Intern Architect Charlotte McKernan examines the stories of our town’s cluttered roofline in her presentation Modernology.

In How Did That Become A Thing?, artist Ramona Sakiestewa muses at how an object is elevated to a fashionable trend and how they have come to influence her work.

After decades of photographing the vernacular roadside landscapes across America, Steve Fitch shares his insights on what we can learn about a culture from these remnants.

In Artifacts: Critical Information for Archeologists, archaeobotanist Mollie Toll reveals the inventiveness, technical and artistic skills in ancient artifacts.

Designer Christine Sullivan showcases her latest body of work that gave an ironic twist to a common craft material in her presentation Felt Words.

In Absence, Augmentation and Replication, designer Lila Pickus explores adaptive reuse architecture as curatorial practice, questioning the role of materiality and authenticity of artifacts in exhibiting place-based stories.

Join us for our last 2021 PechaKucha at the CCA for VOL. 12 ARTIFACTS, as our presenter line-up muses on the meanings and roles of artifacts. When does something become an object of discovery? What are the qualities that make a material have substantive value? Is an artifact solely the evidence of existence or does it solicit us to reconsider history?

VOL. 11 BOUNDARIES commences our first live event of 2021 at CCA. Our presenters explore the real or imagined, handed down or self-imposed, boundaries that define our physical realities and internal landscapes.

In Flagging Boundaries, educator Victoria Mora shares her newfound respect for boundaries as a crucial step towards transformative education.

Architect Ronald Rael shares his political statement project—Teeter-Totter Wall at the US-Mexico border; project co-creator: architect Virginia San Fratello.

In Movement is Not Moral, Allegra Love, attorney and founder of Santa Fe Dreamers Project, questions the ethics of detention centers and possible hidden incentives that perpetuate this broken system.

Dog trainer Deborah Tolar shares Leash Work 101: How to Have a Pleasant Walk with Your Dog to help dog owners and their “best friends” cohabitate more harmoniously.

In Social Streets, architect Simon David reframes streets as destinations, revolutionizing our public space to encourage safety, as well as economic and community vibrancy.

Sculptor Paula Castillo examines corral fencing as a structural archetype of otherness and territorialism in her presentation In/Out.

Photographer Kate Russell shares the magic that arises through the process of co-creation in her presentation Collaboration and Combustion.

Composer Chris Jonas presents 20 x 20 Serendipity, a live multimedia experience reflecting the PechaKucha 20 x 20 construct with guest percussionist Ehren Kee Natay.

This “chit-chat” flows from Maureo Fernandez y Mora’s presentation on their gender journey, to Erin English presenting her company’s portfolio on biophilic design, to Queen Bee Music Association sharing health benefits derived from learning music in a group context. Ultrarunner/photographer Rickey Gates closes out the night with his profound practice of transposing Vipassana meditation through the veins of each city he runs.

In Music as a Practice, educators Brian Nelson and Lindsay Taylor discuss how learning music in a community setting is a gateway to cognitive fitness, creative exploration and skill-building.

Ultrarunner/photographer Rickey Gates shares insights gleaned from his Every Single Street project—revealing the “unnatural lines” by disrupting our “natural paths” in his presentation Lines and Paths through Time and Space.

In Creating Healthy Healing Infrastructure, environmental engineer Erin English showcases aesthetically beautiful sustainable water treatment and water reuse infrastructure projects that are guided by biophilic design principles.