Abstraction, Accumulation, and Activism: Three Artists Confront the Dangers of Extraction
In Shifting Topographies, three artists’ varied approaches find common ground in exposing the deadly threat of extractive industries.
November 26, 2025
environment
Manic ExxonMobil Impersonators Pitch a Rising Protest Aesthetic: Razor-Sharp Silliness
The Yes Men used slick branding to spoof ExxonMobil in New Mexico. Inside the cloak and dagger intervention by a wave of "laugh-tivists" with a serious cause.
October 30, 2025
Ghostly Images of Plants, Landscapes—and a Baseball Stadium—Reveal a Desert in Flux
Through LiDAR scans, UK-based studio ScanLAB Projects captured the Sonoran Desert in haunting detail, revealing a landscape on the brink.
October 09, 2025
Missing Waters Reimagines Santa Fe’s Forgotten Waterways
Environmental artist Stacy Levy brings Santa Fe’s lost acequias back to life with Missing Waters, a temporary chalk water map installation at the Santa Fe Railyard April 25-29, 2025.
April 08, 2025
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
FeatureSouthwestVol. 10 Radical Futures
Radical Architecture, Radical Imagination: How Will We Live in a Hotter, More Arid Future?
Science fiction authors have provided many visions of dystopian futures in the Southwest. Can architects help avert such disastrous outcomes?
September 06, 2024
ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures
Bonny Leibowitz: Radical Futures
Texas-based artist Bonny Leibowitz creates hybridized installations of natural and manufactured materials that reflect the impacts of isolation, environmental degradation, and human conflict.
September 06, 2024
ReviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures
Sweeping Aerials and Intimate Portraits Trace Industrial Damage in Fazal Sheikh’s Thirst / Exposure / In Place
Anchored by imagery from Bears Ears National Monument, Fazal Sheikh's exhibition at the Denver Art Museum explores the dichotomy of beauty and destruction in the Southwest.
September 06, 2024
ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories
Anne Yoncha: Living Histories
The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.
March 01, 2024
No Longer a Hypothetical: If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change
If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change looks at global warming with a right brain/left brain lineup of scientists, journalists, and artists.
October 24, 2023
FeatureSouthwestVol. 8 Medium + Support
Intervention and Interconnection: How Should Artists Work With(in) the Environment?
Eco art is attracting a new generation of artists, but when working with the land, there’s a way to do it right and a way to do it wrong.
September 01, 2023
Studio VisitUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support
Lenka Konopasek: Paper Tendrils, Threatening
Salt Lake City–based artist Lenka Konopasek disrupts and decenters anthropocentrism with her three-dimensional paper sculptures, whose prickly paper strips instill aversion and attraction, as if growing out of the wall.
September 01, 2023
Vol. 8 Medium + SupportArtistsTexas
Narong Tintamusik
Dallas-based artist Narong Tintamusik explores themes of personal and cultural heritage while acknowledging the corporeal relationship between humanity and waste.
September 01, 2023
Photography for the Apocalypse
Meggan Gould speculates on the future of photographic practice and the potential of the anthotype process, in which plant-based photosensitive emulsions create ephemeral prints.
September 01, 2023
Shawn Skabelund Explores Ecological and Cultural Destruction at Coconino Center for the Arts
Flagstaff artist Shawn Skabelund explores ecological and cultural destruction using materials gathered from forests in his exhibition at Coconino Center for the Arts.
October 07, 2022
Nuestras Acequias Reimagines Museum Practice and Shares Community Wisdom
Gutiérrez Hubbell House spotlights life-sustaining New Mexico acequias and reimagines museum practice with a new guest-curator program.
July 06, 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
