
Southwest Artist and Writer Residencies with Spring 2025 Deadlines
Apply for artist residencies with spring 2025 deadlines in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, California, and beyond.
February 10, 2025
Apply for artist residencies with spring 2025 deadlines in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, Oklahoma, California, and beyond.
Alejandra Lara and Naomi Eldridge • February 10, 2025
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith dies, Texas officials seize Sally Mann photos, and more top Southwest art news headlines for January and February 2025.
Jordan Eddy • February 04, 2025
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Southwest Contemporary's most widely read stories of 2024 reflect some of the most urgent issues within the arts.
Lauren Tresp • January 02, 2025
Catch these must-see art exhibitions across the Southwest for winter 2024–25, featuring Richard Avedon, Nancy Hemenway Barton, Charles Ross, and more.
Lauren Tresp • December 17, 2024
MCA Denver director to lead ICA Boston, Utah artist who formed 21st-century art salon dies, and more top Southwest art news headlines for December 2024.
Jordan Eddy • December 03, 2024
E-commerce has nothing on these holiday shopping experiences at galleries, museums, and community art spaces in Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, and Utah.
Lynn Trimble • November 26, 2024
Southwest artist residencies with deadlines falling in winter 2024-25 in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Alejandra Lara • November 18, 2024
The Roswell Museum floods, artist Danielle SeeWalker sues Vail, and more top Southwest art news headlines for November 2024.
Jordan Eddy • October 31, 2024
Don’t miss these essential art exhibitions across the Southwest for fall 2024, featuring major surveys, immersive installations, and artistic dialogues.
Natalie Hegert • October 02, 2024
New contemporary art centers in Dallas and Santa Fe, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • October 01, 2024
Southwest Contemporary owner and publisher Lauren Tresp reflects on our five-year anniversary—and all of the work that is still to come.
Lauren Tresp • September 03, 2024
Diné artist joins fight to close uranium hauling loophole on the Navajo Nation, and more Southwest art news headlines for September 2024.
Jordan Eddy • August 30, 2024
City of Lubbock slashes art walk funding over drag performances, and more Southwest art news headlines for August 2024.
Jordan Eddy • August 01, 2024
Nearly four years into Meow Wolf's unionized era, employees say things are looking up despite a recent round of staff cuts.
Delaney Hoffman • July 11, 2024
Barbie mania ends and a new fashion era begins at Phoenix Art Museum, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • July 03, 2024
Don't miss these essential Southwest summer art exhibitions in New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Texas, and Nevada.
Jordan Eddy • June 27, 2024
The arts community goes head-to-head with a sports magnate in Salt Lake City, and other recent Southwest art news headlines.
Jordan Eddy • June 03, 2024
Prolific DIY arts organization the Holland Project takes its community-oriented message to the streets.
Aleina Grace Edwards • May 23, 2024
Lavish and rugged residency opportunities abound in Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
Jordan Eddy • May 21, 2024
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Our new editorial director, who joined SWC on April 22, looks back on a challenging decade of arts journalism—and ahead with an ambitious editorial vision.
Jordan Eddy • May 17, 2024
Granary Arts's Critical Ground advances a bold idea: in the Southwest arts community, the center shouldn't hold.
Bianca Velasquez • May 14, 2024
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Southwest Contemporary scores honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and New Mexico Press Women, for stories and designs reflecting the range of the publication's regional arts coverage.
Southwest Contemporary • May 10, 2024
Cowboy cosplay, broken Spanish, and Indigenous erasure haunt Sagebrush and Solitude, Maynard Dixon's Western retrospective at the Nevada Museum of Art.
Delaney Uronen • May 06, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Erin Averill • May 01, 2024
Do muralists have a legal right to keep their work from being altered or whitewashed? Experts and artists in the Southwest discuss artist contracts and the Visual Artists Rights Act.
Lynn Trimble • April 11, 2024
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more.
Erin Averill • April 02, 2024
From airborne sculptures unveiling alternate dimensions to place-based meditations on healing, these spring 2024 exhibitions reveal truths about the past and present to inspire meaningful engagement with an unfolding future.
Erin Averill • March 06, 2024
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