Don't miss it! You can visit our Arizona exhibition, Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick Rediscovered, at Western Spirit: Scottsdale's Museum of the West through September 2026. View over seventy of the artist's paintings, drawings, prints and small sculptures; page through digitized versions of her sketchbooks and photo albums; enjoy larger-than-life photos of Mac at work and play; read about some of her Southwest adventures. Docent-led tours are available to entertain and inform you. And please let us know what you think about the innovative format of this show and about Mac's art and life!

An exclusive Silver City, New Mexico, showing! Come see this special selection of Mac's serigraphs, lithographs, and drawings on display in the Flash Gallery of Light Art Space from February 6th through March 1st. The gallery will open on Friday, February 6, 5:00-7:00 pm, for the town's monthly Art Walk with refreshments to be served.

Mac didn't take many photographs of her beloved desert and canyon landscapes. Instead, she observed carefully and worked from memory, never painting from photos. To provide context, we selected a series of landscapes by Larry Ollivier to augment the illustrations in Mac's book. During February, a group of his remarkable black-and-white prints will be displayed alongside Mac's artworks at Light Art Space's Flash Gallery. The gallery also will include a rotating slideshow featuring even more of both artists' works.

On Sunday, February 8th, from 3:00 to 4:30, Ann will share stories about Mac's adventures in the Southwest. Join us in downtown Silver City at the Light Art Space's back studio for her illustrated talk and a following reception with refreshments and a booksigning.

And on Saturday, January 31st, from 9:00-12 noon, just down the road at the Amerind Museum in Dragoon, Arizona--if you're a member of the Friends of Western Art (or deciding to join) you can attend Ann's talk, preview the museum's "Stormy Days--Rain in the West" exhibition, and enjoy a members' brunch. Click here to join us!

Early 2026 news is that Mac Schweitzer: A Southwest Maverick and Her Art is being recognized by Tucson’s Pima County Library as one of the four “Top Picks” for the Southwest Books of the Year awards. We are looking forward to celebrating that honor at the Tucson Book Festival. The Albuquerque Journal also listed the book as one of four "favorite reads" from 2025.

"Art and the Southwest"

Saturday, March 14, 4:00-4:55 pm, UA Library Special Collections (seats 110). Artists offer a special bridge to understanding the Southwest. Artist Molly Hashimoto and biographer Ann Hedlund, author of Mac Schweitzer, discuss why works of art and books about art and artists are critical to our understandings of this special place. Moderated by Christine Brindza.

"Seeing the Southwest"

Sunday, March 15, 2:30-3:25 pm, UA Library Special Collections (seats 110). The authors of four Southwest Books of the Year--Craig Childs (The Wild Dark), E.A. Hanks (The 10: A Memoir), Dora Rodriguez (Dora: A Daughter of Unforgiving Terrain), and Ann Hedlund will discuss the role that landscape and culture played in the development of their work. Moderated by Greg McNamee.

Cowgirl Up! (Art from the Other Half of the West)

On March 28, 2026, if you are attending the Cowgirl Up! festivities at the Sigler Western Museum in Wickenburg, AZ, you can hear Ann Hedlund's illustrated talk at 11:00 am on Saturday morning. How did Mac relate to other men and women artists of the 1950s? Without her early death in 1962 and the disappearance of the artist's legacy, what impact could her work have made on later women artists? Looking backwards, what contemporary trends might have impressed Mac if she could have looked ahead? View more here.

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