Santa Fe Collective creates an opportunity for people to afford unique, smart, handmade things, and it creates direct support to the artists who think up and make those things. All about affordable art, craft and design conceived and produced in the high desert of Northern New Mexico:
Santa Fe Collective brings together the work of some really bright artists who are living and working in the high desert of Northern New Mexico.
Jennifer Joseph/Trinket Company: Artist, designer, occasional curator, and organizer of people, places, and things. www.jenniferjoseph.com
Chris Collins/Natureboy Studios: An expert in the lost wax process, he is a prolific sculptor with multiple bodies of work that draw from such themes as play, nature, science and technology. www.chriscollinssculpture.com
Edie Tsong/Radiant Animal: Visual artist, writer, and yoga instructor, the founding director of their project Snow Poems Project, and on the board of New Mexico Literary Arts. www.edietsong.com
Yuki Murata/moderngoods: Specializes in contemporary fine bone china tableware, some of which is hand-painted. www.moderngoods.com
Yon Hudson: He makes unique and custom clothing items from reclaimed couture and other vintage fabrics. He is a founding member of the fashion and art collective, Tete de Veau.
Adam Rosen: Custom metalwork. The focus of his current exploration is the male fetish. The fetishes are meant to be fun but also meaningful in some way, to some people, sometimes.
Santa Fe Blue Rain Gallery will curate a show featuring established artists of interest working in a variety of mediums. Participating artists include Bob Richardson (paintings), Loren Haynes (photography), Thomas Hucker (studio furniture), White Buffalo (paintings), Lorenzo Chavez (paintings), Leigh Gusterson (paintings), Andrea Peterson (paintings) and Armelle Bouchet O’Neill (glass sculpture).
Axle Contemporary is an art gallery that operates out of the back of a retrofitted 1970s van in Santa Fe. Mobility and engagement with the community are key features of their work. For example, we remember one Axle event where they turned the van into a kind of midway game where you could throw baseballs at smashable holograms printed on glass. It’s the kind of art that makes living in Santa Fe such a unique experience.
Their new project, The Royal Breadshow (May 2 to 11, visit www.axleart.com for daily gallery locations), draws on that concept of community. Some 269 artists created porcelain miniatures for the show. After the show’s ten-day run, these miniatures will each be baked inside loaves of artisan bread, which people can order. The loaves each come with a “festive paper crown” which has a personalized message written on it.
The loaves, which should be ordered before May 13 for the first pickup and May 20 for the second, cost about $15 each. A portion of the proceeds will go to the Food Depot in Santa Fe to help the hungry.
The Royal Breadshow won SITE Santa Fe’s community micro-grant, Spread 4.0, in October of 2013. Through the generous support of the Spread attendees, The Royal Breadshow began as a room-sized installation at SITE Santa Fe’s exhibition Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art (February 1 to May 18th, 2014).Among other things, the installation at SITE includes writings about bread and presentations of bread and baker’s implements alongside clay and clay tools.
Above image: Work by Anne Russell. Photograph courtesy of Axle Contemporary.
Exhibition Opening Reception with Mira Burack + Kate DaughdrillFriday, March 14, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Artist talk and food demonstration begins at 6:00p.m. Exhibition on view March 14 – 20
Collaborating artists Mira Burack and Kate Daughdrill visit Albuquerque to present The Edible Hut, a community gathering space in Calimera Park, on the east side of Detroit, Michigan. The structure is comprised of a living, edible roof and oculus to the sky, and combines elements of a traditional hut, an outdoor sculpture, a neighborhood garage, and an edible garden.During the exhibition opening, the artists invite visitors to sample their recipe for an allergy-soothing tea, made from simple ingredients — just in time for spring.
***** All exhibitions and events are free, open to the public, and take place at 105 Gold SW, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Presented as part of tART: temporary art in downtown public places.
*** Show Up Show Down stages world-changing art through visiting artist presentations, brief photography exhibitions, and an ever-growing publicly-accessible archive. It features exceptional artists who use the built environment – everything from houses to freeways to nature preserves, along with the man-made systems that created them – to impact contemporary life in a variety of beneficial ways.
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March 21 – 27 Amy Harwood + Ryan Pierce Signal Fire, an organization that provides opportunities for artists and activists to engage in the natural world, and utilizes public lands to advocate for the access to – and protection of – remaining wild and open places in order to enrich and sustain society.
March 28 – April 4 Matthew Mazzotta Open House, a house with a secret: it physically transforms from the shape of a house into an open-air theater by having its walls and roof fold down, and it seats one hundred people.
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Offroad Productions 2891-B Trades West Rd., Santa Fe, NM
Saturday, April 19, 2014 6:00pm until 8:00pm
Offroad Productions offers contemporary artists, some without gallery representation, an opportunity to show their work. The alternative art space plans a quarterly series of guest-curated shows.
In her own words. Mother Jones releases audio of Susana’s graphic attacks on women, Hispanic business and teachers [graphic audio]
Behind closed doors, Susana Martinez played along when her staff laughed and shamed Spanish speaking families, used an overabundance of profanity, and showed a vindictive nature
One Republican state legislator described her tactics thusly: “Nastiness, misinformation, innuendo, and flat-out lies have created a toxic political environment.”
Just a week after Martinez released her first highly-polished campaign ad denouncing her national ambitions and promoting her warm and fuzzy side, new audio recordings from inside her 2010 campaign show the sexist, belittling and vindictive nature of Susana Martinez behind closed doors.
On Teachers & Hiding Her True Positions During the Campaign
Martinez told campaign staffers she would hide her opinions on teachers during the campaign, but she didn’t like teachers who “already don’t work,” referring to summer school breaks.
She then laughs with her chief campaign strategist, Jay McCleskey, about ways to avoid accusations that she hid her true anti-teacher feelings during the campaign
On Democrats as “Little Bitches” and “Little Retards”
Susana Martinez laughs and plays along as an aide calls Ben Lujan (former Speaker of the House and father of NM Congressman Ben Ray Lujan) is a “little retard”
Reminder: Governor Martinez has actively promoted her own advocacy for her developmentally disabled sister in campaign ads, media pieces and slickly-produced profiles of her. “Retard” as a descriptor of people like her sister has long since been considered inappropriate.
Belittling Hispanic Business Group and Women’s Job Program
Belitting the Hispano Chamber of Commerce and the Commission Helping Women Learn Job Skills and Equal Pay
Martinez dismisses the role of the “Hispano Chamber of Culture, or I don’t know what the hell it was” and Commission on the Status of Women which helps women learn job skills and advocates for policies including women in the workplace.
She laughs and agrees when her campaign manager, Jay McCleskey, makes a sexist comment suggesting one of their male campaign staffers wants to run that commission to “study more women.”
