If Alison King refers to you as a MoPho, know that offense is not intended. It’s the Modern Phoenix founder’s shorthand for fellow Phoenicians who are crazy for Midcentury Modern architecture.And those folks will turn out in abundance for this year’s Modern Phoenix Week.The design-focused celebration gets going on Saturday,…
Winners of the 2014 Arizona Governor’s Art Awards were announced Tuesday, March 25, during a ceremony held at Mesa Arts Center. Presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts in partnership with the Arizona Commission on the Arts and the Office of the Governor, the awards honor both individuals and businesses…
The Big Brains are coming. We’ll profile the 15 finalists and their creative endeavors on Jackalope Ranch and Chow Bella in the next few weeks. From that group of up-and-comers, five winners will be announced (and awarded with $500) at Bentley Projects on Friday, April 25, during New Times’ Artopia,…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Thomas Greyeyes. Thomas Greyeyes won a Big Brain Award in 2012 for his art, which explores his Native American identity and how it collides with life in Phoenix. Since winning, he’s continued pulling his…
Leanne Cairns always had a thing for fabrics. But when the full-time engineer, who currently resides in Laguna Beach, California, wanted to take her hobby of making handbags for friends and family and make it into a full-fledged business, Belyn Design, she didn’t feel like she had much of a…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Kim Porter. Kim Porter wants to do something new this year. The playwright is planning to push her story about strangers trying to not fall for each other, The Condom, to the max. Maybe…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Joseph “Sentrock” Perez. Joseph “Sentrock” Perez may have moved to Chicago since winning a Big Brain Award in 2011, but the artist’s presence in Phoenix hasn’t waned. He returned to town for “Generations: Inspiration…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Safwat Saleem. For Safwat Saleem, sleep is overrated. The artist, graphic designer, and filmmaker just-plain doesn’t have time for eight hours a night. That’s because the 2011 Big Brain Award winner has been hard…
Somewhere over the rainbow, we’d 100 percent steal those sparkly ruby slippers right off of Dorothy’s dumb feet. We like to think we’d wear them better. But, honestly, the sequined red pumps would probably look silly sans blue gingham dress and braided pigtails.Such is the power of movies: to create…
Lately, Chelsea Handler’s been busy. Calling out Piers Morgan for sucking, dishing on ditching Anna Wintour’s fashion advice, and stirring up trouble with Oscars-related tweets have been filling up her schedule. Oh, yeah, her current comedy/book tour, too. And her schedule won’t let up much when she gets to Phoenix…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Dulce Juarez. You might call Dulce Juarez a two-for-one. The performer and activist transitions between (and blends) the worlds of art and politics in compelling and creative ways. That’s a major reason why she…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Jon Ashcroft. Jon Ashcroft’s on the move. The illustrator and designer won a Big Brain Award in 2012 and moved to Seattle soon after. Since then, he’s ventured back several times — only to…
“A long time ago, we used to be friends.” So goes The Dandy Warhols’ “We Used to Be Friends,” the theme song to the canceled teen neo-noir drama Veronica Mars. For fans of the TV show, Friday, March 14’s release of the film continuation of the story is something of…
Typically museum exhibitions stimulate just one sense. Touching art is verboten. There’s not much to smell. Sound effects, save delicate instrumental music, are uncommon and usually unrelated. And eating the works (let alone a snack from home) would qualify as beyond frowned upon.Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art currently offers a…
As we generally are not ones to adopt -isms and ones very much for spending time frivolously watching (and incessantly talking about) Scandal, minimalism sounds like a frightening proposition. Less is less, and then when there’s less you can take away more so then there’s less. That’s the general idea…
Today’s the day, Phoenix. We’re announcing the finalists for the 2014 Big Brain Awards. Each spring, we recognize emerging Phoenix creatives — and over the past 10 days, we’ve narrowed down our long list of nominations to 15 finalists in five categories…
Today’s the day, Phoenix. We’re announcing the finalists for the 2014 Big Brain Awards. Each spring we recognize emerging Phoenix creatives — and over the past 10 days we’ve narrowed down our long list of nominations to 15 finalists in five categories…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Michelle Ponce and Damian Jim of 1Spot. It’s full steam ahead for 1Spot Gallery owners Michelle Ponce and Damian Jim. The pair won a 2013 Big Brain Award for their Native American art gallery…
Arizona native, artist and new mom Sarah Hurwitz brought her singularly imaginative style to this year’s Quick PHX (our annual pocket guide to the city) — and answered a few questions, too…
We hit the streets for Art Detour 26. The 2014 edition of the self-guided art tour featured 100 stops at galleries, studios, and pop-ups on March 8 and 9. And for all our pavement-pounding around Phoenix, our eyes were rewarded plenty. Here are our favorites: the 9 paintings, sculptures, and…
Leading up to this year’s Big Brain Awards, we’re checking in with past winners. Up today: Keytha Fixico. Since winning a Big Brain Award in 2013 for his work as a fashion designer, Keytha Fixico has gone international. Not business-wise, but the creative has caught a bit of a travel…
Where to begin? That is the biggest question when it comes to the annual free festival and self-guided tour that is Art Detour. Now in its 26th year, the celebration of Phoenix’s growing arts scene covers more than 100 stops, including galleries, pop-up shows, art spaces, cultural venues, and studios…
