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SITE SANTA FE AND SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE COLLABORATE
TO
HOST
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWS FROM CEC ARTSLINK:
TWO ARTISTS FROM FORMER EASTERN BLOCK TO RESIDE IN SANTA FE FOR FIVE WEEKS
SANTA FE, NM
–
October
20
, 2010
–
SITE Santa Fe
and the Santa Fe Art I
nstitute are
pleased to
announce that
they
will collaborate in
conjunction
with
CEC ArtsLink
to host two Fellows
for five
weeks beginning in October 2010.
SITE is delighted to host
Azat Sargsyan
(Arts Manager/Curator, Armenia).
As director and co
-
found
er of the Gyumri Center of Contemporary Art
(GCCA) and the Gyumri Biennial, Sargsyan is interested in how biennials
and non
-
profit arts organizations fundraise, structure residency programs
and collaborate with international institutions. In addition to cu
rating the
work of hundreds of international artists for the Biennial and GCCA,
Sargsyan has co
-
edited several arts magazines, including
Art Today
and
Cord
, which covers the arts of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
Mykola Ridnyi
(multi
-
media artist,
Ukraine) will be in residency with the
Santa Fe Art Institute, and will learn about and work with the Youth
Education & Outreach program. Multimedia artist and founder of the
SOSka gallery
-
laboratory in Kharkiv, Ridnyi aims to create an alternative
to the
commercial art market in Ukraine as well as examine social and
cultural differences between youth culture in the East and West. Ridnyi’s
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on the
campus of the Santa Fe Un
iversity of Art & Design
, and will attend a host of
interesting cultural events
while in Santa Fe. Admission to talk is free, and both artists will talk about their past and current work
as well as their experiences and upcoming projects.
ArtsLink Residen
cies
offers artists and arts managers from eligible overseas countries a five
-
week
residency at an established, non
-
profit arts organization in the US. The program is designed to create
opportunities for artists and communities across the US to share artis
tic practices with artists and arts
managers from abroad and engage in dialogue that advances understanding across cultures.
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CEC ArtsLink is
pleased to announce this year’s residency placements for the nineteen ArtsLink
Residencies Fellows. For five weeks
this fall the Fellows will be immersed in the lively dialogue and
cultural activities of the renowned non
-
profit arts organizations, universities and the local
communities. ArtsLink Residencies awards provide funding to the host organizations to cover the
living, working and materials costs for the ArtsLink Fellows’ residencies, as well as modest
administrative expenses.
The following ten organizations will be first
-
time ArtsLink hosts this year: the Center for Documentary
Studies at Duke University, Dayt
on Visual Arts Center, Experimental Station, the Getty Research
Institute, Houston Center for Photography, Open Letter Books, Pacific Northwest College of Art,
Phoenix Urban Research Lab, SITE Santa Fe, and UnionDocs. We wholeheartedly welcome them to
the
ArtsLink community!
The Fellows will be in the US from October 11th to November 20th and at their host sites from
October 14th to November 17th, 2010. ArtsLink Residencies offer opportunities for U.S. audiences to
engage with international artists and sha
re experiences and ideas.
During their residencies, ArtsLink
Fellows may develop community
-
based projects, present new trends from young artists in their
region to the public, and initiate collaborative projects with U.S. artists that can potentially be
r
ealized through additional ArtsLink Awards funding.
We encourage you to learn more about them on the website
<http://cecartslink.org/grants/participants/residencies_
awardees_2010.html>
.
2010 ArtsLink Fellows and Host Placements
18th Street Arts Center
, Los Angeles, CA
Gabriela Tudor Memorial Fellow
Irina Cios (Romania), director, ICCA
–
Bucharest
California College of the Arts
, San Francisco, CA
Stefan Rusu (M
oldova), curator, Center for Contemporary Art
–
Chisinau
Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
, Raleigh
-
Durham, NC
Munkhzul Chuluunbat (Mongolia), director, Globe Art Center and Gal Pictures
Dayton Visual Arts Center
, Dayton, OH
Liliana B
asarab (Bulgaria), multimedia artist and sculptor
Experimental Station
, Chicago, IL
Marina Naprushkina (Belarus), multimedia artist
The Getty Research Institute
, Los Angeles, CA
Yuliya Sorokina (Kazakhstan), independent curator and Chair of Asia Ar
t +
Houston Center for Photography
, Houston, TX
Alexander Ugay (Kazakhstan), photographer and video artist