Welcome 2021!

We welcome 2021 and invite you to engage with SFAI via online events with alumni, residents, and community. SFAI alumni, Labor Residents, and Story Maps Fellows share their works, voices, and reflections on the most pressing issues of our time.
SFAI is an independent arts organization forging critical inquiry and cultural exchange among artists, creative practitioners, and the broader community. We support and amplify dynamic artistic practices that engage complex social issues, inspire individual transformation, and inform collective action.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, SFAI had to reschedule our 2020 Labor residency to 2021 and postpone our 2021 Revolution residency to 2022. As a result, there is no open call for applications in 2021. Please sign up for our newsletter to stay informed about future opportunities.
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As a token of our appreciation for supporters at levels of $30 and above, we are offering new SFAI merchandise. Get your thematic residency t-shirt, mug, or water bottle today!

Re-Centering Santa Fe / Social Structures / 12.21-2.19

The Santa Fe Art Institute (SFAI), with support from Vital Spaces, presents Re-Centering Santa Fe: Social Structures, a temporary outdoor exhibition of freestanding installations and digital art pieces that address the themes of interconnectivity, empathy, and care.

Our commitment to anti-racism.

At SFAI, we believe that Black Lives Matter. We stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and people of color, with all oppressed peoples, and with liberation movements here in the U.S. and across the world.

Read more on our About Page.

Tilt Podcast / Episode 8: Putting Down Roots  (Part 1) / July 23

In this two-part episode, the hosts, together with local artists and creative practitioners, contemplate what are the responsibilities of people originally from outside New Mexico to this place? How do we respectfully connect to and care for the land and the peoples who have made their home here for generations? And how do other racial and ethnic groups not included in the mythical tri-cultural narrative of New Mexico foster a sense of belonging and rootedness here?

SFAI140 Chronicles

In Community

In celebration of our 35 Year Anniversary, we are revisiting the SFAI140 video archives to bring you critical voices from our alumni that reflect on the shifting socio-political landscapes of our times — October/November’s theme is In Community: Reflect, Respond, Act.