Jul 04
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La Trampa Gráfica Contemporánea in Mexico City and Familia Printshop in Dallas engage in a long tradition of Mexican printmaking. The two print shops also illustrate the power of collaboration.
Jul 03
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Jun 29
Denver Month of Video founders Jenna Maurice and Adán De La Garza present a diverse array of video arts throughout July 2023 at venues across the city.
Jun 23
Ogden Contemporary Arts’s second artist in residence Eric J. García invites us to scrutinize the principles upon which American history and identity are based in a dazzling and multifaceted artistic project.
Jun 21
Shane R. Hendren, a New Mexico-based artist, storyteller, and so much more, has won a $100,000 Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation Award in Craft, one of the nation’s largest awards in the discipline.
Jun 19
Leadership changes at the Arizona Commission on the Arts could impact how the state agency spends the $5 million allocated for arts and culture in Arizona’s 2024 budget.
Jun 14
Junk Drawer is an inclusive queer techno dance party in Denver featuring installations by local artists who bring together social-justice politics and joy.
Jun 09
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, or MARS, a Phoenix-based artist collective, became an inclusive home for Chicano and Indigenous artists starting in the 1970s.
Jun 05
Arizona Biennial 2023, a six-month showcase at the Tucson Museum of Art, includes sixty-seven works by fifty-six artists selected by curator Taína Caragol.
Jun 02
Denver's public art collection boasts outstanding examples of monumental outdoor sculptures and includes works by Hebert Bayer, Sol LeWitt, Anthony Magar, Beverly Pepper, Bernar Venet, and more.
Jun 01
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
May 30
Chicago-based tequila and taco restaurant Federales wants to set up shop in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. Artists and arts leaders aren’t having it.
May 22
Moab Arts Reuse Residency program in Utah, which attracts worldwide artists to make pieces out of rubbish, challenges the concept of detritus and trash.
May 17
Danny Lyon—photographer, filmmaker, ally of marginalized people, and heart-on-sleeve wearer—is celebrated in an Albuquerque Museum exhibition featuring selections from a prolific sixty-year career.
May 10
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art.
May 09
Utah Valley University is set to open a new museum inside of an old manor. The debut super exhibition, The Art of Belonging, centers BIPOC voices with connections to Utah.
May 01
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Apr 28
Center for Contemporary Arts Santa Fe, which recently announced permanent closure after forty-four years, has reversed course and plans to partially reopen in the city's shaky arts nonprofit landscape.
Apr 17
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures.
Apr 14
The Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies in Aspen, Colorado, preserves and celebrates the legacy of the Bauhaus-affiliated artist with the inaugural exhibition Herbert Bayer: An Introduction.
Apr 12
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process.
Apr 11
Joel Swanson and other neon artists, with the help of Denver institution Morry's Neon Signs, are fueling a new wave of neon conceptual art.
Apr 10
Ever wish your city had more arts funding? Learn how artists and arts allies in Phoenix are working to make it happen through the city’s budget process.
Apr 07
In Pueblo, Colorado, a stacked and growing arts community supports high-quality arts programming that is accessible to everyone, including those who have fled unsustainable inflation in the big city.
Apr 06
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Mar 31
Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp's guide to museum and gallery exhibitions to see across the Southwest this spring.
Mar 30
Jiyoun Lee-Lodge of Salt Lake City grapples with themes of isolation and belonging—in comic book-style works influenced by Korean folk art—in her ongoing Waterman series.
Mar 28
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
Mar 27
The Gift, a creative and scientific immersive art installation at Colorado College, considers diverse social, cultural, and ethical perspectives in science.
Mar 21
A new Art of the Skateboard USPS stamp series that includes work by Di’Orr Greenwood (Diné) will be dedicated this weekend as part of the 2023 Cowtown Phoenix AM skateboarding competition.
Mar 14
The Oak Street Alley Mural Festival in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood gives community members a chance to meet and talk with local artists whose live painting reflects diverse styles and themes.
Mar 13
Speaking with Light: Contemporary Indigenous Photography, a first-of-its-kind retrospective now at the Denver Art Museum, celebrates Native culture while confronting settler colonialism.
Mar 07
The Horacio Rodriguez-curated exhibition and auction Boombox Benefit at UMOCA, a multi-artist showcase of ten ceramic pieces patterned from Rodriguez’s 1980s childhood boombox, aids ten different social justice-centric organizations.
Mar 06
Bingo Studios, a pandemic project of artists Lance McGoldrick and Josh Stuyvesant that includes studios, a gallery space, and a fabrication shop, recently opened to fanfare.
Mar 02
The making of The Thief Collector, a true-crime documentary about the theft of Willem de Kooning’s Woman-Ochre, parallels the Arizona Museum of Art’s journey of prepping the artwork for display after a thirty-seven-year absence.
Mar 01
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Feb 28
Art Detour, the thirty-four-year-old annual studio tour, has shifted course to match Phoenix’s shrinking arts enclave.
Feb 21
Container in Santa Fe, an offshoot of Turner Carroll Gallery, offers a model that prizes artists, curators, and artwork—some saved from the ultimate demise—over profit.
Feb 20
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
Feb 17
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
Feb 15
Eco Build Lab co-founder, earthship builder, and educator Kirsten Jacobsen describes the delicacy and environmental factors integral to green building construction and action.
Feb 14
Kimball’s Peak Three Theater has closed after the death of owner Kimball Bayles. Community leaders are coming together to try to save Colorado Springs’s only independent movie theater.
Feb 13
Smoke the Moon, which moved from its original Marcy Street location to Canyon Road in March 2022, uplifts emerging artists and cultivates young collectors and artists in Santa Fe.
