Summer Orr: The Water Witch of the West
FeatureVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Summer Orr employs the ancient practice of dowsing to find sculptural materials for her project Geomancer.
Mar 06
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Mar 03
“Great” Salt Lake No More: How Utah’s Worsening Drought is Inspiring Artistic Reflection and Activism
FeatureUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The depletion of Utah’s Great Salt Lake is a symbol of the state’s worsening water crisis and has, throughout the past few years, inspired a diverse array of artistic responses.
Mar 03
All Things Visible: Author Lydia Millet on the Sonoran Desert, Strange Morphologies, and Small Acts of Courage
FeatureArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.
Mar 03
On Holly Street
FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
Mar 03
Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Writer and artist JD Pluecker writes about the Artpace exhibition of María José Crespo and their joint trip to the border to do artistic research around Del Rio, Texas.
Mar 03
Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality
FeatureNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
The decline of the Colorado River through drought and other factors has prompted artists to call attention to this event. Does art have the power, though, to mitigate the crisis?
Aug 26
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists Patrick Nagatani, Richard Tuttle, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, and Lucy Raven attest to the nature of the poetics of place through artworks centered on the New Mexican landscape.
Aug 26
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
Aug 26
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
Aug 26
Critical Mass: MASS Design Group’s International Humanitarian Architecture Starts with Immersion in the Local
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
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.
Aug 26
“This is the Place”: Utah’s Public Art as Religious Mythmaking and Resistance
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
A survey of Utah’s public monuments and architecture reveals devotion to the LDS faith, but various prominent examples of resistance to this narrative abound.
May 27
2022 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
2022 New Mexico Field GuideFeature
This year is a landmark year for many of New Mexico’s arts institutions, some of which are celebrating their centennials and other significant anniversaries.
May 27
Groundbreaking: A Community-Curated Exhibition of Pueblo Pottery Debuts in Santa Fe
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery debuts at the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe in summer 2022.
May 27
Santa Fe Gets a New Home for Art in the Vladem Contemporary
Feature2022 New Mexico Field Guide
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
Feb 25
Collective Cosmos: M12 Studio on Rural Territories and Common Resources
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
Feb 25
Honor the Space: Contemporary Dance Collaborates with Historic Architecture
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
Feb 25
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
Feb 25
Salt of the Earth: Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, Utah’s Contemporary Art Visionaries
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
Feb 25
On Light and Line: The Radical Poetics of Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, renowned New Mexico-based poet, opens up about her personal poetry process and collaboration across artistic disciplines.
Oct 29
With Climate Emergency a Certainty, Gulf Coast Creatives Reflect on Art’s Value in Crisis
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
Oct 29
Patricia Marroquin Norby: The First Indigenous Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Patricia Norby, the first Indigenous curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, talks about the representation of Indigenous art in institutional gallery spaces.
Oct 29
Life is a Cumulative Exercise: Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear
FeatureColoradoVol. 4 Winter 2021
Devon Dikeou’s Mid-Career Smear in downtown Denver is a retrospective that examines "in-between" spaces with keen observation and irreverent humor.
Oct 29
The Artist in Exile: Emerging Choreographer Alexandra Honchell
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
Emerging choreographer Alexandra Honchell’s journey from company dancer to independent artist is reuniting her mind with her body.
Oct 29
Expanding Cinema: A Guide to Art Film in Five Southwest Cities
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
A guide to arthouse film, festival one-offs, and screening series across the Southwest in Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Dallas, Oklahoma City, and Denver.
Oct 29
DIY, Together: A Look at Artist-Led Efforts Across the Southwest
FeatureSouthwestVol. 4 Winter 2021
A handful of DIY, artist-led endeavors in the Southwest demonstrate how artists don’t just DIY—they do it for and with each other.
Jul 30
Kellie Bornhoft: Breathing with the Sun
SouthwestFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Kellie Bornhoft’s work collaborates with the landscape, presenting both the long view of geologic time and intimate perspectives in poetry and gesture.
Jul 30
Kristin Bauer: Creating Space to Breathe
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.
Jul 30
Jung Min: Bodyscapes and Hairscapes
NevadaFeatureVol. 3 Inhale Exhale
Nevada artist Jung Min rejects the societal ideals of beauty, identity, and neatness—instead, she finds beauty in the grotesque.
Apr 30
Santiago Perez: A View from the Fish Bowl
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
New Mexico artist Santiago Perez's work is steeped in myth, folk tales, art history, anthropology, TV cartoons, and satire, aimed at the human condition.
Apr 30
Christian Cruz: The Fantasy of Rest in the Pandemic Era
FeatureTexasVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Dallas artist Christian Cruz depicts the value of human interaction in a society taking inventory after so much loss and social reckoning.
Apr 30
Brick by Brick: Building Their Lives Around Adobe
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Joanna Keane Lopez and Helen Levine discuss working with adobe, its history in this region, and how an adobe house is a living thing.
Apr 30
Michelle Rawlings: Blurred Vision
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Artist Michelle Rawlings examines beauty through blurred visions, imitation, and purposeful psyche-outs. Steve Jansen explores how Rawling's work speaks to the ways we identify with and move through the world.
Apr 30
Laura Hyunjhee Kim: Towards a Feelosophy of Art
FeatureColoradoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
Boulder artist Laura Hyunjhee Kim studies the realness of digital spaces and caring for our physical bodies in an increasingly virtual world.
Apr 30
Sunbeams 99¢: Friends of the Orphan Signs
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 2 Flights of Fancy
For the past ten years, Friends of the Orphan Signs has been placing small moments of wonder on empty, abandoned, and suspended-in-time signs that anchor Albuquerque to its past as a stop along Route 66.
Mar 03
Linda Lomahaftewa and the Moving Land
As her retrospective exhibition at the IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts demonstrates, Linda Lomahaftewa’s artworks vibrantly convey her personal reflections on the changing social landscapes around her.
Feb 08
Nazafarin Lotfi: The Distance to the Horizon
A conversation with Arizona artist Nazafarin Lotfi, whose multidisciplinary work explores the experience of bodies out of place.
Feb 08
Catherine Czacki: Write a Poem, Make a Sculpture, Do the Wash
Catherine Czacki, who is based in Portales, NM, finds radical healing in making her art—objects, sculptures, paintings, talismans, and wall hangings from a variety of different materials— and enjoys the subversive side of indulging in material.
Feb 08
Hong Hong: Before Earth and Sky Were Separate
Artist Hong Hong works in papermaking, an art she defines as improvisatory choreography. Her latest work seems to connect earth and sky.
Feb 08
Holding the Knife by the Blade
Musician Patrick McGuires writes that while the internet is a proven tool for putting distance between human beings, it's also been a lifeline for humanity.
Feb 08
Margaret Neumann: I Just Like the Cherry
Colorado artist Margaret Neumann's paintings are rooted in the human experience as it is translated through time, through the body, and through our many coping mechanisms.
Jul 31
Virtual Until Further Notice
New Mexico arts organizations bring us together in the era of social distancing.
Jul 31
2020 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
A number of arts institutions across New Mexico celebrate significant anniversaries this year, including photo-eye, the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Santa Fe Workshops, Turner Carroll Gallery, and the Santa Fe Art Institute.
Jul 13
The Annexation of Art, Empathy, and the Future
From thermal surveillance imaging to maps of the dead to stories and visions of survival, the work at two imminent Santa Fe exhibitions invites you to come closer to some of the millions of humans who have lost, fled, or been chased from their homes and countries in the past three decades.
