Santa Fe’s Multicultural Mural, Version 2.0
Gilberto Guzmán, a lead artist of Santa Fe’s sharply contested and now-defunct Multicultural mural, painted a new Multicultural to be displayed in 2023.
October 12, 2022
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In Memoriam: Tigre Mashaal-Lively
Memorial services for Tigre Mashaal-Lively, who made art about individual and collective trauma and healing, are scheduled for Friday, October 7 and Saturday, October 8 in Santa Fe.
October 06, 2022
Before and Afterlives: JC Gonzo Rejuvenates New Mexico’s Abandoned Cemeteries
JC Gonzo’s photographs of New Mexico cemeteries place viewers in a symbiotic relationship with the land, community, and history.
October 05, 2022
Southwest Art News: October 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
October 04, 2022
Step Into Christian Degn’s Dark, Magical Castle
Provo-based artist Christian Degn brings viewers into an abstract, dark, and magical world with pen-and-ink illustrations that grace album covers for well-known metal and ambient bands.
September 30, 2022
Denver’s Tya Anthony Explores Social Justice Through Visual Catharsis
Tya Alisa Anthony untangles the meaning of safe spaces as sanctuary and explores the art of social justice, human rights, and identity in the Mile High City.
September 27, 2022
New Salt Lake City Gallery Current Work Arrives at a Transitional Time for the Local Art Scene
Current Work, founded by longtime arts advocate Tiffini Porter, raises the contemporary art bar in Salt Lake City. The gallery also fills several sudden gaps in Utah's creative ecosystem.
September 22, 2022
Anthony Garcia Sr.’s Serape-Influenced Murals of Denver
The serape-style murals and public-art pieces of Birdseed Collective co-founder Anthony Garcia Sr. are integral to Denver’s urban infrastructure.
September 19, 2022
Indigenous Designers Rebuff Mainstream Fashion Industry Trends
The Santa Fe Indian Market fashion show shined a spotlight on Indigenous designers who bring new perspectives to an industry in need of positive, equitable change.
September 14, 2022
Phoenix Faces Tough Choices with Arts and Culture Funding
Phoenix seeks community input as the city considers bond funding for a new Latino Cultural Center and other creative projects, all while art spaces rebound from COVID-19 impacts.
September 09, 2022
Utah’s Expanded Art Budget Increases Opportunities for Artists
The pandemic forced Utah’s arts organizations to get creative with funding sources. The strategy ultimately allowed for more direct aid for individual artists and novel programming.
September 05, 2022
Southwest Art News: September 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
September 01, 2022
Nancy Rivera’s Laborious Practice Pulls a Thread Between Her Art-Making Process and Her Immigration Experience
Salt Lake City artist Nancy Rivera illustrates the immigrant experience in a series of complex and time-consuming embroideries.
August 30, 2022
Diego Rodriguez-Warner’s Modernized Trompe L’Oeil Nods to the Canon’s Victors and Antiheroes
Diego Rodriguez-Warner: Iteratives at Rule Gallery in Denver subverts and reinforces historical permutations of beauty.
August 29, 2022
Illustrations from a Murder Capital: Alice Leora Briggs Portrays Ciudad Juárez’s Recent Dark History
Abecedario de Juárez by artist Alice Leora Briggs and photojournalist Julián Cardona is partly an illustrated glossary of narcolenguaje and partly a collection of stories from the streets.
August 19, 2022
Merry Scully, Longtime Santa Fe Curator and Arts Worker, Heads West
Merry Scully, former New Mexico Museum of Art head of curatorial affairs, is leaving the state with a heavy heart but with an eager eye towards Southern California.
August 17, 2022
“Making Art is Like Making Pizza; Layers, Baby!”: Inside the VHS Vic Universe
Utah video artist VHS Vic (Victor Blandon) shows his audience how to find magic in the mundane, the goofy in the serious, and the artistry in making a pizza.
August 15, 2022
Meet Zara Kriegstein, the Forgotten Artist Who Spearheaded Santa Fe’s Most Embattled Mural
The recent destruction of Santa Fe’s Multicultural mural caused fierce controversy, but its little-told history reveals tough questions about authorship and cross-cultural collaboration.
August 12, 2022
In a City Besieged by Rent Hikes, Santa Fe Scores an Affordable Housing Complex for Artists
Siler Yard fills a void in Santa Fe’s affordable housing crunch, especially for artists and long-standing residents. Though celebrated, the development faces challenges.
August 10, 2022
Salt Lake City Cultural Workers Fight for Unionization, Threaten Strike
Clever Octopus’s unionization efforts in Salt Lake City speak out about potential exploitation within creative and arts careers. As living costs rise, unions are becoming more common among underpaid cultural workers.
August 03, 2022
Southwest Art News: August 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
August 01, 2022
Multi-Site Albuquerque Exhibition Reinvigorates Southwest Cultural Exchange
Son de Allá y Son de Acá brings together sixty contemporary Chicano/a and Latino/a artists from Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas across four Albuquerque art galleries.
July 28, 2022
Ya La’ford’s Survey Renews Perspectives of the American West
Ya La’ford, Ogden Contemporary Arts’s first artist-in-residence, visualizes a past, present, and future Southwest in Survey: The West.
July 22, 2022
Never Look Away: Reflecting on the Life and Art of Leonard Fresquez
Albuquerque artist Leonard Fresquez offered a unique glimpse at the possibilities of art in understanding our world. His June 2022 death at the age of forty-one marks a profound loss.
July 20, 2022
“They Have Always Been Here”: Sister Speaks Up for Marginalized Artists
Sister SLC’s creative, fun, and diverse one-off events are as a safe space for all genders, sexualities, and ethnicities, and increase visibility for Utah’s femme, queer, and nonbinary artists.
July 18, 2022
Gallery Incomplet, a New Santa Fe Art Space, Only Displays Unfinished Works
Gallery Incomplet in Santa Fe is likely the world’s first art space to exclusively display incomplete works of art, ranging from barely completed paintings to undeveloped rolls of film.
July 15, 2022
The Exodus Ensemble Will Upend Your Reality
The Exodus Ensemble, an immersive theater group in Santa Fe, combines tactics from television with live performance to create intense, dramatic theater.
July 14, 2022
Black and Latinx Choreographers Take Center Stage at BlakTinx Dance Festival Phoenix
BlakTinx Dance Festival in Phoenix showcases works by Black and Latin choreographers, who bring their creativity to contemporary issues from Black Lives Matter to COVID-19.
July 07, 2022
Nuestras Acequias Reimagines Museum Practice and Shares Community Wisdom
Gutiérrez Hubbell House spotlights life-sustaining New Mexico acequias and reimagines museum practice with a new guest-curator program.
July 06, 2022
Southwest Art News: July 2022
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
July 01, 2022
