Canal Convergence, 10 years strong, brings large-scale interactive artworks to Scottsdale, Arizona’s waterfront.
Erin Joyce
Erin Joyce is a writer and curator of contemporary art and has organized over 35 exhibitions across the US. She was a winner of the 2023 Rabkin Prize for arts journalism from The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation and has received attention for her work in Vogue Magazine, the New York Times, the Art Newspaper, Forbes Magazine, the Economist, the Chicago Tribune, Hyperallergic, and Widewalls. Joyce lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Why Meow Wolf Coming to Phoenix Is Worrisome
While it is admirable that a group of artists has been able to be so monetarily successful, we have to ask: What is Meow Wolf doing for culture as a whole?
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Why Mark di Suvero Chose Public Art
The artist shares why he would rather place his art outdoors than in an institution.
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The Hits and Misses of Santa Fe’s Much-Anticipated SITE Biennial
Despite curatorial missteps, 2018’s SITE Santa Fe contributes to an ongoing and timely conversation in the Americas about identity, displacement, and colonialism.
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Artists Explore Indigenity Through Printmaking
Map(ing) is part art show, part residency: indigenous North American artists collaborate with Arizona State University graduate students to make prints
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Artists Join the Fight to Protect Standing Rock
In North Dakota and beyond, Native American artists and their allies are creating work in support of the water protectors fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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Cross-Cultural and Indigenous Themes Dominate SITE Santa Fe’s Biennial
The second edition of the SITElines biennial has a razor-sharp gracefulness that cuts with equal parts beauty and bitterness.
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Catherine Opie’s Intimate Photographs of S&M
LOS ANGELES — If you visited LA this summer, it would have been hard for you to ignore the presence of Robert Mapplethorpe.
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A Cherokee Fashion Designer Who Mixed Native Modernism with Midcentury Trends
SANTA FE, NM — The worlds of fashion and fine art often collide, both in the museum and on the runway.
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A Native American Artist Who Painted Pop and Challenged the Status Quo
PHOENIX, Ariz. — Super Indian: Fritz Scholder, 1967–1980, currently on view at the Phoenix Art Museum, features over 40 oil paintings and prints by the Luiseño artist.
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Recording the Stories of Marginalized Students
TUCSON, Ariz. — Underrepresentation of marginalized and minority communities in society is nothing new; neither is it in the art world.
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From Navajo to Arctic Landscapes, Exploring the Aesthetics of Sound
ALBUQUERQUE, NM — Sound often accompanies visual experiences, such as music set to film, dance, and performance. Yet it is less frequent to have a visual depiction of our auditory experiences.