SITE Scholars: Student Artists Get A Helping Hand

KUNM | By Spencer Beckwith

Published March 20, 2015 at 8:29 AM MDT

In 20 years now of exhibitions, SITE Santa Fe has helped launch the careers of hundreds of emerging artists from around the world. Recently, the contemporary art center in the Santa Fe Railyard has started taking under its wing young artists close to home. Joanne Lefrak, SITE's Director of Education and Outreach, describes the SITE Scholar program, designed to help students from colleges and universities in northern New Mexico transition into the professional art world.

In this longer version of the interview, Joanne Lefrak speaks in greater detail about the program and discusses the March 27 inauguration ceremony for the newest group of SITE Scholars.

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Spencer Beckwith

Spencer Beckwith reports on the arts for KUNM. For ten years, until March of 2014, Spencer was the producer and host of KUNM's "Performance New Mexico," a weekday morning arts program that included interviews with musicians, writers and performers. Spencer is a graduate of the acting program at the Juilliard School, and, before moving to New Mexico in 2002, was for many years a professional actor based in New York City.

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