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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Lynn Trimble
Local artists and gallerists weigh in on Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week’s debut—and its efforts to bust regional stereotypes and elevate the Southwest on a global stage. SCOTTSDALE—There’s a new art fair in the Southwest, where key players hope to expand the visibility of the region’s vibrant contemporary art offerings. “People assume all the art here is cowboys and Indians standing around cactus,” quips art dealer Trey Brennen, who co-founded the event.
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1 month ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Lynn Trimble
Arizona-based artist Farraday Newsome’s studio extends into her high-desert garden, sprouting ideas for intricate ceramics about nature’s self-perpetuating systems. A ceramic lamppost surrounded by desert plants beckons those who wander down Indigo Street, an off-the-beaten-path road in Mesa, Arizona, where artist Farraday Newsome creates ceramic forms and paintings that reflect her deep connections to the natural world.
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2 months ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Lynn Trimble
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art made last-minute revisions to a traveling show of women, queer, and trans artists. Museum leadership and a co-curator differ on what happened.
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2 months ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Maggie Grimason
Santa Fe–based artist Edie Tsong explores lineage through repeated strokes of ballpoint pen, revealing the spaces where our inner lives overlap to create new shapes. Santa Fe, New Mexico | edietsong.com | @plain_song_The home is the ultimate seat of the local, the distillation of everything that is outside of one’s door.
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2 months ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Maggie Grimason
Ten years of podcast guests contribute to this multimedia exhibition at Albuquerque Museum, foregrounding the playful possibilities of socially engaged art. Broken Boxes: A Decade of Art, Action, and DialogueSeptember 7, 2024–March 2, 2025Albuquerque MuseumMy little sister was not keen to go to the museum. Who can blame her? It seems many exhibitions aren’t created with attention to the measure of enjoyment they might give, but only their patent ability to teach you something.
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2 months ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Jessica Fuentes
Three San Antonio arts organizations leverage a land trust and other strategies to literally hold space on the rapidly growing city’s Westside. A vibrant cluster of brightly painted one-story residential and commercial buildings, once three separate properties, occupies the northeast corner of Guadalupe and South Colorado Streets in San Antonio’s Westside.
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2 months ago | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Madeleine Boyson
“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. DENVER—Another stage in the life cycle of BRDG Project has concluded after the 501(c)3 arts nonprofit officially closed its current location this February.
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Feb 4, 2025 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Lynn Trimble
The City of Tempe says there are no plans to demolish DIY arts hub Danelle Plaza, but the mayor is sending different signals. Local artists are demanding clarity. TEMPE—Arizona artists are rallying around a grassroots ecosystem that makes the Danelle Plaza strip mall a beloved alternative arts space in Tempe, even as city officials and developers work towards redeveloping the site.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Emma S. Ahmad
Amid a triumphant New York triennial, Fort Worth-based curator María Elena Ortiz looks back at her diasporic storytelling efforts—and calls for a bigger Latinx curatorial web. FORT WORTH—Latinx people make up nearly 20% of the U.S. population and are the country’s fastest-growing ethnic group, accounting for 71% of the nation’s population growth. The Census Bureau that more than 25% of the American population will be Latinx by 2060. So what is the biggest challenge facing Latinx artists today?
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Jan 14, 2025 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Jordan Eddy |Lynn Trimble
Keith Haring was a Phoenix teacher’s second choice for a 1986 art workshop, but the invite made a major mark on the city. PHOENIX—Today the streets of Phoenix are dotted with murals painted by local and international artists exploring a broad range of themes from Indigenous histories to climate futures.
