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
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“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
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
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
