ARTIST SPOTLIGHTS: JENNIFER TAFOYA
Jennifer Tafoya blazes a fresh, contemporary path in pottery from the Santa Clara Pueblo, building upon traditions passed down from her parents, grand...
Jennifer Tafoya blazes a fresh, contemporary path in pottery from the Santa Clara Pueblo, building upon traditions passed down from her parents, grand...
An art show featuring nearly 20 new paintings by Jennifer Johnson, titled Timeless Icons, opens at Montana Trails Gallery in downtown Bozeman, Montana...
Overlooking a lake that connects two golf courses in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a home named Casa Moderna is not typical of “modern” architecture. Inst...
This home’s construction began with building a Google Doc. Soon after the homeowners purchased the steeply sloped site in the private community of M...
It’s no wonder Danny Galieote’s oil paintings conjure the Technicolor romance of midcentury America. “I grew up with one foot in Hollywood and o...
Jeri Nichols Quinn revels in capturing the beauty of the sinuous landscape near the Marin County town of Point Reyes Station, California, where she li...
Naomi Brown deeply savors the austerity of the Southwestern landscapes found in California’s Mojave and Arizona’s Sonoran deserts. She celebrates ...
An interior desiger rarely has the luxury of a personal 50,000-square-foot showroom. But Sally Brumbaugh of Brumbaugh’s Furniture and Design in F...
Prints hold an alluring appeal for seasoned and brand new collectors. For those just starting to dip a toe into the art market, prints are an easy way...
Welcome to another issue of Western Art & Architecture, where we celebrate the vibrant and evolving world of Western art, architecture, and design...
This spring, art auctions and events showcased the diverse talents of artists past and present, and collectors showed support for their creative effor...
Mark Maggiori and Petecia Le Fawnhawk have immersed themselves in the West for several decades, ever since the couple came together on a movie set dee...
Jacob Lovett’s artworks literally and figuratively open windows onto “the cowboy culture of the modern West,” the artist explains, by combining ...
As someone who’s lived in New Mexico for more than 25 years, Kiki Martinez considers herself a “Westerner” and feels this identity appears in he...
For MacCracken Robinson Architects, everything concerning design springs from the creation of a concept. The concept itself can be as simple as the ju...
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...
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...
Historic preservation and adaptive reuse shape urban architecture across America. In Colorado, there are few examples as significant as the Renaissanc...
What is the true West, and why does our search for an answer matter today? Will James straddled a fine line between real and imaginary, fact and ficti...
It was a revelation when Krystii Melaine realized she could step outside the box of Western American art, her realm for three decades. Or, more accura...
Chipeta Trading Company founder Don Siegel likes to discuss his “three rules of collecting” in the context of the historic Navajo and Pueblo jewel...
In the West, art and architecture serve not only to convey beauty but also to establish connections — to the land, history, culture, and others. Thi...
Blue Sky Red Rocks Bracelet by Diana Ferguson A perfect example of wearable art, Diana Ferguson’s work blends traditional peyote stitching with arch...
Jim Vangilder always drives slowly to the front door of his house. Even though he could easily course the mile-long route from the state highway turno...
Howard Post’s sense of Tucson is steeped in his bones. As the often-cloudless, solid sky clears a space for contemplation, shadows slide across the ...
In a world that can often be overwhelming, Colorado artist Jane Hunt finds solace and inspiration in the quiet beauty of the landscape. Her paintings,...
Scott Christensen and Quang Ho both have close, personal relationships with the West, which is what the two artists have in common — this and the si...
Equiterra Regenerative Design’s title is a play onequilibrium (balance) and terra (earth). It’s a rebranding of an Albuquerque, New Mexico, firm f...
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 i...
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 se...
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 Muse...
ARCHITECTURE | Signum Architecture CONSTRUCTION | Knittel Construction LANDSCAPE DESIGN | Roche + Roche Landscape Architecture INTERIOR DESIGN | Shawb...
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 Mari...
Half a century ago, when he was a member of the Minico High School basketball team, Robert Moore would drive harvested dried pinto beans or Great Nort...
Whitney Brooks Abbott celebrates quotidian moments of life along California’s Central Coast. From cloud-swept beaches to rural landscapes, abandoned...
GL Richardson’s recent Bless Our Plans and Guide Our Hands delivers the powerful yet subtle impact of a painter possessing creative talent, from its...
James Corwin paints wildlife from across the Rocky Mountain West and worldwide in boldly close-up compositions and a vividly ultra-realistic style tha...
Jacqueline Jones brings a fresh perspective to her paintings of the West. Raised and trained as an artist in New England, which she still calls home, ...
When Kathryn Stedham heads out of the barn just south of Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the horse she rides each morning, she acknowledges and takes in the ...
For Ashley Macuga, becoming an interior designer is rooted in her past and has deep meaning in her present. She founded Collected Interiors in the San...
An astute art collector once told me that whenever he’s in Manhattan, he visits the Whitney Museum of American Art to sit on the bench in front of a...
Auction houses and museums offered an exciting array of artworks for sale, and buyers proved interested, turning up for online and in-person events th...
Joseph Henry Sharp [1859 – 1953] was one of the most accomplished artists of the 1900s. As a painter, he was an adventurer and storyteller who helpe...
Landscape painter Brad Teare draws his visual inspiration from the intimate valleys and snowy mountain peaks around his home in Northern Utah’s glor...
To William P. Healey, art is the manifestation of American Western history, a subject he’s been interested in since childhood. His older brother, a ...
Works by contemporary and historical Western artists prompted robust responses from collectors during the dawn of 2024. Auction houses and events that...
Artists spend their lives creating a type of non-verbal, visual communication. They often work alone, occasionally collaborating with fellow artists, ...
When Kathy Anderson started her interior design firm in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1988, she never would have guessed that one day she’d work for musi...
David Dibble spent his early years on the land his parents and grandparents worked in northern Utah near the Great Salt Lake, surrounded by the fields...
Geoffrey Gersten’s Hollywood Summer uncannily feels like a portal into idyllic post-World War II America. Rendered large-scale in near-photorealisti...