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Sanjit Sethi. and two examples of Mr.Sethi's ongoing art projects:
Indians/Indians (m), and Architecture of Inversion (r). www.sanjitsethi.com

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

The Earth Chronicles Project
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Earth Chronicles Project, The Artist's Process: New Mexico
An Exhibition, Film Screening, and Poetry Workshop
 
Exhibition: 4/16 - 5/17, 9am - 5pm SFAI, free admission

The Sound of Sunset: How to Write About the Edge of Time
Poetry Workshop w/ Lauren Camp
Thursday 5/9, 6:30 - 8:30pm SFAI. $25

Encore Screening and Q&A
Q&A with filmmakers Fran Hardy and Bob Demboski, and Martha Schumann, Nature Conservancy Southwest New Mexico Field Representative
Monday 5/13, 6pm SFAI | $10 general | $5 students/seniors

Earth Chronicles Project, The Artist's Process: New Mexico explores the art of the documentary producer, environmental artist, and curator of the exhibition, Fran Hardy, whose featured artworks on native plants and trees were inspired by her travels around New Mexico while shooting the documentary. Other exceptional New Mexico artists featured in the film and exhibit include Catherine Harris, Bill Gilbert, Lauren Camp, Rourke McDermott, Irvin and Lisa Trujillo, the Navajo weavers of the Two Grey Hills region and Stacey Neff and the New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop. Through their art, each of these artists reveals what New Mexico's culture and environment means to them.

For more info about the Earth Chronicles project,
SFAI press release (pdf)
http://www.earthchroniclesproject.com
http://www.facebook.com/earthchroniclesproject
http://www.earthchroniclesproject.blogspot.com

Coming in June:
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

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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