In an eastern New Mexico town known for Billy the Kid, the Art in Public Places program confronts complex and difficult histories, including the tragic Long Walk to Bosque Redondo.
August 19, 2021
As voting rights and the DACA immigration program took hits in Texas, Arizona artists Gloria Martinez-Granados and Joan Baron remain committed to John Lewis’s renowned call to make "good trouble."
August 18, 2021
The Wheelwright Museum annual benefit—which features hundreds of pieces of jewelry, sculpture, weaving, painting, and more by Native artists—has become more expansive than ever with the addition of a second event, the Native Artist Market.
August 17, 2021
Ghost Ranch Music Weekend celebrates pioneering and innovative women in the Abiquiú summer home and studio of wildly popular American painter Georgia O’Keeffe.
August 17, 2021
Known for its two-year Artist Residency program, RedLine Contemporary Art Center plays additional important roles in the Denver art scene, especially when it comes to grants and social activism.
August 13, 2021
The Madrid Film Festival, which screens at a circa-1920 baseball field, is another creative in-person offering in the curious Turquoise Trail town situated in New Mexico’s Ortiz Mountains.
August 12, 2021
Talia Pura’s two-in-one review recounts Santa Fe Classic Theater’s As You Like It at Santa Fe Botanical Garden and New Mexico Actors Lab’s The Lifespan of a Fact at the new Lab Theater.
August 11, 2021
The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, established in 1967, gives worldwide artists an entire year of rent-free creation, monthly stipends, support for artists with children, large spaces, and beautiful light in southeastern New Mexico.
August 09, 2021
From Land Art in Nevada to abstraction in Denver, from demons in Dallas to the legacy of Elaine Horwitch in Santa Fe: visit ten art exhibitions across the Southwest before summer ends.
August 06, 2021
We’re back with a staff contribution of the 5×5! This week, SWC's news editor Steve Jansen shares his top five picks of media he’s been obsessing over.
August 05, 2021
The Institute of American Indian Arts’s Annual Scholarship Event and Auction is IAIA’s premier event for raising critical scholarship support for students, which is now more important than ever.
August 04, 2021
Meow Wolf, a corporate outlier in the business of arts and entertainment, announced opening plans for Convergence Station in Denver, its third and largest permanent interactive exhibition to date.
August 04, 2021
Patrick Marold: The Windmill Project at Ent Center for the Arts in Colorado Springs firmly lands on contingency, environment, and illumination.
August 03, 2021
Pandemic precautions, new arts leadership, and the growing footprint of developers leads to uncertainty for Tempe, Arizona artists, who wonder what’s next for the local arts scene.
August 02, 2021
Guest juror Julio César Morales, curator at the Arizona State University Art Museum, introduces Southwest Contemporary's volume 3 theme: Inhale Exhale.
July 30, 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 30, 2021
SouthwestFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kellie Bornhoft’s work collaborates with the landscape, presenting both the long view of geologic time and intimate perspectives in poetry and gesture.
July 30, 2021
ArizonaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kristin Bauer creates text-based artworks that explore the ways words and images influence our perspectives and interpretations of interior and exterior spaces.
July 30, 2021
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Artist Apolo Gomez's portraits feature men in various states of dress and undress with a palpable sense of intimacy, challenging masculine stereotypes.
July 30, 2021
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Voice-Over: Zineb Sedira centers the revolutionary power of culture while amplifying the complexities of history, identity, memory, and resistance.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.
July 30, 2021
ArtistsArizonaVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan.
July 30, 2021
NevadaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Kayla Collymore and Donna Crump's dance and video collaboration Hypoxia is an acknowledgment and delayering of all the tension from the last year.
July 30, 2021
New MexicoArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Albuquerque artist Ellen Babcock creates works that are a meditation on humanness influenced by spiritual traditions of non-dualism.
July 30, 2021
NevadaArtistsVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Rossitza Todorova's latest series explores how landscape embodies the idea of time: past, present, and future.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists
Julia C. Martin is a photographic artist whose work deals with the themes of mortality, ephemerality, and time. Many of her prints are made by hand using historical or experimental processes.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsNew Mexico
Photographer Daniel Hojnacki uses the natural world as his source of inspiration, seeking out visceral and tangible responses to the photographic print.
July 30, 2021
Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArtistsTexas
Artist Alexandra Lechin's practice explores her own anxiety and acts as a form of soothing during times of emotional unrest.
July 30, 2021
ArizonaReviewVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Si'alik Hiosik / Morning Blossom, a mural by Thomas "Breeze" Marcus and Miles MacGregor, depicts a young girl from the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in downtown Phoenix.
July 30, 2021
