SITE: Specific and Sustainable in Santa Fe from Public Art Review
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From adobeairstream.com- Santa Fe Complex Closes. Stephen Guerin on Hybridity’s Lessons. June 1, 2012When the Santa Fe Complex closes this Friday night in Santa Fe, it will be capping off a four-year run in which the organization, with support from the City of Santa Fe’s economic development arm, gave ...Ellen Berkovitch
- New Nature for Animal Reuse, Co-Lab Austin May 31, 2012New Nature, an exhibition by Austin-born Calder Kamin, opens this Saturday, June 2. “Fabricated ceramic fauna” and collected trash enliven Co-Lab’s exhibition space. The artist will also walk guests through the nearby neighborhood to collect trash ...Katy Crocker
- Public School, a New Model for Design Collaboration May 30, 2012Public School is a new generation design collective, located in east Austin. Comprised of seven members with two photographers and five graphic designers: Casey Dunn, Cody Haltom, Jay B. Sauceda, Justin Cox, Matthew Genitempo, Shaun Lind, ...Rowan Ogden
- Remotely Sensing William Betts (at Plus Gallery in Denver) May 29, 2012William Betts is getting noticed. At least that’s what a recent announcement in Artdaily.org tells readers. Betts is a Houston-based artist who paints using a complex painting machine and proprietary software designed by the artist. He is ...Leanne Goebel
- Crochet Coral Reefs, A Feminist Practice. And: Hideaway in Release. May 28, 2012In 2005, twin sisters Margaret and Christine Wertheim formed the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles. Its key project: The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef, which, according to the HCCR site, “resides at the intersection of mathematics, marine ...Ellen Berkovitch
- Chaos in Tejas, Austin May 28, 2012I will always feel a unique kinship with Chaos in Tejas being that it was the subject of my very first post on Adobe Airstream. The funny thing is – I decided to re-read that post ...Don Simpson
- Oscar, A Co-Production, To Premiere at Santa Fe Opera’s 2013 Season May 25, 2012When the 2013 Santa Fe Opera season gets under way , its big ticket will be the world premiere on July 27th of Theodore Morrison’s new opera, Oscar, based on the life of Oscar Wilde. Morrison ...Ellen Berkovitch
- New Mexico Experimental Glass Fellows Address Waste Through Art May 24, 2012Let’s talk about New Mexico Experimental Glass Workshop (NMEGW)—an innovative, non-profit organization founded by artist Stacey Neff in Santa Fe. The goal of NMEGW is to introduce, through workshops, hot glass to artists that don’t work ...Katy Crocker
- Saul’s Universe – Pard Morrison at James Kelly May 23, 2012Pard Morrison’s sculptures, currently on view at James Kelly Contemporary in Phantom Limbs, defy cubic assembly. Each spread of colorful squares unfolds from a central square. Perspectival lines sometimes look like preliminary childhood box constructions—four sides ...Hannah Hoel
- AMoA-Arthouse Texas Prize Winner Announced May 22, 2012As of May 18, 2012 AMoA-Arthouse announced its Texas Prize winner Jeff Williams—University of Texas faculty member. Jeanne Claire van Ryzin of Austin 360 reports that the Texas Prize will be a triennial award from this ...Katy Crocker
- Santa Fe Complex Closes. Stephen Guerin on Hybridity’s Lessons. June 1, 2012
I may not be up with what is happening in Buffalo NY, but they had a great Railroad Station and lands in need of renewal. Santa Fe certainly provides a great model.
I think it is laudable and majestic—wonderfully suitable for a place so rich with history —that has a bright future for it’s community…sounds wonderful. Thank you for writing about it so vividly , Leanne!