Merryn Omotayo Alaka and Sam Frésquez’s artistic collaborations center experiences of gender, queerness, and race.
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The Dirty South Comes to Denver
Spanning generations and genres from the past 100 years, the MCA Denver’s iteration of the traveling exhibition resonates as its only non-Southern venue.
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Looking Between the Lines of Max Cole’s Abstract Paintings
In the artist’s exhibition Endless Journey, each tiny, delicate mark reads as a meditative act, imbued with rigorous attention, care, and focus.
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The Horror and Banality of American Racism
Christy Chan’s Who’s Coming to Save You? makes clear the perpetual nature of American bigotry.
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Wildfire Ash as a Medium
Meet the artists who use ash and residue from natural disasters to send an urgent message about the environmental calamity unfolding before us.
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Resisting Superficial Narratives About the US-Mexico Border
When the Dogs Stop Barking reflects the complexities, and foolishness, of geopolitical limits.
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Artists Discuss How Psychedelics Influence Their Work
Visual artists who incorporate psychedelics into their practices maintain a foundational understanding that there is more to reality than meets the eye.
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Eight Utah Art Spaces You Probably Didn’t Know About
Your list of dreamy, imaginative, and oh-so-unexpected Utah art venues, including an eyeglass store and an eclectic bazaar, all teeming with love for local artists.
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Tyrrell Tapaha’s Fresh Approach to Pictorial Navajo Textiles
Diné fiber artist and sixth-generation weaver Tyrrell Tapaha expands lived experience and ideas about the future.
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What Does Solidarity by Artists Look Like?
Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities portrays how Artists Call swiftly created a transnational network working toward a single purpose.
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How One Conservative City Supports Numerous Progressive Artists
Given Colorado Springs’s politics and hyper-conservatism, wouldn’t artists hesitate to make and perform work there?
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Native and Indigenous Artists Take the Lead in Santa Fe
Self-Determined: A Contemporary Survey of Native and Indigenous Artists prompts questions about shared contexts and individual expression.
