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 co-founder and co-director, Daniel Banks, P.h.D., co-director of Theatre Without Borders and founding members of the Acting Together project, as well as visual artist Jorge De la Torre.

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.

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.

ERICA SCHARF – TBD

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.

Ecole des Beaux-Arts – March

Established for over two centuries, the School of Fine Arts in Nantes is now one of the oldest in France. Following a considerable technical and pedagogical renewal carried out since the sixties, the ESBANM is now widely recognized for its dynamism and innovative spirit.

New teaching methods prepare students for today’s world of “company image and communication” by providing employment opportunities: art, education, crafts, design, communication, interior design, advertising, graphic design, television, film, multimedia, cultural mediation. There are many renowned artists who were former students: Jean Metzinger, Jean Gorin, Jacques Vache, Benjamin Peret, Claude Cahun, Jacques Villeglé, Hatchet Philippe, Pierrick Sorin, Fabrice Hyber, Christelle Familiari, and Laurent Moriceau.

Five students from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Nantes will be in residence for the month of March.

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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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.

Santa Fe dancer and teacher Shannon Elliot in artist Emilee Lord's SFAI studio

July Open Studios
Thursday, July 28
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

Vesna Jovanovic – Chicago, IL
Vesna Jovanovic investigates ambiguity in concepts like order and chaos, often examining science and other cultural means of building knowledge and analyzing perception. Her creative process usually involves unpredictable methods such as spilled and blotted ink, pinhole photography, and double-walled ceramic vessels. In 2000, Jovanovic received a BA in Fine Arts and a BS in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago. Upon completing her degrees she began working in a scientific research and development laboratory while attending The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At SAIC she was awarded a Merit Scholarship of Recognition, and she received a BFA in Studio Art in 2003. She also received an MFA degree in Photography from The Ohio State University in 2005. Her artwork has been featured in over fifty exhibitions, as well as in various publications including Discover Magazine Blogs, Seed Magazine, Art:21 Blog, Time Out Chicago, and Newcity.

Lenka Novakova – Montreal, QC
Lenka Novakova was born in the Czech Republic, received her undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia and MFA from the Concordia University in Montreal. 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 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.

Emilee Lord – Santa Fe, NM
Emilee lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. She received her BA from Bennington College, in sculpture and dance – 2004 and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art – 2007. Her experience runs the gamut from performance, installation and mixed media paintings to prints and drawings on silk and paper and hand woven wall hangings. She continues to explore the places in between movement, image, language, material, object and abstraction.

Lauren Kalman – Providence, RI
Lauren Kalman was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. She received her MFA from the Ohio State University and received her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art. She is an artist and educator and has worked with nonprofit centers including the Indian Church Village Artisan Center in Indian Church, Belize and GlassRoots Inc, in Newark, New Jersey. She has taught at institutions including Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University.

Her international exhibition record includes a solo exhibition at the Centro Cultural Recoleta and her video work has been screened in several international film festivals. Her photographs are part of the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. In making her work she has become more aware of the values she ascribes to her body. Through her work, she hopes to communicate alternative thought about material worth, social custom and the body.

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 weeklyThe 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.

Luiza Kurzyna – Brooklyn, NY
Luiza Kurzyna is a Brooklyn-based artist working on both paper, and immersive sculptural installations. Inspired by relationships within nature, Luiza combines the many ways that living things relate to each other (for example, through touch, mating rituals or gender roles) with elements of fantasy. Growing, bulging and decaying forms give objecthood to emotion and life’s transitions. The fantastic elements are intuitive, abstract; they create a space where the emotional inside can merge with the physical outside.

Luiza completed her MFA at Brooklyn College where she was awarded the highly competitive Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include Scrawl at Artspace New Haven, Body Image at Pen and Brush in NYC, Hell, No! at St. Cecilia’s Convent in Greenpoint and Denatured at the Gershwin Hotel, NYC, where her work is now displayed on permanent loan. Her work has been published in Atlantis; Women, Art, Politics and Power and in Drawing: Space, Form and Expression.

Julie Sutherland – San Francisco, CA
Julie Sutherland lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Her work consists of paintings and drawings that employ well-known or pre-existing imagery to examine historical and cultural issues including power, politics, violence and gender. One recent painting series combined official portraits of Presidents and First Ladies into androgynous a-historical dandies while a drawing series looked at historical atrocity through its problematic depictions in the media. She shows her work in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently at Root Division, The National Queer Arts Festival and Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. Her work is also included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program.

www.juliesutherland.net http://www.juliesutherland.net

Brooke Singer & Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga

Brooke Singer Lecture
Friday, July 29
6pm  Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors

Brooke Singer & Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga Rotoscoping Workshop (see below for details on this SUPER COOL workshop!)
Saturday & Sunday, July 30-31
10am – 2pm  SFUAD MOV Lab
$100 (sliding scale fees available!)
Contact Cathy at (505) 424-5050 or info@sfai.org to register

Brooke Singer & Postcommodity Exhibition
Mon-Fri,  6/10-7/31
9am-5pm SFAI

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present interdisciplinary, multi-media artist Brooke Singer to give a lecture and Rotoscoping workshop with her partner Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga as part of our ongoing season of visiting artists and exhibitions Half Life: Patterns of Change. In addition Singer’s work will be up at the SFAI through the month of July.

