Intersections

June 30 – August 15 in person
Online indefinitely

INTERSECTIONS is a citywide group art exhibition that takes place in public space across the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico and on this interactive website. Rather than pick a single theme or other unifying commonality to structure the exhibition, the Intersections website allows us to highlight multiple points of connection--the intersections--among a wide range of artworks and among a diverse group of artists who call Santa Fe home. You can sort the works of art by theme, medium, or location and the artists by professional and personal affiliation, in effect, creating hundreds of mini group exhibitions. Or, you can spend time learning about one artist and exploring their work in depth.

The website also contains new videos that bring together artists working in different art forms like dance, poetry, visual art, and music to reflect on a series of shared themes. You can see the first one, Intersections: Displacement, on the video page and we will be releasing three additional videos over the course of the summer.

We’ve installed banners with a selection of artworks on them in parks and other public spaces across Santa Fe. We invite you to visit these physical installations, listed in the locations section of the website, to look for points of connection among the works of art on display and between the art and its surroundings. Please use #Intersections2021 on social media to share the intersections you come up with!

We have found that the commonalities shared by different works of art and artists are mutually illuminating. We hope that you love the art you see HERE, that you find new artists to follow and support, and that each intersection prompts unexpected insights and further exploration. Please consider a tip for the artists if you have been inspired by the artwork. 100% of this money goes directly to the artists you select.

Participating Artists:

installations around santa fe:

Plus, you’ll find posters in storefront windows around town. The following businesses and schools generously allowed us to put up banners on their fences:

Intersections was organized by Raashan Ahmad, Hannah Yohalem, and Rica Maestas from Vital Spaces, Ana Gallegos y Reinhardt from Warehouse 21, and Maida Branch from MAIDA.

Vital Spaces aims to create a vibrant, inclusive arts community, providing accessible spaces and opportunities to create, present, and experience quality art. We seek to enhance Santa Fe’s reputation as a contemporary art center by lifting up low-income and underrepresented artists and fostering connections across a diverse intersection of local artists, residents, and visitors.

Warehouse 21 supports a diverse, inclusive, positive, and welcoming community for young people by encouraging art, public service, mentoring, and meaningful exchange that challenges, empowers, and grows artistic development.

MAIDA is a love story, a coming home story. An ever evolving project and expression of ancestry, homecoming, diaspora forced and chosen, memory learned and lost, reclamation and preservation. Inspired by her family and the land from which they came, Maida Branch founded MAIDA in 2017 - an online collective of Indigenous and Indo-hispano artists. MAIDA supports and promotes their work and preservation of their homelands with a 50/50 profit sharing model. Artists’ stories are told through the history of northern New Mexico via thoughtfully curated products/objects, photography, and short films about community and place.

SPECIAL THANKS TO:

Albert Padilla and David Sanderson for web design and web development.

David Grey for graphic design.

Joanne Lefrak, Sage Sommer, and Brandee Caoba from SITE Santa Fe and Sandy Zane and Jordan Eddy from form & concept for allowing us to film in your galleries.

Richard Ross from New Mexico State Printing and Graphics, Jason Poole from Image Ratio, Amelia Bauer, and John Vokoun for printing support.

Carolina Franco from SITE Santa Fe for advertising advice.

Doza and Anaid from Ditch the Box Studios for filming and editing the Intersections videos.

Intersections is sponsored by The City of Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department, Cultural Investment Funding Program, Digital Collaborative Impact Award.

Additional funding provided by the Santa Fe Community Foundation.