Spatial Energy: Shimmer LASER Panel at St. John's College

Saturday April 18, 2026, 3-5pm in conjunction with an exhibition at the Peterson Gallery of St. John’s College Santa Fe
Panel Presenters: Shirley Crow, Evgenya Kirichenko, Morgan Barnard, Abigail Sapien

Shirley Crow paints about deep joy and appreciation of life but this enthusiasm is tempered by emotions like apprehension, pain and longing. Opposites appeal – light and dark, power and vulnerability, known and unknown realities.

Artist Morgan Barnard explores how light, data, and time shape our experience of place. He uses projection, responsive systems, and computation to treat light as a sculptural material.

Artist and St. John's College Student Evgenya Kirichenko's paintings capture the dreamniness of the natual world.

Albuquerque-based artist Abigail (Abby) Sapien, enjoys conversing with her materials, enabling her to develop an intimate relationship with each medium through playful experimentation. She is inspired by the natural repeating patterns, organic shapes and compositions revealed through these unconventional conversations and experiments.

Project Venue and Setting
At St. John’s College, science and art are complementary ways of knowing, and all students engage with the great works of mathematics, natural science, philosophy, poetry, music, and literature through close reading and sustained conversation. With a curriculum that moves from Euclid, Darwin and Einstein to the study and illustration of plants and the movement of celestial beings, St. John’s fosters an education rooted in inquiry, imagination, and the enduring dialogue between scientific discovery and artistic expression.

SciArt Santa Fe, founded in 2019, fosters artists across disciplines that reflect the cultural diversity of New Mexico, supports research that addresses issues that disproportionately affect people of under-represented races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations, national origins, citizenship statuses and ages including climate change, species extinction and migration, that often do not fit within a traditional gallery framework.

Our Spring 2026 SciArt Santa Fe exhibition features 20 New Mexico artists: Sophie Azzolina, Morgan Barnard, Bobbe Besold, Paul Biagi, Chad Colby, Shirley Crow, Deidre Greenly , Jeanette Hart-Mann , Evgenya Kirichenko, Jessica Lanham, Susan Latham, Richard Lowenberg, Palma Maya-Johnson, Jess Merritt, Heather Murphree, Andrea Polli, Nico Rasmussen, Alyce Santoro, Abigail Sapien and Lila Steffan

This event is free and accessible to all. If you need more information, contact [email protected] with questions related to access and accommodation.

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