Santa Fe Art Studio

April 23, 2020November 23, 2020

Fulcrum Fund Emergency Relief Grants

The Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS and a partner in the Regional Regranting Program of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, announces a second round of emergency relief grants to benefit the local arts community. In partnership with the Frederick Hammersley Foundation, which is providing $60,000 toward this effort, this round will provide grants of $5,000 to 12 alternative art spaces in New Mexico that have lost income as a result of the cornavirus/COVID-19 pandemic.

Round #1 (deadline was April 15), we received 389 applications for 60 $1,000 grants to individual artists living and working within an 80-mile radius of Albuquerque. Round #2 provides a focus on artist-run and alternative artspaces, which has been a category of projects recognized by the Fulcrum Fund for the past four years. This dispersal of funds is part of an effort to help sustain these spaces until they can reopen after the pandemic. Continue reading “Fulcrum Fund Emergency Relief Grants”

November 21, 2019November 21, 2019

The 21st annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival

The 21st annual Recycle Santa Fe Art Festival takes place November 15-17, 2019 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center (201 W. Marcy Street). The event includes over 100 artists in the Art Market, over 30 artists in the adult juried art exhibit, 38 local classrooms participating in our student juried art exhibit, and amazing outfits in the Trash Fashion Show and tons of treasures created in our Make and Take art area! ….AND with the help of the City of Santa Fe Environmental Services Department, Eldorado/285 recycles, Cowgirl Barbeque Catering and Reunity Resources we diverted 289 pounds of organics and 193 lbs of recycling!!

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August 15, 2019August 15, 2019

Santa Fe Indian Market Fashion Show

A market highlight! This adored and highly attended event features Native designers presenting cutting-edge fashion collections and accessories.

RESERVE YOUR TICKETS HERE Online ticket sales end at 5:00pm Saturday, August 17th. Standing Room tickets will be available at the door.

DATE: Sunday, August 18th

TIME: 4:00PM – 5:00PM

Location:
Santa Fe Community Convention Center
201 W Marcy St, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Participating Designers:

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June 17, 2019February 11, 2021

Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe at Museum of International Folk Art in May 2019

The Museum of International Folk Art is presenting the traveling exhibition A Designer’s Universe, an exhibition organized by Vitra Design Museum. One of the most influential interior and textile designers of the 20^th century,

This is the first major retrospective on Girard’s work. The exhibition opens May 5 and runs through October 27, 2019.

Girard was also a pivotal figure in the history of the Museum of International Folk Art, donating more than 100,000 objects from his and his wife Susan’s folk art collection, and in 1981 creating the museum’s long-term, beloved exhibition Multiple Visions. Girard’s playful designs attest to a passion for colors, ornamentation, and inspirations from folk art.

The exhibition and public programs illuminate the relationship of folk art to modernism and design. In conjunction with the Girard exhibition at MOIFA, two other Santa Fe cultural institutions – the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum and the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (MoCNA) – will explore the concept and practice of design from three unique perspectives: Girard’s impact on the American aesthetic; his imprint on Santa Fe; and the dynamic field of Native design centered in Santa Fe.

IAIA will host a student design competition in conjunction with the museum exhibits and public programs.

The exhibition Alexander Girard: A Designer’s Universe is organized by Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany. Global sponsors are Herman Miller and Maharam.

About the Museum of International Folk Art: http://www.internationalfolkart.org/

706 Camino Lejo, on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, NM 87505. (505) 476-1200. Hours: 10 am to 5 pm daily, May through October; closed Mondays November through April, closed Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

Siler Yard: Arts + Creativity Center awarded $10.4 million!

The project is aiming to break ground in spring 2020, with the first units coming available in Winter 2021 and full buildout of the housing that following summer.

Inter-Faith Housing nonprofit just learned it will get a $10 million grant for its Midtown development, the Siler Yard Arts and Creativity Center.

Affordable live-work rental project for artists on Siler Road… the idea has been in the works for quite some time. Inter-Faith Housing applied in two other funding cycles. A variety of other costs have been covered by other interested parties, such the National Endowment for the Arts and the city itself, which donated the land and promised to cover the costs of utilities like sewer lines and water. Creative Santa Fe is a project partner.

The 65-unit development is slated to include performance, exhibition and “micro-retail” space, a shared workshop and a classroom with programs such as entrepreneurship training to help residents transition to sustainable living and find connections to social services.

The grant received on Thursday has always been the missing piece, comprising 60% of the development’s total construction costs – and now it’s in place.

The most affordable unit in the development will cost $390 per month, and all the homes and community spaces will be powered by solar energy. Individuals who earn less than 60% of the area median income, about $28,000 or less for an individual, will qualify, and for families, the bar is lowered.

May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

Five Santa Fe art groups awarded $170,000 from NEA

Five Santa Fe arts organizations hauled in a combined $170,000 in National Endowment for the Arts grants announced Wednesday..

The Santa Fe Art Institute got the lion’s share, an $85,000 grant from the NEA’s Our Town program, which supports partnerships between arts organizations and municipal governments to revitalize neighborhoods. This money will go toward “culture asset mapping” and community events geared toward future redevelopment of the city-owned former college campus property off St. Michael’s Drive.

“The NEA Our Town grant will help us to connect the arts and local culture with equitable development of the midtown campus,” said Jamie Blosser, the institute’s executive director. “We will invite the community to deeply engage in imagining new possibilities for the midtown district.”

The art institute was one of 57 awardees nationwide to receive shares of $4.1 million in Our Town grants, which ranged from $25,000 to $200,000.

“With asset mapping, instead of looking for problems, you look for assets,” Blosser said. “You recognize all the assets you do have and how they can come around to support the midtown campus.”

The institute, a tenant on the campus for 20 years, has played a role in shaping a community vision for the property that once housed the College of Santa Fe and subsequently the Santa Fe University of Art and Design.

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May 19, 2019May 19, 2019

Why So Many Artists Have Been Drawn to New Mexico

For generations, artists from Georgia O’Keeffe to Ken Price have followed New Mexico’s magnetic pull, finding inspiration in the high desert’s expansive vistas, quietude, and respite from social and market pressures.

Several months after photographer-gallerist Alfred Stieglitz presented O’Keeffe’s first New York solo show, in April 1917, the 29-year-old painter embarked on a trip across the American West with her youngest sister, Claudia. While they’d planned to head straight from Texas to Colorado, their train detoured to Santa Fe. New Mexico’s vast, mercurial skies and incandescent light mesmerized the artist. “I’m out here in New Mexico—going somewhere—I’m not positive where—but it’s great,” she gushed in a letter to Stieglitz, dated August 15th. “Not like anything I ever saw before.”

“There is so much more space between the ground and sky out here it is tremendous,” she continued. “I want to stay.” By 1949, O’Keeffe had made the New Mexican high desert her permanent home, indelibly tattooing its landscape to her work, identity, and legacy.

Portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe in Abiquiu, New Mexico, 1974. Photo by Joe Munroe/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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