Sante Fe.Mous

Fe.mous Campaign

As part of its commitment to developing and promoting artistic excellence in Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department launched a celebration of Santa Fe arts, culture, and community featuring local celebrities. With a mix of musicians, artists, poets, business owners, and scientists, the Fe.mous campaign showcases the diverse and thriving art community of Santa Fe. It focuses on what makes Santa Fe an inspiration for creatives.

What is Santa Fe?

Is it a song? A painting? Is it theater? A dance? Is its cuisine? Santa Fe is all of these and more. It's a feeling, an emotion, a magnetism. It's a unique and captivating place where the future meets the past, tradition meets innovation, and art is life. All who experience Santa Fe are inspired by something they can't quite put their finger on, returning over and over to feel it again.

The Santa Fe Arts and Culture Department's mission is to develop and promote artistic excellence in our community. We strive to build collaborative, interdisciplinary, and inclusive pathways for Santa Fe's creators to express the beauty of their community through art. We are here to show visitors and locals through our Fe.mous campaign that there is no place like Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Earth.

We had the pleasure of getting together with a few amazing Santa Feans to chat about what exactly draws people to Santa Fe and what beckons their return. These "local celebrities" gave us insight into their community connections. They are Fe.mous!

Participating community members include:

Arlene Cisneros Sena, Artist

Joe Hayes, Storyteller

Randy Sanchez, Jesse Parker, and Dennis Jasso of Nosotros

Dorothy Massey, Bookstore Owner

Dr. Anthony Dorame, Wildlife Biologist

Monica Sosaya Halford, Spanish Market Artist

Brian Hardgroove, Music Producer

Luci Tapahonso, First Poet Laureate of the Navajo Nation

UNESCO Creative Cities

A UNESCO-designated City of Craft and Folk Art, Santa Fe belongs to a select group of renowned international cities. The group of UNESCO Creative Cities is chosen by application for innovation, investment, and community in a range of arts and creativity. From cooking pots and water containers crafted in clay by Native American tribes a thousand years ago to modern-day decorative items and intricate jewelry crafted in textiles, metal, and wood, Santa Fe welcomes, strengthens, and grows arts and artists in our community. We were the first city designated as a Creative City in the United States in 2005, and we were appointed for our Craft and Folk Art community. UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural Organization) founded the Network in 2004 to recognize expertise in seven fundamental and significant creative fields.

The fields of Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Gastronomy, Music, Literature, Media Arts, and Film celebrate the practices that bring beauty to our communities and drive local economies. Cities participate in activities across geographies and within and across these creative fields.

Though we are designated for Crafts and Folk Art, Santa Fe hosts strengthen and develop creativity across all seven creative fields.

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