Glasstire Texas » Hills Snyder

We are born into a dark sea, the unconscious — our skins are the shore. The way toward land begins at birth. From there it’s a long walk, but land… The post Review: Georganne Deen’s “...

https://glasstire.com/2024/04/08/review-georganne-deens-when-i-was-a-riot-of-spring-at-bale-creek-allen-gallery-fort-worth/

A funny thing happened on the way to the New Mexico State University Art Museum. I was heading out early to drive to Las Cruces to see Celia Álvarez Muñoz’s… The post Review: “Celia Ál...

https://glasstire.com/2024/02/21/review-celia-alvarez-munoz-at-the-university-art-museum-at-new-mexico-state-university/

The Texas Panhandle seems more accessible since I began moving to Magdalena, New Mexico in 2017. When I was based in San Antonio for twenty-eight years, and Austin for fifteen… The post Jeff ...

https://glasstire.com/2024/01/05/jeff-mcmillan-and-theodore-waddell-high-plains-drift/

How can you hide from what never goes away? — Heraclitus Jess Johnson’s artist-in-residence exhibition at the Roswell Museum, Honk if you don’t exist, is full of non-referential referents, ...

https://glasstire.com/2023/12/16/honk-if-you-love-falling-into-art-jess-johnson-at-the-roswell-museum/

380 East is my current favorite road into Texas from New Mexico. The connection to it is less than forty miles from where I live in Magdalena, west of Socorro.… The post Circle Drivin’ app...

https://glasstire.com/2023/04/13/circle-drivin/

“someone’s great is gone” (From a work by Mississippi Choctaw/Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson) This piece has been long in the making and is an ongoing attempt to articulate some things… ...

https://glasstire.com/2022/11/07/i-wish-we-could-swim/

Editor’s Note: Below are remembrances artist and writer Hills Snyder collected about Frances Colpitt, the renowned art historian, writer, educator, critic, and curator who died earlier this mon...

https://glasstire.com/2022/09/28/for-fran/

Four of us went down to Las Cruces for Joey Fauerso’s opening on June 10. A few days later I sent Joey some questions. Hills Snyder (HS): Is your work… The post A Conversation with Joey Fau...

https://glasstire.com/2022/08/02/a-conversation-with-joey-fauerso-on-the-occasion-of-her-exhibition-wait-for-it-at-new-mexico-state-university-art-museum/

“ENGLAND’S on the anvil —hear Maxwell’s Hammer ring” — Rudyard Kipling November 29, 2021 Today is my son Max’s forty-first birthday. It was twenty years ago today that George Harris...

https://glasstire.com/2022/03/25/bringing-an-anvil-to-band-practice/

Earlier this year, Heyd Fontenot, Interim Director at Sala Diaz, acting in tandem with UTSA Art History Professor, Dr. Scott Sherer, performed something of a coup, arranging for archival material...

https://glasstire.com/2021/09/18/sala-stories-part-one/