This year, in honor of the 40th anniversary of JRACraft and the 25th anniversary of the Center for Craft, we combine our most well-known programs for one celebratory season. Four JRACraft Distinguished Artist Series returning encore artists will be paired with four emerging artists recognized by the Center for Craft's Windgate-Lamar Fellowship to present a collaborative weekend exploring commonality and materiality. Each weekend will be hosted online and include a virtual Saturday demonstration/studio visit and free Sunday lecture.

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ARTIST DEMONSTRATION / STUDIO VISIT
Saturday, June 11| 1 - 2:30pm
Virtual Zoom event
$25 members | $30 non-members
$85 for all 4 workshops, members only

FREE PUBLIC LECTURE
Sunday, June 12 | 2 - 3pm
Virtual Zoom event


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JENNIFER TRASK
Jennifer Trask attended Massachusetts College of Art completing her BFA in Metalsmithing in 1993 and later graduated the State University of NY at New Paltz with an MFA in 1997 and is a full time studio artist. The elaborate objects and sculptures made of found materials like bone, wood, and antlers point to the Dutch tradition of Vanitas and at the same time addressing the traditional practice of isolating examples/ideals of beauty stylization of nature, "in effect a death of the real, the imperfect, the individual."

Examples of Trask’s work can be found in many public collections including the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC; the Museum of Art and Design in New York, NY; CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands; Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia. 

SHENEQUA
SHENEQUA is an Artpreneur who received her Masters of Design in Fashion, Body, & Garment at School of the Art Institute of Chicago under the mentorship of Nick Cave. Founder of Weave Your Dreams Into Reality Studios LLC, she highlights her gifts, services, knowledge, and shares her stories with the world one thread at a time.

A featured artist for Ties that Bind in American Craft Magazine and the Kansas City Star, she often speaks about her process of weaving synthetic-hair in relationship to the African American hair experience. Notable lectures include the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, the Surface Design Association, and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library. She was 2014’s Windgate Fellow of the Center for Craft and 2017-2018’s recipient of the inaugural YoungArts Daniel Arsham Fellowship, presented by the Ridinger-McLaughlin Family.

Enjoy New Mexico Treasures with JRACraft and get exclusive access to the region's top galleries, private artists studio tours, meet the curators of ground-breaking exhibitions, experience the local culture and some enjoy of the finest cuisine New Mexico offers.

Questions about this trip can be sent to info@jra.org

Included: transportation to all planned events, some meals, all museum entry fees
Not included: transportation to and from New Mexico and during free times​, some meals, lodging

Cancellation policy: All trips are subject to cancellation or rescheduling at JRACraft's discretion based on local or national conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic. If a trip is cancelled or rescheduled, all participants will be notified promptly and offered the choice of a full refund of the trip cost or the opportunity to participate on the new dates (if the trip is rescheduled).​
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Arrive to Inn on the Almeda 
5 pm Dinner reservations at ​Chef’s Degustacion at Sazon
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​BREAKFAST at hotel

9:00 am Intro & history with Peter Weiss.  Peter is one of the most experienced guides in Santa Fe and he will walk you from your hotel across the plaza to Patina Gallery.
Patina Gallery, the best contemporary craft and jewelry gallery in Santa Fe. Under the expert direction of Ivan and Alison Barnett, you will see contemporary jewelry and hear a short lecture by Bruce Bernstein. Dr Bernstein is a leading expert on contemporary Indian ceramics which are undergoing an amazing renaissance with the emergence of male potters..in a tradition which was previously all female.  You will see some of the works by one of the super stars, Lonnie Vigil. 
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Lunch at Patina
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BUS to Railyard
Tai Gallery, short discussion from Rob Coffland, Tai founder who discovered Japanese basket weaving, brought some of the masters to the United States.

Site Santa Fe, short discussion from Louis Grachos, the director. SITE is a Kunsthalle, dedicated to the modern aesthetic. 
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Form & Concept Gallery small reception.  This galley has two artists who are in Renwick Collection Robert Ebbendorf and Deborah Baxter who may join us. 
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Visit the studio of Geoffery Gorman, who works with found material, the flotsam and jetsum of the human world.  His work is widely represented in museums and private collections.

Studio visit to Gail & Zacharia Rieke, work in collage, assemblage and installation. Their work is represented in many museums and private collections. 

Private reception at Gerald Peters Gallery to see Tom Joyce’s work and Karen LaMonte’s work. Tom Joyce is a sculptor and MacArthur Fellow known for his work in forged steel and cast iron. Using skills and technology acquired through early training as a blacksmith, Joyce addresses the environmental, political, and social implications of using iron in his work. Karen LaMonte works in glass and bronze, known for her life-size sculptures in ceramic, bronze, marble, and cast glass.
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Santuario at Chimayo. The Santuario is a Catholic church built over a shrine which has miraculous healing dirt.  It is noted for the large altar pieces showing the Hispanic painting traditions.  It is a National Historic Landmark and contemporary pilgrimage site.

Centenella Weavers Studio, Irving & Lisa Trujillo have taken the traditional craft of weaving and made into an art.  They have won almost every award possible.

Larry Bell’s studio in Taos.
Throughout his long and illustrious career, Larry Bell has made investigations into the properties of light on surface. By experimenting with the nature of surface and its relationship to space, Bell has devised a methodology characterized by spontaneity, intuition and improvisation.  In 1963 he began to explore the passing of light through cube sculptures, challenging notions of mass, volume and gravity.

Harwood Museum
The Harwood Museum of Art is one of the best kept secrets in the Southwest. Founded in 1923 in Taos, New Mexico, the museum’s collections and exhibitions tell a comprehensive story of art in Taos and Northern New Mexico. You will explore notable art from contemporary to traditional in a historic adobe building. 
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Stop at Tower Gallery for Roxanne Swentzel, a potter and ceramic artist whose work is sculptural and innovative.  She is a member of the pueblo of Santa Clara.
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Visit Claire Kahn studio including lunch. Claire does crochet beadwork combining precious and semi-precious stones into necklaces and bracelets that take many forms.  She will also cook a special lunch for the group.  2-1/2 hours for this event

Stop at Bulls Eye Glass to have a brief look at the raw materials and processes used in making glass art. 

Private tour of the de la Pena house with suburb examples of early Navajo weaving, early Spanish woodwork.  This house is being staged so is very much in process but a rare opportunity to visit a very famous house.  
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Explore Museum Hill at the International Folk Art Museum, Museum of Indian Arts and Culture and take a tour by Leticia Chambers, curator of the glass show at the Museum of Indian Art and Culture, to discuss the glass show.  There is also large exhibit of jewelry and ceramics. We will run two shuttles back to the hotel to stagger return times if some people want to stay longer.

Free time in downtown, which can include the O’Keeffe Museum, New Mexico History Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, and IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts 

Tour the O’Keeffe House and visit to the cliffs, an area above Abiquiu which O’Keeffe loved to paint.   

Enjoy dinner at Gerald Peters Gallery for with members from the  Art Alliance of Contemporary Glass
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Travel Day
Good bye (or local Spanglish: Bueno Bye)