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Story Collection Schedule

July 1, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM  CANYON ROAD

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 9, 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM PLAZA

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 12, 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM  RAILYARD

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 15, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM   CANYON ROAD

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 16, 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM GENOVEVA CHAVEZ COMMUNITY CENTER

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 19, 10:30 AM - 2:30 PM RAILYARD

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

July 22, 12:30 PM - 4:30 PM CANYON ROAD

Pleasure Story Collection With Mi'jan

 

 

The Pleasure Show: Jurors

Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz

Dr. Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, Ed.D., is an oral historian, multicultural educator and creative leader. In 2017, Mi'Jan was honored by the Santa Fe New Mexican as “10 Who Made a Difference,” and her cultural work practice was featured by the Rockefeller Foundation and THE Magazine. Currently Mi'Jan is collaborating with Tewa Women United on a Healing Justice narrative project, alongside birthworkers, seed keepers, artists, cultural workers and reproductive justice organizers. In 2017, she was Documentarian-In-Residence with the Institute of American Indian Arts' Essential Studies Department, and from 2015 to 2016, Mi’Jan was a Visiting Scholar with the Interdisciplinary Center for Innovative Theory and Empirics at Columbia University. In 2016, Mi'Jan led the design and facilitation for the Steinem Initiative's public policy digital storytelling and documentation pilot project with women organizers who labor for reproductive justice, at Smith College. Mi'Jan's deepest, overall passion resides in stories: writing, gathering, amplifying and uncovering narratives of personal transformation and community social change.

 

 

Meridel Rubenstein

Meridel Rubenstein maintains her art studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has been an active arts educator for over 30 years.  Since 2006 she has been a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Art, Design, and Media at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore one semester a year. From 1990-95 she was the Harnish Visiting Artist at Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts. She has created photography programs at the College of Santa Fe (1976-80) and the Institute of American Indian Arts in New Mexico (1990-96) and directed the Photography Program at San Francisco State University in California, the oldest Master of Fine Arts program in the USA (1985-90). She has exhibited widely including most recently the Louvre in Paris and the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin as well as in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions. Her works are in prominent collections including the National Museum of American Art in Washington, the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany.  She is currently represented in San Fransisco, CA by Brian Gross Fine Art. Meridel Rubenstein has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bunting Institute at Harvard University, awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, as well as the Pollock-Krasner and the Rockefeller Foundations. She was educated at Sarah Lawrence College in New York and did special graduate studies at M.I.T. with the eminent photographer, Minor White. She received an M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1974 and 1977, where she studied with noted art and photography historian and museum directors Beaumont Newhall and Van Deren Coke.

 

Rose Simpson

Rose B. Simpson was born in 1983 and raised in an Arts and Permaculture environment at Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. She is a mixed-media artist focusing in ceramic sculpture, metal, fashion, painting, music, performance, installation, and custom cars. She graduated high school Valedictorian from the Santa Fe Indian School and attended the University of New Mexico with a focus in Studio Arts, Creative Writing and Dance. In 2007 she graduated with a BFA in Studio Arts from the Institute of American Indian Arts. In 2011 she graduated with an Honors MFA in Ceramics from the Rhode Island School of Design. From 2012-2015 she attended Northern New Mexico College’s Automotive Science Program with a focus in Auto Body. She is currently enrolled in the Institute of American Indian Arts’ Low Rez Creative Writing MFA program and teaches ceramics at IAIA. Simpson has shown her work internationally, and is in numerous museum collections nationally- including the Denver Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Clay Art Center, Heard Museum, Pomona College Museum of Art, and the Peabody Essex Museum. Simpson is currently on the Board of Directors of Flowering Tree Permaculture Institute and the New Mexico School for the Arts. She is represented by Chiaroscuro Contemporary Art Gallery in Santa Fe. Residing on the Santa Clara reservation, she explores the many ways to deconstruct gender and culture-based stereotypes and social ideologies by wandering between ceramic or fashion or drawing or music studios, working on her classic cars and motorcycle in her shop, or pulling weeds and feeding animals on the farm. 

 

 

The Pleasure Show is part of PhotoSummer, a series of exhibitions and events celebrating contemporary photography in Santa Fe and Albuquerque. Learn about all the events here: http://www.photosummer.org/