Partners in Art

Partners in Art is a rotating program of featured community partners, created in response to the necessary shutdowns of COVID-19. Partners in Art seeks to highlight the vital organizations in our community’s creative ecosystem, underscoring the need for generous and innovative collaborative efforts between arts institutions at this extraordinary moment. This is a free program offered by both Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and form & concept gallery; all proceeds from sales go directly to featured partners.

Vital Spaces studio artist meeting, Jan. 2020

Vital Spaces

Vital Spaces is a Santa Fe-based 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to sustain and enhance Santa Fe's cultural vibrancy by creating affordable spaces for artists working in all media to create, present, connect, and teach. They focus on fostering a collaborative creative community and supporting people, ideas, and art forms that are underrepresented in Santa Fe's commercial art scene.

Read our interview with co-executive directors Raashan Ahmad & Hannah Yohalem
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© CURRENTS NEW MEDIA & Anne Farrell

CURRENTS NEW MEDIA
Featuring Anne Farrell
Dedicated to new media arts, Parallel Studios, the nonprofit behind the annual CURRENTS festival, showcases interactive and non-interactive installations, multimedia performances, VR and AR environments, single channel video, animation, experimental documentary, robotics, wearables and 3D printing. Now in its 20th year, CURRENTS NEW MEDIA continues to engage thousands of residents and visitors through outdoor projects and public art, and new media set in traditional venues, including their Canyon Road space, CURRENTS 826.

Read our interview with founders Mariannah Amster & Frank Ragano.
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Pliant History by Lindsay Lochman and Barbara Ciurej (detail). Photo courtesy 23 Sandy

23 Sandy

Legendary online book arts gallery 23 Sandy recently changed owners. At the tail end of a remarkable mentorship, gallery founder Laura Russell handed the reigns to Santa Fe artist and former 23 Sandy employee Erin Mickelson. She recalls, "I said I should probably sleep on it, and then five minutes later, I was like, 'Yes, of course! How could I say no?'"

Read our interview with Erin Mickelson.
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Courtesy We Are The Seeds

We Are The Seeds

A project of CultureTrust Greater Philadelphia, and now in its fourth year in Santa Fe, We Are the Seeds is committed to centering Indigenous voices in the arts. The nonprofit founders, Tailinh Agoyo and Paula Mirabal, write "The time has come where we, as Indigenous people, need to share our own stories, in our own ways. It is imperative for our survival."

Read our interview with Seeds.
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Thais Mather at Davis Mather Folk Art Gallery, downtown Santa Fe, 2016. photo: Clayton Porter.

Good Folk Gallery

Owned & operated by artists Thais Mather and Todd Ryan White, Good Folk is a premiere gallery of the Santa Fe community dedicated to work by Folk Artists from Northern New Mexico and Oaxaca, Mexico. The (recently growing!) family-owned business is the latest arts and artist-supportive initiative from the Mathers. Thais's mother, Christine Mather, is the co-author of the iconic '86 Santa Fe Style coffee table book, and former curator of Spanish Colonial Art at the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe.

Read our interview with Good Folk.
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