Art Review
Seeing New Mexico Through the Looking Glass
The 12th SITE Santa Fe International takes reflection as its cue, offering mirror images, doubles, reversals, and echoes in which multiple perspectives and timelines unfold.
Santa Fe
Art Review
The Power of Making Art From a Prison Cell
A show demonstrates how deeply meaningful creative processes can be for incarcerated people and the larger public.
Features
Dispatches From the Ever-Evolving Santa Fe Indian Market
In its 103rd edition, the market continues to expand its reach, generating opportunities for artists operating within and outside of SWAIA’s infrastructure.
Opinion
We Can’t Afford to Lose the Institute of American Indian Arts
The threat of defunding this precious, influential university is heartbreaking to those of us who know the worth of the IAIA experience.
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Announcement
Artist Communities Alliance 2025 Conference: A Call for Collective Vision and Fieldwide Participation
ACA seeks proposals for panel discussions, workshops, and presentations at its in-person conference this December in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Sponsored
The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts Is Weaving Indigenous Futures
The Santa Fe museum actively cultivates the soil for current and future generations of Native artists to thrive, a duty that extends far beyond preservation and display.
Art
The Monstrous Empathy of Amaryllis R. Flowers
In her art, Flowers thinks about monster mythology and autonomy as they relate to the all-too-human experience of feeling unwanted and out of place.
News
SF Ranked Among Most “Arts-Vibrant” US Cities
The SMU DataArts ranking looks at metrics including government funding for the arts and revenue of nonprofit arts organizations.
Art
Weaving Through the History of Diné Textiles
Horizons: Weaving Between the Lines with Diné Textiles brings together varied stylistic traditions and artists of different centuries to display the breadth of Diné weaving.
Art
Artists Embrace the Monsters That We Make
Real or imagined, the monsters envisioned in the show Among Monsters do not exist without us.
Art
Rosemary Meza-DesPlas Draws on the Power of Hair
“Drawing” with her own hair, the artist addresses cultural stereotypes and sociopolitical issues including feminism, personal agency, and aging.
Opinion
Can Santa Fe’s Indian Market Free Itself From the Settler Gaze?
Despite its role as a hub for Native artists, SWAIA hasn’t entirely moved past its origins in White settler obsession with Native authenticity.