A Santa Fe resident for the past two decades, Lorraine Schechter has led a full and varied life as an artist, arts administrator, and teacher of fine arts and yoga. A native of New York City and a rabid Yankee fan, Lorraine lived in the south of France and Northwest Connecticut prior to moving...
Renaissance Woman Lorraine Schechter: The Inner Voice of an Ever-Evolving Artist
Arts & Entertainment
- Российские мастерицы в Санта Фе
В прошлом месяце культурная делегация программы «Открытый мир» представила российское искусство кружевоплетения и вышивания в крупнейшем Международном музее народного творчества в г. Санта Фе. Двухдневная выставка изделий российских мастеров стала одним из самых ярких событий 13-дневного визита участниц в штат Нью-Мексико
This year’s live auction items feature terrific and star-studded experiences including:
- Theater Grottesco’s Twelfth Night: A View from Downstairs
Принимающая организация, Городской совет международных отношений Санта Фе, подготовила программу, учитывающую как профессиональный опыт россиянок, так и специфику культурных сокровищ своего города. Санта Фе - идеальный город для приёма данной делегации. Этот «город, непохожий на другие», представляет собой уникальное смешение различных культур и архитектурных стилей; он не только славится своими ткачами и другими мастерами, но и является национальным центром текстильного дизайна. Именно здесь можно увидеть разнообразные текстильные коллекции, и именно здесь проводится ежегодная Международная ярмарка народного творчества.
- Scott Harrison and Ironweed Productions
Scott Harrison and Ironweed Productions: A Commitment to Quality American Theater and the Northern New Mexico Community. IP’s spring production of Doubt promises to be another successful and thought-provoking foray into American culture and belief.
- Z Space Studio’s Word for Word: James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” began life as a short story by James Baldwin. Set in Harlem in the 1950’s, this narrative is a jazz riff on the ersatz relationship between a good brother Brother (a married veteran and long-term high school teacher) and a bad brother Sonny, (jailbird, heroin addict, and inspired jazz pianist) that morphs into a truer, more loving connection when Brother begins to glean what playing and creating music means for his younger sibling.
What the Word for Word Company does is to adapt short stories to the stage without changing or omitting a word of the original...
- Rhapsody in Black
James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” navigates two sides of the African-American experience: assimilation versus life as a perpetual outcast.
The Bay Area’s Word for Word Performing Arts Company is bringing one of the author’s finest early works to Santa Fe. The performance opens at the Lensic Performing Arts Center at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 12.
Da’Mon Vann plays the title role in “Sonny’s Blues,” a tormented jazz pianist who has rejected a conventional life.
Sonny’s brother, a schoolteacher and family man, is the nameless narrator who provides the stage direction through the original...
- Stringdusters Bring Infamous Act Back
One of the better compliments bass player Travis Book heard recently came from a barista inside a hotel lobby.
Book, his band mates from The Infamous Stringdusters and other musicians were jamming inside a Tacoma, Wash., hotel’s hallways in preparation for a bluegrass festival there when their music caught the ear of a 27-year-old working behind a coffee bar.
He told the band that he dug the sounds that filled the lobby that day — quite a compliment from a young man who up until that point only had ears for hip-hop.
“He said that’s all he listened to,” said Book during a recent phone...
- Renaissance Woman Lorraine Schechter: The Inner Voice of an Ever-Evolving Artist
A Santa Fe resident for the past two decades, Lorraine Schechter has led a full and varied life as an artist, arts administrator, and teacher of fine arts and yoga. A native of New York City and a rabid Yankee fan, Lorraine lived in the south of France and Northwest Connecticut prior to moving to Santa Fe in 1988. Lorraine first visited Santa Fe in 1969 when she was teaching at Swarthmore College and had just established her first gallery. During that first visit, Lorraine made a promise to herself that took her two decades to fulfill: “I would live and work in Santa Fe some day because...
- Must See Art Shows: March 1 - 14
As the winds of March blow through town, local galleries are putting up fresh shows.
Geoff Gorman, local artist and entrepreneur, exhibits his constructed animals at this Canyon Road gallery best known for fiber-arts. Gorman uses and reuses materials to create objects that evoke hunting decoys and model – airplanes. The expression inherent in these pieces, like Papio, engages the spectator into a physical dialogue.
“A broken bent tree branch, bleached from sun and rain, makes me think of weathered bones: fingers, legs, backbone, and hip bone. Old stained strips of cloth act like...
- From Life Experiences to the Stage
Prior to living on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, Susana Guillaume has touched down in Hollywood, Southern France, and Northern England with a brief foray into the Amazon. From these life experiences, Susana has created a one-woman show— Girl Facing West— about “the pleasures and pains of growing up, while staying human, in a complex world.” This solo performance piece is composed of “my personal choices and the legacy of family.”
Susana Guillaume has an abiding passion for “body-based improvisation where life experiences reside” and, consequently, has taught dance for the past twelve years....
- Must See Art Shows: February 15 - 29
Happy Valentine’s Day in Northern New Mexico! Site Santa Fe opens an exhibit of one of those local yet ‘global’ artists that fill our town, belying those who still insist on an absurd, archaic regional/ international split in the art world. Steina: 1970 - 2000, is a retrospective of a new media trailblazer.
“Long considered,” write the show’s curators, “a pioneer in the field of new media art by artists and curators alike, Steina has been making art for over three decades that has expanded the boundaries of video technology and electronic imaging. Through an ongoing process of...
