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Social Change Drives Shifts in Graduate Arts Education Across the Southwest

Southwestern universities—including Arizona State University, the University of New Mexico, the University of Colorado Boulder, and more—are working to increase equity, interdisciplinary study, and tangible career skills in graduate arts.

Lynn Trimble • August 24, 2021

NewsTexas

Houston’s Project Freeway Calls Attention to Something Other Than Neighborhood Cuisine

The Project Freeway program by DiverseWorks in Houston amplifies the arts in the fast-growing city’s overlooked neighborhoods. It also provides artist fellowships to social-change and community-based practitioners.

Steve Jansen • August 20, 2021

New Mexico Installations Challenge Complicated Histories in Fort Sumner

In an eastern New Mexico town known for Billy the Kid, the Art in Public Places program confronts complex and difficult histories, including the tragic Long Walk to Bosque Redondo.

Maggie Grimason • August 19, 2021

NewsArizona

Amid Voting Rights and DACA Rollbacks, Arizona Artists Revisit Good Trouble Bucket

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

Music Event Debuts at Georgia O’Keeffe’s Former Summer Home

Ghost Ranch Music Weekend celebrates pioneering and innovative women in the Abiquiú summer home and studio of wildly popular American painter Georgia O’Keeffe.

Steve Jansen • August 17, 2021

NewsColorado

Contemporary Art, Community Engagement Intersect at Denver’s RedLine

Known for its two-year Artist Residency program, RedLine Contemporary Art Center plays additional important roles in the Denver art scene, especially when it comes to grants and social activism.

Deborah Ross • August 13, 2021

Madrid, NM, Population 350, Hosts Fourth Annual Short Film Festival

The Madrid Film Festival, which screens at a circa-1920 baseball field, is another creative in-person offering in the curious Turquoise Trail town situated in New Mexico’s Ortiz Mountains.

Coco Picard • August 12, 2021

“It’s Like Your Own Ocean”: The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program

The Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, established in 1967, gives worldwide artists an entire year of rent-free creation, monthly stipends, support for artists with children, large spaces, and beautiful light in southeastern New Mexico.

Sommer Browning • August 09, 2021

Meow Wolf Moves Forward With Its Third Permanent Installation in Denver

Meow Wolf, a corporate outlier in the business of arts and entertainment, announced opening plans for Convergence Station in Denver, its third and largest permanent interactive exhibition to date.

Steve Jansen • August 04, 2021

NewsArizona

Shifting Tempe Landscape Means More Unknowns for Arizona Artists

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

Southwest Art News: August 2021

Catch up on recent art news headlines in the southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.

Steve Jansen • July 30, 2021

Some Serious Business Residency Abiquiú Honors Artistic Process—From Naps to Creation

The Abiquiú-based Some Serious Business residency makes space for freedom and connection. This summer’s diverse roster includes Elijah McKinnon, a BIPOC artist who showcases films on Friday at Beastly Books.

Maggie Grimason • July 28, 2021

Santa Fe Theaters Set to Reopen

Santa Fe Classic Theater and New Mexico Actors Lab plan for in-person theater while the Oasis Theatre Company, Santa Fe Playhouse, Theater Grottesco, and Teatro Paraguas take a hybrid approach.

Talia Pura • July 27, 2021

Albuquerque Theaters Return to Live Performances

Albuquerque theater companies are persevering through financial considerations and pandemic concerns to present D.I.Y. offerings and mainstream performing arts, including Hamilton, during the 2021-2022 season.

Asuri Ramanujan Krittika • July 26, 2021

New Santa Fe Arts Leaders Commit to Diversity and Inclusion

Danyelle Means, Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe’s first Indigenous executive director, and Louis Grachos, who returns to SITE Santa Fe as executive director, emphasize community collaboration and equity.

Steve Jansen • July 23, 2021

ColoradoNews

Installation Reveals Undertold History of Indigenous Captivity

Jetsonorama’s Unsilenced installation at the Fort Garland Museum and Cultural Center dismantles the settler-colonial narrative in the San Luis Valley and amplifies the history of Native enslavement in Southern Colorado.

Steve Jansen • July 19, 2021

ColoradoNews

Artist Turns Curator to Unpack The Stubborn Influence of Painting

Featuring divergent works in various mediums, The Stubborn Influence of Painting at BMoCA lets guest curator Kate Petley make the case for artists breaking free of preconceived notions.

Deborah Ross • July 12, 2021

City of Albuquerque Gallery Under Fire for Exhibiting Painting by Proud Boy

The City of Albuquerque is taking heat for displaying artwork by a member of the New Mexico Proud Boys, an extremist group with white nationalist ideologies, in an open call exhibition.

Steve Jansen • July 08, 2021

ArizonaNews

M. Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz Shift the Transnational Gaze

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

SouthwestNews

National Endowment for the Arts Announce ARP Grants

The National Endowment for the Arts is accepting applications for $135 million in American Rescue Plan grants designed to help arts and cultural organizations recover from the pandemic.

Lynn Trimble • July 05, 2021