This week’s comic from Shelby Criswell as part of The Awkward Shelby comic strip is titled “Priorities.”

The month-long [Walk] Santa Fe project is designed to improve Santa Fe’s walkability and its creative placemaking.

In the fourth of a series of Q&A sessions with SFUAD students, Jackalope Magazine speaks with Performing Arts Department senior Alan Littlehales, who shares his thoughts on Our Lady of 121st Street, plans for the future and Oregon.

The Gift Music and Art Festival takes place this weekend, on the nights of both Nov. 8-9. For free admission, students can create a gift of artwork to be given up for auction at a later date. So what exactly should this gift consist of? The crew behind the festival is accepting any medium of work, of any size or subject matter. So far, gifts have ranged from alternative process photographic prints to origami birds and intricately painted portraits. Music and film majors are welcomed to submit a gift in their genre also, provided that a CD or DVD of the work can be presented. All art will be accepted for admission, as long as it is evident that time, energy and thought has been put into the piece. When your work is complete, the gift can be be brought to the festival, where a crew member will exchange it for your entrance. Still stuck? Pictures below demonstrate a few examples of work made and materials used for a variety of gifts. For more information on the festival, check out this Jackalope article and the event Facebook...

The Interdisciplinary Arts Collective (IAC) at Santa Fe University of Art and Design puts on the Gift Music and Art Festival Nov. 8-9.

Shayla Blatchford captures a day in the life for Mike Lucero, campus security guard.

Jackalope staff member Sandra Schonenstein interviews Santa Fe University of Art and Design film student Bego Aznar who is in her second semester as an exchange student from Spain.

Robert Redford and London’s Royal Opera House are both featured this week at The Screen.

The ninth annual Alternative Photography International Symposium is the premiere event for those into alternative processing methods. Here is where one can discover how to make images with historic processes like salt prints and Woodbury types, or learn how to make photographs with cottage cheese.

Tishman saw a surge in nocturnal activity during its 24-hour drawing collaboration. As time went on the wall became a reflection of the participants–colors and figures evolved and melded over the course of the event as space disappeared.

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  On Oct. 25-26, SFUAD welcomed homeless veterans and other homeless to Alumni Hall, as an opportunity to receive the help they need. For Phillip Chavez, 2013 Veteran Stand Down organizer, the event has always close to home during the three years he’s been running the event. “When I retired from the military I sort of lost my identity,” said Chavez. “I just wanted to do something to help the veterans.” With three local churches, Santa Fe Community College, SFUAD and various veterans groups coming together, there was plenty of help to go around. A buffet line of food greeted the hungry upon entering the room. Booths were stationed around the building, offering a wide range of services including: haircuts, foot washing, flu shots, racks of clothing, massages, blood pressure checks, prayer rooms, free hugs, as well as a variety of information booths on alcoholism, drug abuse, and nutrition. “People are receiving all the services really well,” said Angie Howes, Santa Fe Seventh Day Adventist Church volunteer, who was offering blood pressure checks. “They seem to love the opportunity to get help that they need.” Chavez estimated that almost 200 homeless, half of whom were veterans, cycled through on Friday alone. The number of homeless veterans in New Mexico is estimated to be fewer than 1,000, according to Long March Home, a website that chronicles the plight of homeless veterans. Daniel Reiher, an American Legion rider and veteran, agreed with the estimates for attendees, and said he reveled at the chance to help the less fortunate. “It’s amazing the number of people who came here and got clothing,” said Reiher. “It’s been powerful, very moving.” Reiher at one point spotted a familiar face in a police uniform. He called him over and chatted about...

