SWOON

SWOON talked and showed her film-in-progress "REALM of SIBYLANTS" at the Santa Fe Art Institute on May 14th, 2026, sponsored by the Turner Carroll Gallery of Santa Fe:

SWOON has a lot of energy and great character

SWOON emphasized her current film project SIBYLANT SISTERS:

The making of the Sibylant Sisters Oralce Deck:

direct from Swoon Studio

The talk/premiere was held at the Santa Fe Art Institute:

SWOON event

at the Santa Fe Art Institute

The Turner Carroll Gallery

had a SWOON exhibition, 

and sponsored the talk

The entrance to the Santa Fe Art Institute

where Swoon gave her talk/premiere

THE TALK

SWOON showed clips

from her SIBYLANT SISTERS film

SWIMMING CITIES OF SERENISSIMA --

Swoon talked about when she crashed

 the Venice Biennale in 2009

with boats she made of junk and prints

SWOON felt that her Medea installation

was the most powerful

The venue also hung some of SWOON'S artwork:

SWOON was selling her new ORACLE Deck:

SIBYLANT SISTERS ORACLE DECK

SF Reporter article

May 13 - 19, 2026 issue

The Turner Carroll Gallery had previously shown the prints of SWOON at their Container Gallery in Santa Fe in 2022:

Prints and Exhibition November

SWOON exhibition in Santa Fe in 2022

at the Container Gallery

SWOON was featured in Banksy's 2010 film -- EXIT THROUGH THE GIFTSHOP:

Exit Through the Gift Shop -- Documentary

SWOON was also featured in the 2005 film -- Next: A Primer on Urban Painting | The underground art that conquered the world:

Next: A Primer on Urban Painting | 

The underground art that conquered the world

I "exhibited" with Swoon in San Francisco in 2008. Well, I put my postage stamp sized portrait on the community board where she wheat pasted her huge skeleton print in the Mission District:

Swoon and I "exhibited" together in 2008

in the Mission District of San Francisco

I also remember seeing SWOON'S print in Oaxaca in 2016 (though I did not post it on my blog):

Kevin McCloskey posted this photo 

of SWOON'S print in Oaxaca

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MADA

The SANTA FE ART INSTITUTE and SWOON'S talk was at MADA -- MIDTOWN ARTS AND DESIGN ALLIANCE in Santa Fe:

SHEPARD FAIREY painted a mural there in 2013 before MADA, when the campus was the Santa Fe University of Art and Design:

Shepard Fairey painting at MADA

My Albuquerque t-shirt by Joe Turner

outshines Shepard Fairey

RYAN COPE

Ryan Cope was painting a mural in VITAL SPACES on the MADA campus, and invited people to see his progress on May 16, 2026:

Ryan Cope in front of his mural

Ryan Cope explaining his mural to John Tollett,

before the mural ships to Houston

David-Alexander Hubbard Sloan, Matthew Chase-Daniel,

me and Ryan Cope (l to r)

That day we also visited the new SKY CINEMA on the MADA campus, which has been open for less than two months.  Gabe gave us a tour of the building, with the Hollywood green screens in the adjacent rooms:

Gabe in front of the green screen

Huge movie set

in the Sky Cinema building

Last June 14th, 2025 we worked with the PRINTERS PLANET and made prints during the MADA SUMMER CELEBRATION:

MADA SUMMER CELEBRATION -- Printmaking in Santa Fe

We made prints on the MADA campus in June 2025

with THE PRINTERS PLANET

MAKE SANTA FE

is coming to the MADA campus

LENA WALL

SWOON wheat pastes her prints in public spaces all over the continent.  The LENA WALL in Santa Fe is a rotating wheat paste print wall in Santa Fe, run by Matthew Chase-Daniel.  Currently there is an exhibition by Douglas Miles:

Douglas Miles

Douglas Miles is from Arizona

Unauthorized wheat paste

Seen in Santa Fe