July 2006

I have just completed the 2006 Photography Summer Residency Program at the School for Visual Arts (SVA) and currently doing a second residency, the 2006 Painting Summer Residency Program.

Now in its third decade, this internationally renowned program offers emerging and mid-career artists an opportunity to work intensively in a private studio and receive individual critiques from faculty, selected for their diversity and experience. The program culminates in an Open Studio Exhibition, which enables participants to present their work to the public.

Summer Residency Program
School of Visual Arts
Division of Continuing Education
School of Visual Arts
209 East 23 St
New York
NY 10010-3994
www.schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce

April 2006

At present I am taking part in a Pigment and Dye Workshop taught by Alka Mathur at the Sante Fe Art Institute (SFAI) in New Mexico. I have been allocated a Scholarship to do this workshop. I have spent most of April 2006 in Sante Fe working on some new photographic ideas.

SFAI was founded in 1985 by Pony Ault and the noted architect and artist William Lumpkins, both of whom sought to provide a unique opportunity for emerging artists to pursue a brief, intense period of study with critically acclaimed visiting artists. Richard Diebenkorn was SFAI's first Visiting Artist, and he became a major force in the establishment of SFAI, helping to attract both students and other Visiting Artists, among whom are such renowned contemporary artists as John Baldessari, Elizabeth Murray, Susan Rothenberg, Donald Sultan, and Joel-Peter Witkin. Today, the Institute remains, as it was founded, an independent, educational, nonprofit organization. In 1999, the Institute moved to its extraordinary new facility. Designed by renowned Mexican architect Ricardo Legorreta, the nearly 17,000 square-foot facility has permitted SFAI to expand its mission and programming significantly. SFAI takes as its mission an exploration of the intersections of contemporary art and society. By bringing together prominent individuals and institutions in the arts, sciences, and humanities, SFAI enlivens local, national, and international discourse through residencies, lectures, workshops, publications, exhibitions, and educational and outreach programming. Nurturing artists and providing a stimulating, creative atmosphere for their work serves society in an essential way and gives artists the support necessary to take risks and explore possibilities.

Sante Fe Art Institute
1600 St Michael's Drive
Santa Fe
NM 87505
www.sfai.org