Gwaii
Since she was a little girl, Haida artist Lisa Hageman Yahgulanaas’ memories have been filled with weaving. Generations of renowned artists in her family keep her feeling humbled while striving to maintain a level of excellence in her chosen artistic field of Raven’s Tail Weaving. Raven’s Tail weaving is one of the oldest forms of textile weaving for the Haida and is one of the few styles of weaving in the world that is gravity-weighted finger-weaving. This means that there are no looms and no tension but rather loose strands of wool warp hand from a box frame while the weaver creates each stitch individually with their fingers. Lisa was accorded her master’s level of weaving in 2009 from her mentor Master Weaver Evelyn Vanderhoop. Yahgulanaas has exhibited throughout Canada, demonstrated internationally and been gifted with numerous awards. She is grateful for the opportunities that enable her to continue to create. “I weave because I could not do otherwise. Weaving dances through my dreams at night.”
Lisa Hageman Yahgulanaas
Kuuyas 7waahlal Gidaak
www.ravenweaver.com

Critic and curator, Robert Atkins

Writing for Artists: Think! Express! Communicate!

Are you…

Frustrated about your ability to describe & discuss your work?

Dissatisfied with your artist’s statement or CV?

Wonder about the nature & value of art criticism?

Unhappy with the way art dealers have talked about your work to potential collectors? Or writers/critics have written about your work?

Self conscious about initiating contact with curators, critics or dealers?

Of course visual artists are better at expressing themselves in images than words. But the ability to think clearly and critically about one’s work and to express those thoughts in words may be vital to an artist’s success. This workshop, conducted by critic and curator Robert Atkins, is designed to help artists do precisely that. Over the course of 10 days—spanning 3 evening and 2 Saturday afternoon sessions between August 3 – 13 —students will work closely with Atkins to revise their CVs and artist’s statements, as well as critique artwork by themselves and each other. In addition, Atkins—a veteran art world insider—will discuss the nature and value of contemporary criticism and blogging, professional etiquette for approaching curators, critics and dealers, and ways to promote oneself while maintaining self respect. Bring your current CV and artist’s statement, as well as an example of newspaper or magazine criticism you are prepared to discuss, to the first class.

Robert Atkins is a California-based art historian, educator and writer. A former staff columnist for the Village Voice, he has written for more than 100 publications, authored 5 books, organized more than two dozen exhibitions, and taught and lectured at numerous universities, art schools and museums around the world. He is the author of the best-selling ArtSpeak: A Guide to Contemporary Ideas, Movements and Buzzwords; his most recent projects include the anthology Censoring Culture: Contemporary Threats to Free Expression (published by the New Press in 2006) and ArtSpeak China (2010) www.artspeakchina.org, the first collaboratively authored, online, bilingual encyclopedia (wiki) about contemporary Chinese art. (More information about him is available at www.robertatkins.net)

The dates:

Wed 8/3 6-8pm
Sat 8/6 1-4pm
Mon 8/8 6-8pm
Wed 8/10 6-8pm
Sat 8/13 1-4pm

Fee for the five session workshop: $200 (sliding scale fees available)

For additional information or to register:

info@sfai.org or 505.424.5050

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 rehearsals this month for the final local showing of this work titled ” OF BODIES OF ELEMENTS” on August 19th, Tangen returns to SFAI to discuss how the DANCING EARTH creative process has evolved into exercises that metaphorically explore issues of the human relationship to the environment and other living beings, concepts of identity in motion, and embodiment of culture. Subsequently this exploratory work was furthered through Tangen’s leadership of a response to RACE AND ENVIRONMENT at Stanford University’s Institute of Diversity in the Arts, and in Canada at Trent University’s Indigenous Performance Initiative. Guests attending Tangen’s SFAI talk will have an opportunity to experience an exercise expressing an ‘interactive microcosm of diversity,’ and learn more about the international impact of SFAI’s commission of DANCING EARTH to re-visit the primary original purpose of Indigenous dance as a functional ritual for community building.

More about DANCING EARTH at dancingearth.org

About Rulan Tangen:
Rulan Tangen is an internationally renowned dance artist and choreographer living in Santa Fe New Mexico. She is the Founding Artistic Director and Choreographer DANCING EARTH , noted in Dance Magazine as “One of the Top 25 To Watch”, and winner of the National Dance Project Production and Touring Grant, as well as the National Museum of American Indian’s Expressive Arts award.

Her credits include ballet and modern dance companies in New York (Michael Mao Dance and Peridance), Vancouver (Karen Jamieson Dance), Santa Fe (Moving People, Dancing One Soul) and California (Marin Ballet), and appearances with the One Railroad Circus, as well as extensive yoga training and pow wow trail experiences as a Northern Plains traditional women’s dancer.

As a performer, she has been featured in lead roles with most of the major Native productions including Raoul Trujillo’s TRIBE, Santee Smith’s Kaha:wi, Daystar’s No Home but the Heart, and Minigooweziwin produced by the Aboriginal Arts Program at the Banff Centre, as well she was as an assistant to the directors of BONES: Aboriginal Dance Opera.

Her choreography has also been commissioned by various venues including the Heard Museum, Santa Fe Art Institute, Society for Dance Historians, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Teatro Nunes in Brasil, Centro Cultural de Recoleto Argentino, Aqua Caliente Cultural Museum, the Native Roots and Rhythms Festival, the Santa Fe Dance Festival, Native Cinema Showcase at the Center for Contemporary Arts, Idyllwild Arts Program, Kaha:wi’s Living Rituals World Indigenous Dance Festival at York University, Toronto Harbourfront’s Roots Remix Festival, and the Earth in Motion’s International Aboriginal Choreographers Workshop in Toronto.

Tangen has been invited by Washington University as Visiting Distinguished Scholar, by Stanford University’s Institute for Diversity in the Arts, by Arizona State University, UC Riverside, and University of New Mexico, as well as extensive teaching work in Indigenous communities across the Americas.

About the SFAI:
Founded in 1985, the Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to promote art as a positive social force — both in our community and around the world — and to highlight art as a powerful tool for facilitating dialogue, bridging perspectives, and evoking visions of a better future.