Brooke Singer
Working across media and disciplines, Brooke Singer creates platforms for local knowledge to connect, inform and conflict with official data descriptions. She engages technoscience as an artist, educator, nonspecialist and collaborator. Her work lives “on” and “off” line in the form of websites, workshops, photographs, maps, installations and performances that involves public participation in pursuit of social change. She is Associate Professor of New Media at Purchase College, State University of New York, a fellow at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center and co-founder of the art, technology and activist group Preemptive Media. The collective was established in 2007 to function as a vehicle for artists to work outside of their individual art practices exploring innovative and collaborative scenarios resulting in work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

You can see Singer’s work here: http://www.bsing.net/

Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga
Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga approaches art as a social practice that seeks to establish dialogue in public spaces. Having been born of immigrant parents and grown up between Nicaragua and San Francisco, a strong awareness of inequality and discrimination was established at an early age. Themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of globalization extend from highly subjective experiences and observations into works that tactfully engage others through populist metaphors while maintaining critical perspectives. Over the past several years, Ricardo has established a practice based in research and investigation leading to the final presentation. This is a practice that utilizes whatever media possible to present the content in a manner that may generate interaction and discussion by others.

You can see Zúñiga’s work here: http://www.ambriente.com/

The Rotoscoping Workshop
This workshop presents an introduction to rotoscoping using popular computer graphics software. Rotoscoping, one of the oldest techniques for animation, is the tracing of live-action footage, frame by frame, to create an animated version of the movement that may later be modified to create a fantastic short.

Participants will brainstorm a 5 to 10 second body movement that will be recorded as video.  The theme to keep in mind for the movement is this season’s Santa Fe Art Institute’s creative theme: “HALF LIFE: Patterns of Change in social, cultural, civic, environmental and artistic systems”.

Participants will be shown basics of video editing, using Apple’s Final Cut Pro, and introduced to Adobe Flash, the software used for animation and basic drawing. In order to rotoscope, the still images from the videos will be exported from Fincal Cut and brought into Adobe Flash for tracing.  Participants can elect to creatively modify or transform the recorded motion rather than strictly follow it. The length and experimental nature of each participant’s work will largely depend on the participant’s background in software graphic tools and time-based media, however no prior knowledge to computer graphic software is necessary.  Participants should have a strong understanding of navigating the computer environment, however.

One of the earliest examples of rotoscoping is Max Fleischer’s, “Out of the Inkwell” – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyetrAePLTA

And here are a examples of one of the workshop instructor’s student work utilizing rotoscoping.  (Please be aware that these examples were done over a week-long period.)

http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/fall2010/animation/salgado/rotoscope.swf
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/spring2011/animation/cruzMidterm.swf
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/spring2011/animation/tanMidterm.swf

Examples of briefer animations:
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/fall2010/animation/luka/dance.swf
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/fall2010/animation/lau/rotoscope.swf
http://brie.hunter.cuny.edu/~mirandar/fall2010/animation/estiler/rotoscope.swf

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.

Photo Credit Robert Reck Courtesy Architectural Digest

Save the Dates

for SFAI’s Spectacular Summer Architectural Tours!

See Santa Fe in a Whole New Way…

$60 donation per person, per event

Call (505) 424-5050 to make your reservations today!

Friday, September 23, 5-7pm
BILL AND ALICIA MILLER’S HOME
Built of Corten steel, glass and moss rock, this striking contemporary home sits on 200 acres close to town and offers dramatic
views as far away as the Colorado border.Also on site is a traditional log cabin.

Artist in Residence Luiza Kurznya in her SFAI Studio

June Open Studios
Thursday, June 23
5:30pm
SFAI
FREE!

June Artists in Residence

Judith Hoffman – Brooklyn, NY
Judith Hoffman is an artist, explorer, amateur mathematician and community organizer, creating works in a wide variety of materials and media. Her subject matter runs the gamut from natural systems to refuges, impermanence and bringing folks together. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2008 and a BA from Smith College in 1999. She has recently been a resident at ArtFarm, Vermont Studio Center, invited to Spiro Arts and will be in residency at Sculpture Space in 2012. She has been honored to exhibit at ‘Art in General’, ‘Deitch Projects’, ‘Sarah Lawrence College Museum’ and others. Her home base is Brookyn, NY where she spends as much time as possible on her bicycle.

