SITE Santa Fe awarded NEA grant

Money will support upcoming exhibition ‘Going With the Flow’

SITE Santa Fe will receive a Grants for Arts Projects award of $30,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The money will support the upcoming exhibition, “Going With the Flow: Art, Actions and Western Waters,” opening on April 14.

This grant is one of 1,251 Grants for Arts Projects awards, totaling nearly $28.8 million, announced by the NEA as part of its first round of fiscal year 2023 grants.

“The National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects in communities nationwide,” said Maria Rosario Jackson, NEA chair. “Projects like ‘Going with the Flow’ at SITE Santa Fe strengthen arts and cultural ecosystems, provide equitable opportunities for arts participation and practice, and contribute to the health of our communities and our economy.”

The show will exhibit works by artists and collectives based in the Southwestern U.S. exploring the role of water during current extreme droughts. In addition to artworks shown in the museum, participating artists will produce temporary artworks, interventions, community collaboration, talks and performances that raise consciousness around pressing issues of water in and around Santa Fe.

“The combination of conventional gallery display and dynamic public actions is central to this exhibition,” says co-curator Brandee Caoba. “The artists we’re working with are addressing crucial issues pertaining to water in the West that cannot be confined to an institutional space alone.”

“Going with the Flow” is curated by Caoba and Lucy R. Lippard.

A full schedule of public programs will take place throughout the run of the exhibition. Event details will be updated at sitesantafe.org.