The Desert’s Living Skin: A Collaborative Effort to Bring Biocrust Into the Museum
The Biocrust Project reveals the importance of protecting the desert’s biocrust in the face of climate change in an immersive collaboration between art and science.
The Biocrust Project reveals the importance of protecting the desert’s biocrust in the face of climate change in an immersive collaboration between art and science. By Ana Estrada
Do muralists have a legal right to keep their work from being altered or whitewashed? Experts and artists in the Southwest discuss artist contracts and the Visual Artists Rights Act. By Lynn Trimble
Francisco González Castro: Does Not Say «I», But Does «I»: Bodies, Limits and Transgressions at the Coconino Center compiles a decade of the artist’s endurance work challenging social structures. By Camille LeFevre
Sofie Hecht discusses her project Downwind, a documentary photo album exploring the continued impact of radiation exposure on resident New Mexicans after the 1945 nuclear bomb Trinity Test. By Gina Pugliese
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Erin Averill
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The Fort Worth Circle, a progressive mid-century artist group, introduced modernism to the conservative North Texas town and laid the groundwork for the city’s vibrant art community of today. By Leslie Thompson
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts debuts exhibitions by Greenlandic and Amazonian Indigenous artists whose work narrates threatened worlds deeply rooted in nature. By Ania Hull
Denver Art Museum workers have voted to unionize, citing pay and management transparency as leading reasons for organizing. By Kara Mason
Jenna Maurice, currently a resident artist at RedLine Contemporary Art Center in Denver, discusses how relationships with humans and the natural environment shine through her artworks. She also ponders nonverbal communication and life’s various gray areas. By Gina Pugliese
An experiment in non-traditional exhibition spaces, the High Desert Art Fair breaks down the boundary between the gallery and the home, creating a radically immersive context for experiencing art. By Justin Duyao
Two major donations to the Nevada Museum of Art of Aboriginal and Native American artworks tie into the Reno institution’s capital expansion project. By Gabriella Angeleti
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Erin Averill
The remarkable Clarence Shivers—a multifaceted artist, Tuskegee Airmen fighter pilot, and Colorado Springs philanthropist—is remembered in a retrospective exhibition at Colorado College. By Kara Mason
Karla Garcia, a Dallas-based multidisciplinary artist, creates clay landscapes that urge us to reflect on our connections to place and each other. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Raven Chacon (Diné) honors matriarchal Indigenous resistance at the Harwood Museum in a unique grouping of visual, video, and sound works that will be shown in New Mexico for the first time. By Steve Jansen
Tucson, Arizona is home to an incredible community of creative people. Southwest Contemporary visited in November 2023 to discover the local art scene. By Natalie Hegert
Las Vegas artist Jeannie Hua conceptually illustrates the Tonopah tailings burial site and asks the viewer to ponder the historic neglect of Asian Americans who settled in the American West. By Gabriella Angeleti
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists. By Steve Jansen
Snakebite Creation Space’s Geneva Foster Gluck and Racheal Rios invite artists to install exhibitions that push their practices in new directions while challenging the constraints of a typical gallery show. By lydia see
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, known as MOCA Tucson, supports regional and local artists through grants, community events, peer connections, and more. Here’s why artists and curators say that matters. By Lynn Trimble
Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix at ASU Art Museum displays signs, artworks, and other community offerings from George Floyd Square. By Lynn Trimble
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability. By Maggie Sava
Artists and preservationists Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn recall how they established Phoenix’s Grand Avenue arts district despite wanting to do the opposite. By Robrt Pela
Ceramicist Elaine Parks, in the under-appreciated northern Nevada landscape, carefully combs the environment to find and fashion objects that command awareness and attention. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
From contemporary Korean photography to a time-spanning collection of Andean fiber arts and a bubbling biennial on the U.S.-Mexico border, let these exhibitions across the Southwest be bright lights on these short, dark days. By Lauren Tresp
Del Harrow, a Colorado-based ceramicist, combines ancient practices and contemporary technologies to create historically informed objects that tell stories toward a more sustainable future. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Ronald Rael, who was born and raised in the San Luis Valley, harnesses the inherent contradictions between heritage and digital-build practices in his 3D-printed adobe works. By Joshua Ware
Though focused on a 20th-century photographer, Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist illuminates a sense of community identity through beauty that connects to the work of artists practicing in the Southwest today. By Isabella Beroutsos
The Appropriation in the Arts series of panel discussions at the Museum of Northern Arizona and Sedona Arts Center tackles topics ranging from mass-produced costume Navajo jewelry to spiritual colonialism. By Camille LeFevre
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Celebrated Boulder-based performer Andrea Gibson, known for their spoken word poetry on topics ranging from gun reform to mental health, succeeds Bobby LeFebre as the tenth poet laureate of Colorado. By Madeleine Boyson
Bloomberg Public Art Challenge funding will help Phoenix and Salt Lake City address climate change, and Houston examine homelessness, through temporary public art that engages artists and community members. By Lynn Trimble
The first Cey Adams retrospective displays more than four decades of the artist’s commercial collaborations with global brands and hip-hop visuals that include Public Enemy and Beastie Boys album covers. By James Russell
Amanda Dannáe Romero and sheri crider discuss the Sanitary Tortilla Factory exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted youth and the role of art in creating social change in New Mexico. By Gabriella Angeleti
As Southwest art spaces such as Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum deal with art censorship allegations, national art censorship and art law experts weigh in on the broader issue. By Lynn Trimble
Nani Chacon, Hand and Machine, and Working Classroom student artists collaborated to create PAHTIA, an interactive, site-specific space for healing via art and technology at Albuquerque’s National Hispanic Cultural Center. By Samantha Anne Carrillo
Ben Aleck's exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art looks at thirty years of work by the artist and Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe member who has witnessed key Native American political moments. By Coco Picard
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Grand County, Utah commissioners censored a quote by a historic Black cowboy about racial and class equality in a mural proposed by artist Chip Thomas. By Emily Arntsen
Paul R. Williams, the first Black architect to be licensed to work in the Western United States, is the subject of a multi-venue exhibition of photographs by artist Janna Ireland. By Gabriella Angeleti
Todd Dobbs’s captivating journey of AI-generated imagery and its complex relationship with human perception—packaged in a witty exploration of art and technology—challenges assumptions about the “typical American.” By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
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