Julie Sutherland – San Francisco, CA
Julie Sutherland lives and works in San Francisco, CA. She received her B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Mills College in Oakland, CA. Her work consists of paintings and drawings that employ well-known or pre-existing imagery to examine historical and cultural issues including power, politics, violence and gender. One recent painting series combined official portraits of Presidents and First Ladies into androgynous a-historical dandies while a drawing series looked at historical atrocity through its problematic depictions in the media. She shows her work in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently at Root Division, The National Queer Arts Festival and Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. Her work is also included in the Drawing Center’s Viewing Program.

www.juliesutherland.net http://www.juliesutherland.net

Vesna Jovanovic – Chicago, IL
Vesna Jovanovic investigates ambiguity in concepts like order and chaos, often examining science and other cultural means of building knowledge and analyzing perception. Her creative process usually involves unpredictable methods such as spilled and blotted ink, pinhole photography, and double-walled ceramic vessels. In 2000, Jovanovic received a BA in Fine Arts and a BS in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago. Upon completing her degrees she began working in a scientific research and development laboratory while attending The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. At SAIC she was awarded a Merit Scholarship of Recognition, and she received a BFA in Studio Art in 2003. She also received an MFA degree in Photography from The Ohio State University in 2005. Her artwork has been featured in over fifty exhibitions, as well as in various publications including Discover Magazine Blogs, Seed Magazine, Art:21 Blog, Time Out Chicago, and Newcity.

Luiza Kurzyna – Brooklyn, NY
Luiza Kurzyna is a Brooklyn-based artist working on both paper, and immersive sculptural installations. Inspired by relationships within nature, Luiza combines the many ways that living things relate to each other (for example, through touch, mating rituals or gender roles) with elements of fantasy. Growing, bulging and decaying forms give objecthood to emotion and life’s transitions. The fantastic elements are intuitive, abstract; they create a space where the emotional inside can merge with the physical outside.

Luiza completed her MFA at Brooklyn College where she was awarded the highly competitive Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include Scrawl at Artspace New Haven, Body Image at Pen and Brush in NYC, Hell, No! at St. Cecilia’s Convent in Greenpoint and Denatured at the Gershwin Hotel, NYC, where her work is now displayed on permanent loan. Her work has been published in Atlantis; Women, Art, Politics and Power and in Drawing: Space, Form and Expression.

Emilee Lord – Santa Fe, NM
Emilee lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. She received her BA from Bennington College, in sculpture and dance – 2004 and her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art – 2007. Her experience runs the gamut from performance, installation and mixed media paintings to prints and drawings on silk and paper and hand woven wall hangings. She continues to explore the places in between movement, image, language, material, object and abstraction.

Kristin Schimik – Gainsville, FL
Kristin Schimik is a mixed media sculptor from Michigan. Her highly detailed and meticulous work explores cosmography with an emphasis on the tactility of form. Kristin has been an Artist in Residence and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and the Holter Museum of Art in Montana, Umdang Ceramics in Thailand, and was recently a Resident Artist in Spatial Art at San Jose University in California. Schimik holds a BFA in Sculpture from Northern Michigan University and was awarded a Graduate Fellowship by the University of Florida, earning her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture in 2010.

Annie Murphy – Portland, OR
Annie Murphy is obsessed with symbols and pictorial systems. Born and raised in rainy Portland, OR, Annie developed several indoor activities. After years of reading, writing, and drawing, she combined these talents to create graphic narratives of creative non-fiction with a bias toward social justice and lesser-known histories. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Xeric Grant for her graphic novella I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist. An instructor at the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s comics certificate program, she is currently editing the anthology, “Gay Genius Comics.” To see her work, visit ghostcatcomics.blogspot.com

Annica Cuppetelli & Cristobal Mendoza – Detroit, MI
Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza are artists and collaborators focusing on the creation of site-specific, multimedia installations that address issues of space, interaction, and materiality. Their installations combine traditional craft and common materials with interactive video projections and computational design processes, and they address the formal qualities of a given site while creating an immersive and participatory environment. Cuppetelli obtained her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2008, and Mendoza at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. They are based in Detroit, MI.

Teresa Gómez-Martorell – Austin, TX
Teresa Gómez-Martorell is an artist living and working in Austin, TX. Originally from Barcelona, Spain, she graduated in printmaking from SMU-Dallas and she received a grant to study color printmaking techniques at the Atelier 17 –Contrepoint in Paris. Her primary medium is printmaking and she uses it as a way to develop ideas by printing an image onto different surfaces and repeating and transforming it. Words, poetry, and storytelling are some of her other interests, and she uses surrealism as language to develop a more narrative way to combine sets of images. Teresa’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally (at places such as IPCNY and the Austin Museum of Modern Art) and recently she participated in the Arts Libris Artist’s books fair in Barcelona with her project, The Library of the Loba. Teresa has just been awarded first prize in the Live Oak Art Center Juried Exhibition.

