Santa Fe Art Institute’s mission is to cultivate creative leadership, and to invest in community, culture, and place to reimagine a more equitable world. SFAI supports over 70 artists, activists, and creative practitioners annually through residencies, workshops, civic engagement, and innovative public events. Santa Fe Art Institute’s core program which informs all of its satellite activities is its International Thematic Residency. Organized into two-year cycles that revolve around social justice themes, it invites up to 80 artists per cycle to come to Santa Fe for periods of one to three months to pursue collaborative, interdisciplinary projects. SFAI encourages conversation– both formal and informal – between artists and members of the communities they are researching, and helps artists to produce collaborative projects that are respectful of all participants.
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“It is an honor to be part of The Warhol Foundation’s mission to support the visual arts coupled with its commitment to specifically support the voices of women, POC, Native Americans, and LGBTQ. It is simply thrilling to be part of an organization where we get to see these values writ large and implement real change in real life ways in the visual arts community that still so needs to move forward in terms of social justice, equality, and diversity. We put our money where our mouth is. How many institutions actually do that?”
Deborah Kass, Artist