The submission box is open for the 2013 Governor’s Arts Awards, which 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…
Just two weeks after realtor Robert Joffe found an anonymous buyer for the David and Gladys Wright house in Phoenix, he’s back to the drawing board. According to the Phoenix Business Journal, Joffe recieved an email this morning from the buyer that the deal was off. See more: – Frank…
Time to pound a few protein shakes and brush up on your local contemporary art — this Friday’s your chance to arm wrestle for some serious eye candy. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s SMoCA Lounge, local artists and art fans will duke it…
If you were in downtown Phoenix before First Friday on November 2, you might have noticed a missing mural. Under the white paint on the west-facing wall of Dougherty Wholesale Floral Co., on Second and Roosevelt streets, was work by painter Carrie Marill that was defaced on November 1. The…
Third Friday in downtown Phoenix has long-been the unofficial art walk for community members who want to skip the hustle of First Friday, be able to find a parking spot remotely near the galleries, and have a chance to interact with artists and curators. And this month, Artlink is jumping…
Just in time for Election Day, Dan Mayer has some serious eye candy. The local creative is an instructional specialist at ASU who runs the university’s book arts/letterpress studio. In the studio, Mayer says students learn fine typography through handset type, print on hand presses, resulting in limited-edition handmade books,…
Editor’s Note: Since the publishing of this story, Carrie Marill would like to add that she and a group of volunteers will be repainting the mural tonight during First Friday. If you make it out to First Friday tonight, you might notice a missing mural. Under the white paint on…
As suggested by its title, Rinse & Repeat, a show curated by Becky Nahom on view at Bragg’s Pie Factory, makes the audience want to return to each of the artworks on display again and again. Nahom, an Arizona native and ASU transfer who began her art training at New…
If you missed one of Scottsdale’s public meetings last week that gave community members an opportunity to weigh in on future public art projects, you now have until November 9 to toss in your five cents. Two main projects in the works by Scottsdale Public Art are the Scottsdale Road…
Local painter Lee Berger doesn’t want his work to be pigeonholed. It’s why the 44-year-old art scene veteran has attempted to change up with his visual style multiple times since first becoming an artist in 1992. Within the past two decades he’s gone from creating simple-looking charcoal nudes to incredibly…
The fight to preserve the Frank Lloyd Wright house that’s been in danger of demolition for the past few months may be over — Robert Joffe, the real estate agent who listed the house at $2,379,000 has confirmed he has found a buyer. See more: – Majestic Ruins: Phoenix’s First…
Bob Ross was a beloved American artist and pop culture icon who taught quick lessons in painting on PBS’s The Joy of Painting, which aired from January 11, 1983, to May 17, 1994. He died in July of 1995. Ross was known for his slightly odd behavior and lessons imparted…
It’s election season, and with it come hordes of campaign signs that crowd every street corner, fence post, and obsolete storefront. They scream at pedestrians and drivers from the sidewalk: “Vote for this weasel over this snake-in-the-grass” or “Vote on this proposition, unless you hate children, kittens and old women.”…
The saga continues. Panic over the future of the David & Gladys Wright House in Phoenix began over the summer, when the property landed in the hands of 8081 Meridian, a Nevada-based developer that expressed plans to redevelop the land, split the property and “relocate” of all existing structures on…
Safwat Saleem is on a (likely endless) mission to create a well-designed alternative to the ugly greeting card. The Phoenix-based designer cites many problems we face in current culture, including “climate change, global hunger, [and] people being massive dicks online,” but says that because ugly cards aren’t high on that…
Logan Bellew’s latest installation at Eye Lounge is breathtaking (and it’s not just because the subjects of the photographs are so good lookin’). Angels v.2 is the second installment of a series in which Bellew explores the relationship between age and innocence by way of photographic portraiture. The images themselves…
Frank Henry is a staple in the local architecture community. After becoming the first person in Arizona to receive a Bachelor of Architecture degree from ASU in 1960, he became an expert and local resource on local architecture and the ecology of the southwest and currently works at Taliesin West…
The surrounding landscape and fall frenzy should be inspiration enough to get to work on something creative. And if you’re itching to have your work sent around the country (and perhaps world) via snail mail, you’ll want to check out MADE art boutique’s Phoenix Postcard Competition. See also: – BOP…
The landscape of the Desert Botanical Garden is looking a little different this month, but the new additions aren’t plants (at least not technically). Carolina Escobar’s sculpture exhibition Whispers of a New World spans across the familiar garden trails and offers splashes here and there of something new. See Also:…
Be it a First Friday or a Third Friday — we’re just excited about having an excuse (not that we need one) to see some great art exhibitions. Some are opening tonight Downtown, others have opened this month throughout metro Phoenix (including Chaos Theory at Legend City Studios). But you…
The holiday decorations are already starting to go up in Chandler, Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale, and Tempe, but behind the scenes, public art and city employees are also working on another kind of street-side activation. The third cycle of IN FLUX — a program that commissions, promotes and enables…
Matthew Clark’s exhibit, Fields of Vision, at ASU’s Night Gallery at Tempe Marketplace explores social relationships and choice and chance using a maze as a visual metaphor. If Facebook were a painting, it could be in this show. The paintings are made of acrylic sheet, vinyl, automotive paint, epoxy resin…