Maria Pithara in her SFAI studio

SFAI’s Artist & Writer Residency Program

May Readings & Open Studios

Thursday May 26
5:50pm SFAI

May Residents:

Teresa Gómez-Martorell

Teresa Gómez-Martorell is an artist living and working in Austin, TX. Originally from Barcelona, Spain, she graduated in printmaking from the SMU-Dallas and she received a grant to study color printmaking techniques at the Atelier 17 –Contrepoint in Paris. Her primary medium is printmaking and she uses it as a way to develop ideas by printing an image onto different surfaces and repeating and transforming it. Words, poetry, and storytelling are some of her other interests, and she uses surrealism as language to develop a more narrative way to combine sets of images. Teresa’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally (at places such as IPCNY and the Austin Museum of Modern Art) and recently she participated in the Arts Libris Artist’s books fair in Barcelona with her project, The Library of the Loba. Teresa has just been awarded first prize in the Live Oak Art Center Juried Exhibition.

Judith Hoffman – Brooklyn, NY

Judith Hoffman is an artist, explorer, amateur mathematician and community organizer, creating works in a wide variety of materials and media. Her subject matter runs the gamut from natural systems to refuges, impermanence and bringing folks together. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2008 and a BA from Smith College in 1999. She has recently been a resident at ArtFarm, Vermont Studio Center, invited to Spiro Arts and will be in residency at Sculpture Space in 2012.  She has been honored to exhibit at ‘Art in General’, ‘Deitch Projects’, ‘Sarah Lawrence College Museum’ and others. Home base is Brookyn, NY where she spends as much time as possible on her bicycle.

Liza Kurzyna – Brooklyn, NY

Luiza Kurzyna is a Brooklyn-based artist working on both paper, and immersive sculptural installations. Inspired by relationships within nature, Luiza combines the many ways that living things relate to each other (for example, through touch, mating rituals or gender roles) with elements of fantasy. Growing, bulging and decaying forms give objecthood to emotion and life’s transitions. The fantastic elements are intuitive, abstract; they create a space where the emotional inside can merge with the physical outside. Luiza completed her MFA at Brooklyn College where she was awarded the highly competitive Graduate Teaching Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include Scrawl at Artspace New Haven, Body Image at Pen and Brush in NYC, Hell, No! at St. Cecilia’s Convent in Greenpoint and Denatured at the Gershwin Hotel, NYC, where her work is now displayed on permanent loan. Her work has been published in Atlantis; Women, Art, Politics and Power and in Drawing: Space, Form and Expression.

Emilee Lord – Santa Fe, NM

Emilee Lord grew up in Maine where she was surrounded by the snow, ocean, fog, and forests. That landscape has been a major influence on the aesthetic choices in her work. She received her MFA in fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2007 and her BA in dance and sculpture from Bennington College in 2004. Her work a research take her into the spaces between movement, sound, landscape, image, language, material and abstraction.

Andrew Milward – San Francisco, CA

Andrew Milward grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and lives in San Francisco, where he teaches creative writing at an arts-based day program for adults with developmental disabilities. He was a 2008 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a 2009 McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a 2010 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. This winter he was a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and is currently a Resident Artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute. A former finalist for the National Magazine Award, his fiction has appeared in many places, including Zoetrope, The Southern Review, Columbia, Conjunctions, and Best New American Voices 2010. His first book, a collection of stories called The Agriculture Hall of Fame, will be published next year.

Annie Murphy – Portland, OR

Annie Murphy is obsessed with symbols and pictorial systems. Born and raised in rainy Portland, OR, Annie developed several indoor activities. After years of reading, writing, and drawing, she combined these talents to crate graphic narratives of creative non-fiction with a bias toward social justice and lesser-known histories. In 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Xeric Grant for her graphic novella I Still Live: Biography of a Spiritualist. An instructor at the Independent Publishing Resource Center’s comics certificate program, she is currently editing the anthology, “Gay Genius Comics.” To see her work, visit ghostcatcomics.blogspot.com

Kristin Schimik – Gainsville, FL

Kristin Scimik is a mixed media sculptor from Michigan. Her highly detailed and meticulous work explores cosmography with an emphasis on the tactility of from. Kristin has been an Artist in Residence and the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts and the Holter Museum of Art in Montana, Umdang Ceramics in Thailand, and was recently a Resident Artist in Spatial Art at San Jose University in California. Schimik holds a BFA in Sculpture from Northern Michigan University and was awarded a Graduate Fellowship by the University of Florida, earning her MFA in Ceramic Sculpture in 2010.

