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
THE FENCE The Fence features the work of 56 talented photographers from New Mexico and around the world. The goal of this unique exhibition is to present exceptional work that is innovative and accessible to all people. More than 3 million people are expected to see the national exhibition at one or
SHADOW LIGHT LENS Don Redman's temporary installation Shadow Light Lens was a monumental sculptural diptych in the Railyard Park. The two marine-grade stainless steel sculptures represents the artist's exploration of creating kinetic responses through an object with no moving parts. As sunlight penetrated the surfaces, the light created an array of two-dimensional shadows.
BLUE GORILLA Don Kennell's Blue Gorilla was commissioned by the Philadelphia Zoo for their Second Nature exhibit. Made of salvaged automotive sheet metal, the 13 foot tall piece highlights the habitat destruction of endangered lowland gorillas. The sculpture depicts a forlorn and melancholy gorilla holding an actual car door. The sculpture is
WORLD WATER DAY MULTIMEDIA INSTALLATION A collaboration of the Water Engineers for the Americas and Magnetic Laboratorium.
CURRENTS NEW MEDIA Currents 2015: Santa Fe International New Media Festival: The Festival brings together the work of established, unrecognized and emerging New Media artists, from New Mexico, the US and the world. More information at currentsnewmedia.org.
Doug Mehren's Wheelbarrows installation features eleven powder-coated wheelbarrows with accompanying steel figures, holding a variety of garden tools. The wheelbarrow sculptures are scattered throughout the park's gardens, so visitors can discover them as they explore the park. The installation is intended to engage and surprise park visitors with a delightfully colorful sculpture while they