The Screen Presents: Nov. 1-6 All Is Lost, Robert Redford’s Capstone Performance and a Must See for Filmmakers! Academy Award winner Robert Redford, age 77, has still got it! In J.C. Chandor’s latest thriller, All Is Lost, Redford plays an unnamed sailer who, after an accident to his sailboat, must survive the open waters and battle the elements for his life. Mary F. Pols from Time Magazine calls All Is Lost “a signal film achievement and the capstone to a great star’s career. This is Ultimate Redford.” Opens this Friday. The New York Film Critics Series, A Sneak Peek into Hollywood and Indie Films Hosted by Peter Travers Up until now, live talent has only been accessible to the public in New York, Los Angeles and at festivals. Now everyone throughout the country can enjoy up close and personal moments from major movie stars, producers, writers and directors in the comfort of their own neighborhood theaters. Preview screenings have been offered before, but never with a live conversation component. This, in addition to a curated selection of films, will allow filmgoers to see the better independent movies before anyone else, with exclusive insight from the creators into the productions. This week at the Screen, watch live interviews with Bruce Dern and Will Forte in Alexander Payne’s film Nebraska. Premiering Nov. 5 at 6p.m. Tickets on sale now....

“How do you photograph the disappeared?”    Erika Diettes posed this question to herself when planning out her photographic project, Sudarios. The disappeared in her case were the victims of violent attacks on Columbian citizens by the guerrilla warfare that has plagued their country over the past 60 years.  Her final execution of this rather intense and emotionally exhausting subject matter seemed so intentional and precise that one hardly questions the story behind it. Displayed at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel, due to the sacred and pristine nature of Catholic churches, Diettes aligned 16 silk-screen photographic prints of women’s faces, all in black and white. The prints were hung from the ceiling and arranged symmetrically, allowing the pictures to blend together from certain angles and come together as a whole when viewed from the center. Diettes interviewed and photographed the victims’ family members—all of whom were women in the project’s final draft—at each individual’s exact moment of horror. During interviews that spanned up to three hours in duration, Diettes had a therapist sit down with victims and guide them through the atrocities they had witnessed firsthand. Although Diettes hadn’t originally planned to only use female subjects, as she gathered interviews and looked at the photographs, she realized that the emotion drawn from the viewer looking at a woman’s face who has experienced a traumatic event, is similar to that of a mother’s loss of her son. This loss of love, she said, is how she wants the viewer to feel while walking past the photographs. According to Diettes, the pictures she has displayed were at the moment in the interview that the subject couldn’t open their eyes. She felt that this moment where loss has been established, but not yet accepted, is the key to giving the disappeared...

By Sarah Ruhl; directed by Performing Arts Department senior Corbin Albaugh In an age of nearly infinite technological convenience and possibility, rarely do we stop and think of associated consequences. Dead Man’s Cell Phone is the story of Jean, a middle-aged woman, who is forced to encounter her own internal truths after the discovery of a dead man at the café at which she was dining. In turn, this surrealist comedy forces us to confront our own fixation with digital technology and the reality from which it disconnects us. Performances run Nov. 1-2 at 7 p.m. and Nov. 3 at 2 p.m in the Weckesser...

Guilherme Spada is back with his second short film. Once more, he captures all the power of a psychological thriller and transmits it to us through House of Dolls. “The story is about three day-dreaming sisters that find out about love and sex. Because of the difficulty they have to express themselves, they end up doing bad crazy things,” says Spada. Marisa Melito, Dani Vondrak and Jess Cornelius play the three protagonists of the movie. Marisa Melito, who stars, was offered the role the night before filming began. “Jess Cornelius found me in the hallway and said her friend really needed another actress for his film. I had no idea who anyone was the next day at filming besides Jess and Dani (who I’ve met before) and I’ve also never done any film work before,” she says. “I’m a dance major, but I’ve done a lot of theatre in high school so it was weird having a camera and lots of people in your face watching you. Despite being a little bit out of my comfort zone, I had a lot of fun making this film and getting to know everyone, and I’m so happy that I got to be a part of it.” Film students know how important is to work as a team, since every project from the film department needs a group of people working together. For film student Claudia Vargas, being part of Spada’s team was very satisfying. “I loved being a part of the production of House of Dolls. Guilherme had a great team; he has very clear what he wants and I really think he is defining a style of his own. I really see him doing big things in the future and I am very proud.” As...