Beautiful bodies fueled by Wild Cherry Pepsi and tall cans of Arizona Iced Tea crowd into a tiny North Central studio on a hot Sunday afternoon. The myth that dancers are celery-nibbling ethereal beings is just that. Adrian Mendle, sporting bright orange high-tops, cargo pants, and a stocking cap, leads…
Local cartoonists Brandon Huigens and Jeff Owens want you to think that their Bong Otter comics series is funny, even when you’re stone freaking sober. You may know the two from around town, especially on the comedy and comics beat. Since 2007, Owens has been sculpting a daily autobiographical comic…
Earlier this month we presented a fun quiz in conjuntion with the review of Sue Chenoweth’s Spyhopping show at Scottsdale Museum of Contempory Art. Below are the correct answers to the quiz. If you participated, please email us directly and we’ll get you the details about how to claim your mini-prize: wynter.holden@villagevoicemedia.com. …
Since February, a group of artists in central Phoenix has hosted workshops, presentations, and art-making functions. They’re called the urban artists collective and their debut exhibition is up at Willo North Gallery until the end of July…
The BMW is a status car — a symbol of wealth, success and class. That is, unless you go wild with a can of paint and cheapen it up like a twenty dollar Walmart rug. This zebra-striped beauty is painted from bumper to bumper and even sports matching fuzzy zebra seat covers. Yee-haw!…
Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We’re here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide — an evolving guide to art walks around town. From time to time, we’ll introduce some of our favorite spots and…
Art walks are more often about people watching and shenanigans and less about the actual art. We’re here to guide you through both. Presenting our very own Field Guide — an evolving guide to art walks around town (we’ll have another one for Downtown’s First Friday tomorrow). From time to…
What looks like child’s play on the surface can hide a deeper meaning. Before they were whitewashed by Disney, Grimm’s Fairy Tales were graphic morality lessons. In medieval times, board games confronted issues of life and death. Inspired by the 16th-century Game of Goose, local artist Sue Chenoweth combined her…
No need to be alarmed by the echoing drones coming from the bell tower at the Scottsdale Civic Center — they’re just part of the latest installation.The Photo-Luminescent Sound Garden is a creation of Todd Ingalls and Mary Neubauer. Together, they designed and installed six translucent forms that each have…
This is going to be damn good. In December 2009 at Trunk Space, Tempe-based artist Allison Karow, aka Sunny Sealeopard, had one of her first exhibitions in the Valley. In it, Karow, a founding member of Bike Saviours Co-op, exhibited drawings, paintings, and mixed-media works on the cheap, including a…
Hope you’re hungry — history’s for lunch. The City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office will host Robert Melikian, author of Vanishing Phoenix tomorrow, June 2, at Phoenix City Hall. Melikian’s book laments stories and photos of buildings no longer standing in Phoenix including the Dorris Opera House, Baker & Bayless…
We’re on the prowl for art cars around Phoenix, like this vintage Cadillac which was spotted on McKellips Rd. in North Tempe. This Caddy has it all. Pin-striping. Airbrushed swirls. And an eye-searing electric blue paint job that sparkles like a vampire in the sun (thanks, Stephenie Meyer, for that paradoxical analogy). Basically, it’s a Lisa…
When it opened in 2000, the Sandra Day O’Connor federal courthouse in downtown Phoenix was both heralded as a sign that the courthouse was regaining ground as a center of urban life, and hated as a “dirty glass greenhouse” — literally too airy to cool in the hot Arizona summer…
Okay, quilters, we know you’re out there. And Chandler wants to hear from you.The Chandler Arts Commission has put out the call to art quilters for their upcoming “Art Quilts XV: Needleplay” exhibition slated for November 5, 2010 through January 15, 2011 at the Chandler Center for the Arts and…
Hope you packed a lunch. Gangplank, the Chandler-based collaborative workspace, is hosting Jay Rogers, Local Motors Co-founder and CEO, as a part of its Brownbag series on Wednesday, May 26, at noon. Local Motors is opening a micro-factory in Chandler in late July — you may have seen its building…
Not all public art is as massively noticeable as Janet Echelman’s Her Secret is Patience (the large “butterfly net” in downtown Phoenix. Some collection are a bit hidden, like the Municipal Art Collection at the North Gateway Transfer Station and Materials Recovering Facility. It juts out of the desert horizon…
When: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 9 am.Where: On trash receptacle outside east entrance to City Hall. …
It’s not difficult to see the “hipster” in hipstamatic — but we love it nonetheless. Hipstamatic’s a new iPhone application that can turn any old iphone into a hipstamat-style camera. This may all sound Greek, so we brought in Jason Hill, who set up an Etsy store a few days ago to showcase his own prints, to explain. Hill originally wanted…
Just south of Sky Harbor Airport rests a small building that just months ago knew only the looks of files, wastebaskets and government workers. On May 14, its walls began to look a little different.More than 15 local artists are currently on display in Sheila Martin-Castillo’s Gallery 2345. While each artist has…
Aric Mei was tired of building trash. As a set designer and builder in Los Angeles, Mei’s projects were put together, torn down and thrown away in a matter of days. His current piece of work, The Parlor Pizzeria is a bit more permanent. While his personal backgrounds are in art…
Take a look at your key ring. Do you even know what half of those keys are for?Probably not. But you hang on to them anyway.Keys are oddly intimate items. The unique tools allow access to secured areas — places that we value enough to protect. Maybe that’s why it…
It’s tough to beat the last yard we pimped but we came across this little gem along 7th Street, close to the I10 and couldn’t resist the urge to snap a few photos.No, the guy sitting in the chair is not real. And, yes, we initially thought he was real…
