Arizona’s 2023 State Budget More Than Doubles Arts Funding
Arts advocates in Arizona celebrate a new state budget that includes $5 million for the arts, more than doubling the state’s arts funding.
June 28, 2022
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Three Summer Shows Amplify Floyd D. Tunson’s Powerful Body of Work
Floyd D. Tunson, one of Colorado’s most important contemporary artists, is the subject of three summer exhibitions shedding light on the breadth and scope of his sociopolitical and race-related themes.
June 27, 2022
Yvonne Force Villareal Launches Brite Force in Marfa
Curator Yvonne Force Villareal inaugurates Brite Force, a new arts initiative in Marfa, Texas, with an exhibition of surreal Western paintings by Will Cotton.
June 15, 2022
Kim Stringfellow Reckons with Human Impact on the Desert in The Mojave Project
Kim Stringfellow presents the current iteration of her exhibition The Mojave Project, which expands ideas of the Mojave Desert and its inhabitants through transmedia representations.
June 14, 2022
Fort Worth’s Kinfolk House Draws Artists and Neighbors Together
Kinfolk House’s entry to social practice art is meant to investigate community, culture, and isolation in the venue’s neighborhood of Polytechnic Heights and beyond in Fort Worth.
June 13, 2022
Hot Art Summer: Must-See Southwest Art Exhibitions for Summer 2022
Hit the road this summer for Southwest art exhibitions in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
June 10, 2022
UMFA Highlights Utah in the 1970s, From Spiral Jetty to Voter Rights
Curator Alana Wolf mines the University of Utah’s archives to backdrop the various occurrences of the 1970s—the formative decade in which Robert Smithson’s earthwork Spiral Jetty made its debut.
June 08, 2022
Meet Shelly C. Lowe, the First Indigenous Chair of the NEH
Shelly C. Lowe (Diné), the first Native American to chair the National Endowment for the Humanities, is approaching her high-profile job at the granting institution through an Indigenous lens.
June 03, 2022
Southwest Art News: June 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
June 01, 2022
Jivan Lee’s Long-Form Painting Meditation: From “Total, Dead Boredom” to Miracles in the Mundane
Jivan Lee’s series 10,000 Mountains represented a fundamental shift for the painter from chasing the light to deep meditations on place that revealed the miraculous through the mundane.
May 23, 2022
Live in America Brings Leading-Edge Southwest Performance to Arkansas
Live in America features under-recognized Southwest cities, such as Albuquerque, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, El Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, in a debut performance festival in Northwest Arkansas.
May 20, 2022
A Brief History of African American Homesteading in New Mexico
The Albuquerque Museum tells the compelling story of African American homesteading in New Mexico in the exhibition Facing the Rising Sun.
May 17, 2022
New Mexico Jewelry-Making Program Axed by School Officials
Starting fall 2023, Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque will no longer offer a bench jewelry certificate program for its students.
May 13, 2022
Breaking to Build: Andrew Alba’s Carnal Desire to Paint
Utah artist Andrew Alba’s newest series of stoic portraits, on display at Modern West starting later this month, come after years of dark brooding and artistic scuffles.
May 10, 2022
The Legacy of Phoenix Graffiti Pioneer Pablo Luna
El Mac reflects on the influential creative output of Arizona-based graffiti innovator Pablo Luna (AKA KAPER), who spent four decades making art before his death last month.
May 06, 2022
Southwest Art News: May 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
May 02, 2022
Veterans Off-Grid Teaches the Art and Healing of Green Building
Veterans Off Grid in rural Northern New Mexico helps vulnerable veterans get back on their feet in a setting that’s a model for sustainable architecture, community building, and affordable housing.
April 29, 2022
On-Site Vigil of the “Dying” Great Salt Lake Moves State Lawmakers
During Utah’s 2022 legislative session, poet and community leader Nan Seymour crafted a site vigil and collective poem, an act of community activism that highlighted the in-flux Great Salt Lake.
April 26, 2022
Curators Brainstorm Big Dreams for—and Identify Gaps in—Utah’s Contemporary Arts
A believed first-time gathering of Utah contemporary art curators at the 2022 Spring Summit in Green River yields big dreams and ideas for improvement.
April 22, 2022
Impractical Spaces: 5 Alternative Art Venues in Houston
A book series diving into historical and current alternative art establishments in major stateside cities visits Texas in Impractical Spaces: Houston. Here are five current H-Town favorites from the book.
April 20, 2022
In a State Rich in Jewelry Traditions, a New Mexico College Considers Choking a Key Pipeline
A jewelry-making program helps train artisans for steady career opportunities in Albuquerque. That may not be enough for the cash-strapped school.
April 15, 2022
Nika Kaiser Builds the Beginning of the Climate-Changed End
In The Passage, Tucson artist Nika Kaiser reimagines endings and the possibilities of a post-human future inspired by the reemergence of Glen Canyon.
April 13, 2022
Southwest Art News: April 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 01, 2022
12 to See: Southwest Contemporary’s Spring 2022 Art Guide
Southwest Contemporary's handy roundup of choice spring 2022 art exhibitions includes shows in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
March 11, 2022
Southwest Arts News: March 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
March 01, 2022
Santa Fe’s Landfall Press Celebrates Fifty-Plus Years of Printmaking
Jack Lemon opened Landfall Press in 1970 and continues to operate it in Santa Fe, having collaborated with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Robert Indiana, and Lesley Dill, among others.
February 24, 2022
Paris Perfumery to Launch Tucson, an Arizona Desert-Inspired Scent
Astier de Villatte, a Paris-based brand that’s set to launch a perfume called Tucson, shares what is unique about the scent and their first impressions of the desert.
February 16, 2022
Utah’s Outsider Art Gilgal Sculpture Garden Might Be Bizarro Defined
Gilgal Garden in Salt Lake City is perhaps Utah’s most unusual homage to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
February 11, 2022
Diné Filmmaker Deidra Peaches Premieres Voices of the Grand Canyon
Diné filmmaker Deidra Peaches screens documentary Voices of the Grand Canyon during Indie Film Fest 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona.
February 08, 2022
ABQ Small Businesses Fight Commission’s Decision to Remove Murals
To some family-run businesses, two murals by local Albuquerque artists are indicative of new creative energy in Old Town. To city officials, they’re out of character for the historic district and must go.
February 04, 2022
