In Print

ArtistsColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

The project Re:Peat by artist Anne Yoncha explores peatlands as time capsules of the geological past and environmental futures.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ReviewArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Amalia Mesa-Bains, renowned for altar-style installations that helped bring Chicana art into the mainstream, recently had a retrospective exhibition at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

FeatureColoradoVol. 9 Living Histories

Amid rapid urban development, Colorado struggles with the preservation of murals as living testaments to cultural identity.

Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Marlowe Katoney (Diné) draws on personal experience and Navajo, street, and popular culture to create weavings and paintings that defy conventional notions of beauty and Indigenous art.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

EssayUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

In this essay, nicholas b jacobsen braids together ongoing histories of Mormon and U.S. settler colonialism and genocide against Nuwu and Diné peoples at Pipe Spring National Monument and Lake Powell.

nicholas b jacobsen • March 01, 2024

ArtistsVol. 9 Living Histories

Santa Fe-based artist Chaz John's (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Mississippi Band Choctaw, European) latest works explore the characters, stories, and archetypes that crisscross generations and cultures.

Lauren Tresp • March 01, 2024

FeatureNevadaVol. 9 Living Histories

Brent Holmes finds kinship in the Barton Brothers, two early, unsung homesteaders to Nevada, through the shared experience of being Black in the American West.

Brent Holmes • March 01, 2024

ReviewNew MexicoVol. 9 Living Histories

Out West: Gay and Lesbian Artists in the Southwest 1900–1969 at the New Mexico Museum of Art collects work by and about queer artists working in New Mexico.

Robin Babb • March 01, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

Andrew Ina's multi-media artwork delves into diasporic memory and displacement, using his family's photographs documenting their lives in Lebanon and the United States.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Medical doctor, photographer, and public artist Chip Thomas has taken a historical turn in his work, building on deep, place-based research and activating architecture with archival discoveries.

Natalie Hegert • March 01, 2024

FeatureArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Sedona was once a Surrealism outpost in the desert, where resident artists Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning made work at their home, Capricorn Hill. 

Camille LeFevre • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jisun Myung blurs the lines between survival and growth through food-based art, cultivating community and connection.

Joshua Ware • March 01, 2024

ReviewTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

The 2024 Border Biennial at El Paso Museum of Art explores how regional artists experience and interact with the Borderlands, and also acts as a barometer for area contemporary art.

Steve Jansen • March 01, 2024

InterviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

Salt Lake City-based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad.

Kathryne Lim • March 01, 2024

FeatureUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

After living at an abandoned commune in rural Utah for eight years, author Emma Kemp blends history with memoir in her forthcoming book.

Emily Arntsen • March 01, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 9 Living Histories

Jacey Coca uses photography and beadwork to explore her own Mexican and Korean heritage as part of an evolving creative practice that examines identity, memory, and nostalgia.

Lynn Trimble • March 01, 2024

EssayVol. 9 Living Histories

Aleina Grace Edwards considers the ways science, religion, and climate change run together in the Dinosaur Capital of Texas.

Aleina Grace Edwards • March 01, 2024

ReviewUtahVol. 9 Living Histories

Shaping Landscapes illuminates the state's history, using photography as a platform for exploring technology, identity, and activism.

Scotti Hill • March 01, 2024

EssayTexasVol. 9 Living Histories

Anne Elise Urrutia reflects on how exploring and writing about her Mexican family history adds to a broader understanding of a vibrant cultural heritage.

Anne Elise Urrutia • March 01, 2024

FeatureSouthwestVol. 8 Medium + Support

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.

Natalie Hegert • September 01, 2023

ArtistsVol. 8 Medium + Support

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 8: Medium + Support, guest juror Laura Copelin discusses the jurying process and themes that thread the ten featured artists together.  

Laura Copelin • September 01, 2023

From the EditorVol. 8 Medium + Support

Southwest Contemporary publisher Lauren Tresp discusses the publication's role in the arts ecosystem of the Southwest—including some behind-the-scenes work building networks and sharing resources.

Lauren Tresp • September 01, 2023

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support

Josh Tafoya ushers New Mexico’s rich textile history into the contemporary world of fashion and design, keeping old traditions alive and telling new stories within his work.

Justin Duyao • September 01, 2023

FeatureUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support

Building Man, an annual, week-long desert rave and art festival in Green River, Utah, celebrates artists who work with found and reclaimed materials.

Emily Arntsen • September 01, 2023

Studio VisitUtahVol. 8 Medium + Support

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.

Alexander Ortega • September 01, 2023

InterviewOklahomaVol. 8 Medium + Support

Oklahoma-based artist Raven Halfmoon (Caddo) discusses the material and conceptual underpinnings of her large-scale ceramic works.

Coco Picard • September 01, 2023

WritingsNew MexicoVol. 8 Medium + Support

In the early 20th century, bricks were brought over Raton Pass to Raton, New Mexico from the Trinidad Brick Company. We stole this brick for our backyard.

Spenser Willden • September 01, 2023

ReviewColoradoVol. 8 Medium + Support

The exhibition AgriCULTURE: Art Inspired by the Land is a multi-venue project that features conceptual and reverential artworks connected to farmers and farming.

Deborah Ross • September 01, 2023

EssayVol. 8 Medium + Support

In this essay, Tyler Stallings pens a letter to the University of Arizona Museum of Art regarding Willem de Kooning’s stolen painting Woman-Ochre.

Tyler Stallings • September 01, 2023

ArtistsTexasVol. 8 Medium + Support

Ariel Wood leverages plumbing into an aesthetic and artistic endeavor that interrogates the social and material realities of our lives.

Joshua Ware • September 01, 2023