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.

Introducing the Awkward Shelby comic to Jackalope Magazine. Check out more at the Awkward Shelby website and...