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The Santa Fe Art Institute promotes art as a positive social force through residencies, lectures, studio workshops, exhibitions, community art actions, and educational outreach for adults and young people. SFAI is an environment where creativity, innovation, and challenging ideas thrive.

New Season of Programming

CONTESTED SPACE will explore the complex contemporary landscape–social, political, physical, and cultural–and the arts, ideas and artists that play a major role in shaping public understanding of the powerful dynamics of those spaces.

Historically, land was the great frontier and artists had a major role in shaping public understanding of those spaces. Now the frontiers of the past have become the “contested spaces” of the present. These new frontiers are no longer just physical space, but constantly assume new morphologies–local, national, transnational, geopolitical, social, cultural, physical, virtual. At this point in time the planet has been entirely mapped and Googled and has become a globalized space that conveys the fears and hopes of humankind. Cosmic space is being unraveled and mapped and we are closing all the distances that seemed, at one point, unimaginably vast. When distance has been abolished and time and space have shrunk, can art still explore new territory? Yes, it is the territory of “contested space” in which transformation and re-imagining begins and the arts play a central role. More>

Visiting Artist Lecture Schedule
1/7 – Shifting Baselines Gallery Talk – 6pm, SFAI
2/4 – Blandine Chavanne Talk – 6pm, SFAI
3/11 – Carlan Tapp Lecture – 6pm, SFAI
4/15 – Fran Hardy/Bob Demboski Screening and Q&A – 6pm, SFAI
6/3 – Martha Russo Lecture – 6pm, SFAI
8/12 – Dylan Miner Lecture – 6pm, SFAI
10/14 – Dread Scott Lecture – 6pm, SFAI
11/4 – Rick Lowe Lecture – 6pm, SFAI
12/2 – Susan York & Arthur Sze – 6pm, SFAI

Exhibition Schedule
1/7-3/1 – Shifting Baselines, SFAI
2/1-28 – Snow Poems Photographs, SFAI
3/11-4/5 – Carlan Tapp China Express, SFAI
4/15-5/17 – Earth Chronicles Project: New Mexico, SFAI
6/3-7/12 – Martha Russo, SFAI
8/12-9/27 – Dylan Miner Anishinaabensag Biimskowebshkigewag (Native Kids Ride Bikes), SFAI
10/14-11/22 – Dread Scott, SFAI
12/2-TBD – The Unfolding Center Exhibition, SFAI
12/7-20 – Pushpin Show and Handmade/Homemade Holiday Pop-Up Shop, TBD

Artists and Writers in Residence Open Studio Schedule
2/21 – 5:30pm, SFAI
3/28 – 5:30pm, SFAI
4/25  – 5:30pm, SFAI
5/23  – 5:30pm, SFAI
6/27  – 5:30pm, SFAI
7/25  – 5:30pm, SFAI
8/22  – 5:30pm, SFAI
9/26  – 5:30pm, SFAI
10/24  – 5:30pm, SFAI
11/21  – 5:30pm, SFAI
12/19  – 5:30pm, SFAI

Youth Education & Outreach Schedule
6/24 – 8/19 – Summer Arts Camp for Kids – Mon-Fri 9:30am-4:30pm, TBD

Current programming

Invincible after Chemo – A Documentary Film by a Young Cancer Survivor
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A Short Documentary Film by Jessica Olivas
May 30, 6pm SFAI. Q & A with Jessica to follow.

Screening to premiere a wonderful short documentary film created by young, cancer-survivor, Jessica Olivas, entitled Invincible after Chemo.

Please see the PDF press release for info about Jessica and the film.There is a small fee to see the film, but the proceeds will be donated to the SFPS Adelante Program, which supported Jessica during her chemotherapy treatments while she was attending Capital High School.

cavities and clumps: the psychology and physicality of contested space
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An Exhibition and Lecture by Martha Russo
 
Lecture and Exhibition Opening, Monday June 3, 6pm SFAI
Exhibition runs through July 12
$10 general | $5 students/seniors

cavities and clumps:
the psychology and physicality of contested space
Exhibtion, June 4 – July 12, 9am – 5pm, SFAI
free

Graffiti Workshop
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Every Saturday 11.00am - 1:00pm. FREE!, ages 6-19, at SFAI
call 505 - 424 5050 to register.
 
Learn street art, muraling and painting technioques from experienced local graffiti artists. Work safely on projects in the community, meet new friends, ...and have fun!!!

River Runs Through Us
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https://vimeo.com/59027836
A beautiful project by three dear friends of the SFAI:  Bobbe Besold, Dominique Mazeaud, and Valerie Martinez. Visit online at riversrunthroughus.net/

3 artists, 5 days, 54 miles. A pilgrimage along the endangered Santa Fe river. Bobbe Besold, Valerie Martínez, Dominique Mazeaud. A Littleglobe project. Video edited by Shebana Coelho, shebanacoelho.com

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