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Artist Adriene Jenik puts a human face on the tragedy in Afghanistan with her Data Humanization Project, which examines the impacts of America’s militarized culture.

Lynn Trimble • August 27, 2021

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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."

Lynn Trimble • August 18, 2021

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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.

Lynn Trimble • August 02, 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.  

Lynn Trimble • 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. 

Lynn Trimble • July 30, 2021

Vol. 3 Inhale ExhaleArizonaArtists

Artist Sara Hubbs creates blown-glass sculptures that examine concepts of value, temporality, and care.

Lauren Tresp • July 30, 2021

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Arizona photographer Wen-Hang Lin's latest series explores the artist’s struggles to assimilate as an immigrant from Taiwan. 

Steve Jansen • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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. 

Joshua Rose • July 30, 2021

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Lisa Sette explores contemporary society by curating compelling exhibitions characterized by conceptual and aesthetic rigor at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix, Arizona.

Lynn Trimble • July 16, 2021

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Arizona Latinx artists M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz collaborate to shift conversations about labor, identity, and gaze in Division of Labor at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.

Lynn Trimble • July 07, 2021

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Arizona-based Indigenous, Latino, and queer poet Natalie Diaz earns 2021 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Postcolonial Love Poem.

Lynn Trimble • June 21, 2021

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Arizona photographers Sama Alshaibi and Stephen Marc, 2021 Guggenheim fellows, discuss how the program will advance their work.

Lynn Trimble • June 14, 2021

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The City of Scottsdale near Phoenix, Arizona is about to launch $27.3 million in Civic Center Mall renovations, with significant implications for local arts and culture.

Lynn Trimble • June 09, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Joseph Cornell: Things Unseen at Phoenix Art Museum showcases robust works by the late experimental filmmaker and assemblage artist.

Steve Jansen • April 30, 2021

ReviewArizonaVol. 2 Flights of Fancy

Body/Magic: Liz Cohen takes viewers inside the artist’s creative process while punctuating critical themes in her work, including transformation, labor, and personal agency.

Lynn Trimble • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona

Sanna Stabell's multi-disciplinary works bring life and introspection to static landscapes, revealing a window into her thoughts and emotional center. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

Vol. 2 Flights of FancyArizona

Tucson artist Lex Gjurasic's latest series is an expression of her exuberance for life and a love letter to the natural world, offering an escape into soft, surreal landscapes: a safe place to land. 

Southwest Contemporary • April 30, 2021

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Leon Polk Smith: Hiding in Plain Sight at the Heard Museum focuses on focuses on Smith's early works, hard-edge paintings, shaped canvases, and his deep connection to Native culture. 

Steve Jansen • April 06, 2021

FeatureArizonaVol. 1 Bodies//Boundaries

A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.

Greg Ruffing • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Phoenix artist Saskia Jordá’s practice engages in an iterative mapping and remapping to explore concepts of cultural identity, bodies in space, and sense of place.

Lauren Tresp • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Phoenix artist Safwat Saleem works in illustration, writing, animation, film, and more to study the idea of belonging. 

Southwest Contemporary • February 08, 2021

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Elemental, Teresita Fernández's mid-career survey at Phoenix Art Museum elevates the intersections of history, culture, and materiality. 

Lynn Trimble • February 08, 2021

Vol. 1 Bodies//BoundariesArizona

Flagstaff artist Jaewook Lee's work takes inspiration from brain science to examine the human condition and how we're connected to a greater network.

• February 08, 2021

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The Arizona-based ArtFarm PHX collective created a series of outdoor installations to connect diverse artists and audiences.

Lynn Trimble • January 08, 2021