Radical Futures

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Black artists imagine radical futures through hope, healing, and history in Reclaiming Hope: Afrofuturist Visions.

Lynn Trimble • October 29, 2024

Radical FuturesNew Mexico

The City of Santa Fe’s ArcGIS Storymaps, and its AR component, Ojos Diferentes, peel back the layers of Santa Fe history to tell underrepresented stories with new technologies.

Kimberly Suina Melwani • October 15, 2024

Radical FuturesColorado

The collection of work featured in ALHAMDU | MUSLIM FUTURISM asks what a bright future might look like for Muslim communities and engages visitors in new ways.

Kara Mason • October 04, 2024

Radical FuturesArizona

The Hamrah Arts Club, founded by artist Nazafarin Lotfi, uses art and creative expression to foster solidarity between refugee and asylum-seeking communities for youth in Tucson.

Lara Schoorl • September 13, 2024

FeatureNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Drawing from his community’s roots in social commentary, Virgil Ortiz crafts a future without limitations, and his epic series Revolt 1680/2180 reaches a climax this fall.

Lillia McEnaney • September 06, 2024

FeatureSouthwestVol. 10 Radical Futures

Science fiction authors have provided many visions of dystopian futures in the Southwest. Can architects help avert such disastrous outcomes? 

Natalie Hegert • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 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.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Las Vegas-based artist Nancy Good blends AI-generated imagery with handcrafted process in a new series of cyborgian self-portraits. 

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Mallery Quetawki paints cross-cultural translations that help bridge futures between Indigenous communities and science and medical professionals.  

Sean J Patrick Carney • September 06, 2024

EssayVol. 10 Radical Futures

"Fires Fires" is a personal essay by Caitlin Lorraine Johnson about the effect of global uncertainty on the small scale of a life.

Caitlin Lorraine Johnson • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

In bold pop culture style, Santa Clara Pueblo artist Jason Garcia envisions Native futures by challenging narratives that have always kept us in the past.

Kimberly Suina Melwani • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Phoenix-based designer and interdisciplinary artist Wabwila Mugala uses chitenge fabric to build a unique visual glossary of diasporic symbols.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

EssayVol. 10 Radical Futures

In Southwest Contemporary Vol. 10: Radical Futures, curator and conceptual artist Ian Breidenbach ruminates on creative agency and utopian praxis as the guest juror for this issue.

Ian Breidenbach • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Roswell-based Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado treads the line between artist and inventor, exploring themes of displacement, identity, and alternative futures.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

FeatureUtahVol. 10 Radical Futures

At the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah, scientists conduct experiments as if they are on the Red Planet, the only caveat being that they aren’t.

Emily Arntsen • September 06, 2024

ArtistsArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Arizona-based artist Jimmy Fike asks, what will the end of the world like like? His answer is weird—and weirdly hopeful.

Justin Duyao • September 06, 2024

FeatureArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Seeking fresh hope in the 20th-century futurisms of Arizona architectural marvels Biosphere 2, Taliesin West, and Arcosanti.

Jordan Eddy • September 06, 2024

ArtistsNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

JK Russ expresses a hopeful futurity by syncing natural, urban, and fantastical settings in densely layered, sci-fi-inflected collages.

Gina Pugliese • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Wills Brewer’s practice is rooted in research and documentation, emphasizing history at its most expansive, geologic scale.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ReviewArizonaVol. 10 Radical Futures

PORTALS at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson in Arizona features new works by California-based artist Fay Ray, who imagines radical futures in the Sonoran Desert and Southwest borderlands.

Lynn Trimble • September 06, 2024

Studio VisitColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

It's Halloween everyday and outsiders rule the streets in hypersaturated paintings by Denver suburbanite Lydia Andrew Farrell.

Ray Mark Rinaldi • September 06, 2024

InterviewNew MexicoVol. 10 Radical Futures

In an experimental sound artwork, an art and ecology research collective talks with an elder piñon pine about the future and other arboreal concerns.

The Submergence Collective • September 06, 2024

InterviewColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Pamela Zoline speaks with Noah Travis Phillips about the Colorado Plateau, recent work, and the science that excites her.

Noah Travis Phillips • September 06, 2024

ArtistsColoradoVol. 10 Radical Futures

Christine Nguyen harnesses an expansive array of artistic processes to bridge the worldly and the divine, the macrocosm and microcosm.

Maggie Grimason • September 06, 2024

ArtistsTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

El Paso-based artist Angel Cabrales's series The Uncolonized: Axihuical revolves around a futuristic parallel universe in which Europeans never colonized the Western Hemisphere.

Emma S. Ahmad • September 06, 2024

EssayTexasVol. 10 Radical Futures

Jon Revett compares and contrasts two monumental works of art, Amarillo Ramp and Cadillac Ranch, and discusses their possible futures.

Jon Revett • September 06, 2024

FeatureNevadaVol. 10 Radical Futures

Emily Budd, founder of Aluminati, challenges the norms of monument-making, advocating for diversity and inclusion in public art.

Karla Lagunas • September 06, 2024

Inside Southwest ContemporarySouthwest

Southwest Contemporary is entreating its readers to stop, take a moment, and imagine what a new world could hold.

Southwest Contemporary • April 25, 2024