Santa Fe Art Studio Endorses Kate Noble for Mayor of Santa Fe!
After almost a decade of community development work for the City of Santa Fe, Kate Noble is running for mayor. She is passionate about making our community a place where families can thrive and people of all ages can find jobs, led by a government that serves the people as efficiently and effectively as possible. Kate is driven to cultivate strong partnerships with the schools because she believes that education can transform everything.
Kate was born and raised in Santa Fe, attended the local public schools, and graduated from Santa Fe High School with honors. Upon graduation, Kate attended college at Columbia University in New York City and majored in Film Studies while working in numerous film and television internships. She was hired by BBC News after graduating from college in 1997 and worked for the next ten years as a producer, reporter, and anchor for World Business Report, the flagship business and economics program for BBC World TV.
In 2007, Kate returned home to Santa Fe with the desire to use her knowledge of business and economics to improve the economy in her beloved hometown. Kate worked in the City of Santa Fe for nine years in economic and community development, overseeing the creation of numerous award-winning and nationally recognized programs, including an Innovations in Government recognition by Harvard University for MIX Santa Fe and the launch of New Mexico’s first business accelerator. She was the speech writer for Mayor David Coss’s second term and managed numerous city wide special projects including a Budget Restructuring team in 2008 and the roll-out of the 2012 General Obligation Bond.
Come see our amazing new space and the opening show, Future Shock, and celebrate the new SITE!
On October 6, the long-awaited day arrives! SITE Re-Opens to the public with an all-evening party featuring tours with our artists and architects, fabulous food and drink, and multiple guest DJs who’ll have us dancing into the night!
Come see our amazing new space and the opening shows, Future Shock and Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art in our new SITElab project space and celebrate the new SITE!
Featuring: Guest DJs all evening | A special appearance and performance by Supaman | Interactive experiences throughout the building | Late night dancing | Fabulous food and libations | & MUCH more!
VIP ENTRANCE AT 6:00 PM
VIP ticket holders will enjoy early cocktails, elegant early bites, an exhibition tour led by the artists, and a first look at the SITE’s new building. VIP tickets also include preferred parking and an exhibition catalogue. Tickets $300/$250 Members!
GENERAL ENTRANCE AT 7:30 PM
General Tickets $100
AFTER HOURS ENTRANCE AT 9:00 PM
Enjoy late night music, after party food, and first round drinks.
New Mexico Museum of Art is closing their doors temporarily. This November, our museum turns 100 years old. This iconic structure is, in a sense, the flagship for modern Santa Fe. After all, 100 years ago our capital was neither an international art destination nor known for pueblo-revival architecture in the way it is today. This icon of Santa Fe, on its 100th birthday, deserves some attention.
In the weeks to come, restoration of this building will take place with the interest of approaching the simple elegance one would have experienced upon entering the museum in November 1917 (as in the image below from archives).
All gallery floors will be brought back to their lighter color, opening windows that have been boarded off in the past, updating our electrical systems, installing new lighting, thoroughly cleaning and restoring our classic ceilings and other woodwork, as well as renovating our lobby to improve the visitor’s experience. All this signifies the first major work done on the museum building in nearly 40 years.
Once the work is done, on Saturday, November 25, there will be the museum’s centennial celebration. New Mexicans of all ages will find fun family activities, new exhibitions, as well as our newly restored museum building to their liking.
Open to all who are downtown for the Thanksgiving-holiday weekend, events and activities in and around the museum will include historical reenactors as famous New Mexico artists, a photo booth, birthday cake, art-making activities for visitors of all ages, live music, small theatrical performances, curator conversations, the Wonders on Wheels mobile museum and much more.
One person exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bob Richardson
Drugstore Cowgirl, 2016, Oil on canvas, 44 x 32 in
Figure painting in the modern era Is characterized by a movement away from ideal form. It favors the particular in human experience. Bob Richardson works in this mode; his narratives are personal, and the personalities belong to a place and a moment. This exhibit of Richardson’s work includes paintings and drawings that show the roots of his interest in the idiosyncratic and the individual.
“This new expansion strengthens our ability to showcase cutting-edge contemporary art and expand the traditional museum experience,” says Irene Hofmann, the Phillips director and chief curator.
Close to $9 Million was invested in renovations including new HVAC. Also a new extensions include an experimental exhibition gallery, theater space, and roof-top viewing deck.
