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...

Like many sculptures Pati Stajcar creates, her recent work titled Seascapes did not start with a specific concept but rather with the material itself:...

Steve Kessler and his wife, Pam, weren’t looking to move out of Southern California, where Kessler had built a thriving company constructing product...

One evening a few years back, friends of Linda Lillegraven stopped by for dinner. Earlier in the day, she’d been working on a landscape of rolling g...

Michael Kessler creates large-scale, mixed-media artworks that straddle the line between abstraction and realism. His meticulous mashups of neatly plo...

Sherry Johnson’s recent paintings of sun-bleached skulls adorned with vibrantly colored flowers — a series she calls “Bones & Blossoms Colle...

Joel Ostlind has a preternatural ability to tell a story in simple lines, without relying on color to fill in details like time of day or season. But ...

Kimerlee Curyl’s intimate, up-close fine art photographs celebrate the exquisite beauty found amidst bands of wild horses that roam parts of the Ame...

Somers Randolph strives to uncover infinity within a block of stone. Whether monument-sized or small enough to hold in the palm of one’s hand, his s...

Mike Roths instills every piece of fine furniture he crafts with the spirit of Western history and tradition. Consider his recent Pursuit of the Spiri...

“If ever there was a time to be an artist in Salt Lake City, it’s now,” says muralist Miles Toland. He and fellow artist Joseph Toney recently c...

Al’s Crosses Cowboy Boots by Tres Outlaws Wearable art takes on new meaning in this remarkable pair of men’s handcrafted cowboy boots. Al’s Cros...

“I will overcome every barrier to success,” Susie Barstow wrote in her journal in 1856, “and soon, with the sun rising above every Earthly confl...

Catharine Garber created the now Palo Alto, California-based Fergus Garber Architects (FGA) in Chicago in 1988. She added Fergus, her maiden name, to ...

Upon accepting the commission to design a residence in Martis Camp, California, architect Clare Walton simultaneously decided to defy and embrace natu...

A lifelong New Mexican, designer-builder Seth Anderson knows instinctively when he’s found a spot with unique resonance. When he first visited the p...

Thom Ross may be best known for his bold, stylistic artwork. At his core, however, he is a historian — a storyteller driven not by myth but by a dee...

Kim Lordier, a celebrated pastel artist in the American West, captures not just the fleeting colors of dawn or the hush of ocean mist rolling in — s...

Urban renewal often equates demolition with progress, causing the old to disappear in favor of the new. This is why, in the rapidly changing heart and...

Midway between the shores of Puget Sound and the Great Cascade Mountains in Washington lies a precipice where the meandering Snoqualmie River drops a ...

Deco Vessel Sink by Indikoi A nod to timeless design with a bold twist, this artful porcelain sink is hand-thrown in Bozeman, Montana, at Indikoi. Fou...

While it’s hardly an anomaly, it’s a bit unusual for siblings to cofound an architectural firm. However, Daniel Kaven and Trevor William Lewis, fo...

Linda Infante Lyons celebrates her homeland and Native Alaskan heritage through landscapes that may bring to mind Magic Realism, a meticulously detail...

In recent years, Peggi Kroll Roberts has boldly and joyously veered away from the people-filled beach and parkland scenes that had secured her reputat...

Paintings by Rich Bowman hover in a liminal space between imagination and reality. Though his work is inspired by many landscapes he has seen and phot...

Reen Axtell aims to “explore the Old West in a new, contemporary way” through vibrantly toned mixed-media pieces that combine transfers of archiva...

Andy Taylor’s abstracted landscapes distill and impart the emotions the artist feels upon first encountering those scenes. He imbues them with a sur...

In each issue of WA&A, we journey into the vast landscapes, enduring myths, and ideological frontiers that shape American Western art, a genre as ...

The young vaquero sits on a ramshackle wooden stool, his back against a fencepost, his eyes shaded by the brim of his sombrero, his head and shoulders...

The clay Casey Zablocki works with carries half a billion years of geological memory. He reimagines its compressed layers, once part of Montana’s la...

Tucked amid a lush oasis in Santa Fe, New Mexico, this adobe residence was just the hidden gem the homeowners — frequent visitors to the city for 40...

It’s important to note that the Dallas, Texas-based interior designer Ann Schooler is, as she says, “not afraid of snakes.” Neither does she fea...

Located at an elevation of 5,280 feet and framed by the majestic Rocky Mountains to the west, Denver, Colorado, is packed full of interesting attracti...

Tabei Lounge Chair by Crump & Kwash Striking a balance between comfort and clean design — with a low, sculptural frame and plush cushioning — ...

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