Vol. 13: The Road
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Vol. 13 — The Road
It’s the centennial year of Route 66, a road that splintered four decades ago but runs intact through the American imagination, carrying all sorts of romantic notions of the North American Southwest.
Southwest Contemporary Volume 13: The Road treks iconic byways as well as lesser-known terrain, following routes that span three time zones. Along the way, we follow contemporary and historical artists who travel at a distinctly human pace, treating roads as singular places rather than liminal spaces. They dig into physical and conceptual layers of roads, cracking pockets of deep time or surging toward imagined futures.
We hope this issue reconstitutes even the busiest Southwest arteries as conduits that tether far-flung places and people. These stories assign human stakes and moral weight to epic movement.
Edited by: Natalie Hegert.
Guest juror: Aurora Tang, curator, researcher, and nonprofit arts administrator.
Contributors: Emma S. Ahmad, Erin Averill, Robin Babb, Sean J. Patrick Carney, Jordan Eddy, Madison Garay, Maggie Grimason, Natalie Hegert, Scotti Hill, Rica Maestas, Kimberly Suina Melwani, Laura Neal, Chris Shaw, Max Stone, Anika Todd, Lauren Tresp, Lynn Trimble, Joshua Ware, Pete Warzel, Parker Yamasaki, Royal Young.
Cover art: Madeline Rupard, Pretty Day, 2024, acrylic on panel, 18 x 12 in.
Vol. 13 — The Road — Spring-Summer 2026
ISSN 2766-3000
Edition of 15,000.
7.5 x 9.5 in, 120 pages.
Perfect bound, offset-printed, full color on coated paper.
Made in New Mexico.
Printed in Colorado.
Publication date: March 20, 2026.
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