Jonathan Hollingsworth
Photo Exhibition "What We Think Now" 1/5 – 2/2
Closing Party 2/2, 7-10pm, SFAI

This exhibition of large-scale digital photographs brings us images of a diverse group of young people and their thoughts on the war in Iraq. Each of the 40 images present a resident of California, all under 30 years of age,who were asked to express their thoughts on the US involvement in Iraq. Unframed and installed in a tightly spaced row, these images present the young person with their hand written thoughts (something of an anomaly in the ‘post literate’ age.) Representing the individual rather than impersonal statistics, these images produce a powerful historical record about what our young people are thinking about politics, war and national integrity.

The Making of MEMORYLINES: Reflections on Collaborative Creative Process
Event: Monday 5/7, SFAI

Join artistic director/co-composer, Molly Sturges, and members of the ensemble and artist team of Memorylines/Voces de Nuestras Jornadas to speak about the process of making this new work.

Memorylines/Voces de Nuestras Jornadas, a contemporary multi-lingual opera project, brings together individuals, ages 8-87 across cultural, economic and generational lines in Santa Fe to create an original new work directed by Molly Sturges. Together with an artist team including Valerie Martinez, David Dunn, Chris Jonas, Rulan Tangen, David Gallegos, Chrissie Orr, Penny Rae and Jaime Becerril, the participants will perform the new work based upon personal maps of their lives and the collective intersections that emerged from a three month intensive creative process involving video, acoustic ecology, movement, music, visual arts, and writing. Presented by The Santa Fe Opera and The Lensic Performing Arts Center, Memorylines, a Little Globe production, will be performed May 11 and 12th at 7pm and May 13th at 2pm at The Lensic.

David Maisel
Lecture 6/18, 6pm Tipton Hall

David Maisel (b. New York, NY, 1961) is a photographer and visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay area. Bringing together the aspects of beauty and danger, Maisel has turned his lens on the devastating effects of pollution in the landscape. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Opsis Foundation. His artwork is represented in major public and private collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Maisel’s photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Canada, and Europe. His first book, The Lake Project, was published by Nazraeli Press in 2004, and was selected as one of the Top 25 Photography Books of that year by the critic Vince Aletti. Maisel’s second book, Oblivion, will be published by Nazraeli Press in Fall 2006. MORE(pdf)>

Coco Fusco
Lecture 7/9, 6pm Tipton Hall

Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press, 1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. She is an associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of Arts.

Siah Armajani
9/10 – FALLUJAH: REVEALING WAR
A conversation with artist Siah Armajani, journalist Dahr Jamail, and writer Jeremy Scahill, moderated by Mary Charlotte Domandi,
6pm Greer Garson Theater

Lecture: 9/11, 6pm Tipton Hall
Workshop: 9/11 – 12, SFAI

Fallujah will be on exhibition at SFAI
9/10-10/22, 9am - 5pm, Mon - Fr

Using architecture as a metaphor, Iranian born artist Siah Armajani challenges us to think more carefully about transition and place. Throughout his career, Armajani has exhibited a special sensibility for the human condition, and has created work of monumental scale to express it. Fallujah, with its references to Picasso's Guernica, is breathtakingly beautiful in its structure, and compelling in its message on the human impact of war.

Barbara Hammer
'Love Other' Screening and Artist's Talk: 10/1, 6pm Tipton Hall
Workshop, 10/2 – 5, SFAI

Barbara Hammer A respected member of avant-garde and queer film communities for more than 30 years, Hammer has made over 80 films and videos. Her distinctive vision has led to a series of pioneering works. It is "by reappropriating and remaking lesbian and gay visual history out of the misrepresentations of the past," notes Hammer, "that the former oppressive collective memories of identity will become the power site of social change." Her explorations yielded singular results: daring, unorthodox works exhibiting a dizzying array of visual juxtapositions, colors, textures, and formats that provoke visceral sensations while pulling apart and reconfiguring cultural representations of lesbian history and sexuality and other marginalized narratives.

Dyanna Taylor
Lecture: 10/15, 6pm Tipton Hall

Dyanna Taylor is a cinematographer and director whose films explore many of the most pressing issues of social justice and human rights today. Taylor’s work is long and distinguished: She won the Peabody Award for the film Winter Dreams, a biography of F. Scott Fitzgerald and won the MUSE award from NYWIFT recognizing her cinematography. Her other credits include 500 Nations, Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action, the Academy Award winning Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, and Agnes Martin: With My Back to the World, as well as dramatic and non-fiction films shot both nationally and internationally. MORE(pdf)>

Fernando Garavito
Reading from his new book Praxis & Ambiguity of the Enemy
10/22, 6pm Tipton Hall

Fernando Garavito, now residing in the United States, is a journalist, writer, and professor who was forced into exile after being threatened for speaking out against government corruption in his native Colombia. In 2002, Garavito was a full-time professor in the department of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Rosario in Bogotá when he wrote about Colombia's drug cartels and right-wing paramilitary groups. He left for the United States with his family and found work teaching in Maine. Later, he was invited to join the International Cities of Asylum project, which provides refuge for threatened writers and their families. With help from PEN New Mexico, Garavito and his family relocated to Santa Fe, New Mexico. He worked at University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as a lecturer and Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Latin American Studies.

Hamid Naficy
Accented Cinema Lecture, 10/29, 6pm CCA Cinematique

Dr. Hamid Naficy's landmark text Accented Cinema is the first to explore the aesthetics and politics of exilic cinema--films made by artists working outside their homelands. Naficy argues that this "accented cinema" -- with styles and forms distinct from Hollywood films -- requires new sets of viewing skills on the part of audiences. In this illustrated lecture, Naficy will use clips to explore the accented cinema, giving special consideration to displaced filmmakers from South America.

Edgar Heap of Birds
Lecture: 11/5, 6pm Tipton Hall
Workshop: 11/6 – 9, SFAI

The artworks of Hock E Aye VI Edgar Heap of Birds include multi-disciplinary forms of public art messages, large-scale drawings, Neuf Series acrylic paintings, prints, and monumental porcelain enamel-on-steel outdoor sculpture. His work engages the gap that exists between commonly held ideas and the realities of the history of the indigenous peoples of the US. Heap of Birds received his M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, his B.F.A. from The University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS and The Royal College of Art, London, England. He has served as visiting lecturer and taught as Visiting Professor at universities around the world. At The University of Oklahoma Professor Heap of Birds teaches in Native American Studies and Fine Arts. MORE(pdf)>