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What is the History Behind Santa Fe’s Artistic identity?
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PAINTING SANTA FE
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(City, State) --- (Station ) Focusing on the founding of the Santa Fe Arts Colony, PAINTING SANTA FE tells the fascinating history of Santa Fe’s transformation from an adobe village to a world-renowned center for the arts. The hour-long film celebrates the history, culturally-diverse artists, institutions, and patrons of this unique place and chapter in American art.
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Santa Fe is an amazing American success story, but what are the origins of Santa Fe becoming an arts capital? Over the centuries, this city has gone through several transformations -- from a colonial capital on El Camino Real, to a trade capital with the Santa Fe Trail,to its present incarnation -- an international arts capital with a strong cultural identity and artistic legacy.
There are numerous artists and community people who are important to the story of PAINTING SANTA FE.
Featured are: Carlos Vierra, Robert Henri, Gerald Cassidy, Olive Rush, Los Cincos Pintores, John Sloan, Randall Daveyand more. New Mexico PBS was fortunate to connect with, and include, families of Santa Fe artists Fremont Ellis, Carlos Vierra, Will Shuster, and Oliver La Farge.
“PAINTING SANTA FE encompasses approximately the first two decades of Santa Fe’s arts colony,” says Michael Kamins, Executive Producer, New Mexico PBS. “From 1904, when Carlos Vierra arrives, to the early 1930s. In this span, we see the arrival of artists, many seeking a cure for tuberculosis. These early years include the arrival of Hewett, and the plans to find an economic engine for the economically depressed Santa Fe.”
“Edgar Lee Hewett became a force in transforming the city,” continues Kamins. “This visionary, a cultural entrepreneur, is a very important part of this story. At the heart of the story is art. We often think about art as being as transformative experience for an individual. Yet, here art was essential in the transformation of an entire city.”
“Then there is the fateful meeting of Henri and Hewett in San Diego, and the opening of the Museum,” says Kamins. “The Museum attracts numerous artists, along with being a foundation for the growing artist colony.”
The later part of the documentary features an in-depth look into the artists themselves, such as Los Cinco Pintores. The City Different becomes a broad canvas for the artists, and program closes celebrating their contributions to the community and transformation of Santa Fe.
The Executive Producers of PAINTING SANTA FEare MichaelKamins and Nedra Matteucci.
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