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The Annual Juried Show: “Blind Faith”
posted by Cris Galvez
SFUAD’s annual juried show for visual arts, “Blind Faith,” is currently exhibiting at Wade Wilson’s Art Gallery, located at 217 W Water St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, and will be on display through March 11.
Pussy Riot
posted by Zoe Baillargeon
Pussy Riot’s founding members speak to students, community about their art, activism and the nature of freedom.
Exhibition Season
posted by Andrew Koss
As the school year comes to a close, student art exhibitions fill up the schedule at SFUAD. “We’re just about hitting the time when the campus will be swarming with art,” says Linda Swanson. “In addition to student shows, you’ll be seeing lots of student work around a lot of different places.”
Art Awaits
posted by Brandon Ghigliotty
Story by Brandon Ghigliotty/Photos by Shayla Blatchford The main lobby of the Thaw Art History building greets me with a faux bathroom. In place of a mirror, a screen plays looped video above its sink. The installation crowds the main lobby and forces visitors into the rest of the building. A large piece beckons at the end of the hallway, a many doored wooden box around five feet tall—its flanks draped in black cloth. Rusty hinges flex while the apparatus behind it ticks and strains. The work in the hallway, part of a joint exhibition entitled Range that will be shared with Universidad del Mar in Chile, continues past the restrooms with the sketch of a tree trunk. The illustration’s color defies the verdant nature of the piece, with its bruised, purple coloration exacerbating the veins of the tree’s trunk. While examining the piece, a figure approaches from my peripheral vision. I shift my weight and scoot out of her way, greeting her. She nearly passes before I recognize her: Linda Swanson, chair of the art department. I begin to introduce myself, but I’m interrupted by her. “If you want to talk, you’ll have to keep up,” she says. I roll to the balls of my feet and spring up after her as she strides down the passageway. Photographer Shayla Blatchford and I follow Swanson to the building’s kitchenette. She multi-tasks while speaking to us. Swanson punches the microwave and trades out mugs, before she splits tubes of instant coffee over them. She tells me about a recent event within the Art Department. Santa Fe University of Art and Design’s Kristaan Villela, who holds a doctorate with an emphasis in Pre-Columbian Art, hosted a lecture on the role of the Apocalypse throughout mankind’s history. The...
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