"A lot of galleries and museums cater to the mainstream aesthetic, but artists need spaces where they can be experimental," says #Arizona artist Luster Kaboom. Can this #arts community near #Phoenix be saved? #gentrification #tempe

Memories, mystery, and mural art in the Southwest...#arizona #phoenix #murals #KeithHaring @phxart @KeithHaringFdn

Most-read art stories in 2024 addressed "flawed cultural histories, the challenging conditions of the art industry, and artworks that truly inspire." #southwest #journalism #art

40+ ways to #ShopLocal in the #Southwest this holiday season...

"Choosing artist-made gifts is one way of being creative and living authentically," reflects artist Lisa Olson. Here's a look at over 40 ways to get started...#BlackFriday #ShopLocal #GiftGuide #Arizona #Colorado #Nevada #NewMexico #Texas #Utah #Southwest

Enjoyed speaking with @laurengilger of @kjzzphoenix about #censorship and #discrimination allegations against the City of Mesa involving artwork by Shepard Fairey and others.#artcensorship #arizona #firstamendment

Following #censorship allegations, former curator files lawsuit against #Arizona museum. #contemporaryart

"The work is to remind all of us – no matter our race, gender, or background – that every one of us has a birthright to meet the full potential of our best selves without the interference of others,” says artist Alanna Airitam. #arizona #contemporaryart

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"Exploding Native Inevitable" at @_SMoCA foregrounds collaborative processes and public-facing interventions in contemporary Indigenous art. #contemporaryart #exhibits #museums #arizona Pictured: "Post" by Sarah Rowe (Lakota, Ponca)

"We’re bringing a neurological perspective to how people view art, considering what’s going on in the viewer’s mind,” says curator Laura Ramson Hales of @_SMoCA in #Arizona.

"Fay Ray: PORTALS" exhibition @MOCATucson prompts a radical reimagining of interior and exterior landscapes within contested regions such as the Southwest borderlands. #tucson #arizona #contemporaryart

Artist Tra Bouscaren foments an apocalyptic vision of climate change, late-stage capitalism, and the surveillance state with his detritus-laden assemblages.#contemporaryart #arizona

"I don't really see myself as a radical person, but I do think it's radical to envision other realities...," says artist Bonny Leibowitz. #contemporaryart

@latsot Spike

@waeschlyus @ZerlinaMaxwell Emily's List commissioned the #mural by artists Ian Robertson-Salt and PeQue Brown in 2020. It is temporarily installed at the United Center in #Chicago. Info here: @emilyslist

Bolivia-born, California- based artist Carolina Aranibar-Fernández invites viewers to consider their own complicity in the harms of global trade with her "Oleaje" #exhibition @_SMoCA in #Arizona.

Artists and poets from Tohono O’odham Nation, a tribe divided by the U.S.-Mexico border, join with myriad voices to counter borderland crisis narratives @uarizona in #Tucson. 📷: @Gareth_smit #exhibition #Arizona

In #Louisiana, your kids can learn the #10commandments in school. In #Arizona, they can learn #Mormon theology at the contemporary art museum. Thoughts?

Artist Christina You-sun Park named executive director for Arizona Commission on the Arts, just as #Arizona approves a state budget that slashes funding for the @NEAarts affiliate by sixty percent.