Art News Briefs: August 2020
Catch up on southwest arts headlines from August: people on the move, grants awarded, artist representation, and more.
September 01, 2020
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Art News Briefs: July 2020
Catch up on local arts headlines from July! People are on the move at local institutions, grants and scholarships have been awarded.
August 09, 2020
International Folk Art Market goes Digital during COVID-19 Pandemic
In lieu of a fair in the flesh, IFAM organized a virtual festival taking place this week with streamed presentations and artist talks, culminating in a virtual gala and auction presentation Friday evening that will help fund the Market, artist education programs, and year-round public programming.
July 07, 2020
Art News Briefs: June 2020
Catch up on local arts headlines from April, May, and June! People are on the move at local institutions, grants and scholarships have been awarded, archives collected, and more.
July 01, 2020
516 Arts Announces Recipients of 2020 Fulcrum Fund Emergency Relief Grants
516 Arts in Albuquerque, a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts through its Fulcrum Fund, pivoted its 2020 grantmaking to provide emergency relief to 66 artists and thirteen artist-driven visual arts spaces experiencing economic instability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
June 29, 2020
New Mexico Arts Organizations Receive National Endowment for the Arts’ 2nd Round of 2020 Funding
In New Mexico, twelve organizations are the recipients of NEA grants totaling $1,007,000. Among them, Wise Fool New Mexico received an Art Works award of $30,000 for circus arts training and performances. SITE Santa Fe received $20,000 for a major retrospective exhibition of work by Brazilian artist Regina Silveira.
June 22, 2020
Your Weekly 5×5: Horizon-expanding Films Edition
The Weekly 5×5 is Southwest Contemporary’s top five picks of things to do for the next five days. At least that’s what it was until our to-dos became homebound during […]
June 16, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Ramona Sakiestewa at TAI Modern
Ramona Sakiestewa grew up in the American Southwest where the land and sky informed her artwork. Over 30 years ago her artwork began in tapestry weaving. In 2009, Ramona began focusing on constructed works on paper as a new medium. Using printing, painting, and drawing, the artist layers shapes, colors, and textures to form a dimensional lexicon for the constructions.
June 10, 2020
Reading List May 2020
May's Reading List, Southwest Contemporary's monthly compilation of worth-while writings from around the art-world internet, includes multiple takes on the question of how art, the role art plays in the world, and the mechanisms of the art world will have changed during and following the global COVID-19 pandemic.
June 01, 2020
Your Weekly 5×5: Lost Padre’s Record Recs Edition
George Casey, owner of Lost Padre Records in Santa Fe, has curated a list of five records to listen to now. A longtime record collector and DJ, George brings us a truly eclectic mix of bonafide jams. Lost Padre Records re-opened last week and are also offering curb-side pick-up and shipping. All the records listed here are available at Lost Padre. Put a record on, turn it up.
May 29, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Rania Matar, SHE
Rania Matar, SHE May 15–July 3, 2020 Reception: June 6, 6–8 pm Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present a selection of nine photographs by Rania Matar from the series […]
May 26, 2020
Revisiting the Santa Fe Opera
One of the great fixtures of a Santa Fe summer is Santa Fe Opera, who recently announced the cancellation of its 2020 season due to the pandemic. Since we can't go see the stunning sets in person, we're revisiting our SFO behind-the-scenes series, which has profiled the champions who make up the Opera's scene, props, and costume shops, and detail the way they turn dream-like ideas into dream-like realities.
May 22, 2020
Your Weekly 5×5: Books Rule Edition
The Weekly 5×5 is Southwest Contemporary’s top five picks of things to do for the next five days. At least that’s what it was until our to-dos became homebound during […]
May 22, 2020
Art Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic May 2020
Southwest Contemporary has compiled a list of resources that may be useful to our community members at this time. This list will be updated as new information and new resources become available. Check out the most recent updates as of May 20!
May 20, 2020
Your Weekly 5×5: Create Something Edition
In a letter author George Saunders wrote to his creative writing students at Syracuse University, he discusses the importance of paying attention and recording this time. That this is the time the world needs our eyes and ears, for later it is our records that will tell the stories of the 2020 pandemic. So, with that in mind, we've gathered some ideas to inspire and guide taking notes, processing, and creating. Making the records. Making some art.
