Santa Fe University of Art and Design hosts a wide variety of women of color artists whose work explores their identities and ideas.

Each year, the local contemporary art museum SITE Santa Fe’s program SITE Scholars brings together a group of student artists from the community to create an exhibition in the spring.

Santa Fe University of Art and Design Creative Writing and Literature student Brantlee Reid founds new literary journal, Blood Tree Literature.

The time after high school is one of change, whether that’s good or bad. This is Our Youth, a play by Kenneth Lonergan released in 1996, addresses this transitional age. SFUAD’s Performing Arts Department recently brought it to the campus.

SFUAD students responded to the November election with the upcoming exhibit: Color: A Painting Exhibition Against Hate, opening March 18 at Art.i.fact.

On Feb. 11, SFUAD students came ready to dance at The Masquerade Ball, adorned in masks and dressed in their finest.

SFUAD faculty member and practicing artist Daisy Quezada has been commissioned along with 13 other Latino artists to create an exhibition for the Denver Art Museum.

After graduation, Contemporary Music Program major Jordan Solis is scheduled to have an EP released in the coming months with his signature combination of reggae, cuban music, salsa and drumming.

Graduating Contemporary Music Program Major Saqeef Ali found a love for music production during his time in the program.

Graduating Contemporary Music Program major Elise Stoffer will be holding her April 24 senior recital in the atrium just outside O’Shaughnessy. “Because I like the acoustics in there,” Stoffer says.

Maria Siino sits on the couch at the end of the main hall of Benildus, the combination Contemporary Music/Creative Writing building. Her pixie cut and devil-may-care style scream punk and so does her electric guitar. This senior CMP student is graduating in December, but the few months she has left to get ready for the big day are nothing compared to the more than 15 years of practice she’s been putting in with her music.

Marina Eskeets’ senior thesis Eskeets’ exhibition is a multimedia installation that incorporates elements such as video, weaving and earthwork.