KSWV Interview with IAIA President Martin & SFCC President Rowle
IAIA and SFCC partner for open house events on September 21
Demonstrations, exhibits, activities and tours will showcase both campuses
SANTA FE, NM –The Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and Santa Fe Community College (SFCC) are pleased to partner for open house events on September 21. For the first time, IAIA and SFCC are hosting open house events on the same day. Participants are encouraged to visit both campuses—which are only a six-minute drive or 11-minute bike ride apart—for exciting demos, art exhibits, and campus tours, and to meet students, staff, and faculty at both schools. This event is the perfect opportunity for anyone interested in IAIA or SFCC to learn about their missions, programs, and all these higher education institutions have to offer to the Santa Fe community.
Santa Fe Community College, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, N.M. 87508
Check out the SFCC Open House from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tour art studios and see demonstrations of steamroller printmaking, papermaking, bronze pouring, jewelry making and raku firing. Visit the tintype photo booth and the film studio. Participate in a Suminagashi Workshop to create Weathergrams, which combine short poems with suminagashi-Japanese marbling.
See demonstrations at the SFCC Planetarium and the Science on Sphere® Theater. Join tours of the Greenhouse and Algae/Biofuels Lab. Go to the Automotive Technology Center for a multi-point inspection on your car. Stop by the Culinary Arts Garden for free produce and Frito pies (from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) from the East Wing Eatery while grooving to the sounds DJ Manny Godsey.
The Institute for American Indian Arts, 1 to 5 p.m., 83 Avan Pu Road, Santa Fe N.M. 87508
IAIA will offer a mix of in-person and livestream events from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. as IAIA celebrates its 60th birthday. If you missed the bronze pour and raku firing at SFCC or want to see either process again, you can at IAIA’s open house. Watch video projections and a demonstration of IAIA’s one-of-a-kind, fully articulating Digital Dome. Take part in an acting class, listen to readings from IAIA’s talented BFA and MFA in Creative Writing students and alums, and check out an art show. Tour the beautiful Land Grant vegetable and flower gardens and meet the Thunder Bees who help them grow in IAIA’s apiary. If you’re still hungry after having a Frito pie at SFCC, you can try an array of menu options from the on-campus café, Bon Appetit.
Register at Eventbrite.
