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Aug 30, 2024 | 
www2.ljworld.com | Steve Jansen
Most of the rural schools in Douglas County are identified by a name as well as a number.
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Jun 23, 2024 | 
www2.ljworld.com | Steve Jansen
On the east side of Iowa Street, between 19th and 23rd streets, stands the United States Army Reserve Training Center, which bears the name of Samuel J. Churchill. Churchill is one of two Medal of Honor recipients to have been Lawrence residents and to be buried here. Churchill was memorialized in the Lawrence Journal-World on June 6, 1932:“Taps sounded last night for Samuel J.
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May 24, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Román Aragón |Steve Jansen
Artist Kim Arthun reflects on decades spent holding space for contemporary art in Albuquerque. It’s inevitable. At some point, Exhibit/208 proprietor Kim Arthun hears a similar story from a visitor to his downtown Albuquerque gallery. “We’ll get people that come in and say, ‘We flew into Albuquerque a week ago. We drove to Santa Fe and spent three or four days there. Then we went to Taos for a day or two.
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May 24, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Maggie Grimason |Natalie Hegert |Steve Jansen |Erin Averill
Feature2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico Artist studio tours across New Mexico illustrate the enduring power of creative exchange—and give visitors an insider's view of the artistic process. Field Report2024 New Mexico Field GuideNew Mexico "Come for the aliens, stay for the art!" sums up the compelling reasons to visit Roswell, New Mexico—a mecca for UFO culture and contemporary art.
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Camille LeFevre
Francisco González Castro: Does Not Say «I», But Does «I»: Bodies, Limits and Transgressions at the Coconino Center compiles a decade of the artist’s endurance work challenging social structures. Neither endurance nor durational art is new.
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Apr 2, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Caitlin Johnson
Nick Larsen, who gives a talk about his Nevada Museum exhibition this Thursday, explores an invisible history through collage by “pulling from what already exists to visualize something that doesn’t.”1. I first saw artist Nick Larsen’s collages at the opening of a group show at Best Western, an artist-run gallery in Santa Fe.Old Haunt (Every Part of the Buffalo Check Shirt) was hanging next to Old Haunt (New Subdivision). Larsen told me to feel free to touch them.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen
Ta-da! Southwest Contemporary, a leader in arts and culture coverage in the Southwest, punches above its weight in a revamped print magazine! Southwest Contemporary, in response to overwhelming reader demand, is downsizing. We’re still publishing the same volume of arts and culture content, from all across the Southwest on our various platforms. We also won’t be cutting our staff or freelancer team. It’s the way we’re presenting stories—specifically our print products—that’s getting a makeover.
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Mar 7, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen
Two major donations to the Nevada Museum of Art of Aboriginal and Native American artworks tie into the Reno institution’s capital expansion project. The Nevada Museum of Art in Reno has received two major donations of Aboriginal and Native American artworks as part of its ongoing $60 million expansion project, which is scheduled to be completed in 2025 and will nearly double the size of the museum’s building and galleries.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Steve Jansen |Kathryne Lim
Salt Lake City–based writer Paisley Rekdal discusses poetry as an archive and cultural connecter in the history of the transcontinental railroad. Paisley Rekdal, who served as Utah’s Poet Laureate from 2017 to 2021, is the author of seven books of poetry, two essay collections, and a hybrid memoir.
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Mar 1, 2024 | 
southwestcontemporary.com | Lauren Tresp |Steve Jansen
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. 2024 Border Biennial/Bienal FronterizaDecember 15, 2023–April 14, 2024El Paso Museum of ArtThe El Paso Museum of Art could’ve been heavy-handed with its 2024 Border Biennial/Bienal Fronteriza.
