Connect, Engage, Inspire: Exploring Contemporary Art at SITE Santa Fe through Accessible Virtual Public Programs.

FAIN: ZPP-284048-22

SITE Santa Fe (Santa Fe, NM 87501-3724)
Joanne Lefrak (Project Director: May 2021 to January 2024)

The planning and execution of three exhibitions at SITE, a modern art museum in Santa Fe, and the development of interpretive tools to accompany each exhibit, with the retention of three full-time positions and two part-time positions.

SITE requests NEH support to plan and execute the museum’s 2021-2022 digital interpretive services and virtual/live-streamed Public Programs, which will provide critical explorations of three major exhibitions by groundbreaking women artists. The unique interpretive programming designed to accompany each exhibition will include: virtual tours with SITE Guides and ASL interpreters utilizing the Visual Thinking Strategies methodology; Guide by Cell audio tours; "Art Talk" and "My Life in Art" interviews with exhibiting artists; and one additional public program (TBA) for each exhibition which will connect audiences to local scholars in an exploration of exhibition themes. A grant from NEH would allow SITE to make the necessary investment in personnel, equipment, and infrastructure to provide this series of accessible digital initiatives in the coming year; furthermore, it would lay the foundation for sustainable virtual interpretive programs and services for years to come.