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Studio Artists
Artist: Chris Bryant
Chris Bryant’s work explores the intersection of precision and spontaneity using the most fundamental of tools: graphite and charcoal. By stripping the distraction of color, Chris is forced to communicate through the language of values–the infinite spectrum between the stark white of the paper and the deep, metallic velvet of his medium. Working with graphite […]
Artist: Savannah Bierma
Savannah Bierma is an abstract multidisciplinary artist across textile, experimental photography and video, dance and music. Inspired by historical and present counterculture, daytime life to nightlife, music and media. Exploring immersive and unconventional ways of experiencing art and intertwining mediums. In Service of ARTists Vital Spaces supports local, emerging & BIPOC artists and is inclusive of […]
Artist: Claire Boyce
Claire Boyce is a fine artist, poet, author, performer, and healer originally from Boulder, Colorado. Born with an inherent passion for the arts, she studied drawing, painting, and sculpture in Colorado at the Art Student’s League of Denver starting in 2007 – after graduating Magna Cum Laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder in […]
Artist: E. Esperanza
E. Esperanza is a queer 2-Spirit (they/them) multidisciplinary artist, curator, pole dancer, and award-winning filmmaker of indigenous Zapotec, Mixtec, and mixed-European ancestry. Across mediums their practice incorporates storytelling, myth-making, spirituality, ritual, ceremony, sex-positivity, activism, and archetype. Esperanza’s work has been featured in publications like American Art Collector Magazine, Moviemaker Magazine, OUT Magazine, PAPER Magazine, Filmmaker […]
Artist: Carol Schrader
Carol Schrader’s artistic practice explores connections between mythology, dream, and contemporary issues. Using cyanotype, painting, sculpture, fiber arts, and ritual she investigates archetypes such as the Muse, Persephone, and La Guadalupana as they intersect with women’s roles. Ships become the symbol for safety in the face of the fire of climate change. The repetitive practice […]
Artist: Christopher James Porter (AKA Pecos)
Growing up in Pecos, New Mexico, was a blessing that deeply shaped my identity. My childhood was defined by a close connection to nature and water, as well as time spent with my father hunting, fishing, and visiting the flea markets in Tesuque and Santa Fe. My father was also a highly talented construction worker […]
Artist: Shayla Dawn
Shayla Dawn is dynamic performer, teacher and writer. She has performed and worked in schools in NY and NM teaching theatre, dance, poetry, spoken word, playwriting and creative movement. Shayla has performances to her credit off-broadway and beyond. The last few years have been focused on African Dance and culture and she is currently writing […]
Artist: Monica Ramirez
Monica Ramirez is a native of Veracruz, Mexico, born in October 1969. Her work has been exhibited in several museums, art galleries, universities, consulate of Mexico, and cultural centers. Monica has participated in over 50 solo exhibits in Mexico and the United States and around 300 group exhibits in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. […]
Artist: Cedar Rose Silverado
Cedar Rose is an interdisciplinary Indigenous artist from Santa Fe, located in the traditional Tewa Territory of northern New Mexico. Her artistic work combines various materials including fabric, textiles, photography, paper, and beadwork to create clothing, collages, installations, and assemblages. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO […]
Artist: Marissa Aurora
Marissa Aurora was born in an old garage beside the Galisteo River in Cerrillos, New Mexico. After finding many homes around the globe, they now live in Madrid, NM. Their work, which spans many mediums, from film and textiles to sculpture and performance, draws inspiration from the magic of the universe and strives to be […]
Artist: Kristen Woods
Kristen Woods is a third generation New Mexican performance and visual artist who grew up in Santa Fe. She is a performer, coach and leader in the New Mexican contemporary circus community. She uses visual art, performance and movement to address issues of place, social and environmental justice and the personal. She has been practicing […]
Artist: Eliza Combs
eliza combs (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist, expressive arts therapist, and somatics facilitator based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. they work in installation, painting, sculpture, and video art, exploring the body as memory, resistance, pattern, rupture, and transmutation. drawing from queer, genderqueer, femme/feminist, and working-class identities, as well as Irish, Cornish, and German ancestral lineages, […]
Artist: Pyara Ingersoll
Pyara Ingersoll is a mixed media painter who grew up in Santa Fe, NM and has been painting for last 14 years. She has been lucky to live in Santa Fe where she is surrounded by amazing art and where there is a plethora of education here from top notch artists from around the world. […]
Artist: Valentino Romero
Organization Bio Xol Original is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to preserving and revitalizing Indigenous cultural traditions through handcrafted fashion, cultural education, and economic empowerment. The organization collaborates directly with Indigenous artisans around the Americas and beyond to create one-of-a-kind wearable art, specializing in custom footwear made from sustainably sourced and reclaimed materials. Xol Original bridges […]
Artist: Samantha Chavez
Samantha Chavez is an indigenous self-taught artist and muralist born in O’ga P’Ogeh with roots tied to the land pre Devargas colonization. Samantha found her passion for creating after hesitantly submitting a handmade mask to a Día de Los Muertos Group art show. Samantha has been a self taught full-time artist since that show 4 […]
Artist: Ryan Cook
Ryan T Cook is a cartoonist. His series “Pacheco Prairie Dog’s Southwest Almanac” and “Santa Famous” run in the Santa Fe New Mexican and the Santa Fe Reporter, respectively. His “Kickstand Comics” and “Helmet Hair” series, published by RoadRUNNER Magazine, are enjoyed internationally. He recently became the official cartoonist for the official travel guide of […]
Artist: Robert Washinton-Vaughns
Robert Washington-Vaughns is a mixed-media visual artist of African diasporic heritage and the founder of the Black Men Flower Project, an award-winning international nonprofit dedicated to honoring the narratives, complexities, and holistic well-being of Black men. Grounded in the intrinsic imperfection of nature, Washington-Vaughns invites audiences to rediscover themselves and their surroundings through floral-based installations, […]
Artist: Norma A Ortega
Norma A Ortega’s work explores perception through the logic of material and light. She photographs industrial surfaces like metal, glass, coatings, and engineered forms using controlled illumination and precise vantage points. Then she use digital transformation to extend what the camera begins. Reflection, curvature, and structural geometry become the architecture of the image, turning familiar […]
Artist: Monika Guerra
Monika Guerra (she/they) is a latina contemporary artist born in Southern California and raised in Southern New Mexico. Working across painting, photography, and printmaking, their practice explores liminal spaces and internal landscapes through layered visuals. Guerra earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Certificate in Business and Entrepreneurship from the Institute of American Indian […]
Artist: Laura Davidson
Laura Davidson is an artist and educator, inspired by creative reuse of waste materials. Laura grew up and emerged as an artist in DFW, TX, and was a member of 500x gallery, The Cedars Union cohort 3, and Trade Oak Cliff. She relocated to Santa Fe in 2025. Laura has helped manage the Meow Wolf […]