Editor’s Note: Why Make Art?
Artists never cease to amaze me with their absolute dedication to craft and their drive to keep working despite regular visits from art’s capricious...
Artists never cease to amaze me with their absolute dedication to craft and their drive to keep working despite regular visits from art’s capricious...
From a distance, the River of Stars residence in Colorado’s Gunnison Valley rises like a barn from a field of wildflowers against the backdrop of th...
Trekking poles, camping gear, and hiking boots – essential tools for Terry Gardner’s painting practice – fill one corner of his studio, ready an...
The Western installation-fiber-art duo Emilie Odeile and Ken Chapin are so in sync that they regularly finish each other’s sentences. Like when talk...
Alexandra Manukyan’s latest body of work is a surrealist exploration of femininity, mythology, and fashion. Born and raised in Armenia, she studied ...
In the fall of 2019, photographer Adam Jahiel got a call from Susan Wolfe, an art director he’d done some work for years ago. She had a project she ...
Patrick Michael Charron Stevens Jolly is a native of Detroit, a graduate of Western Michigan University, holds a BFA in sculpture, is a father, a gran...
Texas Hill Country is remarkable for its quiet yet rugged beauty, where rolling limestone hills, aromatic evergreen brush, and wildflower meadows flan...
Chaos. That’s what comes to mind in painter/woodcarver Gregory Lomayesva’s living room — aka studio — in the South Capitol neighborhood of San...
No, you haven’t been there. But you think you have; in fact, you might commit perjury in an attempt to prove it. That is the mystery of the art of F...
Bailey Placzek, curator of collections for the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver, was relaxing at home one day a few years ago, listening to instrumenta...
Since opening his firm, Tryba Architects, in 1988, David Tryba has had a lasting and profound influence on his hometown of Denver, Colorado, and beyon...
Kuryo by Abe Motoshi Japanese design is always at home in the West, especially at TAI Modern in Santa Fe. Kuryo by Abe Motoshi is a masterpiece in bam...
Most art comes with a price tag. But that’s not always the best indicator of whether its value will endure over time. In this issue, we’re looking...
Two days after the Maui fires on August 8, 2023, Dale Zarrella had a vision. In his mind’s eye, he saw Hawaiian creatures, gods, and goddesses in th...
Jeff Ware started collecting Western art years before he met, by chance, artist Karmel Timmons. It didn’t take them long to realize a shared passion...
Happy birthday, America! You don’t look a day older than 250. At the dawn of the nation’s birthday year, shows and sales put on their best red, wh...
True design, according to Tanner Morgan of Morgan Madison Design, relies heavily on building a relationship with the client. “It’s not a dictators...
There were not 10 divine laws for depicting the spirit of the Southwest, but instead nine men and one woman who created a unique set of approaches to ...
It was very wild, very brushy,” Don Stinson says of the land in Austin, Texas, where he and his wife Barbara built their home and his studio in 2025...
Twenty-five years ago, a biotech executive and his wife sought a weekend escape from their San Francisco-area house. The Napa Valley town of St. Helen...
Celebrated Native American potter Diego Romero wants to set things straight, for the sake of historical and popular records. Asked to provide reasons ...
In his second senior year at Texas A&M, Bentley Tibbs went home to the Mississippi Delta to break the news that he’d decided to add a B.A. in ar...
Something has shifted in Colorado artist Jay Moore’s landscape paintings. It’s subtle, this intensity of feeling, and it’s hard to put a finger ...
Laura and Randy Elia loved their new Santa Fe home so much that they moved out of it two weeks after moving in and stayed with friends nearby where th...
A personal crisis in 2006 prompted developer Douglas Ayres to embark on a global journey in search of wisdom and understanding. When he returned to hi...
The town of Norman lies at the heart of Oklahoma, surrounded by the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Seminole, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and Osage Nations. Found...
Cadillac Woolly Chap Armchair by Steel Strike We dare you to dive into this handsome chair and not dissolve into pure Western bliss. Its seat cushion ...
California AIA’s 2022 Maybeck Award for outstanding achievement in a body of work in architectural design went to Anne Fougeron, founder of Fougeron...
When visitors to the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco stood before James Earle Fraser’s End of the Trail, they would ha...
Grain elevators have been landmarks of the West since the heyday of their construction in the 1920s and ’30s. With their tall, shouldered silhouette...
In Chinese astrological terms, the universe has literally aligned for Mel Auberty’s latest show at Gallery 123 in Dallas, Texas, which coincides wit...
I love winter. Seriously. I love snow and biting winds and a fire in the fireplace, fur-lined mittens and flannel sheets. Oh, and beef stew and cornbr...
Recently, I received an email with the subject line: “Saving my mom’s WPA mural….” In it, Jenne Currie, the daughter of Ethyl Magafan and niec...
Susan and Jake Potje have a serious art addiction. To be fair, Susan’s parents, Tom and Ann Morrow, are to blame. They launched the Celebration of F...
Arizona-based artist Gedion Nyanhongo’s stone sculptures explore the shared humanity found in the culture and art of the Shona tribe of his native Z...
Cathy Sheeter uses scratchboard to create award-winning portraits of wildlife, barnyard animals, birds, and pets. A medium many kids tried in grade sc...
Suzanne Falk gives still life painting a distinctly retro pop-cultural twist. Her meticulously assembled compositions combine her own and friends’ t...
Ray Tigerman’s wide-ranging creativity makes him a sort of Renaissance man of the West. Primarily, he’s an artist creating brilliantly colored, ri...
Como Escolher o Melhor Casino em Portugal O universo dos casinos online portugueses floresceu expressivamente no periodo mais recente, seduzindo inume...
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Lots of voices need to be heard when designing, building, and furnishing a house. For this new hilltop home in Victory Ranch, Utah, one of the stronge...
Two signature Western art events celebrated record-breaking totals amid September shows and sales in a sign that the rise of the genre’s popularity ...
Artists often do some odd things that can appear counterintuitive or even self-destructive — like inviting you over to see their latest work, then r...
Like many sculptures Pati Stajcar creates, her recent work titled Seascapes did not start with a specific concept but rather with the material itself:...
Meredith Owen’s dream of becoming an interior designer reads like a playwright scripted it. The scene opens with a 10-year-old girl and her family m...
Even before I started writing the Collector’s Notebook for Western Art & Architecture, I loved the magazine’s oversized, glossy pages filled w...
Steve Kessler and his wife, Pam, weren’t looking to move out of Southern California, where Kessler had built a thriving company constructing product...