New York-based Shop Architects. Designed the new interior space: 10,170 sq. ft; and new exterior space: 4,795 sq. ft
Opening Gala Dinner Thursday, Oct 5
Building Inauguration, Exhibition Preview and Gala Dinner and much more!
THE REVEAL! Friday, Oct 6
Opening Fete and party featuring DJs, a special appearance and performance by Supaman, interactive experiences throughout building, fabulous food and libations, and much more! Tickets Here!
Saturday & Sunday, October 7–8 Community Open House Days
Join us for two days of public programs, tours, and special activities throughout the building for the whole family. Free and Open to All!
Community Days Saturday, October 7th
10:00 am: Ribbon cutting ceremony with Mayor Javier Gonzales; SITE’s Chairman of the Board, Andy Wallerstein; and SITE’s Phillips Director and Chief Curator, Irene Hofmann 11:00 am ARTchitectural tour with SHoP Project Manager Ayumi Sugiyama 11:00 am – 2:00 pm Community Time Capsule Project in Education Lab: bring your objects to be photographed! 11:00 am – 2:00 pm: Photo Booth! Get your photo taken with a futuristic background! 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Learn all about your future with our fortune tellers! Noon: Tour with SITE Guides 1:00 pm: Tour in Spanish with SITE Guides 1:30 pm – 3:30pm: Cupcakes and ice cream 2:00 pm: Tour translated in ASL with SITE Guides 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm -Limited edition postcards to the future designed by artist Dario Robleto that visitors can fill out and address to themselves. 3:00 pm Tour with SITE Guides 4:00 pm Tour with SITE Guides 5:30 pm Artist Talk: Lynn Hershman Leeson with Anne Balsamo in the auditorium 5:00 pm – 8:00 pmSurroundings welcomes to their space Danae Falliers and Willy Bo Richardson. Open House: 1611 Paseo de Peralta
Sunday, October 8
All Day: Limited edition postcards to the future designed by artist Dario Robleto that visitors can fill out and address to themselves. 10:30 am Coffee and pastries in our inner courtyard 11:00 am Artist Talk: Rafael Lozano Hemmer in the auditorium 12:00 pm – 3:00 pm Learn all about your future with our fortune tellers! 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm Community Time Capsule Project in Education lab: bring your objects to be photographed! Noon: Tour with SITE Guides 1:00 pm: Tour in Spanish with SITE Guides 2:00 pm: Tour translated in ASL with SITE Guides 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Photo Booth! Get your photo taken with a futuristic background! 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm: Cupcakes and ice cream 2:00 pm Artist Talk: Kota Ezawa and book signing in the SITElab 3:00 pm Tea and Tour! A half-hour, focused tour with a tea pairing from the Teahouse on Canyon Road
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Doug Aitken (US) • Patrick Bernatchez (Canada) • Andreas Gursky (Germany) • Lynn Hershman Leeson (US) • Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (Mexico/Canada) in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko (Poland/US) • Alexis Rockman (US) • Dario Robleto (US) • Tom Sachs (US) • Regina Silveira (Brazil) • Andrea Zittel (US)
(Santa Fe, April 11, 2016)—Sponge Bob Square Pants, Pac Man, and Curious George, all sporting a particularly Native American twist, are just a few images from popular mainstream culture seen in the exhibition, Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art.
Featuring nearly 100 objects by more than fifty artists from the museum’s collections as well as others borrowed from collectors and artists, the work on view in Into the Future will be in such various media as traditional clothing and jewelry, pottery and weaving, photography and video, through to comics, and on into cyberspace.
The free to the public opening for Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture is on July 17, 2016 from 1 to 4 pm and the show runs through October 22, 2017.
“Culture Power”, in the exhibition’s title, is defined by exhibition curator Valerie Verzuh, as the unique power bestowed upon objects by a culture’s stories, traditions, and emotions – objects which define ourselves, our communities, and the world around us – and, in turn, determine how we interpret and understand others.
When Native artists reinterpret popular Western imagery through the lens of these culture stories the collision of meanings provides a springboard for often pointed commentary upon issues of identity, culture, and history. And, says Verzuh, these reimagined images elicit intense emotions, “As power resides both in the mind of the viewer and in the objects themselves. Having the authority to control objects and their meanings correlates with the power to define and control personal and cultural identities.”
