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PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Santa Fe–based artist Saro Calewarts explores trauma and the healing process in her photographic project, Agency Lessons.

Angie Rizzo • 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.

Annie Bielski • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Steve Jansen • 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. 

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Steve Jansen • 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.

Joshua Ware • 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. 

Hannah Dean • February 25, 2022

ArtistsArizonaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration

Photographer Joe Dominguez, based in Phoenix, creates visual anthologies that spotlight environmental racism. 

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

d. ward • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Lyndsay Knecht • 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.

Daisy Geoffrey • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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.

Southwest Contemporary • 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. 

Caitlin Chávez • 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.

Darren Jones • February 25, 2022

Studio VisitNew Mexico

Political organizer and artist Szu-Han Ho of Albuquerque builds coalitions and breaks down institutionalized barriers.

Kathryne Lim • February 23, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Abeyta | To’Hajiilee K’é at the Wheelwright Museum in Santa Fe spotlights the invaluable contributions of a Navajo family of artists and deepens an understanding of Indigenous and American histories.

Steve Jansen • February 22, 2022

NewsNew Mexico

Jack Lemon opened Landfall Press in 1970 and continues to operate it in Santa Fe, having collaborated with Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Chuck Close, Robert Indiana, and Lesley Dill, among others.

Lauren LaRocca • February 24, 2022

ReviewColorado

Taiko Chandler’s Denver Botanic Gardens exhibition provides a powerful framework for how to think differently about the world around us.

Joshua Ware • February 18, 2022

Studio VisitTexas

Laredo, Texas native Angelica Raquel Martínez continues her familial legacy of storytelling in works on paper and textile installations.

Caitlin Chávez • February 22, 2022

SponsoredNew Mexico

Design Corps is Santa Fe's network for creative professionals and a comprehensive resource for creative services.

Design Corps of Santa Fe • February 16, 2022

NewsArizona

Astier de Villatte, a Paris-based brand that’s set to launch a perfume called Tucson, shares what is unique about the scent and their first impressions of the desert.

Eva-Marie Hube • February 16, 2022

Studio VisitArizona

Sanders, Arizona-based Jared Tso (Diné), who teaches aspiring ceramicists and makes pottery from the road, is a rising star in the world of Indigenous pottery.

Will Riding In • February 15, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

Josephine Halvorson: Contemporary Voices at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe offers an intimate view of the Abiquiú desert.

Shane Tolbert • February 14, 2022

NewsUtah

Gilgal Garden in Salt Lake City is perhaps Utah’s most unusual homage to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

Scotti Hill • February 11, 2022

ReviewNew Mexico

Roswell, New Mexico artist-in-residence Marie Alarcón explores the revolutionary potential of the end of the world in her solo exhibition Relocations.

Coco Picard • February 09, 2022