See also: Margaret Bruning Steps Down as Associate Director of Scottsdale Public Art See also: Scottsdale Public Art Presents Master Plan, Discusses Separation from the Scottsdale Cultural Council See also: SMoCA Introduces New Associate Curator Emily Stamey After 25 years with the Scottsdale Cultural Council — the last 10 as…
You’re standing in an art museum, staring into a pot of blue water out of which air bubbles occasionally burble. You’re chuckling to yourself and shaking your head in disbelief. Were this a bucket and an air hose and some colored water, you’d be offended by the pretense of this…
If you’re a local artist and the idea of living in a cushy creative commune over-looking downtown Phoenix, celebrating the upcoming holidays with your artwork or making trash and recyclables into something dope sounds exciting, our new seven calls to artists may get your brush wet. 7. Applications for Creative…
See also: Pop Art: For Some Local Artists, the Bad Economy Is Good News See also: Known for helping artists, Art One owner Kraig Foote now needs someone to help him After 22 years of art business in Scottsdale, Bentley Calverley is on the move. The director of Bentley Gallery,…
See also: Tovrea Castle Available For Public View (Sort of) See also: Historic Tovrea Castle is “Closer” to Being Open to the Public The small castle on the hill off Van Buren and 52nd streets that’s viewable from Loop 202 is now open for tours and looking for a few…
20. Abbey Road It’s happened: We’ve blown another summer. And look at the calendar — see that? That’s right, It’s College Week. In the tiny confines of a dorm room, real estate is at a premium. Giving up a two foot by three foot chunk of wall space requires commitment…
Come fall, Grand Avenue’s large gallery and event space inside the historic Bragg’s Pie Factory at 1301 W. Grand Ave. will no longer be host to its signature huge gallery shows and arts events. According Beatrice Moore, who’s owned the building since 2004, the almost 5,000 sq ft area with…
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, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…
Claire LawtonMelinda Bergman’s Not a Cloud in the Sky: A Meditation on the Life Ideal at Modified Arts See also: Phoenix Artist Mayme Kratz Chronicles Beauty in Creative Space See also: Art That Makes Phoenix So Irresistible See also: SMoCA’s Lit Lounge Brings Shaz Bennett, Molly McCloy, Eden Mcnutt, and More…
I suffered an awful sunburn after tubing down the Salt River. I’d tubed once before, in high school. People were having a lot of hot, dirty, loud, gross fun. Nothing had changed in 10 years except my perspective. Artist Kade Twist and I didn’t talk about the Salt River when…
More than a decade in the making, a stretch of University Drive in Tempe is finally set to get a makeover that will bring improved bike lanes, sidewalks, public art and landscaping to this roadway that is the western gateway into ASU’s Tempe campus.The City of Tempe’s Streets Department released…
See also: A collection of local photographers and artists in our 2010 Creatives and 2012 Creatives feature See also: Bob Carey on Art, Photography, and “The Tutu Project” The year of the shutterbug overload is here. Old school photographers might wince at the mention of Instagram, Hipstamatic, apps for photo…
There’s no more construction fencing around the installation by Arizona-based artist James Turrell on ASU’s Tempe Campus, and if you have a minute to spare around sunset or sunrise, you’re going to want to spend it on one of the benches inside. The structure was designed and built by Turrell…
It’s no secret that we’re big fans of stickers. And if you’ve been to the annual Sticker Phiends show put on by the artist who goes by “Mad One”, you’re likely to understand our obsession. When the then-Phoenix-based artist packed his bags for Portland last year, he said he wasn’t…
Since the ASU Art Museum announced local artist and arts advocate Greg Esser would take on the Desert Initiative this fall, the arts and science communities have been all ears waiting to hear more about the artistic and science-based initiative aimed at desert cultures and environments. See also: Greg Esser…
See also: Three Phoenix Arts Organizations Awarded National “Our Town” Grant See also: Roosevelt Row Selected for National ArtPlace Grant that Will Fund a New Streetscape, an Artist Village, and More You can thank the offices of Scottsdale, Phoenix, and Tempe public art for commissioning, organizing, and orchestrating interesting and…
Art critic, writer, and documentary maker Robert Hughes was celebrated for his authoritative voice and ability to explain and critique the inspirations and direction of art movements. Hughes contributed to The Spectator, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The Observer, and Time Magazine, where he served as chief art critic. His…
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, “Woah, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their…
The human race’s fascination with space, extraterrestrial life, and the possibility of intergallactic travel is nothing new — we’ve spent hundreds of years staring at the sky, thousands of words on space travel, and countless dollars shooting our own kind into the atmosphere. “This Is a Present from a Small…
Like many Phoenix Suns fans, David L. Bradley was a wee bit heartbroken when Steve Nash blew town last month. After all, the eye lounge artist is a longtime fan of the former all-star point guard for the Suns, who signed with the dreaded Los Angeles Lakers in early July…
Thankfully, the spaceship created by conceptual collective New Catalogue and installed at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art isn’t going into space anytime soon. In 1977, NASA approached American astronomer, astrophysicist, author, and popular science communicator Carl Sagan with a mission: Find out what it means to be a human on…
— By Claire Lawton Local artist Christy Puetz deals in beads. Her delicate and painstakingly detailed creatures come from a variety of backgrounds and stories. In 2011, she created a collection of “shapeshifting” creatures at Modified Arts, and, in 2009, she showcased a series of birds with beaded patterns inspired…