April 17, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Jeff Kellar, New Work
Richard Levy Gallery presents New Work: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, a solo exhibition of colorful minimal pieces by Jeff Kellar. He creates beautiful surfaces through the application of many layers of acrylic resin and clay pigment onto paper, aluminum panels, and woodblocks. Each layer is methodically sanded and buffed leaving the surface smooth and modulated. Playing with illusion, ambiguity, and space, Kellar uses these ultra-flat surfaces to form dimensional compositions.
May 06, 2020
Your weekly 5×5: Kids Edition
The Weekly 5x5 is Southwest Contemporary's weekly email newsletter with our top five picks of things to do for the next five days. At least that's what it was until our to-dos became homebound during the COVID-19 pandemic. We're now sharing five things to enjoy from home, and this week we are focused on creative activities for kids in quarantine captivity.
April 09, 2020
NM Art from Anywhere: Tonee Harbert, Through the Static and Distance
This exhibition is the culmination of Tonee Harbert's first nine months at the Roswell Artist-in-Residence program. A photography exhibition that shows the southeast New Mexico landscape with surreal and melancholy beauty, and is relevant during the pandemic, showing an absence of people, while referencing marks of humanity on the landscape.
May 06, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: A Quiet But Not Empty Place at Trapdoor Projects
Jessica Zeglin: A Quiet But Not Empty Place March 6—March 28, 2020 The city of Albuquerque grows interlaced with the high desert grasslands it inhabits. These grasslands are not vacant […]
April 03, 2020
Art Resources During the COVID-19 Pandemic
We know many artists, arts professionals, arts and culture organizations are in difficult situations now and facing uncertain futures in the coming months. Southwest Contemporary has compiled a list of resources that may be useful to our community members at this time. This list will be updated as new information and new resources become available.
March 23, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Visual Limits at 5. Gallery
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 27, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Illumination: Tom Kirby at Winterowd Fine Art
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 27, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Ceremony: Coming of Age at Edition One
As an invited guest of the family, Jan Butchofsky was asked to witness the Coming of Age Ceremony of two maidens during two separate celebrations and was honored to bear witness to these sacred and very private preparations and ceremonies.
March 23, 2020
NM Art From Anywhere: Kat Kinnick at Hecho a Mano
Depicting wildlife and wilderness of the high desert of New Mexico, Kat Kinnick works to create a culture of fondness and connectedness to our natural world. The artist says, “creating culture through art is like creating a value system.
March 20, 2020
New Mexico Artists to Know Now
Call for Artists: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2020
Southwest Contemporary is pleased to announce an open call for art to be featured in the second annual "12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now" publication and group exhibition. Artists living and working in New Mexico are welcome to submit artwork in any medium.
November 01, 2019
Meet the Team: Geneva Boliek-Poling
Geneva Boliek-Poling is a visual artist emerging from the University of New Mexico's Art & Ecology department. Geneva solidified her affection for the southwest through horseback riding and painting along the Rio Grande.
August 28, 2019
[sponsored] Material studies: Unearthing New European Makers for 2019
This summer, Patina Gallery presents works by more than ten European jewelry artists in a group exhibition opening on July 12, marking their debut in the American Southwest. Below, we highlight three of these artists whose works share modern sensibilities, minimalist shapes, and purity of materials...
June 26, 2019
Art News Briefs: May 2019
The Magazine publisher and editor Lauren Tresp was interviewed by Santa Fe Found! Siler Yard Arts and Creativity Center, a 65-unit affordable live/work space development project...
May 07, 2019
Meet the Team: Kenji Barrett
Name: Kenji Barrett Location: Albuquerque, NM Proofreading for The Magazine since: 2002 Proofreader Kenji Barrett and his trusty dog, Kai, stop by each month right before the issue is sent to the […]
March 18, 2019
Art News Briefs: March 2019
The City of Santa Fe is looking for a new Arts Commission Director to plan, organize and coordinate arts and cultural programs and services, and represent the City in the arts and cultural arena...
March 11, 2019
