Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Winter–Spring 2023 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies in Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and some beyond with deadlines between Winter and Spring 2023.
February 06, 2023
Steve Jansen
Southwest Art News: February 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
February 06, 2023
Under New Leadership, the Springville Museum of Art Remains Essential to Utah Arts and Arts Education
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks.
January 13, 2023
A Win for Underserved Communities: New Mexico Sustainable Architecture Firms AOS and MASS Team Up
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond.
January 12, 2023
Marcus Xavier Chormicle, Founder of Southern New Mexico’s CAV Gallery, Disentangles Personal Stories of Family Violence
Marcus Chormicle’s uncle and cousin passed away on the same day a year apart. On the anniversary of their deaths, the photographer opened the community-centered CAV Gallery in Las Cruces. […]
December 14, 2022
Gregg Deal: Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) at UCCS GOCA in Colorado Springs
Gregg Deal's exhibition Esoo Tubewade Nummetu (This Land Is Ours) in Colorado Springs doesn’t sugarcoat the historic and contemporary injustices Native people encounter in mainstream American culture and society.
December 06, 2022
Southwest Art News: December 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
December 01, 2022
A Rift Out West: Salt Lake City’s Arts Community Confronts Issues of Indigenous Representation at Local Gallery Modern West
New Mexico artist Billy Schenck has made a successful career of cowboy-and-Indian pop-art imagery, but a recent exhibition of his work brings present-day debates over representation and authorship into the harshest of spotlights.
November 14, 2022
Southwest Art News: November 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
November 01, 2022
Pete Petrisko: 35 Years Onward at Lost Leaf Counterpunches at In-Flux Phoenix
Pete Petrisko, one of the few remaining old heads in the local art scene who has lived in downtown Phoenix since the 1980s, exhibits selections from the past thirty-five years.
October 28, 2022
In i know you are, but what am i?, Artists Turn Taunts into Self-Empowerment
i know you are, but what am i? at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art focuses on the figure to launch discussions about identity, fluidity, and body positivity.
October 14, 2022
Santa Fe’s Multicultural Mural, Version 2.0
Gilberto Guzmán, a lead artist of Santa Fe’s sharply contested and now-defunct Multicultural mural, painted a new Multicultural to be displayed in 2023.
October 12, 2022
Ho Baron’s 50-Year Retrospective of Outsider Art in El Paso
Ho Baron: Gods for Future Religions at the El Paso Museum of Art is an uncanny blend of maximalism, surrealism, the ascetic, and the interstellar.
October 10, 2022
In Memoriam: Tigre Mashaal-Lively
Memorial services for Tigre Mashaal-Lively, who made art about individual and collective trauma and healing, are scheduled for Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 in Santa Fe.
October 06, 2022
Southwest Art News: October 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
October 04, 2022
Review: Jorge Rojas: Material Witness at Granary Arts
Jorge Rojas’s retrospective Material Witness at Granary Arts in Ephraim, Utah, showcases a quiet yet still tenacious side of the Salt Lake City-based artist.
September 07, 2022
Southwest Art News: September 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
September 01, 2022
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local
Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in Santa Fe, an arm of the international human justice architectural firm MASS Design Group, recasts architecture and design in the Southwest.
August 26, 2022
Fall for Southwest Contemporary’s Fall 2022 Art Guide
Fall back into these Southwest area art exhibitions in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
August 25, 2022
Merry Scully, Longtime Santa Fe Curator and Arts Worker, Heads West
Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California.
August 17, 2022
Southwest Art News: August 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 01, 2022
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Fall 2022–Winter 2023 Deadlines
Southwest artist residencies (and a cool one in Nebraska!) in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Wyoming with deadlines between August 2022 and January 2023.
July 29, 2022
Ya La’ford’s Survey Renews Perspectives of the American West
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.
July 22, 2022
Gallery Incomplet, a New Santa Fe Art Space, Only Displays Unfinished Works
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film.
July 15, 2022
Southwest Art News: July 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 01, 2022
Hot Art Summer: Must-See Southwest Art Exhibitions for Summer 2022
Hit the road this summer for Southwest art exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
June 10, 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
