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December 01, 2024
Arizona State University’s Top-Ranked MFA Includes a Three-Year Teaching Assistantship
The School of Art at ASU advances generative art practices driven by research, ideas, and effective public engagement. Attend an info session on December 6, 2024, and apply by January 15, 2025.
November 22, 2024
Reexamine the West with an Interactive Reading by Poet Paisley Rekdal
Paisley Rekdal will read selections from West: A Translation with live guidance from the audience in a powerful, informative, and cathartic experience at 516 Words on Thursday, December 5, in Albuquerque.
November 20, 2024
Salt Lines Converge at Southern Utah Museum of Art
Salt Lines: Exploring Climate, Environment, and the Saline Influx examines the past, present, and future of salt in the global landscape through the work of duo Hylozoic/Desires, photographer David Maisel, and poet and photographer Alexandra Fuller.
November 19, 2024
Through Movement, Keshet Dance Company Explores How to Ask A More Beautiful Question
Keshet Dance Company's latest work features eight choreographers delving into the nature and of questioning, free will and destiny, and our potential to create change.
November 06, 2024
Akin Blends Passion for Design with Love of Genealogy
Akin helps families commemorate their ancestry in the form of custom-designed books using memorabilia, genealogical discoveries, and all-inclusive design know-how.
October 24, 2024
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Virgil Ortiz: Historical Memory, Indigenous Futurisms, and the Art of Storytelling in 2180
Drawing from his community’s roots in social commentary, Virgil Ortiz crafts a future without limitations, and his epic series Revolt 1680/2180 reaches a climax this fall.
September 06, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Jason Garcia: The Futurism of Narrative Change
In bold pop culture style, Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia envisions Native futures by challenging narratives that have always kept us in the past.
September 06, 2024
Fires Fires
"Fires Fires" is a personal essay by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson about the effect of global uncertainty on the small scale of a life.
September 06, 2024
ReviewArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures
Feminist Theory and a Family Trucking Business Inform Fay Ray’s New Visions of the Borderlands in PORTALS
PORTALS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona features new works by California-based artist Fay Ray, who imagines radical futures in the Sonoran Desert and Southwest borderlands.
September 06, 2024
To the Next Five Years and Beyond: From the Publisher
Southwest Contemporary owner and publisher Lauren Tresp reflects on our five-year anniversary—and all of the work that is still to come.
September 03, 2024
Southwest Artist Residencies with Fall 2024 Deadlines
Discover your next opportunity with our latest roundup of Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming, with deadlines in September, October, and November 2024.
August 22, 2024
Inside Southwest ContemporaryNew Mexico
Critical Commons 2024: Santa Fe
Southwest Contemporary announces Critical Commons 2024: Santa Fe, the fourth iteration of our annual initiative to cultivate creative and critical discourse with a range of events.
August 09, 2024
Sponsored2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Jarrett West: Working with Poise and Simplicity
Santa Fe–based artist Jarrett West creates large-scale ceramic stonework sculptures that evoke the drama of nature and the organic architecture of New Mexico.
May 24, 2024
Essay2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Watch Zozobra Burn for the 100th Time
August 2024 will usher in one hundred years of setting Zozobra ablaze—a ceremony of fire, redemption, and the incineration of Santa Fe’s gloom.
May 24, 2024
From the EditorInside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest
Southwest Contemporary Announces New Leadership, Awards, and Eyes the Future
This spring, Southwest Contemporary welcomes a new editorial director and four new board members, along with award wins, open calls for our next issue, and an opportunity to win $10,000 in funding for emerging media.
May 10, 2024
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.
March 01, 2024
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Delilah Montoya: Redefining the Focus of Documentary Photography
Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Jeannie Ortiz: Living Histories
Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Tamara Burgh: Living Histories
Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past.
March 01, 2024
ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
Now With More Feeling: The Emotional Show at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Esther Elia: Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Anne Yoncha: Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.
March 01, 2024
ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Retrospective Mines an Archeology of Memory in Phoenix
Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Marlowe Katoney: Living Histories
Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.
March 01, 2024
EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
A Fluid History Set in Stones, Springs, and Rivers
In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
Chaz John: Living Histories
Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures.
March 01, 2024
FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
Under Juniper Skies: The Barton Brothers & Nevada
Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West.
March 01, 2024
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
In Out West, Gay and Lesbian Artists are Recognized Within New Mexico’s Art History
Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico.
March 01, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Andrew Ina: Living Histories
Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.
March 01, 2024
