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…
The Phoenix Urban Research Lab (PURL) is home ASU’s design students, local design professionals, and a 20-by-20 foot model of Downtown. The 1:32-scale model began as four panels in 2005. Since then, it’s grown and changed with models created by ASU students that reflect the city’s ever-evolving landscape. This year (and for…
recognize creatives who have achieved and contributed to the Arizona arts community.The awards, presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts, and the Office of the Governor of Arizona, are given annually to artists, educators, business, communities, and individuals throughout the state…
It’s about time Phoenix sees some serious mural love. In the interest of giving credit to their artists and because we’re losing track of the times we’ve said, “Whoa, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their artists,…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix, at Regular Gallery. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. We spoke with Monica Aissa Martinez, Safwat Saleem, David Quan, Sarah Hurwitz, Thomas…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix, at Regular Gallery. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. We spoke with Monica Aissa Martinez, Safwat Saleem, David Quan,…
Bil Keane, a Phoenix cartoonist, started drawing Family Circus in 1960. The artist was born in Pennsylvania, served in the Army, met his wife (and inspiration for his “Mommy” character) in Australia, and landed in Paradise Valley just a year before he began documenting much of his family life and odd daily circumstances…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix, at Regular Gallery. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. We spoke with Monica Aissa Martinez, Safwat Saleem, David Quan, and Sue…
It’s all about flashing lights as Scottsdale welcomes a few new clubs, bars, and galleries and gears up for its holiday season. If you’re headed in the direction, need a few spots to check out after a show, or are just looking for a few things to buy/see/eat/drink, we’ve got…
My grandfather died, quickly and unexpectedly, on Thanksgiving Day in 1987. My mother returned from his Ohio funeral with a suitcase full of Grandpa’s circular saw blades. Mom, a prolific oil painter, gessoed the blades and used them as canvases for landscapes that she gave to each of her five…
1. What were the inspirations for your map? The underground issue of Best of Phoenix. 2. Give us a childhood memory of a map. Whenever I would go somewhere with my Grandpa he would always tell me what everything on the map was. I pretended like I understood all about mile markers and…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix, at Regular Gallery. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. We spoke with Monica Aissa Martinez and Safwat Saleem; this afternoon,…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix at Regular Gallery. While you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. We spoke with Monica Aissa Martinez last week, and this…
This month, Jackalope Ranch opened its first curated exhibition, You Are Here: A Collection of Maps of Phoenix at Regular Gallery. And while you still have a chance to check out the show, which will be up until November 12, we’ll give you a little background on each creation. First up, a few questions for local mixed-media…
Before you get letter(de)pressed, know that Angela Hardison, Raquel Raney, and Lindsay Tingstrom are staying in town and are all working on new projects. The three local designers, who met in graphic design school at ASU and opened SeeSaw Designs in Scottsdale, had us at their “hello there” letterpress cards, whimsical graphic designs, kickass…
