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Esther Hz discusses soil and soul in her studio and reveals her passion for farming through zoetropes created for the exhibition agriCULTURE at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art.
Esther Hz discusses soil and soul in her studio and reveals her passion for farming through zoetropes created for the exhibition agriCULTURE at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. By Gina Pugliese
You may be lucky enough to work for an organization that offers 401(k) or 403(b) retirement plans. This Financial Literacy for Artists article explores key points to understand. By Tamara Bates
Justin Favela and Working Classroom serve up supersized sculptural food for thought on regional culinary and cultural heritages in Sandia Hot at Sanitary Tortilla Factory in Albuquerque. By Samantha Anne Carrillo
Cara Despain: Specter New Mexico at the NMSU Art Museum and Trinity: Legacies of Nuclear Testing at Branigan Cultural Center examine nuclear fallout impacting local Indigenous and settler communities. By Jess Ziegenfuss
Rafael Fajardo’s 8-bit video game diptych YOU MADE OUR REALITY INTO A GAME?!?! engages border issues by humanizing migrant characters with Rasquachismo, kawaii, and comic sensibilities. By Alexander Ortega
Understanding IRAs is an important step for your future. This Financial Literacy for Artists article breaks down three types and how to choose the right one for your situation. By Tamara Bates
The City of Mesa brusquely postponed every exhibition on the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s fall 2023 calendar. A major free speech organization, a civil rights group, and artists allege censorship. By Lynn Trimble
The La Flor Del Pueblo mural project in Phoenix will transform an Arizona Public Service utility substation into a canvas for telling diverse stories of the Grant Park neighborhood. By Lynn Trimble
Lydia see, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator, works with diverse materials in her Tucson studio to explore social justice, foster civic engagement, and broaden access to the arts. By Lynn Trimble
Though widespread student loan forgiveness isn't happening, there are still important changes afoot. Here’s some breaking news, tips, and things to know before loan payments resume in fall 2023. By Tamara Bates
agriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land looks at the many intersections between art and agriculture, helping viewers create new connections to farms and farming in Boulder County, Colorado. By Deborah Ross
At age eighty, James Surls, an internationally recognized artist who works out of a rural Colorado studio, continues telling stories through his sculptures, drawings, prints, and rubbings. By Hills Snyder
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Alexis Rausch continues raising questions about mass responses to traumatic events and how her identity comes into play through the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art exhibition Nobody likes it here. By Bianca Velasquez
The process-oriented work of Brie Ruais—a Santa Fe-based artist who makes conceptual and gestural performance art for a new generation—recenters artmaking in the body. By Justin Duyao
Step into air-conditioned contemporary art bliss with our Southwest art guide for summer 2023 at these exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah. By Steve Jansen
The sixth article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series by Tamara Bates gives artists a template for analyzing time, revenue, and values. By Tamara Bates
A Greater Utah, a major survey at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, aims to be more representative of regional artmaking than the predecessor show, Utah Biennial: Mondo Utah. By Gabriella Angeleti
Patrick Dean Hubbell (Diné), who works from his family homestead on the Navajo Nation, creates artworks that reference how Diné people think about natural elements. By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
Scorpio Palace, the creation of Lauren Zwicky and Michael Stone, invites visitors to experience community-focused hypnotic art and music while keeping alive the spirit of DIY creative incubator Rhinoceropolis. By Gina Pugliese
In the next installment of our Financial Literacy for Artists career series, Tamara Bates dishes practical tips on managing uneven income sources and provides several real-life examples. By Tamara Bates
The Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries in the Denver Art Museum have a whole new energy, thanks to Rory Padeken, whose thoughtful curation led to reorganizing the spaces by theme. By Deborah Ross
The Lightning Field—a vestige of the conceptual, minimalist, and earthwork movements of the mid-20th century by Walter De Maria—provides visitors with multiple, discrete ways of encountering the art object. By Joshua Ware
The paintings and murals of Denver-based artist Ramón Bonilla explore the multifarious uses of the line and all of its subsequent meanings. By Joshua Ware
Our Financial Literacy for Artists series continues with advice on managing uneven income, especially for artists that might be moving from full-time W-2 income to part- or full-time self-employed earnings. By Tamara Bates
Colorado Photographic Arts Center, considered a regional hub for the art of photography since 1963, recently moved into new and improved quarters in Denver's Golden Triangle cultural district. By Deborah Ross
Bruce Nauman: His Mark at SITE Santa Fe—Nauman’s first solo exhibition in New Mexico—features never-before-shown work by the internationally celebrated artist. By Maggie Grimason
In Designed to Move, the microscopic is magnified in Taylor James’s photographs of Colorado Plateau seedpods, revealing a design intelligence humans can only hope to approximate. By Camille LeFevre
Pencil on Paper Gallery extends the line of Black-owned galleries that trace the foundational practices of accessibility, inclusivity, and representation among art spaces in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. By Laura Neal
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La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration. By Ania Hull
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Modern Desert Markings at the Barrick Museum of Art in Las Vegas showcases contemporary takes on classic Land Art works by Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria, and Jean Tinguely. By Steve Jansen
Denver Month of Video founders Jenna Maurice and Adán De La Garza present a diverse array of video arts throughout July 2023 at venues across the city. By Gina Pugliese
The third article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series explores financial building blocks for mid-to-late-career artists: understanding social security, buying property, and managing career peaks and valleys. By Tamara Bates
Alex Branch, a Denver-based interdisciplinary artist ponders the life-death metaphors embedded in everyday objects, the mysterious lives of flora and fauna, and the aural experiences that inspire her art. By Gina Pugliese
Ogden Contemporary Arts’s second artist in residence Eric J. García invites us to scrutinize the principles upon which American history and identity are based in a dazzling and multifaceted artistic project. By Scotti Hill
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline. By Maggie Grimason
The second article in our Financial Literacy for Artists series explores financial building blocks for mid-career artists: charging for your time, diversifying revenue streams, and planning for the future. By Tamara Bates
Leadership changes at the Arizona Commission on the Arts could impact how the state agency spends the $5 million allocated for arts and culture in Arizona’s 2024 budget. By Lynn Trimble
Bobbi Walker, owner and curator of Walker Fine Art, blends aesthetics with business in her downtown Denver space that seeks to recast the “commercial gallery” stigma. By Kara Mason
Junk Drawer is an inclusive queer techno dance party in Denver featuring installations by local artists who bring together social-justice politics and joy. By Gina Pugliese
In the debut article of our Financial Literacy for Artists series, Tamara Bates, founder of the dots between fellowship, explores financial building blocks for artists at the beginning of their careers. By Tamara Bates
Will Bruno, who lives and works at an off-grid cabin in Abiquiú, New Mexico, connects the natural and unnatural landscapes of modern life within his paintings. By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
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