Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Steve Jansen
Wen-Hang Lin
Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin’s latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan.
Review: Breath Taking
Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art examines breath from social, scientific, and metaphysical frameworks.
New Santa Fe Arts Leaders Commit to Diversity and Inclusion
Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.
Installation Reveals Undertold History of Indigenous Captivity
Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.
City of Albuquerque Gallery Under Fire for Exhibiting Painting by Proud Boy
The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.
Southwest Art News: July 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Allison Glenn Becomes CAMH’s New Senior Curator, Public Art Director
Allison Glenn, curator of a Breonna Taylor exhibition, starts at the CAMH in Texas on August 1, stepping into a post previously held by the beloved curator Valerie Cassel Oliver.
Edward S. Curtis Photographs on Display at Santa Fe Art Auction
The Santa Fe Art Auction honors the descendants of one of Edward S. Curtis’s most famous photographs this weekend.
New Mexico’s Long-Delayed Poet Laureate Program Striding Along
Levi Romero, the inaugural New Mexico poet laureate, and the newly created New Mexico State Library Poetry Center are accepting submissions for a poetry anthology through July 1, 2021.
Southwest Art News: June 2021
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Tulsa Race Massacre Remembered in Sarah Ahmad’s Installation
The Tulsa race massacre is memorialized at Oxley Nature Center in Sarah Ahmad’s The American Dream, a Greenwood Art Project-sponsored installation featuring a replica of a refugee tent.
