Autumnal Celebrations: Taos Fall Arts Festival and Taos Wool Festival
The 2021 Taos Fall Arts Festival and Taos Wool Festival support local artistic expression while upholding the town’s artistic legacy of gathered celebrations of the land and art.
Strange Worlds and Memories Collide at Denver’s New Meow Wolf
During a long and dizzying tour of the new Meow Wolf in Denver, a local writer homes in on how the immersive experience conjures a Colorado vibe.
Sep 23
Review: The Art of SA Eats/Sabor a San Antonio at the McNay Art Museum
The McNay Art Museum celebrates San Antonio food culture with The Art of SA Eats, an exhibition combining poppy depictions of sweets and recreations of old-school restaurants and signage.
Sep 22
Review: Exposure: Native Art and Political Ecology at MoCNA
At the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts in Santa Fe, worldwide Indigenous artists render the effects of uranium mining and nuclear bomb testing on their lands and people.
Sep 21
Dallas’s Ash Studios: An Interview with Fred Villanueva and Darryl Ratcliff
Ash Studios is a Dallas community art space inspiring art entrepreneurship and collaborations with the end goal of raising awareness for social justice issues and underrepresented artists.
Sep 20
Art + Environment Conference Virtually Expands at Nevada Museum of Art
Nevada Museum of Art’s Art + Environment Conference transitions to a virtual format with the potential to expand audiences and present more diverse perspectives on Land Art.
Sep 17
Review: Thais Mather: Western Blue at form & concept
Thais Mather: Western Blue at Santa Fe’s form & concept ponders the comprehensive characteristics of the color blue in a cunning display of sculptural installations, micro-pointillist drawings, watercolors, and holograms.
Sep 16
Denver Selfie Museum Isn’t Intellectual, Challenging, or Deep—And That’s Exactly How It Likes It
The Denver Selfie Museum is a pleasant, photogenic distraction during trying times.
Sep 15
Daniel McCoy: Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers
Golden Light, Long Shadows, and Roadside Flowers, a new exhibition by Daniel McCoy, opens at Hecho a Mano in Santa Fe on September 24.
Sep 14
Beauty Suppliers: How Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fresquez Explore Identity and Culture Through Hair
Arizona artists Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Fresquez incorporate unconventional materials including synthetic hair to explore identity and culture at Phoenix’s Lisa Sette Gallery.
Sep 13
Review: Gulf Coast Anthropocene at Project Row Houses
Gulf Coast Anthropocene, the latest exhibition at Project Row Houses in Houston, features works that stray from traditional narratives of the climate crisis to center the Black and brown communities most at risk.
Sep 09
Work in Progress with Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens
“Let me be the conduit:” Jeffrey Wentworth Stevens, a Denver-based jack of most trades and label boss of Multidim Records, talks cassette releases and trading a Snickers for flyer design.
Sep 08
Review: Jerry Takigawa: Balancing Cultures
In Balancing Cultures at Foto Forum Santa Fe, Jerry Takigawa reckons with family history and trauma, and finds beauty in the process.
Sep 07
Santa Fe Restorative Storyteller Kicks off Kennedy Center’s Fiftieth Anniversary
Mi’Jan Celie Tho-Biaz, a Santa Fe cultural worker and oral historian, holds a series of live talks this week that spotlight the distinct nature of BIPOC cultural work.
Sep 06
Review: Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado
In the tiny town of Fort Garland, Colorado, Unsilenced: Indigenous Enslavement in Southern Colorado by Chip Thomas (the artist known as jetsonorama) spotlights uncomfortable and paramount histories of Indigenous captivity.
Sep 02
“It’s a Form of Soft Protest”: Ann Morton’s The Violet Protest
Ann Morton tackles divisive politics with The Violet Protest, a Phoenix Art Museum exhibition that, once deinstalled, will be mailed piecemeal to every member of the United States Congress.
Sep 01
Introducing Smoke The Moon
Introducing Smoke The Moon, a new contemporary gallery and one of Santa Fe’s newest additions to the downtown art landscape.
Sep 01
Southwest Art News: September 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Aug 31
Burning of Santa Fe Public Art Sculpture Remains Unsolved
Artist Tigre Mashaal-Lively talks with Southwest Contemporary about the burning of The Solacii sculpture, which was destroyed in a suspected arson outside of Santa Fe’s form & concept gallery.
Aug 27
Artist Adriene Jenik Puts a Human Face on Tragedy in Afghanistan
Artist Adriene Jenik puts a human face on the tragedy in Afghanistan with her Data Humanization Project, which examines the impacts of America’s militarized culture.
Aug 25
Work in Progress with Derrick Velasquez
Artist Derrick Velasquez, who is represented by Robischon Gallery and runs Yes Ma’am and Friend of a Friend, is a key pillar in Denver's gallery and DIY scenes.
Aug 24
Social Change Drives Shifts in Graduate Arts Education Across the Southwest
Southwestern universities—including Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado Boulder, and more—are working to increase equity, interdisciplinary study, and tangible career skills in graduate arts.
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