Adobe Summer
BY KATE NELSON Mix desert soil with sun and water and you can produce one of the strongest building materials [...]
Issues
True Colors
BY PENELOPE HUNTER-STIEBEL It has stopped me in my tracks every time I have encountered Luis Jiménez’s [...]
Georgia O’Keeffe Line, Color, Composition
BY CODY HARTLEY Color is one of the great things in the world that makes life worth living to me and as I [...]
Cables from Hiroshima
BY THOMAS LEECH In a sheet of paper the immeasurable strength of a human being is concealed. – Kuo Hamada [...]
David Bradley: The Postmodern Trickster
BY VALERIE K. VERZUH In fine art, postmodernism embraces diversity and contradiction, destabilization, and [...]
Fading Memories: Echoes of the Civil War
BY DANIEL KOSHAREK, MEREDITH DAVIDSON, AND THOMAS LEECH [M]ay my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I [...]
To Feel Less Alone: Gay Block, A Portrait
BY KATHERINE WARE Is a portrait a picture of the person in front of the camera or the person behind the [...]
Designing Change
The Creativity for Peace Quilt BY LAURA MARCUS GREEN On a warm July day in 2014, a group of young women [...]
Five Barrels of Cochineal A Gift from King Philip III of Spain to Shah ‘Abbas I of Iran
BY MARIANNA SHREVE SIMPSON On April 8, 1614, Castilian nobleman Don García de Silva y Figueroa set sail from [...]
The Arts Of Nuclear (Dis)Enchantment
BY LOIS P. RUDNICK Perhaps in no other comparable area on earth are condensed so many [...]
Santo Domingo Pueblo’s Depression Jewelry
BY CINDRA KLINE Following the 1929 stock market crash and the subsequent Great Depression, spectacularly [...]
Pouring What the Vessel Holds
Four Southern Potters Speak BY KAREN M. DUFFYC Currently on exhibit at the Museum of International [...]
“Quilts Is in Everything”
BY LAURA M. ADDISON “The most miraculous works of modern art America has produced” is how Michael [...]
From Bombs to Baubles
BY CYNTHIA BAUGHMAN This spring we mark the seventieth anniversary of the first detonation of the atomic bomb [...]
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