Southwest Art News: April 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
April 06, 2023
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Jiyoun Lee-Lodge Tackles the Bogeyman of Loneliness in Waterman
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.
March 30, 2023
The Outsized Presence of Luis Jiménez in the Southwest
Luis Jiménez’s monumental sculptures are found all over the country. Why is the artist not more well known?
March 28, 2023
Star Power: Immersive Experience The Gift Blends Art with Astrophysics
The Gift, a creative and scientific immersive art installation at Colorado College, considers diverse social, cultural, and ethical perspectives in science.
March 27, 2023
USPS Set to Dedicate Postage Stamp by Arizona-based Native American Artist and Skater
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.
March 21, 2023
Oak Street Alley Mural Festival Celebrates Art and Community in Phoenix
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.
March 14, 2023
In Speaking with Light, Contemporary Indigenous Photographers Showcase Their Lenses at the Denver Art Museum
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.
March 13, 2023
Horacio Rodriguez’s Boombox Benefit Amplifies a Bygone Relic
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.
March 07, 2023
Bingo Studios Opens in Barelas, Fills a Huge Need for Artist Spaces
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.
March 06, 2023
The Thief Collector Chronicles the Willem de Kooning True-Crime Heist—With a Twist
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.
March 02, 2023
Southwest Art News: March 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
March 01, 2023
Art Detour in Phoenix, Now a Month-Long, Takes a Left Turn
Art Detour, the thirty-four-year-old annual studio tour, has shifted course to match Phoenix’s shrinking arts enclave.
February 28, 2023
New Santa Fe Art Space Container Saves Artwork from Storage—and Destruction
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.
February 21, 2023
Michael Anthony García: “Grounded in a Utopian Projection of Positivity”
Michael Anthony García, an Austin-based artist and curator, creates installation, video, and sculptural work that explores personal questions of identity and cultivates community.
February 20, 2023
Autumn T. Thomas’s Dancing in the Diaspora Explores Ancestral Connections Through Woodworking
Contemporary woodworker Autumn T. Thomas has developed a collection that speaks to her embrace of ancestry, community, and exploration of self.
February 17, 2023
Eco Build Lab in Taos Designs Menus for Off-Grid Living
Eco Build Lab co-founder, earthship builder, and educator Kirsten Jacobsen describes the delicacy and environmental factors integral to green building construction and action.
February 15, 2023
The Fight to Save Kimball’s Peak Three, Colorado Springs’s Only Independent Movie Theater
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.
February 14, 2023
Smoke the Moon in Santa Fe Elevates Emerging Artists on Canyon Road
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.
February 13, 2023
Southwest Art News: February 2023
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
February 06, 2023
Utah’s New State Flag, To the Disappointment of Some, Won’t Depict the State Fish Wielding the State Firearm
During the Utah state and Salt Lake City flag competitions, residents fall in love with Grant Miller’s dark-horse design heavy on clowning state symbols and imagery.
February 03, 2023
Anthony Bondi’s Archive Establishes a Provenance for Las Vegas Arts
Anthony Bondi’s standalone archive of Las Vegas arts from 1990 to 2015 recalls the Underground and the Committee for Public Safety, and sheds a light on the city’s cultural amnesia. […]
January 26, 2023
Core Contemporary in Las Vegas Moves Locations, Expands Scope
Core Contemporary in Las Vegas, under the direction of Nancy Good, focuses on local artist standbys and self-taught outsider artists in exhibition themes ranging from gun violence to queer aliens.
January 25, 2023
Fate of Utah’s Outsider Art Site The Christian School Remains In Flux
Salt Lake City’s Christian School, the brainchild of late artist Ralphael Plescia, is in limbo as an arts organization’s preservation efforts are hampered by the recent sale of the property.
January 23, 2023
When, Where, and How Did Phoenix’s Downtown Art Scene Commence? Four Local Artists Remember.
Janet de Berge Lange, Jeff Falk, James B. Hunt, and Annie Lopez—in roundtable style—dish on downtown Phoenix’s art scene pre-America West Arena and prior to First Friday.
January 20, 2023
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard and Richard B Reimagine Art and Dining
Albuquerque’s birds + Richard gallery and Richard B restaurant blur the lines between dinner party and exhibition opening with an invitation to take in art with a side of gastronomy.
January 19, 2023
Under New Leadership, the Springville Museum of Art Remains Essential to Utah Arts and Arts Education
Springville Museum of Art, newly helmed by Emily Larsen, is one of Utah’s oldest visual arts institutions—and a crucial component of the state’s arts education networks.
January 13, 2023
A Win for Underserved Communities: New Mexico Sustainable Architecture Firms AOS and MASS Team Up
The combined Santa Fe offices of AOS Architects and MASS Design Group will help expand the humanitarian architecture footprint for Native and non-Native communities in New Mexico and beyond.
January 12, 2023
Alternative Worlds of What Ifs, Brought to You by Angel Cabrales
Angel Cabrales, a devotee of science, sci-fi, and his own cultural heritage based in El Paso, creates alternate worlds that are more playful than the serious and broken one we live in.
January 11, 2023
Arizona Commission on the Arts Currently Fails to Represent the Whole State
Arizona Commission on the Arts' new director says its governing board lacks geographic diversity, which goes against Arizona statute. It’s not the only violation of state law involving the agency.
January 09, 2023
New Media Leader Denver Digerati Looks Towards an Educational and Local Community Focused Future
Denver Digerati, under the direction of executive director and chief curator Sharifa Lafon, looks to change up its digital arts and educational programming in 2023.
December 21, 2022
