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SPREAD SITE Santa Fe

SPREAD 5.0!

spread site santa feSITE Santa Fe is excited to announce that the fifth SPREAD community dinner will be held on Friday, October 24, 2014, 7pm at the Santa Fe Farmers Market.

NEW APPLICATION FOR SPREAD 5.0!
For our fifth SPREAD cycle, we invite studio artists currently working in New Mexico to apply. Applications this cycle will not be project-based, but will focus on artistic merit and innovation. Finalists will be selected based on past work as well as future promise. Past SPREAD applicants have always included a number of artists with a studio-based practice, and this year we would like to acknowledge that rich community. The SPREAD grant may be used to support ongoing work, including materials and supplies, studio rent, framing costs and other professional fees.

STUDIO ARTISTS OF ALL DISCIPLINES ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY!

The SPREAD 5.0 application period opens Monday, June 2 and will continue through Sunday, July 6. More info on the application process, including a downloadable preview of the new application, can be found here.

SMALL GRANTS FOR BIG IDEAS

SITE Santa Fe’s SPREAD is a micro-granting initiative that provides small grants for innovative projects and artworks conceived by New Mexico-based artists. SPREAD is a recurring public dinner designed to generate community-driven financial support to fund artistic innovation.

HOW SPREAD WORKS

At a large community dinner, guests pay a sliding scale entrance fee (starting at $15), for which they will receive dinner and a ballot. During dinner, the SPREAD audience will hear short proposals from up to eight artists for innovative and yet-to-be-realized new projects. Diners will then cast their votes for their favorite project. At the end of dinner, the artist whose proposal receives the most votes will be awarded all the funds collected at the door to realize their project.

The inaugural SPREAD event, held on March 18, 2011, raised $7,722 in proceeds from the door, which was then given to the winning artist group, Meow Wolf, to support their installation The Due Return at the Center for Contemporary Art. Since then, SPREAD has awarded over $22,000 to New Mexico artists. Past winners also include Jason Jaacks, Cut+Paste Society, and Axle Contemporary. For more info on the previous finalists and winners, click here.

If you have questions, please use the contact form on the SPREAD website, accessible here. No phone calls, please.

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Santa Fe Collective

Santa Fe CollectiveSanta 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:

www.santafecollective.com

 

 

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.

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Blue Rain Gallery’s 2nd Annual Invitational Show

June 6 – 21, 2014

Artists’ Reception: Friday, June 6th, 5 – 7pm

Blue Rain Gallery

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).

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Outdoor Vision Fest 2014

SFUAD FOURTH ANNUAL OVF

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Free and open to the public
SFUAD Visual Arts Center

Outdoor Vision Fest (OVF) features environmental projections & outdoor art installations of design, animation, video and other imagery created by SFUAD students

Live performances, interactive multimedia installations, sculpture and video installations, projected motion graphics, and more are featured during the Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s fourth annual Outdoor Vision Fest, a free self-guided program of innovative, collaborative projects by students from various university departments. This year’s event, held on the SFUAD campus (1600 St. Michael’s Drive), includes projections on the side of the university’s Visual Arts Center; performances by dance, music, and film students; and media displays in an 18-foot hemispheric dome provided by Lumenscapes Illumination Media. SFUAD music and dance students also perform work by student composer Angelo Harmsworth and visiting artist and choreographer Jocelyne Danchick. In addition, a pop-up shop sells work made by graphic-design students. The festival runs from 8:45 to 10:45 p.m. on Friday, May 2.

For more information about OVF, see its Facebook page and videos on the Vimeo channel.

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Exhibition | The Royal Breadshow by Axle Contemporary

The Royal Breadshow by Axle Contemporary

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.

Visit Axle Contemporary

Check out the exhibition’s order form

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Visit SITE Santa Fe’s Spread Grant Website

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Show Up Show Down

 

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.

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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.

Gallery hours: weekdays 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.; weekends by appointment
info@showupshowdown.org
575-737-8261

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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.

UP NEXT
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.
Thank you sponsors!

Show Up Show Down · 1621 San Patricio SW · Albuquerque, NM 87104 · USA