2024-11-23T04:44:47-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149961913/paolo-soleri-amphitheater-featured-at-site-santa-fe-biennial conradskinner 2016-08-08T01:28:00-04:00 >2016-08-14T18:59:24-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/vc/vcqof0vq80rw8fbp.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Architect Conrad Skinner&rsquo;s five-year research project into the history of the <a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/203520/paolo-soleri" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Paolo Soleri</a> Amphitheater plays a lead role in <strong><em>much wider than a line</em></strong><em>, </em>SITE <a href="http://archinect.com/searchall/santa-fe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Santa Fe</a>&rsquo;s 2016 biennial dedicated to new art from the Americas.&nbsp; The <a href="https://sitesantafe.org/exhibition/sitelines-2016/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">exhibition</a> which features 35 artists and two archival projects including Skinner&rsquo;s, runs at SITE Santa Fe through January 8, 2017.&nbsp;</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/xu/xulxh5mwj60sdqdf.jpg"></p><p>Skinner&rsquo;s project introduces visitors to <strong><em>much wider than a line</em></strong><em> </em>with a 700 square-foot gallery that includes a photographic mural of the Amphitheater from which projects an arcing concrete bench, architect&rsquo;s drawings reproduced from Soleri&rsquo;s sketchbooks, and a micaceous clay model of the Amphitheater by artist Eliza Naranjo-Morse.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/650x/ex/exqs5pqcuc3j456t.jpg"></p><p>The Paolo Soleri Amphitheater re-imagined Western theater space by introducing Native American precedents and represented the turning point in Native American arts education that the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) initiated in the mid-1960s. The Amphitheater grew out of a creative collaboration betw...</p>