Creative Writing major Nick Martinez is spending the semester in the New York Arts Program. This week, he discusses his weekly Man on the Street duties for the New York Press, operated by Straus News.
Dinner Talk
posted by Amanda Tyler
SFUAD students answer the common icebreaker: “If you could have dinner with any person, who would it be?” and reveal what they would like to discuss with their picks. Answers range in variety from the predictable celebrity to an elusive family...
From the Mountains to the Desert
posted by Christopher Stahelin
This week, Jackalope launches profiles of international students, starting with the Norway connection. For these pieces Christopher Stahelin interviewed Ole Kristian Nilsen, and Sandra Schoenenstein interviewed Jakob Anderson. Stahelin and Schoenenstein then photographed each other’s interview subjects for the following audio-visual interviews. Ole Kristian Nilsen discusses the Norway to Santa Fe change and how he’s adjusting. Jakob Anderson is one of our SFUAD’s film students from Norway. At the end, he speaks a few words in his native language, translated as: “Hi everybody at SFUAD. Thank you for receiving us with open arms. I hope that these two years will be two years that I will never forget” ...
Donna Ruff: Printmaker...
posted by Brandon Ghigliotty
Story by Brandon Ghigliotty/Photos by Shayla Blatchford I had the opportunity to interview Donna Ruff, printmaker, illustrator and Art Department faculty member of nearly two years at Santa Fe University of Art and Design. Ruff, with an MFA from Rutgers, has more than a decade of teaching experience spread throughout New England. On a late Sunday morning, openings in our schedules converge to allow me to get to know more about her work. What drew you to printmaking as a medium? Donna Ruff: Rutgers has an important printmaking department. At the time they had the Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper, but it’s now called the Brodsky Center, after one of my professors, Judith Brodsky. They bring in artists from New Jersey and New York on grant programs to do projects in printmaking, with papermaking as an element if the artist wants to do that. I had professors who were well known in that field—besides Judy, I had Lynne Allen as a professor. She was a master printer at Tamarind at UNM for years and we discovered we had mutual friends in Albuquerque. I had never tried lithography—it seemed quite daunting, as it involves some alchemy—the print results from oil and water not mixing, and is planographic. So there are a lot of ways it can become a big mess on the plate. I was an older student and Lynne took me in the darkroom and showed me how to make a photographic litho, which changed my work in a huge way. I also learned to make paper, and understand its particular qualities. Printmaking departments, even at Rutgers, are having a hard time holding on. It’s thought of as too “old school” or something. Colleges are scrambling to build New Media departments, and...
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