Visiting Artists
ARTsmart’s Visiting Artist Program extends the benefits of art education by bringing arts professionals into the classroom. The artists’ disposition – their habits of mind and passion for making art – is a powerful educational ingredient. When artists bring it into the classroom, where anything like it is often in short supply, they can engage and motivate students making their learning exciting and more meaningful.
The goals of the Visiting Artist Program are:
- Visiting Artists introduce students and teachers to new skills, media, concepts, diverse cultures and aesthetic frameworks.
- Students construct artworks that illustrate connections between their ideas and experiences with themes explored and shared by Visiting Artists.
- Students develop confidence and self-discovery by expressing their own personal voices and ideas through their artwork, which is celebrated within the community through exhibits and events.
- Students gain knowledge of varied career paths in the arts and recognize Santa Fe’s vibrant cultural fabric.
Join us!
We are always recruiting artists living and working in or around Santa Fe who are interested in inspiring young people and working alongside art teachers. Contact us at info@artsmartnm.nm if you are interested in sharing your creativity and skills.
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- Visiting Artist demonstrating printmaking
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- Visiting Artist printmaker
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- Untitled glass/painted Mural at Salazar Elementary
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- Visiting Artist Gasali Adeyemo demonstrates hand dyeing to students
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- Beautiful batik scarves from Visiting Artist Gasali Adeyemo’s class
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- Printmaking project inspired by work of Italian designer Bruno Munari with Visiting Artist Catherine Trapani
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- Cyanotypes with Visiting Artist photographer Jackie Mathey
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- Hand painted hands in Roni Rohr’s El Dorado Community School class with Visiting Artist Issa Nyaphaga
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- 3D paper boxes with Visiting Artist Michael Long
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- Chaparral Elementary students with 3D boxes they created with Visiting Artist Michael Long
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- Visiting Artists Wise Fool and Pri Brahe dragon costume for student performance at Ramirez Thomas Elementary
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- Ramirez Thomas Elementary students’ performance w/tie dyed shirts with Visiting Artist Gasali Adeyemo
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- Hand painted hands with Visiting Artist Issa Nyaphaga
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- Visiting Artist Issa Nyaphaga demonstrates painting techniques to class
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- Colorful “Box Head” masks with Visiting Artist Wise Fool