ART SPACES The DIY strain of Santa Fe’s gallery scene started with Center for Contemporary Arts (1050 Old Pecos Trail, 982-1338), founded in 1979 by a group of local artists. Warehouse 21 (1614 Paseo de Peralta, 9894423) spun off from CCA’s Teen Project in 1997, and maintains a gallery space for teens and emerging artists. Phil Space (1410 Second St. 983-7945), an experimental art venue adjoining James Hart’s photography studio, came along in 2001. In the past few years, unconventional and underground art spaces have multiplied at a rapid pace. Niomi Fawn of Curate Santa Fe (@curatesantafe) mounts must-see contemporary art shows on the walls of Iconik Coffee Roasters (1600 Lena St,
Plaza with exhibitions of street 428-0996). The baristas at Betterday Coffee (905 W art-inspired artists. Edition Alameda St., 780-8059), inONE Gallery (1036 Canyon cluding rising local art star Jar- Road, 570-5385), Bindlestick ed Weiss (@jared_weiss_now), Studio (616 1/2 Canyon Road, arrange shows by up-and-comSte. A) and Red Dot Gallery ing artists. Jennifer Rowland (826 Canyon Road, 820-7338) and Michael Gullberg of Art.i. are shaking up the traditional fact (930 Baca St., 982-5000) gallery model on Santa Fe’s built an emerging art space most notorious art street. called ART.i.factory in the back of their store. The Siler District, lovingly SiDi, is Santa Fe’s newest contemporary art destination, with art spaces appearing on a near-monthly basis. Michael Freed mounts wildly popular seasonal shows out of his studio in a project called Offroad Productions (2891-B Trades West Road, 670-9276). Visit Radical Abacus (1226 Calle de Comercio), a world-class -Eliza Lutz, founder, Matron Records curatorial program that John McKissick runs out of his garage. Philosopher and curator Max Baseman PUBLISHERS built 5. Gallery (2351 Fox Road #700) in a storage unit Santa Fe’s DIY writing and off Rufina Street. The gallery publishing community is small exhibits emerging, established but mighty. Check out the nonand secondary market artists in profit Radius Books (@radius. invigorating combinations. books) and Burning Books Elsewhere in Santa Fe, (burning-books.org), two local game-changing spaces are also publishers that have been detaking root. Keep Contemsigning cutting-edge art books porary (112 W San Francisco for decades. St., Ste. 102, 307-9824) holds More recently, startups such down the fort near the Santa Fe as Stalking Horse Press
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to spark socially conscious conversations. For more communal action, check out Alexis Collective (@alexis_collective) at the embattled Santa Fe University of Art and Design, as well as the visual art and music group Outstanding Citizens Collective (@outstanding_citizens), the Santa Fe and Los Angeles-based creative alliance Place Projects (@placeprojects) and the art and writing collective Scribbler Santa Fe (@scribbler_santafe).
“This piece sold based upon the sketch,” Max Carlos Martinez says on Facebook, where he often shares images of his work. “I may only be one day away from finishing it. I am manic with happiness and filled with doubt. ... I could work on it longer but I must start the new paintings for my show in August.”
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(@stalkinghorsepress), Broken Cloud Press (@brokencloudpress) and Called Back Books (calledbackbooks.com) have entered the market. Local independent editor Bucket Siler is stirring up energy among independent zine publishers with the Santa Fe Zine Fest (facebook.com/santafezinefest) at the Center for Contemporary Arts on May 20, 2017, as well as at monthly Zine Club meetings year-round. Digital publications 1905 Magazine (@1905magazine) and Knack Magazine (@ knackmagazine) both sprung from Santa Fe University of Art and Design, and art director LE Brown just launched a Santa Fe art blog called Descent of Man (@descentofman). For local, independent arts coverage, check out Emily Van Cleve’s new art blog Santa Fe Arts Journal (santafeartsjournal.com).
MUSIC VENUES Last but not least, a burgeoning local music scene has been organically cross-pollinating with other corners of Santa Fe’s creative community. Meow Wolf runs a venue in their art complex, and Matron Records (@matronrecords) holds shows all around town. Lutz, who founded Matron, is the booking agent for a new venue that Second Street Brewery is opening at 2920 Rufina St. Promised soon, the 5,000-square-foot restaurant, bar and performance space plans to host several music shows a month and exhibit experimental contemporary art. Other venues in the Siler area include Ghost (2889 Trades West Road), Zephyr and Etiquette (both at 1520 Center Drive), The Cave (1226 Calle de Comercio) and Fresh Santa Fe (2855 Cooks Road, Studio A). For DIY sound engineering, tune in to Decibel Foundry (@thedecibelfoundry) and the recording studio at Warehouse 21.