Partners in Art | Zane Bennett Contemporary Art

Partners in Art is a rotating program of featured community partners, created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Partners in Art seeks to highlight vital organizations in our community’s creative ecosystem, underscoring the need for generous and innovative collaborative efforts between arts institutions at this extraordinary moment in history. This is a free program offered by both Zane Bennett Contemporary Art and form & concept gallery; all proceeds go directly to featured partners.

Linn Meyers, Untitled, 2018 (18-308a), Three-color lithograph.

Pie Projects

Founded in 2021, Pie Projects has ushered the Santa Fe art world into a new era. The elegant event and gallery space, which anchors the burgeoning Shoofly Street loop in the Baca Railyard, espouses a community-oriented ethos that has served as a beacon for an industry slowly emerging from a crushing pandemic.

Read our interview with cofounder Alina Boyko and collaborator Kylee Aragon Wallis.
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Rose B. Simpson, Maria, 2021 (21-305, 21-305A), Two-color lithograph, diptych.
Littleglobe Junior Filmmaker Noor-Un-Nisa Touchon mentoring Aurora Escobedo, age 18, for ¡Presente! 2019 (Photo by Katy Gross)

Littleglobe

Out of all the organizations we've profiled in our Partners in Art series, Littleglobe is perhaps the most multifaceted. The nonprofit's lithe structure allows it to support local, national and international art projects simultaneously, with the overarching goal of bridging disparate individuals and communities.

Read our interview with Executive Director Chris Jonas.
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(L-R) Dylan Tenorio, Rita Rios-Baca, Devin Baldwin and Leticia Gonzales participating in creative exercises as part of ¡Presente! 2019 (photo by Chris Jonas)
Santa Fe Artists' Medical Fund

The Santa Fe Artists’ Medical Fund (SFAMF) was founded in 1996 by a group of artists—including longtime Zane Bennett and form & concept artist Armond Lara—who were concerned about the problems faced by professional artists lacking medical insurance.

Read our interview with SFAMF head Joseph Riggs.
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SFAMF Online Auction
Browse top lots from the SFAMF benefit auction below, including Zane Bennett's contributions by Armond Lara, James Havard and Paul Shapiro. Click here to view the full catalog, and place your bid from July 18-25.
- James Havard, Untitled T/P , 1995, Etching, 19 3/4 x 18 in, Starting Bid: $150. Courtesy of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.
- Armond Lara, Collage #1, Mixed-media collage, 15 x 17.5 in, Starting Bid: $150. Courtesy of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.
- Paul Shapiro, Zero Point #73, 2005, Acrylic and collage on paper, 9 1/2 x 9 1/2 in, Starting Bid: $200. Courtesy of Zane Bennett Contemporary Art.
- Dorothy Fratt, Jacob's Ladder, print, 22 x 30 in, Starting Bid: $1,500. Courtesy of Yares Art.
- John Axton, The Miller's Stone, oil, framed, 17.35 x 17.375 in, Starting Bid: $600. Courtesy of Ventana Fine Art.
- William Thomas Lumpkins, Lavaro, Watercolor on paper, framed, 29.5 x 16.25 in, Starting Bid: $200. Courtesy of Addison Rowe Gallery.
BioGraphic mosaic, courtesy NMSA

New Mexico School for the Arts

New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA), based in Santa Fe, is the only four-year, statewide, public high school serving artist-scholars across New Mexico with a rigorous, award-winning pre-professional arts and academics program.

Read our interview with NMSA Visual Art Department Chair Karina Hean.
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Axle Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM

Axle Contemporary

Founded in 2010 by Santa Fe-based artists Matthew Chase-Daniel and Jerry Wellman, Axle Contemporary is more than a contemporary gallery on wheels. The mobile vehicle, in addition to exhibiting installation art, painting, photography and drawing, also organizes performance art and independent book publishing.

Read our interview with Matthew Chase-Daniel & Jerry Wellman.
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Feminist Art in the Trump Era
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Axle's Be Counted
Photo courtesy ARTsmart

ARTsmart

Founded in 1993, ARTsmart provides visual arts opportunities and education to more than 7,750 youth annually in Northern New Mexico. In addition to offering year-round visual arts learning by accredited instructors to northern New Mexico public schools and charter schools such as New Mexico School for the Arts, the nonprofit raises funds for life-changing scholarships for graduating high school seniors to pursue a degree in visual arts. Read on for statements from some of New Mexico's most promising future stars in the arts.

Read our interview with Sarah Mandala & Cristina González.
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2018 Artist-in-residence Outi Pieski at work. Credit: Tamarind Institute

Tamarind Institute

Famed printmaking workshop Tamarind Institute, based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, has continually advanced and revitalized the field of fine art of lithography since 1960. First formed in Los Angeles, the nonprofit has remained true to its founding principles: to stimulate innovation among artists of the medium through education, collaboration and diversity of artistic backgrounds; to train master printers, whose recognition must include the printer's individual chop (a now-standard practice); and to create an extraordinary collection of fine art prints.

Read our interview with Diana Gaston of Tamarind.
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Diego Romero works on Pueb Fiction, 2020. Photo courtesy Black Rock Editions.

Black Rock Editions

Printmaking power couple Steven Campbell and Christina Ziegler Campbell continue the storied legacy of Landfall Press with Black Rock Editions. Since being handed the reins earlier this year, the veteran employees of Landfall founder Jack Lemon have transformed the independent publisher into the swiftly-embraced community hub it is today. “Our job is to see the holes, to patch those up and make things better," says Ziegler Campbell.

Read our interview with Black Rock Editions.
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