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...

ARCHITECTURE | Eric J. Smith Architect CONSTRUCTION | Sebastian Construction Group INTERIOR DESIGN | Schooler, Kellogg & Company LANDSCAPE ARCHITE...

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 — ...

Jamie Farmer and Scott Payne began their professional lives on the same late spring day in 2007, assigned to side-by-side desks at CLB Architects in J...

For Comanche artist Nocona Burgess, the studio is not only a creative workspace but also a container of memory, identity, tradition, and community. ...

Kim Casebeer depicts landscapes that seem to go on forever, in which the sun, hovering near the horizon, imbues fields, hills, mountains, and clouds a...

Melissa Dickenson’s large-scale, sensuously abstracted canvases take landscape painting far beyond plein air into a realm that could be called “pl...

Kevin Courter’s landscape paintings of the greater San Francisco Bay Area where he grew up and raised a family — and of the mountains surrounding ...

Del Curfman’s joyously colorful figurative paintings deliver pointed messages about the present-day societal issues Indigenous peoples face. Take, f...

One afternoon last December, as Julie Oriet drove across a bridge near her home in Cody, Wyoming, she spied a brilliant blue stream clogged with ice f...

Recently, a musician shared a story from the stage about the quiet courage it takes to be an artist — and the uncertainty that often comes along wit...

Joe McGuire and Matthew Tenzin of Joe McGuire Design consider themselves design nomads. Although their business is based in Aspen and Boulder, Colorad...

Step into the Frederick, Colorado, home of sculptor Tony Hochstetler and his wife, Shannon, and you’ll discover a world shaped by the same careful p...

Late spring auction results demonstrate the enduring appeal of Western and American art in its many forms. Institutions and auction houses reported im...

There have been moments in artist Francis Livingston’s life where something suddenly shifted inside him, with consequences lasting throughout his ca...

Rocky and Kat Hawkins give directions to Ghost Wolf Ranch not by street names but by landmarks and miles. The road to their home follows the meanderin...

ARCHITECT | Massey Associates Architects INTERIOR DESIGN | Morrissey Saypol Interiors CONSTRUCTION | Noordik Construction Inc. When he’s traveling f...

I am always looking for the unseen in nature,” says artist Jared Sanders, whose serene, dreamlike paintings capture facets of the West that feel bot...

Seattle’s artistry is inspired by the outdoors. Nearly every view is a panorama of water and mountains, often with flighty cloud cover obscuring pea...

Lilia Borealis Light Fixtures by Trueing An homage to nature, science, and craftsmanship, the Lilia Collection by New York-based lighting and design s...

The landscape around George Ranch in Sonoma is quintessentially Californian. Its rolling hills are studded with sculptural live oaks and teeming with ...

Steven A. Jackson deploys his camera and the modern digital darkroom tools of Photoshop to record and transform scenes that, once processed and printe...

Danuta Tomzynski’s close-up, painstakingly detailed still-life oils of hand-tooled saddles and other leatherwork aim to look at life in the West thr...

Doug Atwill may well embody the definition of a modern Renaissance man. Yes, he paints landscapes and garden scenes bursting with vibrant colors and l...

Lori Putnam captures enthralling scenes of the natural world, including iconic Western landscapes and wildlife, in oil-on-panel works that provide vie...

Kaetlyn Able creates her multimedia art in a way that at times may seem more akin to lacemaking, or the almost-finer-than-the-naked-eye-can-see form o...

Each issue of WA&A is a celebration of reverence and reinvention — a view into how artists and designers engage with the West not as a fixed ide...

Elizabeth Rosensteel’s approach to interior design comes from a background rich in artistic experiences. She is an artist, sculptor, furniture maker...

Painter Kevin Chupik combines the iconic past with concerns of contemporary thought. His paintings — scenarios, really — capture a sense of the un...

ARCHITECTURE | Dick Clark + Associates CONSTRUCTION | Turrentine Properties Inc. INTERIOR DESIGN | Samantha Voges Design Luxury is a lifestyle for a L...

The materials interconnect and tell a story: There is cloth dyed by hand with cochineal, sumac, and Osage orange trees. There are beads — there must...

Cody Sanderson’s jewelry is anything but ordinary. An expert in innovation, the award-winning Diné (Navajo) artist fuses traditional silversmithing...

Painter Dave Santillanes is an expert in muted colors, edgy quietness, and ethereal light. His landscape and figurative paintings beckon. Although his...

ARCHITECTURE | Land+Shelter CONSTRUCTION | Terralink Structures After decades of living in Aspen and Snowmass, Colorado, Jocelyn and Dave Durrance mig...

Kickin’ the Frost Fireplace Screen by Anne Beard Artist Anne Beard was raised on a ranch in Washington and has lived in Oregon’s High Desert for t...

Arizona may have its fair share of Taliesin educated or inspired architects, but you’d be hard-pressed to find any more dedicated to the design phil...

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