What is the “Spirit of Santa Fe?” The President of New Mexico Women in Film Shares Her Definition on About Robbi Firestone's Fine Art Portraits on CinemaScope Radio
Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) July 31, 2013 -- CinemaScope host Linda McDill has lived in Japan, Rome, Los Angeles and inner-city Houston, where “condos line the roads” and traffic, smog, and intense humidity are daily nuisances. That gave the president of New Mexico Women in Film an increased appreciation for Santa Fe’s unique qualities.
McDill recently sat for a portrait in Robbi Firestone’s studio, as part of a series called, "The Spirit of Santa Fe," for an exhibition at Santa Fe’s Casweck Galleries opening August 9, 2013. “There are people who exemplify the spirit of Santa Fe,” Firestone says, “like Judge Michael Vigil, and designer Lisa Samuel. Linda was chosen as one of them."
Firestone asked McDill two questions: “What is the spirit of Santa Fe?” and “What does ‘spirit’ mean to you?” Cinematographer Craig Clark filmed McDill and other subjects as they answered these questions, creating a mini-documentary to be shown during the show run.
For McDill, the answers had to do with the influence of living in “extreme beauty,” and how it affects her spirit in “slow and subtle ways.” Here are some of the highlights.
“I told Robbi, when you go somewhere in Santa Fe, people don’t talk about the traffic or the bad weather. They say, ‘Wow, did you see the sunset?’ When people get together, they don’t talk about horrible traffic and smog; they talk about sunsets or the aspens on the side of the ski mountain. When I moved here, it was such a change.” She spoke of the wide open spaces, the dramatic mountains, the big blue sky. “In other places, there is beauty—but this is untouched beauty.”
“It has calmed my spirit and opened my heart in ways I didn’t know that were closed. Santa Fe works to maintain its unique beauty, and that is something we need to strive for, to maintain our own extreme inner beauty.” To McDill, the spirit of Santa Fe is a collective spirit, in which these forces have acted on individuals for the better, and the collective spirit, as a result, is beautiful.
McDill and partner Stu Goswick's radio show, “Cinema Scope,” is about the film and television industry in New Mexico. She will be interviewing Firestone, “Spirit of Santa Fe” cinematographer Craig Clark, and Casweck Galleries director Debrianna Mansini (on Friday, August 2, from 6:30 to 7 p.m.), talking about the exhibition and its film element.
Listen to “Cinema Scope” on KSFR (101.1 FM or streaming at ksfr.org). You can also listen to the podcast afterwards at cinemascope.libsyn.com.
Casweck Gallery, 203 W. Water St. in downtown Santa Fe features the works of renowned artist Ernest Chiriacka (1913-2010), known for his exquisite historical Western and Native American paintings, as well as his iconic work in the genres of Esquire pin-ups and pulp illustration. http://www.CasweckGalleries.com
Veteran filmmaker Craig Clark will also create a short, filmed documentary asking each muse, “What is the Spirit of Santa Fe; What does spirit mean to you?” to be displayed at the gallery during Firestone’s show; the month of August.
Stuart Goswick, SFCC Film Department staff member, union film worker & veteran of the entertainment industry, presents a lively range of topics within the scope of the burgeoning New Mexico film industry. Stu hosts conversations and interviews with key people making movies in NM and keeps listeners up-to-date with current NM movie news, film reviews & more. Linda McDill, producer of Cinema Scope, presents Music in the Movies on the first Friday of each month.
Firestone is a fine art oil portrait artist known for her sought-after oil portrait commissions, called Spirit Capture Portraits, which deftly reflect subjects’ inner selves, and hopes and dreams, as well as the faces they show the world. Subjects include Michael Beckwith of bestselling book and film, “The Secret,” Bart Millard of best-selling band MercyMe, and 3x Grammy Winner, Keb'Mo'. Learn more about Spirit Capture Oil Portrait Commissions and Robbi Firestone’s work at http://www.RobbiFirestone.com
Contact:
Debrianna Mansini
debriannamansini2075(at)hotmail(dot)com
(505) 913-1435
Robbi Firestone, Spirit Capture Oil Portrait Commissions, http://www.robbifirestone.com, 310-990-4018, [email protected]
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