Indigenous Artist Collective

Postcommodity

Postcommodity Performance – an ArtSee Event!
Friday, June 10
6pm  Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members/ArtSee guests

Postcommodity Lecture
Friday, June 17
6pm Tipton Hall
$10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members

Postcommodity Reception
Sunday, June 12
SFAI 4-6pm
FREE!

The Santa Fe Art Institute is pleased to present Postcommodity, an Indigineous Arts Collective comprised of Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist, and Nathan Young. They will perform on June 10th at 6pm in Tipton Hall, give a lecture on June 17th at 6pm in Tipton Hall, hold a workshop June 12th at the SFAI (time TBD) and will have an installation on exhibit at the SFAI from June 10th – July 31st. Postcommodity will be in residence at the SFAI from May 16th until June 18th.

 About Postcommodity:
The collective was established in 2007 to function as a vehicle for artists to work outside of their individual art practices exploring innovative and collaborative scenarios resulting in work that is greater than the sum of its individual parts.

Postcommodity’s art functions as a shared Indigenous lens and voice to engage and respond to the contemporary realities of globalism and neoliberalism. The collective seeks to move Indigenous discourse beyond exhausted dichotomies of “White” versus Indigenous and increasingly esoteric notions of de-facto political sovereignty, to more relevant and pressing issues pertaining to the assaultive manifestations of the global market and its supporting institutions, public perceptions, beliefs, and individual actions that comprise the ever-expanding, decentralized, multinational, multiracial and multiethnic colonizing force that is defining the 21st Century through ever increasing velocities and complex forms of violence. Postcommodity works to forge new Indigenous metaphors capable of rationalizing our shared experiences within this increasingly challenging contemporary environment; promote a constructive discourse that challenges the social, political and economic processes that are destabilizing communities and geographies; and connect Indigenous narratives of cultural self-determination with the broader public sphere.

Postcommodity’s art practice is largely focused on creating ephemeral, site specific work. The collective commonly collaborates with Indigenous and non-Indingeous artists and communities to further engage the interconnected social, cultural, political, economic and ecological relationships that contextualize and define a particular space or geography. Through this process the artists develop work that temporarily alters environments in a manner that elaborates a desired conceptual framework collectively with the audience; producing a social conception from a staged intersubjective scenario.

About ArtSee:
ArtSee (formerly Modernists After Hours) is a collaboration of arts and cultural organizations committed to the sustainability of the arts in Santa Fe by providing access and engagement opportunities to a younger demographic. The following organizations have committed to this venture:  After Hours Alliance, Eight Modern, The Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Lensic Performing Arts Center, MIX, Museum of Contemporary Native Arts, Museum of New Mexico Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, SITE Santa Fe, SWAIA, The Santa Fe Opera.

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.

Libby Spears’ Documentary Film

Playground

Playground Screening and Talk by Libby Spears
Friday, June 3
Tipton Hall,  6pm
$5

The Santa Fe Art Institute and Helen Kornblum are pleased to present Libby Spears and her award-winning documentary film, Playground about the international and domestic child sex trafficking trade.

While traveling to the Philippines in 2001, filmmaker Libby Spears gained first hand knowledge of the horrific practice of trafficking human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation. She examined a little deeper, and discovered that most of these victims were young children.

Facing death threats to be “knocked off” for only $10, Libby went undercover to infiltrate brothels in South Korea and Thailand. She held first-hand interviews with victims, their pimps, and their abusers. She mapped the trafficking routes of the sex tourism industry, and charted the commerce fueled by the purchase and sale of minors—she was disheartened to find that virtually the entire globe was involved and affected by this growing industry.

What she was astonished to find, however, was the involvement of the United States and the degree to which they were influencing the global demand and growth of the sex trafficking industry.

Previously, she had mistakenly believed that sex trafficking was primarily an “international” occurrence in countries like Philippines and Cambodia. But a meeting with Ernie Allen, President of the National Center of Missing and Exploited Children, confirmed to Libby what her research was beginning to uncover: that the trafficking of children for commercial sexual exploitation is every bit as real in North America.

This is where Playground begins.

Sexual exploitation of children is a problem that we tend to relegate to back-alley brothels in developing countries, the province of a particularly inhuman, and invariably foreign, criminal element. Such is the initial premise of Libby Spears’ sensitive investigation into the topic. But she quickly concludes that very little thrives on this planet without American capital, and the commercial child sex industry is certainly thriving. Spears intelligently traces the epidemic to its disparate, and decidedly domestic, roots—among them the way children are educated about sex, and the problem of raising awareness about a crime that inherently cannot be shown. Her cultural observations are couched in an ongoing mystery story: the search for Michelle, an American girl lost to the underbelly of childhood sexual exploitation who has yet to resurface a decade later.

