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  By Jamie Blosser, SFAI Executive Director Greetings! Welcome to The Biweekly – a new monthly addition to your inbox from SFAI. Each month The…

BLOG Ancestral Ink / Honoring Indigenous Tattoo Traditions by Ginger Dunnill Indigenous traditional tattooing has once again become a living culture and is playing a…

Time moves on and change is constant. Reflecting on the city’s growth and urban development, I think back on the time when I was a…

When I first came to SFAI’s Truth & Reconciliation Residency to learn about the local history and write my film essay Muntu Child, I wasn’t…

SFAI is not for sale! This Steven Yazzie installation on the SFAI campus is part of the exhibition The Great Unknown: Artists at Glen Canyon…

“May you live in interesting times…” I’ve always found that saying to be strangely provocative –purportedly a curse, it has always seemed to me to…

I have come to be an artist through a long journey of interrogation into the truth of how my body and performance as ‘femme’ is…

It was unexpectedly fitting that on the last evening of my residency at SFAI, I met artist and historian Nell Painter and took part in…

“Grandma’s Pottery,” photo taken and titled by Tasha Nelson, Santa Clara Pueblo In March 2017, I received a letter from the Fulbright Foundation in Greece,…

Sometimes current events, even local events, can feel massively abstract, and their reverberations in our lives can feel tiny, inconsequential. And sometimes events, though thousands…

The two words, equal and justice, that form SFAI’s thematic residency are abstractions that are foreign to me. They float in the clouds. I see…

When I think about last year the word that comes to mind is exhausting. I am the Executive Director of a nonprofit, Backbones, serving people…

Equal Justice is an unattainable goal. This is especially true in India, a swathe of land that is too large and populated to be effectively…

Photo By: Kate Russell Photography I am heartened and exhilarated about my appointment as the Chair of the Board of Trustees here at the Santa…

Photo By: Winoka Begay, Location: Shiprock, New Mexico, Title: “Change begins with the people, not the politicians” By Winoka R. Begay, MA “The fact is, not…

  Centered on a courtyard with cerulean walls that seamlessly flow into an unobstructed view of the sky, SFAI’s unique building reminds me in many…

A SEARCH FOR FREEDOM & REFLECTION BY QUENNA LENÉ BARRETT, THEATER ARTIST & SFAI EQUAL JUSTICE RESIDENT   For a long time growing up, I…

BY  HEATHER ROBINSON OF TIGER TOE COLLECTIVE,  SFAI EQUAL JUSTICE RESIDENT Self portrait of this artist before her first residency.   Before I left for…