California is excluded from most definitions of the Southwest Art of the American Southwest is the visual arts of the Southwestern United States. This region encompasses Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, and Utah.

The magazine increasingly reflected surging public interest in the landscapes, lore, and people of the West and in the artists who took it as their inspiration. By decade’s end what started as Southwest Art Gallery Magazine was called Southwest Art, and it seemed on solid ground as it moved into the 1980s.

The Southwest Artists category includes artists who were born in, or who have extensively lived in, extensively worked in, or been involved with the Southwest United States, including Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Utah . This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. There are 6 pages in this category .

Artists encourage us—in ways both subtle and bold—to think, act, and feel in ways we might not have otherwise. Such is the case of the award winners in this year’s Southwest Art Artistic Excellence competition. The 19th annual Quest for the West Art Show and Sale opens September 6 and 7 at the Eiteljorg Museum in Indianapolis.