Executive produced by George Clooney, Grant Heslov, and Steven Soderbergh, and punctuated with poignant animation by Japanese pop artist Yoshitomo Nara, Playground illuminates a sinister industry of unrecognized pervasiveness. Spears has crafted a comprehensive revelation of an unknown epidemic, essential viewing for any parent or engaged citizen.

Music by: Bjork, Radiohead, Chris Martin, Blonde Redhead, Cat Power, Sigur Rós, CocoRosie, Basement Jaxx, DJ Shadow, Kazu Makino, Masato Suzuki.

Film clips available here

About Libby Spears:
Libby Spears is a director of both narrative and documentary work. She conceived of the idea for Playground in 2001 while photographing a documentary in the Philippines and Central America about women’s sexual self-image. Libby’s background in social issue filmmaking and commercial production has produced works for PSI in Nepal on water and sanitation, and IOM in Indonesia, on human trafficking and the aftermath of the tsunami. Libby’s film directing and producing credits include a film on the jazz band MEDESKI, MARTIN &WOOD, Bruno Coppola’s RULES OF LOVE and Christopher Walken’s directorial debut, POPCORN SHRIMP for Showtime Television.

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.

Artist and Educator

Kim Stringfellow

Lecture
Tipton Hall
6pm Friday, May 20
$10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members

Workshop Historical, Ecological and Activist Issues in Art
SFAI
Saturday & Sunday, May 21-22, time 10am – 4pm
$200 (generous scholarships available)

Exhibtion
(Work by Kim Stringfellow & Eve Andree Laramee)
April 22 – May 31
SFAI Gallery 1
FREE!

About Kim:
Kim Stringfellow is an artist/educator residing in Joshua Tree, California. Her work and research interests address ecological, historical, and activist issues related to land use and the built environment through hybrid documentary forms incorporating writing, digital media, photography, audio, video, installation, mapping, and locative media. She teaches in the Multimedia area as an Associate Professor in School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. For more information on her work, please visit: www.kimstringfellow.com.

About her projects:

JACKRABBIT HOMESTEAD
www.jackrabbithomestead.com
Jackrabbit Homestead is a Web-based multimedia presentation featuring a downloadable car audio tour exploring the cultural legacy of the Small Tract Act in Southern California’s Morongo Basin region near Joshua Tree National Park. Stories from this underrepresented regional history are told through the voices

of local residents, historians, and area artists—many of whom reside in reclaimed historic cabins and use the structures as inspiration for their creative work. The California Council for the Humanities California Story Fund initiative funded the creation of the audio tour, which may be downloaded for free at the project’s website. The book, Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008 was published by the Center for American Places in fall 2009.

INVISIBLE-5
www.invisble5.org
Invisible-5 is a self-guided audio car tour investigating the stories of people and communities fighting for environmental justice along the I-5 corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles through oral histories, field recordings, found sound, recorded music, and archival audio documents. The project also traces natural, social, and economic histories along the route. Invisible-5 was produced collaboratively by artists; Amy Balkin, Tim Halbur, and Kim Stringfellow with nonprofit organizations, Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice and POND, the project’s fiscal sponsor. The audio tour may be downloaded from the project’s website. This project was featured on The California Report (KQED San Francisco) in 2006.

GREETINGS FROM THE SALTON SEA
www.greetingsfromsaltonsea.com
Greetings from the Salton Sea is a book, physical installation, and Website project documenting the social and environmental history of the Salton Sea, a troubled saline body of water located in southern California near the Mexican border. Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005 was published by the Center for American Places in 2005 and is scheduled for reprint for fall 2011. The project’s website was included in “Ecotopia: The Second Triennial of Photography and Video” at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in NYC in 2006/07.

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.

Book Launch & Signing!  

Sunday, May 15

4-6pm

SFAI Lounge & Library

Nancy Holt will give a short presentation followed by a book sale and signing. Collected Works Bookstore will be selling the book and light refreshments will be available.

This ground-breaking volume, beautiful companion book to the exhibition of the same name*, is the first comprehensive study of Nancy Holt, the visionary American artist. Holt’s wide-ranging body of work beginning in the late 1960s includes land art – particularly the monumental Sun Tunnels (1973-1976) – major works of sculpture, installations, film, and video.

Essays by a diverse and distinguished group of authors – including Lucy Lippard, Matthew Coolidge, and Pamela M. Lee – chart the artist’s fascinating trajectory and take us from her initial experiments with sound, light, and industrial materials to the culmination of her development of major site interventions and freestanding environmental sculpture.

The book shows that as Holt’s interest in physical space matured, the geological variety and seeming boundlessness of the American landscape afforded her numerous opportunities to develop large-scale projects beyond the confines of New York City’s gallery walls.

