- The Harwood Art Museum has named Juniper Manley their new director.
- Robert Krep, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Director of ten years, has resigned. Curator Cody Hartley is serving interim director during a nationwide search.
- Several states in the southwest (New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Nevada) had higher average annual growth in the arts and cultural sector than the national average, according to the ACPSA.
- Two IAIA MFA ’16 alumni and with New York Times best-selling books, Terese Mailhot (Seabird Island Band) and Tommy Orange (Cheyenne/Arapaho), won major literary awards this month: Mailhot won the 2019 Whiting Award for Non-Fiction for Heart Berries: A Memoir (Counterpoint, 2018); and Orange won the 2019 PEN/Hemingway Award for his debut novel There There (Knopf, 2018). Read a review of Heart Berries on our site.
- Robert Krep, Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Director of ten years, has resigned. Curator Cody Hartley is serving interim director during a nationwide search.
- New Mexico School for the Arts (NMSA) will now offer Creative Writing and Literature as a full Major, alongside current majors of Dance, Music, Theatre and Visual Arts, beginning fall 2019.
News at The Magazine
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- Publisher Lauren Tresp was interviewed on A Creative Excuse podcast with Frank Rose. Listen now!
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- The Magazine is now being distributed at a bunch of new locations in Albuquerque. Check the list on our website to find a copy of the April issue!
- Applications are now open for four Editorial Summer Internships! Send us your resume and a cover letter at editor@southwestcontemporary.com to apply. Details at southwestcontemporary.com/job-openings
