Rubber-Clad 1970s Art Vigilante Offers Playbook for a Prohibitive Moment
Santa Fe's fifteen-year Rubber Lady project was a master class in fugitive—and funny—social subversion. At Vladem Contemporary, the artist unmasks herself.
March 18, 2025
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PhotographyNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Impact Storytelling: Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project
With a keen eye and a bold approach, Shayla Blatchford’s Anti-Uranium Mapping Project confronts the damaging impact of unethical mining on Southwest Indigenous lands.
March 07, 2025
ReviewNew MexicoVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Adapted from a Podcast, Broken Boxes Materializes Artists’ Voices
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art.
March 07, 2025
Mourn the Dead, Fight for the Living: How Should Salt Lake City’s Fleet Block Murals Be Commemorated?
The artists and families tied to soon-to-be-demolished Salt Lake City murals depicting people slain by police diverge on how best to preserve their legacy.
September 19, 2024
Pedro Reyes: DIRECT ACTION at SITE Santa Fe: Swords into Ploughshares
At SITE Santa Fe, Mexican artist Pedro Reyes proves that sometimes sculptors can both make activist statements and focus on sculptural fundamentals, with stunning results.
April 25, 2023
FeatureSouthwestVol. 6 Rooted: Poetics of Place
Of Mushroom Clouds and Yellow Dirt: Southwest Artists Reflect on Devastation and Hope Through Anti-nuclear Art
Artists across the Southwest reflect on the region's nuclear history and its fallout in their anti-nuclear artworks.
August 26, 2022
Collectivity + CollaborationUtah
United Nation: For Freedoms Collective Engages Rather Than Alienates
The For Freedoms collective, dubbed the country’s largest network of artists, cultural workers, and organizations, engages in tough and important conversations about social change through artistic civic activism.
March 21, 2022
FeatureNevadaVol. 5 Collectivity + Collaboration
Spirit of the Land: Art, Activism, and Collaboration in Southern Nevada
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
Work in Progress with Szu-Han Ho
Political organizer and artist Szu-Han Ho of Albuquerque builds coalitions and breaks down institutionalized barriers.
February 23, 2022
FeatureTexasVol. 4 Winter 2021
With Climate Emergency a Certainty, Gulf Coast Creatives Reflect on Art’s Value in Crisis
Houston creatives and artists discuss the influence of climate change on their individual practices and possibilities for creative responses to climate crisis.
October 29, 2021
