Art in the Library

Monthly Exhibits

• September Exhibits
• Call for Artists
• Applications for Exhibits

Library Collections

• Woven Olla
• Storyteller Horse
• Urban Fruit Tree

Call for Artists

The Southside Library, at 6599 Jaguar Drive, is accepting applications from artists interested in showing their work for one month. Applicants should live in the City of Santa Fe or Santa Fe County and be eligible for a Santa Fe Public Library Card.

Please pick up and return the forms at the Southside Reference Desk.

Please contact Christina Dunkin at 505-955-2823 for more information.

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September Exhibits

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Applications for Exhibits

The Santa Fe Public Library is accepting applications from local artists for consideration for exhibits. All applicants must be eligible for a Santa Fe Public Library card and live in the city of Santa Fe or Santa Fe County.

Artists wishing to exhibit their work at the Southside Library may pick up an application at the Southside Reference desk. The Art Committee will set a date to review and schedule art displays for 2010. For more information, call Christina Dunkin at 955-2823.

Artists wishing to exhibit their work at the Main Library may bring their work to the Library's Pick Room the first Wednesday of every month. Artists are asked to bring three representative pieces of their work for review. Paintings as well as photographic exhibits will be considered. The Library also has glass cases for three dimensional work. Call 955-6717 for more information.

La Farge Branch Library is seeking artists for a locked and lighted display case. It is approximately five feet wide, three and a half feet tall, sits on a two foot base, and eighteen inches deep. The case can be used with or without two acrylic shelves. Displays begin on the first day of each month and end on the last. Interested artists can contact Susie Sonflieth at the Oliver La Farge Branch Library, 505-955-4866, to fill out an application.

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“Woven Olla” by Minneapolis-based public artist Randy Walker is an eight-foot diameter olla, or Native American water-carrying pot, woven with brilliant strands of fiber that hangs in the main exterior entry canopy of the Southside Branch Library. In 2008, the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission, in collaboration with the Library and New Mexico Arts, commissioned Walker to create the three-dimensional, suspended steel and fiber artwork. The sculpture references a traditional Pueblo water jar, or olla, and reinterprets it on a scale appropriate to the community and the Library. “Woven Olla” is a unifying form that marks the entry as a gathering place. The piece is an analogy for the Library as a container of knowledge, a resource no less precious than water.

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"Storyteller", by artist Ellen Alexander, is one of the Painted Ponies from New Mexico's Trail of Painted Ponies, a statewide Public Art fundraising project featuring life-size Painted Ponies. She was auctioned off for the benefit of the Santa Fe Seniors Activity Fund Corp., and the purchasers have kindly offered to let her stay on display at the Main Library.

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“Urban Fruit Tree” by Jean Wells is a 15 feet tall, metal and mixed media mosaic. It is in front of the Main Library at 145 Washington Avenue as part of the City of Santa Fe's Art on Loan program.

More information about Jean Wells and the "Urban Fruit Tree" can be found on her website.

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