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CURRENTS 2022: CIRCUITS
Currents New Media enters its 13th year as an annual festival of art and technology. This citywide celebration of new media takes place in several locations throughout Santa Fe, including the Center for Contemporary Arts, Form & Concept gallery, the Santa Fe Fairgrounds, and Gallery 826. Currents 2022: Circuits features more than 70 artworks from local and international artists, including interactive and immersive installations, virtual and augmented reality, multimedia performances, robotics, video sound art, and more.
Summer is high season in Santa Fe, so get out your calendar and prepare to fill it up with things to do. From major festivals to free concerts, patio dining to tailgating, hiking and road trips, sometimes it’s hard to draw a breath.
SUMMER FESTIVALS PHOTO: GABRIELA MARKS
SANTA FE LITERARY FESTIVAL
May 20–23, 2022 Santa Fe Community Convention Center
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JANUARY 2022
INTERNATIONAL FOLK ART MARKET In July, the world comes to Museum Hill for the International Folk Art Market, where artists from 60 nations gather to display their work, make connections with other artists and the public, and generate income to help sustain their communities. More than 160 artists will represent another 25,000 members of cooperatives and groups that ultimately impact over 250,000 family and community members. It’s a whirlwind of color and connection, and a celebration of the humanity of the handmade.
July 6–10, 2022 Museum Hill, 706 Camino Lejo folkartmarket.org SPANISH MARKET
In 1926, the Spanish Colonial Arts Society organized the first Spanish Market to promote local traditional Hispanic arts. Since that time, the juried show has grown to be the largest show and sale of Hispanic art in the U.S. Taking place the same
July 30–31, 2022 Santa Fe Plaza spanishcolonial.org INDIAN MARKET
Santa Fe’s Indian Market celebrates 100 years of showcasing Native American artwork, with more than 1,000 artists from across the U.S. and Canada selected to show and sell their work directly to collectors and visitors on and around the Santa Fe Plaza. While Indian Market proper takes place on a weekend (this year, August 20– 21), in actuality it’s a weeklong, citywide series of events. The Southwest Association for Indian Arts (SWAIA), the nonprofit responsible for producing Indian Market each year, sponsors dozens of these, and other businesses participate with gallery openings, special menus, and exhibitions. A big part of experiencing Indian Market is meeting artists and collectors, and the people-watching—not to mention the extravagant displays of Native jewelry and fashion—is dazzling. August 20–21, 2022 Santa Fe Plaza and many other locations swaia.org PHOTO: ALAMY
The inaugural Santa Fe Literary Festival takes place May 20–23. The Festival’s more than 30 events will be headquartered downtown, at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center. Among those events are large and small lectures and conversations, lunches with celebrated chefs and cookbook authors, and walking tours with featured writers. Margaret Atwood, Sandra Cisneros, John Grisham, Joy Harjo, Bryant Terry, Colson Whitehead, and Lawrence Wright are just some of those who will speak. There will be vibrant spaces for conversation, connection, and contemplation around the books, ideas, and issues that define our time.
June 17–26 and June 22–25, 2022 Center for Contemporary Arts and other locations currentsnewmedia.org/festivals/2022
weekend is Contemporary Spanish Market, featuring Hispanic artists working in various media outside the more traditional boundaries of Spanish Market.
