Email Author Kathleen Vanesian

Awards

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published November 27, 2008

  "Pop-ah Ooo Mao Mao"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published July 10, 2008

  "And They're Grrreat"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards, published March 20, 2008

  "Blockbusted"

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2000 Stories by Kathleen Vanesian

• Gasp From the Past

  published November 23, 2000

  If "No Absolutes" -- ASU Art Museum's group exhibition showcasing artists working today in the Southwest -- is any indication of what is truly... More >>

• Loss Leader

  published November 2, 2000

  Rotting bodies, leering skulls, flickering candles, droopy roses -- not one of these creaky, well-worn symbols for death and the passage of time... More >>

• New Paper Views

  published October 19, 2000

  If I am ever forced at samurai swordpoint to come up with solid truisms about art at the beginning of the second millennium, I would have to say... More >>

• No Big Bang, A Big Gong

  published September 21, 2000

  In astrophysics parlance, the term "chaos theory" refers to the hypothesis that even a simple system can manifest unpredictable and highly... More >>

• Beijing Beauties

  published August 10, 2000

  How did a nice, quiet girl from a small town in upstate New York find herself learning to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese, traipsing all over China... More >>

• Some Assembly Required

  published July 20, 2000

  The exhibition catalogue accompanying Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's latest offering, "do it," makes no bones about it. The show's title,... More >>

• Teach His Own

  published June 29, 2000

  Ever send out an invitation to a big wingding and no one RSVP'd? That's basically what happened to Mesa Arts Center's Galeria Mesa when it sent... More >>

• Grave Undertaking

  published June 15, 2000

  Argentine artist Claudia Bernardi remembers a tiny tee shirt unearthed from the exhumation site she was working at in El Salvador in 1992 -- a... More >>

• Watery Awakening

  published June 15, 2000

  Don't expect to see the luminous resin shrines and mysterious opalescent spheres for which Valley artist Mayme Kratz previously has been known... More >>

• Sake to Me

  published May 25, 2000

  Most of the people who showed up at a recent sake tasting hosted by the Japan America Society of Phoenix knew what many Americans apparently... More >>

• Sea Worthy

  published May 11, 2000

  Move over, Awesome Blossom. There's a new vegetable on the marketing block that's threatening to steal diehard fans of French-fried onion and... More >>

• Burn, Baby, Burn

  published May 4, 2000

  I'm still at a loss as to why Mexico's Cinco de Mayo is such a big deal in the U.S. when it's not a big deal in Mexico. Most people I've polled... More >>

• Arts and Inhumanities

  published April 27, 2000

  As I swing open the heavy, carved wooden door to the West Valley Art Museum in Surprise, the odd juxtaposition of the serene paintings of... More >>

• Growing My Way

  published April 27, 2000

  "We want to be the Harry and David of certified organic produce. That's our aspiration," says Gina Verdugo, co-owner with Dan Wygocki of Boxed... More >>

• Loop Sided

  published April 20, 2000

  Phoenix video artist Sloane McFarland is the first to admit that he's not quite sure exactly what "PHACAEANS," his laptop video installation at... More >>

• Readers Digest

  published April 20, 2000

  The Mad Hatter must have organized the menu and set the table for the First International Edible Book High Tea. The "tea" -- and I use the... More >>

• Casing the Joint

  published April 13, 2000

  Back in 1958, when most high school guys were dreaming about cruising Camelback in a cool, two-tone Chevy, Gary Schiller was probably thinking... More >>

• Martini Bopper

  published April 6, 2000

  Never has one cocktail inspired so many people to produce so many memorably bad quotes (not to mention urban myths). I'm talking about the... More >>

• Sansei Sensibility

  published March 30, 2000

  Artist Roger Shimomura's earliest childhood memories are etched into his psyche. He is 3 years old and living in a U.S. government internment camp... More >>

• Carib Notes

  published March 30, 2000

  Pulsating salsa tunes blare from a boom box as you walk into K-Rico Cafe & Bakery. The small eatery is plopped at the end of a funky strip mall at... More >>

• "Sites" Seeing

  published March 16, 2000

  "Any time you introduce a large body of water into an art museum, it's a little hair-raising," Heather Lineberry, senior curator at ASU Art... More >>

• Forest Gumption

  published March 2, 2000

  When fine woodworker Steve Makin became sufficiently frustrated by the lack of gallery and museum exhibition opportunities available to Arizona... More >>

• The Exercist

  published February 10, 2000

  It is not your typical art opening. There are no paintings on the wall, no spotlighted sculptures on pedestals. The usual clusters of murmuring,... More >>

• Grand Funk

  published February 3, 2000

  One quick look at the huge mixed-media paintings of artist William T. Wiley -- now on display in "Recent and Relevant" at Scottsdale's Riva... More >>

• Spade & Neutered

  published January 13, 2000

  Little Black Sambo, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben -- all that's missing from this classic cast of racist stereotypes is a lawn jockey at the front door... More >>