The Mayor’s Forum on Jobs and Economic Growth was held last Friday morning at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center, in downtown Santa Fe. The forum, moderated by Santa Fe Reporter columnist Zane Fischer, began with a panel of local economic players followed by community input. The choice of Fischer, an independent voice from an […]
Emerging Artists
Mad Science Brewing in Downtown Santa Fe
In the heart of downtown Santa Fe’s South Capitol district, a Mad Scientist is stirring a cauldron of mind-spurring experiments and impressionable young minds to create a new generation of revolutionary thinkers. At least that’s her hope. Once a week, age-clustered groups of students gather to build electric motors, dissect plants, peer at small things […]
Santa Fe Art Scene: Substance over Style
Sure, Santa Fe was crowned a UNESCO Creative City in 2005 (for folk art and design) and has apparent squatter’s right in the Small Cities category of American Style’s annual poll on the top 25 arts destinations. We’re known for the Canyon Road art galleries, the opera, Indian Market, Spanish Market and most recently, the […]
Emerging artist Phillip Vigil lands new home at downtown Santa Fe Gallery
Phillip Vigil swept into our lives last Spring via Facebook. Focused and prolific, Phillip has been a one-man band of production and promotion, furiously churning out work all the while gathering its audience. Less than a year later–three years since he began his career in earnest, he has scored the big score: a new home […]
See and Be Scene
A little over a year ago, my business partner and I held our first art opening at our listing at 123 West Santa Fe Avenue. We knew a few artists without gallery representation in Santa Fe; I’d been the co-director of a contemporary art gallery in Santa Fe; we had open walls and a killer […]