Over the summer of 2020, SITE SANTA FE invited the public to participate in silver linings, a public art project and fundraiser encouraging community reflection, communication, sharing, speaking out, and being heard.

New Mexico artists of all ages and backgrounds were invited to create an original 2D artwork on a postcard (5.5 x 11 in) and donate it to SITE Santa Fe to be sold at curated and online with 100% of the sales to support The Santa Fe Dreamers Project.

All submitted works in a horizontal billboard format were reviewed by a jury and three finalists were selected to have their works reproduced as a billboard on the side of SITE SANTA FE’s building, premiering in early 2021.

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THANK YOU

Special thanks for the support of our in-kind sponsor, Paper Tiger.

silver linings Jury

This jury consisted of an insightful and talented group of artists and scholars who had been involved with SITE Santa Fe through SITE Scholars, Young Curators, GEN-ERATE, SITE Internships, SITElab exhibition, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project.

ARTEMISIO ROMERO Y CARVER
Artemisio Romero y Carver is a 17-years old Chicano writer, political organizer and visual artist. Born and raised in New Mexico, he is currently a highschool student at the New Mexico School for the Arts. In 2020 he was named the Santa Fe Youth Poet Laureate. Romero y Carver is a founding member of YUCCA (Youth United for Climate Crisis Action), and an organizer with Walk the Talk Santa Fe.

SYLVIA JOHNSON
Sylvia Johnson is a third culture kid who was born in Bolivia and raised in six different countries in the Americas. She splits her time as Creative Director between Free Roaming Studios, a small film production company dedicated to visual storytelling to inspire action, and the Santa Fe Dreamers Project, a non-profit immigration legal services organization. Sylvia is a Fulbright Scholar, a National Geographic Explorer, and an organizer for racial equity and abolition. She currently leads the Prison Divest New Mexico coalition – a campaign to divest New Mexico educational institutions from private prisons.

KEMELY GOMEZ
Kemely Gomez is a Guatemalan-born studio artist who currently lives and works in Santa Fe, NM. She immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve along with her mother and younger sister. Gomez’s studio practice includes sculpture, painting, performance, and installation art, which focuses on themes of memory, absence, and displacement. Her work is influenced by her childhood experiences in her native country and the challenges she has faced being an undocumented immigrant living in the United States. Gomez received her BFA in Studio Arts from the Santa Fe University of Art and Design in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

NATALIA PAYNE
Natalia Payne is a senior at Santa Fe High School. She is interested in history, politics, culture, and how art both shapes and reflects the state of our world. Her other passions include painting, drawing, reading and writing.

FELICIA NEZ
Felicia Nez is a multimedia artist working in film/digital media, text and imagery. Her films explore Indigenous humor, creating new narratives, and highlight the perseverance and resilience of the Indgenous spirit. Appointed as a participant for Sundance Film Festival’s 2015 screenwriting workshops, and as a 2019 Digital Media Intern for The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, she continues to refine her work. Recently, Nez has turned her focus to the world of creative writing and to using text as imagery. Nez strives to find new and innovative ways to display and share art in isolated Native communities.

MARTÍN WANNAM
Martín Wannam (b. 1992, Guatemala) received his MFA in Photography from the University of New Mexico (2020), a diploma in contemporary photography from La Fototeca (2016) and BA in graphic design from the Universidad Rafael Landivar (2015). Wannam works utilizes photography, performance, and sculpture to disrupt the meaning of religion, folklore, and western beauty standards. Through the critical lenses of gender, sexuality, and race he challenges his own cultural background and deconstructs and disrupts the hegemony of religion as his own gesture of political resistance.