BLAC Empowerment: New Tucson Gallery Bolsters Black Artists
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists.
Blue Lotus Artists’ Collective, or BLAC, is a new Tucson gallery—and perhaps the first of its kind—dedicated to elevating local, national, and international Black artists. By Steve Jansen
Snakebite Creation Space’s Geneva Foster Gluck and Racheal Rios invite artists to install exhibitions that push their practices in new directions while challenging the constraints of a typical gallery show. By lydia see
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, known as MOCA Tucson, supports regional and local artists through grants, community events, peer connections, and more. Here’s why artists and curators say that matters. By Lynn Trimble
Twin Flames: The George Floyd Uprising from Minneapolis to Phoenix at ASU Art Museum displays signs, artworks, and other community offerings from George Floyd Square. By Lynn Trimble
Gail Grinnell's ...and there is this lingering thought. sparks reflection on the world we live in and ourselves at the Shaw Gallery at Weber State University in Ogden, Utah. By Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery at Weber State University
Multimedia artist Tyler Burton mixes methods to create sculptural works that communicate the effects of climate disaster on California landscapes and move towards mending our relationship with the land. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Through the subversive and (sac)religious performance Black Mass Blood Ritual, Denver-based artists Mary Grace Bernard and Genevieve Waller create an occult celebration of pain, kink, queerness, and (dis)ability. By Maggie Sava
Santa Fe-based artist David Benjamin Sherry discusses the emotional and physical landscapes within his work, and the parallels between disappearing landscapes and losses of life. By Caitlin Lorraine Johnson
Andrés Mario de Varona remembers and honors the life of Aaron Martin Garcia, also known as Pillar, and reveals the powerful human condition of strangers becoming friends, brothers, and teachers. By Andrés Mario de Varona
Time Travelers: Foundations, Transformations, and Expansions at the Centennial reconsiders the complex relationships of select artworks in relation to the past, present, and future. On view at the Tucson Museum of Art March 17–October 6, 2024. By Tucson Museum of Art
Antoinette Cauley creates expressive portraiture to bridge hyperlocal and global concerns in I Do It For The Hood, Pt. 2 in Phoenix. By Lynn Trimble
Artists and preservationists Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn recall how they established Phoenix’s Grand Avenue arts district despite wanting to do the opposite. By Robrt Pela
RioBravoFineArt kicks off 2024 with January and February Second Saturday Art Hop openings featuring three unique New Mexican artists in Truth or Consequences. By RioBravoFineArt
Ceramicist Elaine Parks, in the under-appreciated northern Nevada landscape, carefully combs the environment to find and fashion objects that command awareness and attention. By Aleina Grace Edwards
At Exhibit/208 and its sister business, Thirsty Eye Brewing Co, a celebratory exhibition features work by fifty talented artists. The show is on view through January 27, 2024, with a walk-through tour on January 13, 2024. By Exhibit/208
Ceramicist John Flores infuses natural forms with humanistic qualities to create surreal sculptures that celebrate transition and change. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Books + LiteraryInside Southwest Contemporary
Southwest Contemporary’s staff—Roman Aragón, Natalie Hegert, Steve Jansen, and Lauren Tresp—pick their favorite reading materials of 2023. By Southwest Contemporary
In 2023, Southwest Contemporary published 300 original articles by seventy-five contributors across eight states about contemporary art in the Southwest. These are readers' ten favorite stories of the year. By Lauren Tresp
High Desert Soundings, a far-flung festival of experimental music and sound art, points our attention towards small sounds and unique resonances in the California desert. By Andrew Weathers
In Interference Patterns at SITE Santa Fe, Nicholas Galanin (Lingít/Unangax̂) stokes rage and reckoning with the dark history and continuing legacies of settler-colonialism. By Natalie Hegert
Southwest Contemporary gives the arts community the focused attention, critical engagement, and depth of storytelling that no other publication can provide to the Southwest region. By Lauren Tresp
From contemporary Korean photography to a time-spanning collection of Andean fiber arts and a bubbling biennial on the U.S.-Mexico border, let these exhibitions across the Southwest be bright lights on these short, dark days. By Lauren Tresp
Del Harrow, a Colorado-based ceramicist, combines ancient practices and contemporary technologies to create historically informed objects that tell stories toward a more sustainable future. By Aleina Grace Edwards
Ronald Rael, who was born and raised in the San Luis Valley, harnesses the inherent contradictions between heritage and digital-build practices in his 3D-printed adobe works. By Joshua Ware
EssayCollectivity + CollaborationSouthwest
Hyperlink, a nebulous artist collective with projects in Denver, Chicago, and at a uranium mine ghost town in Wyoming, is a proven testament to the power of collectivity and collaboration. By Denise "The Vamp DeVille" Zubizarreta
Though focused on a 20th-century photographer, Manuel Carrillo: Mexican Modernist illuminates a sense of community identity through beauty that connects to the work of artists practicing in the Southwest today. By Isabella Beroutsos
The Appropriation in the Arts series of panel discussions at the Museum of Northern Arizona and Sedona Arts Center tackles topics ranging from mass-produced costume Navajo jewelry to spiritual colonialism. By Camille LeFevre
Form & concept's holiday gift guide considers thoughtful gifting, with a focus on fiber works by Bhakti Ziek. By form & concept
Crestone Ziggurat, once a private sanctuary for meditation, is a peculiar monument nestled along the edge of the San Luis Valley and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in southeast Colorado. By Joshua Ware
Seeking tips on artist-made gifts? Are you trying to find Southwest-inspired stocking stuffers? Want to shop locally and support area artists and artisans? Read the Southwest Contemporary Gift Guide 2023! By Natalie Hegert
The story of artist, fashion designer, and Institute of American Indian Arts co-founder Lloyd Kiva New is brought to life in a new documentary by Indigenous filmmaker Nathaniel Fuentes. By Lynn Trimble
Catch up on recent art news headlines in the Southwest region, including people on the move, grants, and more. By Steve Jansen
Bringing It All Back Home reveals that Patrick Kikut is an unsentimental explorer of the West, manifesting an intrepid curiosity and respect for the land through which he moves. By Hills Snyder
Celebrated Boulder-based performer Andrea Gibson, known for their spoken word poetry on topics ranging from gun reform to mental health, succeeds Bobby LeFebre as the tenth poet laureate of Colorado. By Madeleine Boyson
José Villalobos’s exhibition Fuertes y Firmas at Big Medium in Austin defiantly extracts beauty from brutality. By Barbara Purcell
Bloomberg Public Art Challenge funding will help Phoenix and Salt Lake City address climate change, and Houston examine homelessness, through temporary public art that engages artists and community members. By Lynn Trimble
The first Cey Adams retrospective displays more than four decades of the artist’s commercial collaborations with global brands and hip-hop visuals that include Public Enemy and Beastie Boys album covers. By James Russell
Curated by Erin Joyce, the small-scale exhibition at ASU Art Museum posits big questions about art and craft, resistance and identity. By Camille LeFevre
Paper Trails challenges the preconceived notions of contemporary art and engages in aesthetic and conceptual conversations. On view through December 23 at Zane Bennett Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Paper Trails […] By Zane Bennett Contemporary Art
Amanda Dannáe Romero and sheri crider discuss the Sanitary Tortilla Factory exhibition featuring the work of system-impacted youth and the role of art in creating social change in New Mexico. By Gabriella Angeleti
Donna Zarbin-Byrne’s solo exhibition at Arts Fort Worth immerses viewers in fantastical representations of ecosystems from Texas and Hawai’i in the wake of climate crisis. By Emma S. Ahmad
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