11: Derek A. Welte Derek A. Welte is half man, half machine, er, he owns HalfmanHalfmachine, which is a web, film, design and creative content company entering its tenth year of project making. Welte’s background is in art and film. “Everything has a narrative from a website to a start-up…
12: Carolyn Lavender Carolyn Lavender is a Phoenix artist who was raised in the Northwest. Her work has been political, abstract, and self-portrait based. Most often she is exploring ideas with animal images. She graduated from ASU in 1992 with a MFA in drawing and has since shown steadily. She…
13: Peter Shikany Peter Shikany was born in Minneapolis and grew up in central Phoenix. In the 1960s and 70s he learned to draw, surf (the other kind), and kern type, among other things. In 1989, the loss of a job at an ad agency along with his love of…
Open for Business is a city art exhibition set to run from Oct. 8 through Jan. 29 that aims to call attention local businesses in Tempe. The project will feature art works installed throughout downtown Tempe businesses and at the ASU Art Museum. Sixteen artists will feature their work; each…
14: Brent Bond Brent Bond has totally fallen for Victoria — his 50 year-old Vandercook printing press (pictured above) — after all, from her came Santo Press. More on that later. Bond’s a printmaker, photographer and “assemblagist” meaning he’s good at finding things and putting them together to make something…
phxdw.comThe creative brains behind Phoenix Design week called for poster submissions last month. And boy did they hit the jackpot. More than 70 posters were submitted by artists, graphic designers and design week geeks (yes, we love them all) and now it’s up to you to decide. Voting starts today…
Monsterologist Daniel m Davis (of Steam Crow) has been abducted by monsters 218 times. And in an effort to provide a public service, he’d like to show you how he’s survived. You can catch him and Monsterpocalypse tool kit this Saturday at Red Hot Robot from 7 to 8:30 p.m….
15: Jessica Jordan Jessica Jordan was born in Tempe, on December 24, 1979 at 3:14 p.m.. She was raised on Disney cartoons, Warner Brothers, The Ladmo Show, Nickelodeon, coloring books, craft time with her mom and grandma, cassette tapes, beepers, her dad’s records, VHS, Push Pops, and Y95.5 FM. She…
This comes from the “things we love about Sweden” category — including but not limited to their fish, indie bands and plastic furniture. T-Post is a wearable magazine that was crafted by a few friends living in Sweden. It works like this: you subscribe, much like a magazine, to T-Post…
16: Abbey Messmer Abbey Messmer grew up the oldest of three girls in the suburbs of Dallas, Texas. At age five, she decided she wanted to be a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and an artist. Her dreams were semi-realized. She admits to cheer leading in middle school and is thankfully still…
Arist (for all photos): Antigirl Location: Third and Garfield streets Check out more photos after the jump …..
17: Randy Slack Randy Slack tends to borrow from his upbringing during the ’70s and ’80s; he says he’s continuously inspired the time’s logos, cartoons, paint-by-numbers, hot chicks, religion … he goes on. Really, he says, “it’s a subconscious collage of nostalgia that should make you giggle — like laughing…
Ah, yes, school is back in full swing with all its bikini, bro tank and beer bong glory. Quite often, it’s the student-infested apartment and condo complexes that throw the best bashes. We checked out the party at the Palms on Scottsdale this weekend to see if the ASU students…
Whether it’s for a meditative de-stress, a quiet sanctuary, or better ass, yoga-goers have their own reasons for ending up on a paper-thin mat in tight black (please black!) pants. But yoga students often overlook that the moment they inside, it becomes all about them … and their favorite sanskrit-spewing,…
18: Miro Chun Miro Chun’s a first-generation Korean American from a seriously artistic family. Her mother’s a painter (abstract expressionist), her sister is a graphic designer, her father (a retired computer scientist) was a photographer in the Korean War, even her godparents are painters. In school, she pursued architecture and…
19. Mitch Fry Mitch Fry says he’s recently been released into being a sculptor. He was raised in a Chicago suburb and his father was a commercial artist. He came to Arizona and graduated from ASU’s fine art program. He says his sculpting style is constructing aesthetic larger things out…
20: Tessa Windt This summer marked a decade since Tessa Windt made the jump to the United States from Canada. Four states later, she’s glad to finally catch her breath in Arizona. Windt says “In some ways I’m an old-fashioned artist who needs a studio, a concrete space to move…
And you have 12 hours left to submit them. Ignite Phoenix is all about locals who are (often oddly) obsessed with something that they want to share. Our own Jonathan McNamara presented on building miniature giant robots a few years ago. Really. You’ll be asked to share your idea/passion with…
21. James Angel James Angel’s a self-taught artist and one of the founders of the artist collective 3CarPileUp. He’s a fierce supporter of the “emerging” downtown art scene and an advocate for keeping local talent local.”For me, it’s about inspiration and constant experimentation,” he writes. “I explore delineation of form,…
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…
22. Dan Semenchuk Dan Semenchuk was born in Germany, lived his early years in New Jersey, spent his formative years in Monte Carlo, Monaco, experienced the ’70s in Denver, and settled in Phoenix in 1980. He started drawing when he was eight, inspired by his father who had drawn cartoon…
