FeatureColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
M12 Studio’s multi-year collective projects show the complexities of rural places and open conversations about what connects us.
February 25, 2022
FeatureArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
CONDER/dance collaborates with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation at Taliesin West in Arizona to present new works by innovative choreographers in the Southwest.
February 25, 2022
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land is a love letter to the Southern Nevada desert: a series of exhibitions opening in late March across three venues celebrates the East Mojave landscape.
February 25, 2022
FeatureUtahVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
In the heart of one of the nation’s most conservative states, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, led by Laura Hurtado and Jared Steffensen, brings groundbreaking contemporary art to the state.
February 25, 2022
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, renowned New Mexico-based poet, opens up about her personal poetry process and collaboration across artistic disciplines.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cherish Marquez is a Denver-based artist who uses videos, animations, still images, and installations, to animate the subtleties of desert life near the U.S.-Mexico border.
February 25, 2022
ReviewColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Facing shortages of his usual materials, Colorado artist Emilio Lobato turned to rubber sheets, household tacks, and porcelain strips. The outcome is work that is surprisingly multifaceted.
February 25, 2022
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Cara Despain’s exhibition In Memoriam: Carbon Paintings at Utah’s Kimball Art Center confronted the pressing environmental and moral calamities of the American West.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Raul Rene Gonzalez is a San Antonio, Texas-based artist whose work is largely autobiographical in nature, exploring topics such as fatherhood, gender roles, labor, identity, pop culture, and abstraction.
February 25, 2022
ReviewArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
A Tucson exhibition highlights Latinx women collaborating in the borderlands, creating an ode to shared power and place that nourishes brown bodies.
February 25, 2022
PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Santa Fe–based artist Saro Calewarts explores trauma and the healing process in her photographic project, Agency Lessons.
February 25, 2022
InterviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Wynema Chavez Quintana discusses her work as a head ager/dyer in the film industry, a job that requires a skillful understanding of color and textiles and collaboration across many departments.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Gary Sweeney, a San Antonio-based artist, presents a collaborative project that challenges the Eurocentric standards of beauty promoted by the Famous Artists School, a correspondence course popular in the 1960s.
February 25, 2022
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Counter Mapping, a group show of local, national, and international creatives at 516 Arts in Albuquerque, attempted to reclaim stories and ties to place for underheard populations, with mixed results.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rio Meander Map, a collaborative project between Jose Villanueva and Patrick O'Shea, traces the meandering flow of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Tumbleweed Rodeo, led by artists Sarah Aziz and J. Eric Simpson, tracks the non-human journey of tumbleweeds through the Llano Estacado.
February 25, 2022
Studio VisitColoradoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Michael Gadlin, an artist and the executive director of PlatteForum in Denver, talks about the influence relationships and community have had on his creative practice.
February 25, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
This autofiction short revisits an outpatient surgery and the drive home through the lens of health, marriage, and fantasy.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism.
February 25, 2022
EssayNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
D. Ward muses on the current and potential roles of the human gut microbiota in collaboration and art in general.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Sandra and Wence Martinez of Martinez Studio have been collaborating for over thirty years on textile design and weaving.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Rosie Clements is a Tucson-based photographer whose images meditate on the small details of interdependence between nature and the urban environment.
February 25, 2022
ReviewTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
At The Contemporary Austin’s Crit Group Reunion, a generic and disjointed overview muted the spirit of what’s happening now in the city.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Friends of the Orphan Signs is a collaborative art organization that works with community members to bring their voices to empty billboards and signs in Albuquerque.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Amanda Rowan's multimedia performance project Place Setting collaborates with the narrative and artifacts of three generations of women at the Acequia Madre House in Santa Fe.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Collaborative works by Ghislaine Fremaux and Lando Valdez concern the sensuality of grief, the medicalized subject, the experience of surgical intervention, desire, and the concomitance of all of these.
February 25, 2022
ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Phoenix-based artist Jen Urso presents Remarkable Presence, an installation that explores the concept of grief and the aftermath of COVID-19 deaths in Arizona.
February 25, 2022
Studio VisitTexasVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Houston-based artist and graphic designer Phillip Pyle, II upholds a tradition of collaboration in the historic Third Ward neighborhood.
February 25, 2022
EssaySouthwestVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Art critic Darren Jones on the ways artists lead the way in matters of social progress, in our Collectivity + Collaboration themed issue.
February 25, 2022
