About Us

The orginal adobe airstream. Photo: Kate Russell

The Mission:

AdobeAirstream connects people who crave experiences of contemporary art and culture with the cultural generators and destinations of the contemporary Southwest.

By reporting and creating the highest quality multimedia and delivering original content daily on contemporary visual arts, design, music, film, theater, green living, style and more, AdobeAirstream.com is the #1 go-to site for critical news and features from Denver, Santa Fe, Austin, and beyond . We are where  award-winning journalists, who honed their craft at some of the most respected media titles in the country, practice story-telling in new media. We stay ahead of all other sites that focus solely on one type of art or one city as their milieu.

The History

Award-winning arts journalist and editor Ellen Berkovitch founded Adobeairstream as the first online arts magazine serving the Rocky Mountain and Southwest region in March 2009. Ellen defined this creative region as a network of cities from Denver and Aspen in the north through Santa Fe and Albuquerque, to El Paso,  Marfa and Austin in the Southwest – art-heavy, design-driven, innovative cities that have distinguished cultural identities and creative economies that make us a creative “super-region.”

Critical credibility grew our audience to 550k hits in month of October 2010.

The Now & The Future

We have relaunched a new updated version of AdobeAirstream, introduced pages dedicated to each of our three key cities -Denver, Santa Fe, and Austin – as well as for each of our content areas – art, design, film, music, theater, green, and A2 Radio. New design and green bloggers have joined us, and if you want to know how to contribute, click on the Write for Us! link.

The Writers

Included among our award-winning journalists and writers are:

David DArcy, former NPR film critic and national correspondent for The Art Newspaper, to report on film festivals all around the world and art market news from New York.

Groovey, Colorado Music Buzz metal editor and YouTube channel guerrilla marketer,  to cover music and festivals in Denver and the Front Range.

Leanne Goebel, winner of a Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and Top of the Rockies award winner for her art blog, writes extensively on art in Denver.

Conrad Skinner, architect, and Garth Clark, ceramics dealer and winner of CAAs Frank Jewett Mather award in art criticism, both contribute to our Design and architecture sections.

And as weve grown, more internationally known writers and contributors have joined the team - Hilary Stunda in Aspen, Vance Maverick  in San Francisco, Katy Crocker in Austin, Emily Beenen in Albuquerque and more.