élégie: apprenticeship with solastalgia
Featured art program
Suzanne Sbarge, Boxcar, 2019, mixed media on panel, 20 x 16
© Suzanne Sbarge
Join us for our FINAL concert of the new season
simone baron presents a solo accordion performance exploring grief, ecology, and transformation through sound, projection, and space. the concert creates a ritual-like journey through the architecture of the stairwell, transforming it into a living instrument. through composed pieces, improvisation, and field recordings, simone invites audiences to reflect on sorrow not as a burden, but as a guide toward deeper presence and creative renewal.
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ABOUT THE ARTIST
SIMONE BARON is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer. A listener of sounds beneath, within and beyond, her music plays at the intersection of the familiar and the avant-garde. Simone was educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas. Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies from Chamber Music America, South Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Hambidge Center, Bloedel Reserve, Istituto Sacatar, iPark, Strathmore Foundation, ArtOMI, UMD, Avaloch Farm, the Banff Centre, and Spectrum Toronto. In 2016 Simone founded Arco Belo, a GenreFluid chamber ensemble. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion.
Learn more at https://simonebaron.com/
Suzanne Sbarge was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1965. She has lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1989. She received a B.A. degree in Art History and Studio Arts from Barnard College in New York City (1987) and an M.A. degree in Art Education from the University of New Mexico (1991). She has also studied studio arts at L’Ecole des Beaux Arts in Toulouse, France; Syracuse University in Florence, Italy; The Art Students’ League in New York City; University of Connecticut; University of Massachusetts; as well as Anderson Ranch in Colorado, and Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. She has done multiple residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Obracadobra Artist Residency in Oaxaca, Mexico. Her work has been exhibited in over 80 group exhibitions and 15 solo shows since the late 1980s. It is in the collections of over 150 local, national and international collectors, and has been represented at galleries across the United States. In addition to her own artwork, Suzanne has worked as a museum director, curator, graphic designer, and arts consultant. She is the Founder of 516 ARTS, a non-collecting contemporary art museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and served as its Executive Director for 17 years.