Including James Meyer’s valuable interview with Holt and rare, unpublished texts, photographs, and artworks, the volume expands our knowledge of this important artist and the crucial contexts in which she worked, along with her revolutionary concepts of space, time, optics, perspective, and more.

Edited by Alena Williams, designed by Katy Homans, with digital imaging work by Tom Martinelli, this beautiful 9.75″ x 11.25″ hardcover book would not have been possible without the generous support of the Lannan Foundation and the Graham Foundation.

*to be presented at the SFAI in May-June 2012

Janet Rogers

Wednesday May 11
6pm
SFAI

Admission is FREE!

Seasoned spoken word poets Alex Jacobs and Janet Rogers, both of the Mohawk nation, will present spoken word and performance poetry. Their poetry reflects contemporary cultural, political and social realities as Indigenous people of Turtle Island. Both poets draw from a strong history of oratory and breathe new life into current poetic styles pleasing to both the ears and eyes.

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer from the Six Nations band in southern Ontario. She was born in Vancouver British Columbia and has been living on the traditional lands of the Coast Salish people (Victoria, British Columbia) since 1994. Janet works in the genres of poetry, short fiction, science fiction, play writing, spoken word performance poetry, video poetry and recorded poems with music. www.janetmarierogers.com

Alex Karoniaktahke Jacobs, born in 1953, is from the Akwesasne Mohawk Nation, which straddles the U.S. and Canadian boarders. In addition to working as an artist, Jacobs is also a poet and spoken word performer. He was the Editor of Akwesasne Notes, a CKON Mohawk Nation Radio dj, and an ironworker. He attended Manitou Community College (LaMacaza, QC), the Institute Of American Indian Arts (Santa Fe, NM), and received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in Creative Writing/Sculpture (1986). Jacobs’ assemblage/collage works garnered national and international recognition and has beencollected by the Museum of Anthropology (Berlin), the Museum of Anthropology (Frankfurt), Museum of FineArts (Boston), Heard Museum, the Southern Plains Indian Museum, the Institute of American Arts, the Indian Arts and Crafts Board, and others. Jacobs lives and works in Santa Fe.

The Santa Fe Art Institute is proud to present:

Artist and Educator

Eve Andrée Laramée

What: Eve Andrée Laramée Lecture
Where: Tipton Hall
When: 6pm Friday, April 29
How Much: $10 general | $5 students/seniors/sfai members

What: Eve Andrée Laramée Workshop, Invisible Fire: Mapping our Atomic Legacy
Where: SFAI
When: Saturday & Sunday, April 30^th & May 1^st, time TBD
How Much: $200

As part of the Santa Fe Art Institute’s ongoing season “Half Life: Patterns of Change,” we are proud to present interdisciplinary artist and educator, Eve Adrée Laramée to lecture at Tipton Hall on Friday, April 29 at 6pm. . Eve will also hold a workshop Saturday and Sunday April 30th & May 1st.

Eve Andrée Laramée is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, and activist working at the confluence of art and science, specializing in the environmental and health impacts of Cold War atomic legacy sites. She was born in Los Angeles, and divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, Santa Fe, NM and Baltimore, MD where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Her installations, sculptures, photographs and works on paper have been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her work is included in collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among other public and private collections. Laramee has received two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Museum Sculptor-in-Residence Grant.

Eve will be speaking about her most recent projects dealing with the environmental and health impacts of our atomic legacy, including her 2009 installation, “Halfway to Invisible” about uranium mining in the Grants, NM area; and her current work in progress, “Slouching Towards Yucca Mountain” a Sci-Fi Western dealing with the problem of radioactive waste from the nuclear power industry and nuclear weapons. The lecture/workshop will also expand upon her collaborations with environmental scientists mapping the waterborne radioactive plume beneath the Fernald uranium foundry site in Ohio; and a water filter project in collaboration with a materials scientist. Workshop participants will visit the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, and if access is permitted, Kirtland Airforce Base.

Eve says about her work, “I am interested in the ways in which cultures use science and art as devices or maps to construct belief systems about the natural world. I try to draw attention to areas of overlap and interconnection between artistic exploration and scientific investigation, and to the slippery human subjectivity underlying both processes. Through my work I speculate on how human beings contemplate and consider nature through both art and science in a way that embraces poetry, contradiction and metaphor. My recent work deals with climate change, sustainability, and the environmental legacy of the “atomic age.” My current projects include an installation and book about the transformation of the Mojave Desert during the Cold War, and several projects concerning water contaminated by radioactive isotopes and the subsequent effects on the human genome.”

Lisa Von Koch at March Open Studio

March Readings & Open Studios

Thursday, April 28
5:30 pm SFAI

Join us to check out the work of our incredible April artists and writers!

