It’s a bit of a bittersweet time for artist Jenny Fontana. The 27-year-old painter is excitedly putting the finishing touches on “Winter Carnival: Something Wicked This Way Comes,” which opens on Friday and will be the biggest show of her painting career thus far. Tempering this enthusiasm, however, is the…
Pantone Color Institute, the world-renowned authority on color, has announced the 2012 color of the year. Let’s hear it for 17-1463, Tangerine Tango. “The 2011 color of the year, PANTONE 18-2120 Honeysuckle, encouraged us to face everyday troubles with verve and vigor,” writes Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color…
To celebrate their town’s 125th birthday, the residents of Superior, Arizona will open their doors for the fourth-annual home and building tour. The town, 30 minutes east of Apache Junction, is well-known for its copper mines, which were shut down in 1980s. With the anchor industry closed, Superior was forced to…
You don’t have to drive four hours for a taste of Palm Springs’ Midcentury glamour. Instead, head to Modern Manor, a Melrose District warehouse specializing in designer furniture and decor. The Manor’s pieces are in perfect condition from designers including Charles and Ray Eames (Bonus: check out a documentary on the…
Come February, 16th Street is going to have another sweet spot for local artwork.The arts district, often noted for its growing mural project that kicked off last year, saw a fresh coat of paint on the corner of 16th Street and Windsor Avenue late last week. Local (and now national…
Gunshots shatter the quiet of ASU Art Museum. Thankfully, the shots are coming from an edgy video installation created as part of “Securing a Free State: The Second Amendment Project,” by artist Jennifer Nelson, on display in one of the museum’s main galleries through December 31. Until last year, when…
Capitalist mass production owes a lot to Charles and Ray Eames. So, too, do post-Modern design and architecture. Not to mention our fannies, most all of which have resided occasionally in one of the renowned and comfortable chairs that this talented duo designed in the Fifties. The Eames couple is celebrated…
These duos have created art galleries, revamped neighborhoods, and supported the local art scene. And on December 8, they’ll tell you how they do it. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s annual ARTISTS on ARTISTS discussion series is back with an event curated by local artists and SMoCA Artist Advisory Council members Peter Bugg…
If you’re looking to toss your creative hat (and ideas) into the second cycle IN FLUX, Tuesday’s the time to ask questions. Scottsdale and Tempe IN FLUX Project Managers Kirstin Van Cleef and Maja Aurora will host a coffee talk about the public art projects that aim to activate empty storefronts along Scottsdale’s…
While hunting for underground spaces and secrets for this year’s Best of Phoenix issue, I landed at the Westward Ho in downtown Phoenix a few times; the historic building was rumored to have a tunnel to the City’s Gold Spot Bowling Alley — what’s now a big, vacant hole beneath…
Most people go antiquing to nab that one-of-a-kind chair or coffee table. But local artists Carol Panaro-Smith and Josie Cirincione go antiquing to find ephemera, or antique paper goods they can use in their next projects.This Saturday, Panaro-Smith and Cirincione, both instructors at Gilbert’s Art Intersection, hosted an Ephemera Crawl…
Whatever possessed artist Karolina Sussland to create photographic take-offs on ridiculous stock photo images used to represent the average Joe by graphic designers, art directors, and clueless advertisers? Sussland’s satiric send ups sit side by side with the Shuttterstock commercial images that inspired them in an exhibition that just opened…
Daniel Funkhouser doesn’t tend to hold anything back when he creates art. According to the 27-year-old painter and photographer, his ultra-colorful artwork incorporates a “chaotic collision of materials, styles, and influences””There’s no such thing as too much when I’m making art,” Funkhouser says. “I always put as much as I…
Tempe’s Mill Avenue and Scottsdale’s Marshall Way have already strung and flipped the switches of their annual holiday bubble lights, but the two cities’ public art programs have a different kind of street-side activation in mind. The second cycle of IN FLUX — a program that commissions, promotes and enables the installation of…
Visiting the show “Seeing Is Believing: Rebecca Campbell and Angela Ellsworth,” now on display at the Phoenix Art Museum, I have to descend a small flight of steps, which seems somehow fitting in a weird way. Fitting because this is a show about descent of a kind — mainly, lineage…
Lisa Jacobs knows good (and creative) things come in small packages. The local artist, aka Sticker Club Girl, and founding member of Grand Avenue’s Indie ArtHouse will bring small, 5-by-5 inch works by 16 local artists to the collective for an opening this Friday. The traveling show, dubbed “Small Format” includes…
The walls of central and downtown Phoenix have been springing to life over the past few years thanks to local artists looking to define this community through public art. Anyone who follows Jackalope Ranch semi-regularly has picked up on these works via Mural City, our ongoing look at public murals…
A little warm drizzle in no way dampened the spirits of thousands of people who showed up at the Discover India Festival at Heritage Square and Science Park on Sunday in downtown Phoenix. In fact, you’d swear the India Association of Phoenix, in collaboration with its other sister and non-profit organizations…
