It’s the first week of October in Oaxaca de Juárez. Día de los Muertos is three weeks off, but the city is already in its grip. Fireworks punctuate the night. A mural has just been completed in Xochimilco, and it must be acknowledged with a...
On September 17, 1910, the Hermitage Hotel opened in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, hosting a celebration and feast for hundreds of distinguished guests. After two years of watching the Beaux-Arts-style structure rise 10 stories tall, the crowd eagerly entered the lobby, and an orchestra played while...
Architecture: Appleton Partners LLP Construction: Tom Nelson Custom Builders Inc. Interior Design: Patti Skouras et Fille Landscape Architecture: SWA Group In sun-drenched Southern California, not far from the metropolitan bustle of San Diego, a lush expanse of grassy meadows and abundant trees hides a home with the rustic spirit...
When people encounter Angela Babby’s work from a distance, they often think they’re viewing oil paintings. But, as they draw closer, they discover the vibrant images are intricate, enameled glass mosaics. “Glass contains light,” the artist explains from her home in Billings, Montana. “When I...
There was a moment this past August at the 101st annual Santa Fe Indian Market when textile artist Melissa Cody, who served as the textile classification manager for the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts, paused and thought about her career’s influence on other Diné (Navajo)...
In today’s modern world, as technology moves us along at an accelerated pace, the effort to stay present has become increasingly challenging. Our lives often require a sense of hurry, constant multitasking, and responding to endless notifications. In the midst of this chaos, art offers...
William Hook’s recent Heads Up captures the discerning appeal of a realist painter at the top of his game. Against a distant Southwestern mountainscape, a vast blue sky, and a towering cumulus, wild sunflowers reach toward the heavens. Every element — composition, colors, and brushstrokes...
The unreality of the American West feels more real to Nicholas Ward. When the 28-year-old artist, who lives and paints in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, seeks out subjects for his large-scale canvases, he summons from his imagination a state of magical realism, with surrealist landscapes populated...
Cora Sexton Wheeler has never stopped trying to capture something she considers forever elusive. “You can never recreate what nature creates,” she says. And yet, the artist remains adamant about filling her canvases with scenes of ranch life, Western flora and fauna, mountain skylines, and...
Destiny Bowman devotes her artistic talents to two primary genres: portraits and still lifes. Those dual callings may at first seem antithetical; after all, figurative works celebrate living beings, while the term “still life” can sometimes seem like a demure way of referring to paintings...