Floating Stone Leather Cuff by Denise Hagood With a long career as a jewelry artist, Denise Hagood’s specialty is pairing vintage brass and sterling silver hardware with gemstones and aged leather to create one-of-a-kind necklaces and cuffs that can be worn anywhere, anytime. “I aim for...
San Francisco has a mood. While certain urban locales have their landmark sites and the right geography and weather, a city’s mood is something less definable, more atmospheric, enigmatic, mysterious, a sensation that hovers. When I travel to San Francisco, I pause atop any of...
Historic preservation and adaptive reuse shape urban architecture across America. In Colorado, there are few examples as significant as the Renaissance Denver Downtown City Center Hotel, in part because this particular effort has saved a masterpiece by Colorado mural artist and illustrator Allen Tupper True...
In the West, art and architecture serve not only to convey beauty but also to establish connections — to the land, history, culture, and others. This sense of connection is what we hope to promote at Western Art & Architecture by sharing creativity that is...
Blue Sky Red Rocks Bracelet by Diana Ferguson A perfect example of wearable art, Diana Ferguson’s work blends traditional peyote stitching with architectural and geometric interpretations to make bead-woven sculptures in jewelry form. “My goal is to create interesting pieces that work as fashion and also...
Equiterra Regenerative Design’s title is a play onequilibrium (balance) and terra (earth). It’s a rebranding of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm founded in 2000 as Environmental Dynamics Inc. (EDI) by four young, idealistic architects who were passionate about promoting sustainable design. Cofounder Kent Beierle likes to...
There’s nothing so full of promise as a road trip, especially when visiting both well-known and little-known locales. For many, Montana’s beauty is visible from the window, but there’s plenty of creativity to discover around the state. Different Western art styles are thriving, and non-profit...
High in the western tip of Texas sits El Paso, a city founded more than 400 years ago, bordering New Mexico and Chihuahua, Mexico. It’s known for several border crossing points from adjacent Ciudad Juarez — a busy bridge between two cultures that has produced...
In her career as a museum director, Sandra Harris recalls the time from 2002 to 2005 when she served as the first director of the non-profit Neon Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada. Her office was in a donated space because the museum was just a...
Of all the interactions between Native Americans and the U.S. government in the late 1800s, the experience of 71 Southern Plains warriors at Fort Marion in Saint Augustine, Florida, was among the most unusual. The men were prisoners of war, but their three years of...