Arts Community Priorities Poll Results
We've tallied the results from our first community poll. Thanks to everyone who participated on Instagram, Facebook, and via this newsletter! While there's a fairly even split...
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September 2018: People Are Talking About…
A new, three-piece site-specific installation by Paula Castillo at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, expected completion by the end of 2018...
Aug 14
August 2018: People Are Talking About…
A committee including the Caballeros, the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the Santa Fe Fiesta Council, the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and the mayor’s office has voted to cancel this year's Entrada...
Jul 17
July 2018: People Are Talking About…
The Screen cinema on the former SFUAD campus, which closed in April, came “back to life” this month via a “new initiative between the City of Santa Fe and the CCA.” […]
Apr 11
April Reading
When Jenny George read from her collection The Dream of Reason at Collected Works in early April, her voice was soft, slow, and steady. Like her poems, her reading rendered heartbreaking compressions of language and feeling into something delicate to behold. Her images ...
Apr 06
Shelley Horton-Trippe: High Brow Low Ride
Phil Space: Shelley Horton-Trippe, in her recent exhibition High Brow Low Ride, references the great twentieth-century French writer Colette, and she does this by way of a large painting titled The Pure and the Impure (Colette). Horton-Trippe draws on Colette’s book...
Mar 22
Sabra Moore’s Wall Quilts
Last summer I met up with artist Sabra Moore at Angelina’s Restaurant, with the big chili pepper sign, on Fairview Street just by the Rio Grande in Española. We were about to tour the district elementary schools where she has been working to create large, permanent tile wall mosaics...
Jan 18
January 2018 Reading
Zadie Smith is the reason I left Facebook. As I was reading—actually, as my partner, who snatched it up the moment it arrived, was reading—her new collection of essays Feel Free, I revisited a piece of hers I remember from several years ago to see if it held up. "Generation Why?"...
IAIA Winter Readers Gathering
Each January, as Santa Fe et environs settle back into their quiet winter ways following the bustle of holidays, markets, and festivals, the Low Residency MFA program in Creative Writing gathers at IAIA for a week of workshops and unforgettable public readings. This is the only...
Dec 14
Lifeways of the Southern Athabaskans
How do we understand different cultural groups through the objects they produce? Anthropological artefacts reveal information of the behaviours, practices and arts of a particular society. The Southern Athabaskans—a tribe situated across New Mexico and Arizona—have a long...
Dec 05
Visages Villages (Faces Places)
The movie Faces Places, considered a masterpiece by many contemporary film critics, won Best Documentary at Cannes in 2017. It was written by the esteemed French filmmaker Agnès Varda and was directed by her and the French artist-activist JR. Faces Places has been enthusiastically received...
Nov 21
Dispatch: Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Cruising on foot down the packed blocks of downtown Los Angeles where open-air storefronts advertising their services in Spanish face the amblers of the sidewalk, I am struck by how much this dense corridor reminds me of Mexico City. Indeed, perhaps the whole of the nation's second biggest city...
Nov 28
Thais Mather’s Reckless Abandon
Alert arts community members may remember Thais Mather as one-third of the Victory Grrrls, who performed at form & concept earlier this year as part of the gallery’s programming around an event featuring feminist pioneer artist Judy Chicago. I’ve been keeping my eye on for this artist...
