50th Annual Crested Butte Arts Festival
Crested Butte hosts its 50th Annual Crested Butte Arts Festival August 5–7, 2022.
June 08, 2022
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UMFA Highlights Utah in the 1970s, From Spiral Jetty to Voter Rights
Curator Alana Wolf mines the University of Utah’s archives to backdrop the various occurrences of the 1970s—the formative decade in which Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty made its debut.
June 08, 2022
High-Profile Visionaries Present at SITE Santa Fe
Priya Parker, conflict resolution strategist and author, and Anand Giridhadaras, journalist and writer, present at SITE Santa Fe’s Innovative Thinker Summer Speaker Series.
June 07, 2022
Curator Profile: SITE Santa Fe’s Brandee Caoba’s Powerful Practice of Saying Yes
SITE Santa Fe curator Brandee Caoba’s generous yet discerning way of being in the world, the studio, and the exhibition space supports artists and audiences alike.
June 07, 2022
Review: Somos Southwest Only Whispers to the Chicano Arts Movement
The exhibition Somos Southwest at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum delivers a muted homage to the Chicano Arts Movement, primarily through works by Arizona and California artists.
June 06, 2022
Meet Shelly C. Lowe, the First Indigenous Chair of the NEH
Shelly C. Lowe (Diné), the first Native American to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, is approaching her high-profile job at the granting institution through an Indigenous lens.
June 03, 2022
Southwest Art News: June 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
June 01, 2022
Work in Progress with Reyes Padilla
Albuquerque artist Reyes Padilla, born with synesthesia, paints visual representations of music in works that have appeared throughout New Mexico and on Better Call Saul.
May 31, 2022
See the Wheelwright’s Latest Jewelry Acquisitions
Contemporary Native American jewelry is showcased at the Wheelwright Museum’s Center for the Study of Southwestern Jewelry and Case Trading Post gift shop in Santa Fe.
May 30, 2022
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2022 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
This year is a landmark year for many of New Mexico’s arts institutions, some of which are celebrating their centennials and other significant anniversaries.
May 27, 2022
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Announcing the 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Southwest Contemporary announces the fourth annual 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now and a group exhibition.
April 27, 2022
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Groundbreaking: A Community-Curated Exhibition of Pueblo Pottery Debuts in Santa Fe
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery debuts at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe in summer 2022.
May 27, 2022
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Santa Fe Gets a New Home for Art in the Vladem Contemporary
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
May 27, 2022
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Field Report: Magdalena, New Mexico
Hannah Dean visits Hills Snyder and shares some of the local lore, food, art, and books from Magdalena, New Mexico.
May 27, 2022
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Morgan Barnard: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Morgan Barnard is an experimental saxophonist and installation artist using interactive light play to express actualities of the land.
May 27, 2022
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Amelia Bauer: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Artist Amelia Bauer's playful approach to the subject of ruins—ancient and contemporary—acts as a perceptual leveling device in her series On Ruins.
May 27, 2022
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Mikayla Patton: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Mikayla Patton works with hand-made paper, sinew, beads, and embroidery to create sculptures that continue cultural traditions while reflecting the current moment.
May 27, 2022
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Adrian Aguirre: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Adrian Aguirre resides in Las Cruces where he is an educator and artist exploring issues of migration through representational drawing and painting.
May 27, 2022
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Caroline Liu: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Albuquerque artist Caroline Liu paints images that teeter between the real and the imaginary.
May 27, 2022
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Terran Last Gun: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Artist Terran Last Gun (Piikani) creates ledger drawings, prints, and murals that translate Indigenous culture and cosmology into geometric explorations of color, shape, nature, and sky.
May 27, 2022
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Lucy Maki: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Lucy Maki’s intuitive process calls back to New Mexico’s Transcendental Painting Group and yields shaped paintings in a style of her own.
May 27, 2022
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Eric J. Garcia: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
A native of Albuquerque’s South Valley, Eric J. Garcia imbues political art with personal experience.
May 27, 2022
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Welly Fletcher: 12 New Mexico Artists To Know Now 2022
Albuquerque-based artist Welly Fletcher’s sculptural practice activates lines that question normative gender roles, sexual orientation, and identity.
May 27, 2022
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Jen Pack: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
New Mexico-based artist Jen Pack's colorful fiber wall hangings bring the materiality of painting into question.
May 27, 2022
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Tigre Mashaal-Lively: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
Santa Fe-based Tigre Mashaal-Lively creates large-scale interactive sculptures influenced by Afrofuturism, solarpunk, and mycopunk.
May 27, 2022
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Nina Elder: 12 New Mexico Artists to Know Now 2022
New Mexico-based artist Nina Elder explores geology, ecological processes, and deep time while addressing social justice and transformation with materials like radioactive charcoal, stardust, and pulverized guns.
May 27, 2022
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Patina Gallery’s Cerulean Celebration
Patina Gallery in downtown Santa Fe honors connections and creativity with A Season of Blue.
May 27, 2022
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Summer at Gaia Contemporary
Gaia Contemporary presents a unique blend of sculpture, painting, jewelry, kimono, photography, and Japanese antiquities in Santa Fe's historic Canyon Road district.
May 27, 2022
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Art Santa Fe Returns in 2022
Art Santa Fe is an intimate contemporary art fair that welcomes world-class art and design presented by a diverse range of exhibitors.
May 27, 2022
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Indigenous Celebration NM 2022
Indigenous Celebration New Mexico 2022 is a New Mexico art and culture collaboration like no other.
May 27, 2022
