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CENTER is pleased to announce the winner of the 2026 Callanan Excellence in Teaching Award. Please join us in congratulating Andrew Patteson, Director of Arts and Photography Teacher at Waterford School, Sandy, UT. This award honors a high school, college, or postgraduate teacher’s dedication and commitment to their students and the photographic field.

FROM THE JUROR'S STATEMENT • “What stands out most is how often students reference time, projects that continue after the semester, conversations that carry forward, and feedback that stays with them long enough to affect future decisions. His influence doesn’t peak during critique or at the end of a course; it accumulates over time.”

— Juror: Eric Kunsman • Photographer, Book Artist, & Assistant Professor, Visual Communications Studies Department, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

LEARN MORE • centersantafe.org/teachingaward

Image: C/O Andrew Patteson

Thank you to everyone that came out to CENTER for the opening reception of A New Mexican Burial by JC Gonzo, and Sống by Ocean Vuong, both on view at CENTER through June 29, 2026.

CENTER is offering additional public programming this month for A New Mexican Burial, including a Documentary Screening, as well as a Polaroid Workshop with JC Gonzo. Learn about the experimental Polaroid emulsion lift process in this hands-on guided workshop. Participants provide their digital images to be printed as a Polaroid print. Brief writing prompts will be given covering topics of tradition and memory resulting in a printed zine.

DOCUMENTARY SCREENING • Thursday, June 18, 6 PM (MT)
POLAROID WORKSHOP • Saturday, June 20, 1 PM (MT)
WHERE • CENTER, 1570 Pacheco St, B-1, Santa Fe, NM 87505
HOW • Free & Public—registration required for workshop
LEARN MORE & REGISTER • centersantafe.org/a-new-mexican-burial

Images: © Nicole Lawe

We are thrilled that the photographic works of Ocean Vuong, award-winning author, poet, professor at NYU and voice of a generation, are coming to CENTER. Images from his long-standing photographic practice will be up May 29-June 28, 2026.

Please see this LENSCRATCH article for a preview of the work.