Using humor, as a reaction to otherwise serious issues, serves an important role in tribal cultures, for instance the widespread Trickster tradition and Pueblo clown societies. In Into the Future we see work by artists who find the comic book aesthetic expresses perfectly their message. Turning the mainstream narrative on its head and re-interpreting it through the Native cultural lens, Larry McNeil’s “Tonto” in Tlingit-Nisga’a is transformed from a “dimwitted sidekick to the hero,” Jonathan Loretto’s, Star War Figure with Ray Gun is a Cochiti Storyteller “Bobble Head” figure, and Theo Tso developed Captain Paiute the Indigenous Avenger of the Southwest, “…after noticing that there weren’t any comics that were written, drawn or even created by Native Americans!”
Also featured in Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art, are Linda Aguilar, Keri Ataumbi, David Bradley, Ricardo Cate, Orlando Dugi, Jody Folwell, Susan Folwell and Les Namingha, Harry Fonseca, Dorothy Grant, Teri Greeves, Bob Haozous, Melissa Henry, Lisa Holt and Harlan Reano, Maria and Julian Martinez, Dallin Maybe, Jamie Okuma, Virgil Ortiz, Pat Pruitt, Cara Romero, Ramoncita Sandoval, Preston Singletary, Margaret Tafoya, Denise Wallace, Ken Williams, Will Wilson, and Bethany Yellowtail, among others.
Into the Future: Culture Power in Native American Art celebrates the vitality of contemporary Native North American communities. So when you see a “Native” Sponge Bob Square Pants living life out loud on the ocean’s bottom, Pac Man chomping through an imagined game world, and Curious George’s adventures in the big city, know that by redefining mainstream objects and their associated meanings, Native artists assure that their culture is both integrated into that of the world at large and proudly separate from it.
You’re invited! | SITE Unseen 9 A BENEFIT FOR SITE SANTA FE
Friday, April 8, 2016 Preview 5-6 pm Public Opening 6-7:30 pm
Tickets: $100 for Preview Ticket EXHIBITION CONTINUES APRIL 9-10
One of the most anticipated events in Santa Fe, this art-buying opportunity keeps collectors guessing (and dashing!) for their first picks.
A limited number of preview tickets are now available for SITE Unseen Santa Fe 9. Reserve your ticket here and be among the first to view the artworks for sale! Your preview ticket purchase includes a raffle ticket for a chance to win SITE staff-curated selections from the SITE Unseen archives.
How it works:
Artists are asked to create and donate works on identical 5.5”x 8” boards. All pieces are signed on the verso and exhibited anonymously. Only when the works are purchased are the artists’ names revealed. Preview tickets and artwork purchases directly support SITE Santa Fe’s vibrant exhibition program. With James Kelly as Honorary Event Chair, SITE Unseen Santa Fe has become an enormously successful event among both new and seasoned contemporary art collectors.
Participating Artists include:
Ellen Abramson, Terry Allen, David Kimball Anderson, John Andolsek, Carol Anthony, Polly Apfelbaum, Tom Appelquist, Valerie Arber, Stuart Arends, Jamison Chas Banks, Steve Barry, Tom Berg, Kevin Cannon, Roberto and PJ Cardinale, Susanna Carlisle and Bruce Hamilton, Matthew Chase-Daniel, Madelin Coit, Leonardo Drew, Joe Ramiro Garcia, Christy Georg, Cristina Gonzalez, Geoffrey Gorman, Allan Graham, Gloria Graham, Harmony Hammond, Rebecca Holland, Munson Hunt, Shirley Klinghoffer, Jane Lackey, David Leigh, Ric Lum, Lucy Maki, Dara Mark, Tom Miller, Mary Mito, Linda Montano, Richard Morrow, Nora Naranjo Morse, Jonathan Morse, Carol Mothner, Michael Namingha, Stacey Neff, Nancy Ziegler Nodelman, Marcia Oliver, Gay Patterson, Lisa Piasecki, Pascal Pierme, Purple Mountain Collective, Willy Richardson, Ed Ruscha, Abigail Ryan, Louis Schalk, Gerry Snyder, Brandon Soder, Nancy Sutor, Linda Swanson, Mary Temple, John Tinker, Mark Tribe, Trish Witcher, Jesse Wood and many more!
SITE Unseen 9 is sponsored in part by Il Piatto Italian Farmhouse Kitchen and Wilkinson & Co. Fine Art Framers. Official SITE event link here.
