Meet the “Sad Little Houses” of Dallas, and the Artists on the Front Lines of the Housing Crisis
Three artists confront the Texas housing crisis with street-level projects using piñatas, murals, gentrification walking tours, and more.
May 06, 2025
Gentrification
Decades After the Creative Class Arrived, Small Arizona Town Confronts Dual Realities
Local artists and art-world power players are next-door neighbors in Winslow, Arizona. Everyone and the mayor is weighing in on the town's creative direction.
March 27, 2025
FeatureTexasVol. 11 The Hyperlocal
Can Art Stave Off Gentrification? San Antonio Cultural Spaces are Preserving the Westside
Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city's Westside.
March 07, 2025
As Another Denver Art Project Goes Fugitive, Co-Director Counts “A Hundred Reasons Why”
"You can’t show art if no one can afford to make it," says Brett Matarazzo of BRDG Project, an arts nonprofit that just left its second location—with nowhere else to land.
February 25, 2025
Evans School Exodus: Denver Artists Prepare to Leave the Historic Former Elementary School
Investors are finally redeveloping Evans School in Denver—and displacing nearly sixty artists from their low-cost studios in the process.
November 12, 2024
Arizona Artists Take Umbrage at a Proposed Development in Phoenix’s Already Gentrified Roosevelt Row
Chicago-based tequila and taco restaurant Federales wants to set up shop in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. Artists and arts leaders aren’t having it.
May 30, 2023
