In 1853, after an arduous journey from Independence, Missouri, to the territory now known as Santa Fe, New Mexico, the Sisters of Loretto founded the Academy of Our Lady of Light, a Catholic school that grew from small beginnings to cover a square-block near the...
Grant Kirkpatrick, Founder of KAA Design, describes his architectural style as “warm contemporary,” and when questioned about the firm’s philosophy, he returns again and again to the idea of timelessness. Think of that term not just as a desire to design houses that can’t be...
With 50 years of modern American art in the rearview mirror since the 1960s, it may be difficult to grasp how radically the work of one young Native American painter at the time diverged from what had come before, and the impact his vision would...
Lucky is the glass art world for Pearl Jam. It was in the 1990s heyday of the grunge music scene in Seattle, Washington, that a young man named Preston Singletary was trying to make his way playing music. He was blowing glass by day, “as...
In this issue of WA&A, when collector Jerre Lynn Vanier was asked what inspires her to collect art, she answered, “There’s nothing I like to collect more than associations with artists; I love being a part of history with them.” Vanier, who is profiled alongside her...
It could be that the spirits of Gertrude Stein and Mabel Dodge Luhan live today in the personas of Betty Barber-Hughes and Jerre Lynn Vanier. As mother and daughter, these two have built their lives around the arts. In Paradise Valley, Arizona, they collaborate to...
After designing spaces for nearly two decades, it’s a safe bet that Gina D’Amore Bauerle never steered her clients toward country duck wallpaper borders, sponge-painted walls or Tuscan-themed powder rooms. “I tend to avoid trends, because I don’t think they’re relevant to good design,” says...
As pleasant and refined, cluttered and inspiring as one’s art studio may be, the truth is that art, in many mediums, can be messy. Most artists will put on their work clothes, maybe overalls or a smock, before getting down to business, cleaning scraps of...
Albert Bierstadt’s last great painting was a grand-manner allegorical canvas recounting the impending demise of the two prime symbols of the American West, the buffalo and the Plains American Indian tribes. It is titled The Last of the Buffalo (1889). So important was the subject...
Some passions are born young; others are grown into. When he was in the eighth grade, David Arkin’s parents gave him a book on passive solar energy by Ed Mazria, the famed architect who, in 2006, founded the think tank Architecture 2030, which studies and advocates...