Santa Fe Community College in partnership with The Institute for American Indian Arts will jointly be conducting Open Houses on Wednesday, September 21 at their respective campuses.
Santa Fe Community College Open House
11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
6401 Richards Avenue, Santa Fe, NM 87508
Institute of American Indian Arts Open House
1 to 5 p.m.
83 Avan Nu Po Road, Santa Fe, N.M. 87508
Come on out to the Southside Education Corridor and visit both schools, which are only 7 minutes apart!
Santa Fe Community College:
Check out the SFCC Open House from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tour art studios and see demonstrations of steamroller printmaking, papermaking, bronze pouring, jewelry making and raku firing. Visit the tintype photo booth and the film studio. Participate in a Suminagashi Workshop to create Weathergrams, which combine short poems with suminagashi-Japanese marbling.
At SFCC see demonstrations at the Planetarium and the Science on Sphere® Theater. Join tours of the Greenhouse and Algae/Biofuels Lab. Go to the Automotive Technology Center for a multi-point inspection on your car. Stop by the Culinary Arts Garden for free produce and Frito pies (from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.) from the East Wing Eatery while grooving to the sounds DJ Manny Godsey.
Click here to view the full schedule of events
The Institute for American Indian Arts:
IAIA will offer a mix of in-person and livestreamed events from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. as IAIA celebrates its 60th birthday. If you missed the bronze pour and raku firing at SFCC or want to see either process again, you can at IAIA’s open house. Watch video projections and a demonstration of IAIA’s one-of-a-kind, fully articulating Digital Dome. Take part in an acting class, listen to readings from IAIA’s talented BFA and MFA in Creative Writing students and alums, and check out an art show. Tour their beautiful Land Grant vegetable and flower gardens and meet the Thunder Bees who help them grow in IAIA’s apiary. If you’re still hungry after having a Frito pie at SFCC, you can try an array of menu options from their on-campus café, Bon Appetit.
Click here to learn more about the IAIA Open House.
Keep checking this web page for more details on the schedules.
Full Schedule of Events:
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Welcome and Information Table | Under portal of Visual Arts Gallery | 1 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | DJ Manny Godsey | Culinary Garden Courtyard | 2 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Steam Roller/Printmaking | Culinary Garden Courtyard Rooms 708/710 | 3 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Papermaking | Culinary Garden Courtyard Rooms 708/710 | 3 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Drawing and Painting Open Studios | Visual Arts Building Rooms 716/718 | 4 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Friends of the Arts Sale | Visual Arts Gallery Room 701 | 5 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Farmer’s Market – Free Produce until gone | Culinary Garden Courtyard Visual Arts Gallery Portal | 6 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Automotive multi point inspections | Auto Tech Building | 7 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Auto Tech Open Studio | Auto Tech Building | 7 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Industrial Welding Open Studio | Trades and Technology Building Room 816 | 8 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Tintype Photo Booth | Portal of Visual Arts Gallery | 6 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Fine Woodworking Open Studio | Room 424/425 | 9 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Woodturning Demonstration – Fine Woodworking | Room 426 | 9 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Continuing Education Open House | Culinary Garden Courtyard | 10 |
| 11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | Ceramics Hand-building Open Studio | Visual Arts Building Room 732 | 11 |
| 11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks: SFCC President Dr. Becky Rowley | Culinary Garden Courtyard | 10 |
| 11:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Frito Pies Free until gone and flavored water | East Wing Eatery | 12 |
| 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Science on a Sphere Demonstration | Trades and Technology Building Room 803 | 13 |
| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | Science on a Sphere Demonstration | Trades and Technology Building Room 803 | 13 |
| 12:00 – 12:30 p.m. | 3-D Printer Demonstration | Room 607 | 14 |
| 12:00 – 2:15 p.m. | Greenhouse/Algae/Biofuels Tour | Sign up table under portal of Visual Arts Gallery | 6 |
| 12:00 – 2:30 p.m. | Suminagashi Workshop* | Room 700 | 16 |
| 12:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Printmaking Open Studio | Visual Arts Building Rooms 708/710 | 3 |
| 12:30 – 1:00 p.m. | Film Department Tour | Room 563 Main Film Studio | 17 |
| 12:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Ceramics Wheel Throwing Open Studio | Visual Arts Building Room 734 | 18 |
| 1:00 – 1:45 p.m. | Planetarium Presentation | Main Building Room | 19 |
| 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Web Program Presentation: Coding,UX,UI, and more | Room 604 | 20 |
| 1:15 – 2:15 p.m. | Greenhouse/Algae/Biofuels Tour | Sign up table under portal of Visual Arts Gallery | 6 |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Aluminum Pour | Sculpture Courtyard | 21 |
| 1:30 – 2:00 p.m. | Film Department Tour | Room 563 Main Film Studio | 17 |
| 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Jewelry Demonstration | Room 720 Visual Arts Building | 22 |
| 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. | Planetarium Presentation | Main Building Room | 19 |
| 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. | Raku Firing | Sculpture Courtyard | 21 |
*Suminagashi Workshop: Participants will create weathergrams by combining short poems with Suminagashi- Japenese marbling. Weathergrams are strips of paper with words and colors that are hung outside to the wind, sun, rain. The process is easy, meditative, and fun. No experience necessary. All ages! We provide materials and instruction. Come write a postcard to a cloud! Visit with us for ten minutes or an hour. Hanging the pieces in the courtyard 2:30-3 p.m. Join us to send your message to the world!
To register to the event, please fill out the form below:
Many thanks to the SFCC Foundation whose support makes events like this possible.