April Residents:

Jennilie Brewster – Brooklyn, NY

Jennilie Brewster graduated with an MFA (2007) from Bard College in Upstate New York and with a BFA (2002) from the School of Visual Arts in New York City. She has traveled around the country making art including residencies at: Santa Fe Art Institute; Headlands Center for the Arts and Djerassi in California; UCROSS Foundation in Wyoming; and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Nebraska. She has also completed projects in Nevada, New Hampshire, Idaho and Maine, and currently has a show, ‘We Are Our Stuff: Seeing from above’ (a collaboration with Robert Prichard), on view at the Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts. Brewster grew up on a farm in Maryland and now lives in Brooklyn.

Judith Hoffman – Brooklyn, NY

Judith Hoffman is an artist, explorer, amateur mathematician and community organizer, creating works in a wide variety of materials and media. Her subject matter runs the gamut from natural systems to refuges, impermanence and bringing folks together. She received an MFA from Pratt Institute in 2008 and a BA from Smith College in 1999. She has recently been a resident at ArtFarm, Vermont Studio Center, invited to Spiro Arts and will be in residency at Sculpture Space in 2012.  She has been honored to exhibit at ‘Art in General’, ‘Deitch Projects’, ‘Sarah Lawrence College Museum’ and others. Home base is Brookyn, NY where she spends as much time as possible on her bicycle.

Kristiana Kahakauwila – Honolulu, HI

Kristiana Kahakauwila’s writing focuses on Hawai’i and the Pacific. Her current work, a short story collection titled This Is Paradise, questions Western and Oceanic notions of tradition, culture, ethnic identity, gender, and Native rights. Kristiana earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in Fiction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She has worked as a writer and editor for publications such as Wine Spectator, Cigar Afficionado, and shareyourtable.com, and with former SFAI resident Maria Pithara, is about to launch Raiding the Larder, a journal at the junction of food and art.

Dani Katz – Los Angeles, CA

Dani Katz established her reputation as one of Los Angeles’ finest literary talents by way of her bold voice, her expanded perspective and her mastery of language, having published over a hundred articles in the LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Whole Life Times, LA Yoga and Swindle, among others. In addition to her broad spectrum of practical experience and formal studies, including a Master’s Degree in Journalism, she has spent the past five years immersed in the study of empowered languaging and conscious communication, researching and perfecting the myriad ways, whys and hows that language influences our every human experience.

Nikki Nojima Louis – Seattle, WA

She’s lived the rich and precarious life of a working artist—a professional dancer in her youth; a playwright in middle age with nine professional productions; and in this late-blooming stage, a creative writer with fellowships and publications to her credit. New Mexico and SFAI have been serendipitous for her–a year of teaching Creative Writing and Asian American Literature at UNM and many new friendships.  Upcoming projects include research on the WW II enemy alien camp in Santa Fe, where her father was incarcerated, and a collection of Japanese ghost stories. Forty-five years elapsed between a BA in English and a Ph.D. in Creative writing, but breaking stereotypes has been an unexpected consequence of her life’s journey.  And the stories keep coming and coming.

Andrew Milward – San Francisco, CA

Andrew Milward grew up in Lawrence, Kansas and lives in San Francisco, where he teaches creative writing at an arts-based day program for adults with developmental disabilities. He was a 2008 graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a 2009 McCreight Fiction Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, and a 2010 Steinbeck Fellow at San Jose State University. This winter he was a Writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and is currently a Resident Artist at the Santa Fe Art Institute. A former finalist for the National Magazine Award, his fiction has appeared in many places, including Zoetrope, The Southern Review, Columbia, Conjunctions, and Best New American Voices 2010. His first book, a collection of stories called The Agriculture Hall of Fame, will be published next year.

April 22nd – May 31st
9am – 5pm M-F
SFAI

Eve Andree Laramee

Eve Andrée Laramée is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher, and activist working at the confluence of art and science, specializing in the environmental and health impacts of Cold War atomic legacy sites. She was born in Los Angeles, and divides her time between Brooklyn, NY, Santa Fe, NM and Baltimore, MD where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). Her installations, sculptures, photographs and works on paper have been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. Her work is included in collections of the MacArthur Foundation, the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology among other public and private collections. Laramee has received two grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and a Guggenheim Museum Sculptor-in-Residence Grant.

Kim Stringfellow

Kim Stringfellow is an artist/educator residing in Joshua Tree, California. Her work and research interests address ecological, historical, and activist issues related to land use and the built environment through hybrid documentary forms incorporating writing, digital media, photography, audio, video, installation, mapping, and locative media. She teaches in the Multimedia area as an Associate Professor in School of Art, Design, and Art History at San Diego State University. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. For more information on her work, please visit: www.kimstringfellow.com.