Photograph by Jeff Maltzman
Slide Rock State Park The day after a storm, low clouds shroud the cliffs of Oak Creek Canyon as Oak Creek flows over polished sandstone. Algae on the park’s namesake…
Photograph by Bill Hatcher
Tubac has lived as many lives as the proverbial cat: Historians count nine times the community has seemed to die, only to be resurrected. And the small Southern Arizona town was beginning its most…
Photograph by Jack Dykinga
I get a lot of questions about submitting photographs to the magazine. In essence, the submission process is a job interview, and you have to convince me that your work will maintain or even raise…
Photograph | Patronato San Xavier
Something old is being made new again in the Sonoran Desert southwest of Tucson. The historic unfinished tower at Mission San Xavier del Bac is ready for a new generation of worshippers and visitors…
Grand Procession scenes
Phoenix's Heard Museum recently announced the promised gift from Charles and Valerie Diker of 23 works of contemporary Indigenous art — a selection of beaded soft sculpture figural dolls collected…
Painting by Duane Koyawena
 In the May 1986 issue of this magazine, writer Lois Essary Jacka posited the following in an article titled Ancient Traditions, New Horizons: Today’s Native American artists are builders of bridges…
Photograph by Scott Baxter
Arizona’s story is inseparable from the story of horses. From the Spanish entrada, through the Mexican era, and into the period when Arizona became part of the United States, horses have played an…
Photograph by David Zickl
A love for rescue animals and beer is the inspiration behind Woof 66 Treats — and what brought co-founders and neighbors Nicole Jones and Amy Langord together. “[Amy] came outside with her pit bull…