Living Histories
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories.
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 9: Living Histories, guest juror Kalyn Fay Barnoski reflects on the ten featured artists and how they engage with cultural, community, or familial histories. By Kalyn Fay Barnoski
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Delilah Montoya, a Chicana artist based in Albuquerque, turns a mestizaje lens on documentary photography and the representation of women. By Nancy Zastudil
Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Navajo weaver Venancio Aragon's journey to revive and preserve Diné weaving amidst modern challenges and cultural appropriation. By Olivia Amaya Ortiz
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Jeannie Ortiz's fiber art practice in her ancestral desert homeland around Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, helps her fill in the gaps in her family's history. By Lauren Tresp
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Tamara Burgh's (Swede, Iñupiaq-Kawerak) art practice is undergirded by questions about what Indigeneity means to the artist and how to move into the future carrying the freight of a weighty past. By Maggie Grimason
ReviewNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
The Emotional Show's consideration of sentiment and inner sensation has become pronounced in relevance following the terrifying December 6 shooting on the UNLV campus. By Brent Holmes
FeatureNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
An art world debate over the modernist credentials of iconic Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo surfaces tense questions about art, craft, Indigeneity, and the meaning of modernity. By Jordan Eddy
ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Assyrian Irish artist Esther Elia constructs contemporary diasporic visions of ancient legacies through an ever-evolving array of media. By Maggie Grimason
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures. By Joshua Ware
ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum. By Lynn Trimble
FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art. By Lynn Trimble
EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell. By nicholas b jacobsen
ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories
Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures. By Lauren Tresp
FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories
Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West. By Brent Holmes
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories
Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico. By Robin Babb
ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States. By Natalie Hegert
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries. By Natalie Hegert
FeatureArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill. By Camille LeFevre
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection. By Joshua Ware
ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art. By Steve Jansen
InterviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Salt Lake City-based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad. By Kathryne Lim
FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book. By Emily Arntsen
ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories
Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia. By Lynn Trimble
Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas. By Aleina Grace Edwards
ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories
Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism. By Scotti Hill
EssayTexasVol. 9 Living Histories
Anne Elise Urrutia reflects on how exploring and writing about her Mexican family history adds to a broader understanding of a vibrant cultural heritage. By Anne Elise Urrutia
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