GRASS BALLET Grass Ballet by Owen William Fritts The Grass Ballet sculptures are inspired by the movement of wind through fields of grasses, motion appearing as waves through water. Grass Ballet sculptures capture this through height, slenderness and kinetic movement. The blades taper and flow into the sky pulling ones gaze
Santa Fe Stands with Immigrants - Sylvia Johnson and Anne Staveley Santa Fe Stands with Immigrants was a photo mural project along the outside wall of the park's restrooms and in the Children's Play Area. The project was designed to show support for the immigrant community in Santa
The Fence The Fence: NM returned to the Railyard Park for the third year in a row. Featuring the work of over 50 photographers from New Mexico and around the world, the FENCE offers 450 feet of photography meant to present exceptional work that is innovative and accessible to
DANCING EARTH A unique force in world dance, Dancing Earth gathers Native collaborators who embody intertribal ecological philosophies to re-envision contemporary dance and assert its role in our society as purposeful ritual. As indigenous dancers, composers, costumers, filmmakers. and poets, they honor dance's essential function in personal, social, and environmental transformation. In
szalt - smallstrangething szalt is a collection of Los Angeles movers, collaborating with musicians and visual artists artistically led by dancer and choreographer, Stephanie Zaletel. In 2017, they embarked on their first tour through Seattle, New York, Italy and Santa Fe's Railyard Park. In June 2017, szalt dance co. created a site-specific
ANASAZI, EMBRACE AND CORNGRINDER - 2017 Allan Houser (1914-1994) was an influental and respected Chiricahua Apache artist and one of our nation's premier sculptors. Proficient in a variety of media, from delicate egg tempera paintings to monumental sculptures of bronze, stone and steel, Houser is credited with reviving the art
WISE FOOL AHA FEST & PUPPET PARADE - 2017 Wise Fool is a beloved and award-winning non-profit organization at the center of Santa Fe's community arts scene. Wise Fool serves 2,000 youth and adults with hands-on activities and 14,000 audience members annually with high-quality experiences built upon their core values of community,
FUTURECLEAR'S PYRAMID TOUR FutureClear is a Brooklyn based collective creating environments that support community. We build platforms to draw and elevate people with vast skills, ideas and creative talents. We use space to act as testing grounds for the formation of new ways of living and interacting. Focused on one motivated unit that
Joshua Willis' "ARCHBARROW" Albuquerque artist Joshua Willis' Archbarrow was installed in early May 2017, to coincide with the spring planting season in the park’s community gardens. The 14’ tall arch an entrance to the garden area. Willis sourced more than a dozen used wheelbarrows through a Craigslist ad, each one holding its
SHELTER The Santa Fe Animal Shelter commissioned artist, Don Kennell to create a sculpture for the shelter as part of a fundraising campaign. The sculpture consisted of an array of three-dimensional cubes and rectangles rendered out of steel tubing. Visually, this structure represented our larger community. Some of these cubes contained colorful
