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Gulf
Coast artists get help & assistance from Santa Fe Art Institute
In response to the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina,
the Santa Fe Art Institute announced today that it has reestablished its
Emergency Respite Residency for Gulf Coast artists. The Institute is ready
to make available its facility in Santa Fe for artists, writers and crafts
people who lost homes, studios, art work, jobs. The program will provide
living space, studios, basic foods and some transportation support to
artists whose lives were compromised by the hurricane. Each residency
lasts from one to three months with space for 4-6 artists at a time.
The Institute’s first Emergency Respite Residency was created immediately
after 9/11 for New York artists and more than 130 painters, sculptors,
photographers, environmental artists, filmmakers and writers came to Santa
Fe. The emergency residency, the only program of its kind in the nation
to respond to 9/11, gave these artists who lived and/or worked in the
shadow of the World Trade Center an opportunity to recover from the trauma.
In making the announcement, Director Diane Karp commented, “The
Institute is a hands-on institution and one of its great strengths is
its ability to respond quickly to challenges such as hurricane Katrina.
We offer an environment that supports discourse, discovery and individual
talent with creative alternatives not often available in traditional arts
programs,” she said. “Artists who came after 9/11 were so
grateful to discover New Mexico’s extraordinary landscape, the multicultural
Santa Fe community and the Institute’s wonderful facilities. Their
presence in Santa Fe had a profound effect on us all. We have already
begun to receive inquiries from Gulf Coast artists,” she concluded.
Support for this initiative has been given by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation,
the Department of Cultural Affairs, State of New Mexico and others throughout
the country.
Artists wishing to come to Santa Fe and individuals wishing to contribute
to this program can contact The Santa Fe Art Institute, telephone 505
424-5050, or by email: dkarp@sfai.org.
Residencies can begin immediately, fill
out application here.
Through the
generosity of a grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, SFAI has emergency
stipends to be used for artists accepted into our Gulf Coast Emergency
Residency program.
Gottlieb Foundation is accepting applications for emergency residencies.
Please visit: http://www.gottliebfoundation.org/emergency_grants.htm
or call 212 226-0581
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