The deadline to nominate artists, educators, business, and individuals for the 2014 Governor’s Arts Awards has been extended to 5 p.m. on Friday, December 13. The awards, which are presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts, the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Office of the Governor of Arizona,…
Whether you’re heading out for the people-watching, partying, or (surprise!) to check out fresh works of art this First Friday, here are Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for shows and events not to miss this evening. Halt Gallery’s “Roaming with Abandon” @ Modified Arts Becky Nahom and Julia Bruck have big…
If you’re like us (and the 99.99 percent of the rest of the world), you’ve probably all but given up on the idea of living in a two story modular masterpiece built by Tatiana Bilbao or a light-infused, private sky structure by Florian Busch. But thanks to a new online…
‘Tis the season for giving and charity, and this Sunday, December 8, the community in the Calle 16 district is doing its part…
Hair styling and art may not seem as though they go together, but Jorge Torres would beg to differ. “I opened up Palabra with the notion of having a hub for everything that I’m into,” Torres says. “The hair part is my bread and butter, but I’m able to do…
It happened, as these things have a tendency to, in the dead of night. Exactly a week before the 7 p.m. commemoration on Wednesday, November 20, construction crews took to Seventh Avenue and Indian School Road, just yards north of the intersection, and secured a steel structure meant to give…
With less than a month to go, it’s time to start getting pumped about about the second annual Phoenix Festival of the Arts. The festival will take over Margaret T. Hance Park for three full days of art, food, and entertainment. Today, we’re announcing the full lineup of participating artists…
Arizona State University’s School of Art will move some of its graduate studio programs to downtown Phoenix’s warehouse district. Five of the school’s 10 programs are headed for a 26,232-square-foot space in the historic Levine Machine building at 605 E. Grant St., and the relocation is projected to be complete…
When we hear the word “craft,” our minds usually jump to images of crocheted woolen baby booties and reclaimed driftwood bed frames. In recent years, Pinterest and Etsy have co-opted the term in the name of the D.I.Y. revolution. But in the art world, craft has an entirely different connotation…
Anyone who knows me at all can tell you that I’m less than warm and fuzzy when it comes to embracing work spawned by minimalism and conceptualism, two amorphous art movements/philosophies that hit their strides in the 1960s and ’70s. So I girded myself for profound boredom and/or bafflement before…
The Scottsdale Waterfront is fast becoming one of our favorite places to check out dazzling and eye-pleasing public art in recent weeks, particularly the kind that lights up the night after darkness falls. Earlier this month, the waterfront and the adjacent Arizona Canal featured such stunningly vibrant large-scale works as…
Anyone who knows me at all can tell you that I’m less than warm and fuzzy when it comes to embracing work spawned by minimalism and conceptualism, two amorphous art movements/philosophies that hit their strides in the 1960s and ’70s. So I girded myself for profound boredom and/or bafflement before…
Last year, Phoenix-based design Steam Crow had a temporary display at Downtown Disney’s WonderGround Gallery in Anaheim. This year, the design duo, comprised of Daniel and Dawna Davis, was invited back to the gallery to display original art throughout the month of November, with in-person appearances during the first and…
When the arts blog Hyperallergic included brick-and-mortar galleries in its list of the 20 most powerless people in the art world, Becky Nahom and Julia Bruck took it to heart. The two women hoped to pursue their love of art without the constraints of the traditional gallery model. So they…
Shine, our annual pocket guide to all things Scottsdale, is out. And this year, local artist Luster Kaboom is taking readers on an illustrated ride through the city’s best spots for food, drink, art, and entertainment. Here, in no particular order, are the 10 best places for arts and culture…
These days, anyone with a smart phone is an amateur photographer. Or at least they think they are. Don’t get us wrong, we overuse Instagram filters as much as the next person, but we’re starting to wonder how this technology is affecting one of our favorite art forms. And we’re…
Dale Chihuly returns to Desert Botanical Garden this week in the form of “Chihuly in the Garden,” a highly anticipated exhibition of his signature hand-blown glass sculptures. His 12th garden exhibition, and second in the Valley, is installed throughout 55 acres of the 140-acre garden, with the landscape as a…
ASU’s Ceramics Research Center will be moving to a new home in the coming months, but luckily its extensive ceramics collection doesn’t have too far to go. The new ceramics center is slated to take over a portion of The Brickyard on Mill, the ground-floor space formerly occupied by Borders…
The first event in the second cycle of Scottsdale Public Art’s Canal Convergence series will be taking over the Scottsdale Waterfront this weekend between Soleri Bridge and Goldwater Boulevard. Canal Convergence | Water + Art + Light is a four-day event that celebrates the canal through a series of installations,…
Musicians remix songs all the time. Artists do the same thing, only they call it appropriation. So just think of “Messin’ with the Masters” at Mesa Contemporary Arts as a compilation of visual remixes of old art world masterpieces…
First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are our picks for shows not to miss this artful evening. “Robots and What Nots! A Space Boy Robot Show” @ Practical Art While the rise of the robots has yet to happen, it doesn’t…
To most people passing by the Monarch Theatre in downtown Phoenix, the dance club’s exterior is like a big, gray, monolithic slab of nothing, save for its smallish sign over the door. To local artists, designers, and muralists, however, it could be their next canvas, and a large and prominent…
