Lucy Griffith’s work grows out of a passionate love for our southern borderlands, and for their harsh and harshly beautiful landscape. In her award-winning debut We make a Tiny Herd, her poems are a poignant lovesong to west Texas, and to the power of ‘a woman alone’—be it the nearly mythic figure of ‘The Burro Lady,’ or Griffith herself, calling across the desert to ‘La Reina.’

Her latest collection The Place the Spiders Waved is a memoir in verse, a celebration of the brush country, a testament to how these spaces can shape a life.

Mixed media provides the flexibility for Darlene Marwitz to combine textiles and acrylics in her work. Her techniques in the studio are layered and varied, from sketching to block printing to stitching and collage. She finds inspiration in mountains and open expanses of a high desert plateau that surrounds her home in Marfa.