2019: PAUL PINTO IS SSB AWAY
“SSB Away” is delighted to host composer, writer, and multi-disciplinary performer Paul Pinto for an artist residency this June on Plaza Blanca in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
“SSB Away” is delighted to host composer, writer, and multi-disciplinary performer Paul Pinto for an artist residency this June on Plaza Blanca in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
Filmmaker Michie Gleason has been awarded SSB AWAY’s 2019 residency with a proposal to research a screenplay on the life of Balthus, the controversial artist, in Tuscany, where he experienced his deepest inspiration through the works of Piero della Francesca.
On March 24 Howl! Happenings will celebrate the hundredth birthday of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, an American poet, painter, socialist activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers.
Ahjo is a neuro different, gender queer, pansexual, elemental creature, residing for more than 25 years on Tewa land at O’gha Po’oge—White Shell Water Place—now called Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ahjo’s ancestors, primarily Lithuanian and Norwegian, migrated to the Chicago area.
On a visit to MoMA last March, I paused inside a small room of De Chirico paintings. Surrounded by a suite of his mysterious compositions, I was struck by the specificity of the light—it was unmistakably Italian. The room itself felt like a much-needed escape from New York and triggered memories of my first experience…
SSB welcomes artist Sam Rosner for a two-week SSB AWAY artist residency in Plaza Blanca, Abiquiu, from October 13–27, 2018. Her project while in residence at the space (affectionately nicknamed The Mudball) responds to the trans-historical landscape of northern New Mexico, with a particular focus on the rock formations of Plaza Blanca, the cave dwellings…
The multitalented Heather Ács—who stars with Siobhan Aluvalot and Brontez Purnell in SSB’s co-production of the 2018 Outfest Platinum Centerpiece Our Future Ends by artist and filmmaker Clement Hil Goldberg—is also the director of Flu$h, a short film selected to be screened at this year’s Outfest. In Flu$h, Roxy, a high-femme punk, multitasks between a…
Clement Hil Goldberg has returned to my house in the Southwestern desert yearly to develop the hybrid art event Our Future Ends. I recall quite clearly when they sat lemur-like on my couch and explained how “lemur” is a word that means ghost. They were sitting with their knees to their chest, arms gesticulating wildly,…
Howl! Happening: An Arturo Vega Project is pleased to announce Zeitgeist: The Art Scene of Teenage Basquiat, a group exhibition focusing on the artists and scene around Jean-Michel Basquiat’s teen-aged, pre-fame years. Curated by Howl! Happening, Sara Driver, Carlo McCormick, and Mary-Ann Monforton, Zeitgeist complements and amplifies the theatrical release of Sara Driver’s film BOOM…
NYP PLANT SALE & SEED EXCHANGE Saturday, May 12, 2018 / 10 AM – 2 PM at the Northern Youth Project Garden, off of Highway 84 in Abiquiu, across from Bodes and behind the Rising Moon. Celebrate Spring with teens, families, and friends! Bring your seeds to exchange and share, and get a jump on…