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Edie Tsong Love Letter to the World

Love Letter To The World

Interdisciplinary artist/writer Tsong explores her love of music, her creativity and her quiet joyous moments in our #FiftyQuestions series.

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SSB Away artist Chris Jonas

I Don’t Worry About Understanding

Composer, saxophone player, and video artist, Jonas is like a whirling dervish of creativity and collaboration. Here, in our #FiftyQuestions series he talks about the concept of disambiguation of the creative mind (open mind), the value of criticism, and the central role of collaboration in his multivalent practice.

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SSB Away artist David Forlano answers some of the #FiftyQuestions.

Destruction is Just Another Tool

A Santa Fe musician, and visual and performance artist, Forlano explores the permeable boundaries between the arts and the role of improvisation in his answer to our #FiftyQuestions.

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Linda Mary Montano Ma and the Seven Chakras

Linda Mary Montano’s “MA AND THE SEVEN CHAKRAS”

“Made right after Covid lockdown, my art gave me an opportunity to rejoice, grieve and sonically face impermanence via sounds and a Chicken Dance I’ve been performing for decades.”

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SSB seeks author of Amulet Mandala

Low and Slow in the New Year

A New Year’s offering by urban shaman Donna Henes discovered in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art.

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excerpt of a 1978 letter from Laurie Anderson to Susan Martin

Letter from Laurie Anderson, 1978

Laurie Anderson letter from 1978 discovered while foraging in the SSB Collection at the Archives of American Art illustrates her wit and storytelling chops early in her artistic trajectory.

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Carey Maxon - The Recruit

Headspace

Carey Maxon reveals her artistic intentions in #FiftyQuestions to celebrate the publication of her lithograph No no, Non Sola Sola in SSB’s But Seriously benefit print series.

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Trey Speegle - The Future Was Better

What Are You Waiting For?

SSB is pleased to present Trey Speegle’s answers to some of our #FiftyQuestions in honor of the publication of his lithograph in SSB’s “But Seriously” benefit print series. “New Happy Now still holds up for me,” he says. It’s one of those ubiquitous phrases I employ in my work.”

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Karen Finley How to Arrange Books

A Word from Karen Finley

Karen Finley talks about humor and joy of being alive.

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But Seriously - 3 new prints

Karen Finley, Trey Speegle and Carey Maxon Prints

SSB Publishes 3 new lithographs by artists Karen Finley, Trey Speegle and Carey Maxon in the But Seriously benefit print series.

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