Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico
Trash, Trinkets, and Thingamabobs: Exploring Roadside Attractions in New Mexico
An eclectic guide to New Mexico's so-called outsider art monuments made from all sorts of oddities.
May 24, 2024
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How Commemorations to the Disenfranchised Have Forced a Reckoning with Utah’s History and Present
The narratives of the many racial and ethnic minorities whose experiences have indelibly shaped both Utah and American history deserve recognition and reckoning.
March 29, 2024
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Modernware: The Allure and Tension in Defining Nampeyo, An Iconic Pueblo Potter, as a Modernist
An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity.
March 01, 2024
FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Whispers in the Walls: Navigating the Preservation of Colorado Murals Amid Urban Evolution
Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.
March 01, 2024
FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
Under Juniper Skies: The Barton Brothers & Nevada
Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West.
March 01, 2024
FeatureArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
The Tanning-Ernst Effect: Is Sedona Poised for a Surrealist Renaissance?
Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill.
March 01, 2024
FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Living at the Home of Truth: Emma Kemp Blends History with Memoir in Marie’s Place
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.
March 01, 2024
FeatureSouthwestVol. 8 Medium + Support
Intervention and Interconnection: How Should Artists Work With(in) the Environment?
Eco art is attracting a new generation of artists, but when working with the land, there’s a way to do it right and a way to do it wrong.
September 01, 2023
FeatureUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Talking Trash at Building Man, Utah’s Festival of Junk
Building Man, an annual, week-long desert rave and art festival in Green River, Utah, celebrates artists who work with found and reclaimed materials.
September 01, 2023
FeatureTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support
Soy de Tejas: Home as open permeable itinerant and metaphysical?
JD Pluecker explores the artworks of five artists in the exhibition Soy de Tejas, looking at issues of home and belonging in Texas.
September 01, 2023
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Stories from Ucross: How a Wyoming Residency Gives Thousands of Artists Support and Opportunities
The Ucross Residency Program near Sheridan, Wyoming, supports artists in an obligation-free program on a working ranch that’s all about creativity, bonding, good eating, and resting.
September 01, 2023
FeatureColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support
Rough Gems, A Curatorial Fellowship for the Underdogs
Rough Gems, a curatorial fellowship at Denver’s Union Hall, provides funding and gallery space for emerging local curators.
September 01, 2023
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Los Bares Viejos: A Guide to the Good Old Dives of Nuevo México
P. Antonio Márquez's guide to the good old dives of Nuevo México includes Albuquerque Press Club, The Matador in Santa Fe, Saints and Sinners in Española, and more.
May 26, 2023
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Harwood at 100
Harwood Museum of Art has lived multiple lives as library, artist crash pad, and world-class art center. The Taos cultural gem now celebrates its centennial.
May 26, 2023
FeatureVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Summer Orr: The Water Witch of the West
Summer Orr employs the ancient practice of dowsing to find sculptural materials for her project Geomancer.
March 06, 2023
FeatureUtahVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
“Great” Salt Lake No More: How Utah’s Worsening Drought is Inspiring Artistic Reflection and Activism
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.
March 03, 2023
FeatureArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
All Things Visible: Author Lydia Millet on the Sonoran Desert, Strange Morphologies, and Small Acts of Courage
Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.
March 03, 2023
FeatureTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
On Holly Street
The stories of Marie Lorenz’s Charøn CrosSing and the power plant cooling pond, located on the same street in Austin, Texas.
March 03, 2023
FeatureMexicoTexasVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Accidental Beauty in Unexpected Shapes: María José Crespo, the River, and Artistic Research
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.
March 03, 2023
FeatureNevadaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Viewing the Colorado River: Between Art and Actuality
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?
March 03, 2023
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
The Internal Place: The Call of New Mexico in the Works of Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Patrick Nagatani, Lucy Raven, and Richard Tuttle
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.
August 26, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
What Waterfall? Finding Landscape in the Metroplex
Trey Burns of Sweet Pass Sculpture Park explores the manufactured landscape of North Texas and its echo natures.
August 26, 2022
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-Nuclear Art
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
August 26, 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
FeatureUtahVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
“This is the Place”: Utah’s Public Art as Religious Mythmaking and Resistance
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.
August 26, 2022
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2022 Anniversaries in New Mexico Arts
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, 2022
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Groundbreaking: A Community-Curated Exhibition of Pueblo Pottery Debuts in Santa Fe
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, 2022
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Santa Fe Gets a New Home for Art in the Vladem Contemporary
The New Mexico Museum of Art Vladem Contemporary is set to become the Santa Fe Railyard’s newest and highest profile occupant.
May 27, 2022
FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collective Cosmos: M12 Studio on Rural Territories and Common Resources
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
February 25, 2022
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Honor the Space: Contemporary Dance Collaborates with Historic Architecture
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
February 25, 2022
