TCA Conversations: Tuning into Humanities from Taos, New Mexico

FAIN: HC-275000-20

Taos Center for the Arts (Taos, NM 87571-7019)
Chelsea A. Reidy (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)

Retention of two staff members and the creation of seven to twelve new roles to support TCA's programs to engage communities in New Mexico in conversations about art history, art theory, and filmmaking.

TCA Conversations focuses on digital programming that engages communities in Taos and Northern New Mexico in conversations about history, criticism, and theory of the arts. The program includes two activities: TCA BigScreen@Home Conversations and TCA Radio Hour: Perspectives on Film, Pictures, and Words. TCA BigScreen@Home Conversations are moderated virtual discussions curated by TCA that feature guest-speakers with expertise in a humanities discipline who can speak critically about filmmaking, theory, and reception. TCA Radio Hour is a weekly radio show that includes interviews, local guest speakers, and humanities scholars in conversations that inquire about the history of music traditions, the history of Taos and Northern New Mexico in terms of schools of art, language use, and the role of film in the story of Taos and New Mexico. [Edited by staff]