Curator Profile: Daina Warren for Vicki Myhren Gallery
Curator Daina Warren draws from her expertise in Indigenous art as practiced in Canada to present a powerful female-centric exhibition.
October 20, 2022
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Challenging Cowboy History at the Harwood Museum of Art
Two new exhibitions at the Harwood Museum of Art in Taos complicate the rich history of the cowboy in the American Southwest.
October 19, 2022
Country’s Largest Mexican Retablo Collection, Once Stored Underneath Bleachers, is Paired with Contemporary Devotional Works
Contemporary Ex-Votos at NMSU Art Museum sheds light on the understudied iconographic and ideological aspects of retablos depicting miracles on tin and found materials.
October 18, 2022
Work in Progress with William T. Carson
William T. Carson's coal-based artworks comment on cultural relationships to fossil fuels and provoke questions about how humans value natural materials.
October 17, 2022
In i know you are, but what am i?, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity.
October 14, 2022
Santa Fe’s Multicultural Mural, Version 2.0
Gilberto Guzmán, a lead artist of Santa Fe’s sharply contested and now-defunct Multicultural mural, painted a new Multicultural to be displayed in 2023.
October 12, 2022
IAIA Making History Symposium Will Explore Past, Present, and Future of the Indigenous-Centered Institute
IAIA will present the IAIA Making History Symposium on October 17, 2022, a day-long illumination of the school's sixty-year evolution from an arts-focused Native American high school to a technologically advanced college.
October 11, 2022
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
October 10, 2022
Shawn Skabelund Explores Ecological and Cultural Destruction at Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff artist Shawn Skabelund explores ecological and cultural destruction using materials gathered from forests in his exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts.
October 07, 2022
In Memoriam: Tigre Mashaal-Lively
Memorial services for Tigre Mashaal-Lively, who made art about individual and collective trauma and healing, are scheduled for Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 in Santa Fe.
October 06, 2022
Before and Afterlives: JC Gonzo Rejuvenates New Mexico’s Abandoned Cemeteries
JC Gonzo’s photographs of New Mexico cemeteries place viewers in a symbiotic relationship with the land, community, and history.
October 05, 2022
Flowers and Herb Markets: A Local Approach to Cannabis and Flowers
Flowers and Herb Markets in Old Town Albuquerque curates a selection of products ranging from fresh flower arrangements to sexual wellness and local, sustainably grown cannabis, and its business model is committed to the local community.
October 04, 2022
Southwest Art News: October 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
October 04, 2022
Step Into Christian Degn’s Dark, Magical Castle
Provo-based artist Christian Degn brings viewers into an abstract, dark, and magical world with pen-and-ink illustrations that grace album covers for well-known metal and ambient bands.
September 30, 2022
Review: Desert ArtLAB: Chicanx Landscapes at the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center
Working across performance, printmaking, video, and Native ecological practices and philosophies, Desert ArtLAB cultivates and nourishes Indigenous agriculture through a Chicanx lens.
September 29, 2022
Denver’s Tya Anthony Explores Social Justice Through Visual Catharsis
Tya Alisa Anthony untangles the meaning of safe spaces as sanctuary and explores the art of social justice, human rights, and identity in the Mile High City.
September 27, 2022
Curator Profile: Rachelle Pablo of 516 Arts
Rachelle Pablo (Diné), 516 Arts's newly-appointed curator who will unveil her first exhibition this weekend, aims to unpack nuance and adjust misrepresentations of contemporary Indigenous artists.
September 26, 2022
Review: Two Cultures, One Family at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Two Cultures, One Family, a group exhibition curated by Dr. Erika Abad at the Marjorie Barrick Museum in Las Vegas, constitutes a cross-cultural call and response.
September 23, 2022
New Salt Lake City Gallery Current Work Arrives at a Transitional Time for the Local Art Scene
Current Work, founded by longtime arts advocate Tiffini Porter, raises the contemporary art bar in Salt Lake City. The gallery also fills several sudden gaps in Utah's creative ecosystem.
September 22, 2022
2022 Santa Fe Studio Tour: Visit the Heart of Art
The Santa Fe Studio Tour includes eighty-four artists in seventy-one studios throughout the Santa Fe area.
September 21, 2022
Work in Progress with Afton Love
Afton Love, who lives and creates in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, pivoted from big-picture abstract art to a form of abstraction that ponders and employs addition rather than subtraction. 1. […]
September 20, 2022
Karsten Creightney and Sarah Hadley Debut Work at Richard Levy Gallery
Richard Levy Gallery presents two solo exhibitions this fall: new work by Albuquerque artist Karsten Creightney and Los Angeles artist Sarah Hadley.
September 20, 2022
A Peek Inside Performance Santa Fe’s Fall Concerts
A look at three upcoming Performance Santa Fe fall 2022 concerts featuring Hélène Grimaud, the Anat Cohen Quartetinho, and the Charles Lloyd Ocean Trio.
September 19, 2022
Anthony Garcia Sr.’s Serape-Influenced Murals of Denver
The serape-style murals and public-art pieces of Birdseed Collective co-founder Anthony Garcia Sr. are integral to Denver’s urban infrastructure.
September 19, 2022
Work in Progress with Jeff Suina
Cochiti Pueblo artist Jeff Suina incorporates traditional pottery materials and knowledge as well as architectural and digital technologies in sculpting angular and eye-catching works in clay.
September 16, 2022
Indigenous Designers Rebuff Mainstream Fashion Industry Trends
The Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show shined a spotlight on Indigenous designers who bring new perspectives to an industry in need of positive, equitable change.
September 14, 2022
Origami in the Garden Takes Center Stage in Santa Fe
Santa Fe’s September celebration of art spotlights Kevin and Jennifer Box's Origami in the Garden with a gallery show, a documentary film, and a studio tour in Northern New Mexico.
September 13, 2022
New Mexico State Committee Honors Judy Chicago at 25th Anniversary Event
The New Mexico State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts celebrates its 25th Anniversary on October 14th with the event Championing Women Through the Arts: An Evening with Judy Chicago.
September 12, 2022
Review: The Powers Art Center: Worshiping at the Altar of Jasper Johns
Visiting an exquisite private art collection nestled in the Colorado Rockies devoted to Jasper Johns, Emilie Trice wonders: is his work relevant in this day and age?
September 12, 2022
Phoenix Faces Tough Choices with Arts and Culture Funding
Phoenix seeks community input as the city considers bond funding for a new Latino Cultural Center and other creative projects, all while art spaces rebound from COVID-19 impacts.
September 09, 2022
