31. Patricia Colleen Murphy Patricia Colleen Murphy teaches creative writing at Arizona State University at the Polytechnic campus where she is the managing editor of the online literary magazine Superstition Review.In 2009, her poem “Why I Burned Down Namdaemun Gate” received the Gulf Coast Prize. As a travel enthusiast, Murphy…
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32: Sue Chenoweth Sue Chenoweth is an artist and an undercover educator. She has an extensive inspiration wall. In May, Chenoweth transformed the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art into a whimsical board game (Wynter Holden reviews it here). Chenoweth’s whimsy and imagination plays a large role in what she paints…
If you’re quick, you can catch, “SB1070: An Artist’s Point of View” up at Gallery 2345 in Phoenix. The show just arrived, and 2345 is hosting the exhibitions opening tonight, but the flags, stop signs, postcards, canvases and posters will be back on the road on Monday. The pieces are…
Jason Bravo will be with you in a second — he has to check the chicken’s ID first. While Bar Smith in downtown Phoenix doesn’t typically attract what Bravo calls the “eclectic, First Friday”-type, tonight’s attendee in the chicken costume is an exception (the chicken promises he lost a bet)…
33: Roy Wasson Valle Roy Wasson Valle was born in Mexico and has lived there and in the United States and Germany. He likes to draw and paint and make little sculptures out of plastic clay. You may recognize his goofy, semi-creepy skeleton character, Raul (he’s the one in the…
When Hurricane Katrina hit, Cynthia Hogue knew she had to respond. Hogue is a poet. When the hurricane hit in 2005 she was living in metro Phoenix, but she’d lived in New Orleans a decade before Katrina and taught in the University of New Orleans’ MFA program. Hogue admits it was a place she disliked…
34: John Wagner John Wagner studied art with an emphasis on traditional silver and non-silver processes. His interest in photography has landed him all over the world, but he writes that his focus never relies simply on location. He has this to say about his process:”I’ve always been intrigued with…
It’s no surprise Roy Watkins shoots his Nikon D300 with a fisheye lens — he’s at fish eye-level, under the rippling waters of Fossil Creek. His interest in photography started at a young age, but he didn’t get his camera wet until he combined his interested in photos with his…
35: Cindy Dach Cindy Dach had believed she was going to write one of the great American novels that would have been released in both hardcover and paperback, and then optioned for a small independent film. After receiving her MFA, she realized that she didn’t want to spend that much…
As a part of Mark-Taylor Community’s Summer of Love, dozens of bikini-, boardshort-, even boxer-clad bodies showed up at San Palmilla in Tempe. We couldn’t help but check out the party and report back. You know the drill. The good’s above and you’ll have to check the Bad and the…
Had it not been for the graffiti-ed plastic chairs by the door, we might have skipped over Just Blaze, which opened its doors on Saturday (now it just needs a bigger sign).Just Blaze was located on McDowell Road in Phoenix, but took over the building on the corner of Camelback…
It was only a matter of time before the vajazzling founders at Completely Bare Spa in New York one upped even themselves. Allow them to introduce the Vatoo — the latest down-under adornment that can be done after a good wax, of course. Like the vajazzle, the vattoo isn’t permanent…
36: Kade Twist Kade L. Twist works with video, installation, sound, text and two-dimensional media. In his words, he aims to “combine re-imagined tribal stories with geopolitical narratives to examine the unresolved tensions between market-driven systems, consumerism and American Indian cultural self-determination that dominate the postcolonial landscape.” Twist is one…
There’s nothing like a great yard sale, especially a great yard sale with great art. It’s why we geeked out when a post went up on Craigslist about a “clearance” sale on Phoenix-based artist S A Schimmel Gold’s prints (framed and unframed) and giclées on canvas — starting at $5…
Eighteen candidates running for Arizona offices in the 2010 primary will welcome a slew of conservative policy wonks, college kids, and other free-booze hounds at tonight’s “Politics on the Rocks” event at the intercontinental Montelucia Resort and Spa. Charles A. Jensen, founder of “Politics on the Rocks” (who was in…
The first week is never about what actually goes on during class. It’s about figuring out what your schedule means by “the Brickyard,” checking out potential lag-time hangouts and figuring out which path will save you three more minutes. Here’s a peek at our guide to ASU’s Downtown Campus …..
Suzanne Falk grew up in Phoenix with a family of artists. Her training came from spending time on the other side of the canvas — as an artist’s model for more than 14 years. Falk took up painting full-time as a means to “stay sane.” “My work is an escape…
The first week is never about what actually goes on during class. It’s about figuring out what your schedule means by “the Brickyard,” checking out potential lag-time hangouts and figuring out which path will save you three more minutes. Here’s a peek at our guide to ASU’s Tempe Campus …..
39: Kobina BanningKobina Banning was born in Kumasi, Ghana and received his masters in architecture from Arizona State University, where he specifically studied how displaced persons from other cultures can adopt architecturally into new urban settings.In 2007, he founded Fusion Architecture [FA] in Phoenix opened a location in Kumasi, Ghana…
>Given: Phoenix is known for its low-key, laid back style. We wear jeans to the opera, shorts to the theater — hell, we just saw a lady in a slinky romper at the Phoenix Art Museum. (We’ll have more on rompers in tomorrow’s female-specific list.) Also Given: In the summer,…
40: Carrie Marill Carrie Marill was born in San Francisco in the late ’70s. She was raised by a gun-toting dentist who, in the evenings, enjoyed doing doughnuts in a red 1982 Toyota Supra in his front yard. In 1994, she accidentally hit a bear in Yosemite Valley. In 2004,…
