Artist: Bird AveMedium: Illustrated Poster The countdown to Best of Phoenix continues! Last year, we profiled 100 Creatives who made a mark on the local arts scene. This year, we’ll have 100 creative representations of Phoenix. No scope or requirement on medium or size — we’ll include photography, painting, sculpture, video, installation, literary, and more. What…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Electrical boxes can be sweet spots for stickers and wheatpastes, but this spring, the City of Tempe Public Art program and the City of Tempe Library…
i am so attached to my place that my place has become attached to me from Jen Urso on Vimeo. Artist: Jen Urso Medium: video This video draws comparisons between the toughness and resiliency of the desert with my own strength and, because of organisms living in the desert soil,…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Long before he worked in the creative departments of Facebook and Google, designer Ji Lee was busy erasing billboards in New York City. “The streets of New York…
Architects: Fitzhugh & Byron Medium: Architecture Before the stucco… Welnick Arcade Grocery (ca 1927) at 4th Avenue and Van Buren, one of the best equipped groceries in Phoenix at the time. Architects Fitzhugh & Byron also designed the Grunow Clinic on McDowell Rd. and contractors built the Luhrs Tower and Brophy…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? For its fifth-annual fall festival, the French Institute Alliance Francaise and conceptual sound collective Soundwalk recorded factual and fictitious stories: American writer and art historian Teju…
Artist: El Mac Medium: Mural El Mac’s Phoenix Goddess is an older example of the muralist’s work on a historic apartment complex about a block east of Zoe’s Kitchen on McDowell Road. After his mural was painted over this week on Grand Avenue, it’s one of a few Mac pieces…
Artist: Bob Petley Medium: Photograph postcard (c. 1976) Back of the postcard reads: Famous Camelback Mountain. World-renowned landmark on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona, about which are clustered private estates and most of the million-dollar winter resorts of the Valley of the Sun. This view is from the south side of…
With just a little less than a month to flex our creative cartography skills, Jackalope Ranch and Regular Gallery proudly announce the ten artists participating in You Are Here: a collection of maps of Phoenix: Melinda Bergman, Safwat Saleem, Angela Cazel Jahn, Marshall Shore, Sarah Hurwitz, Breeze, Sue Chenoweth, Carrie…
Gina and Derrick Suarez shut the doors (and stripped the interior) of Paisley Violin, their house/cafe/art gallery, at the beginning of this month and announced they’ll be reopening their operation across the street — in the old Universal Hair Salon at 925 Grand Avenue. The couple took the iconic Paisley…
Artist: R.C. ProctorMedium: photograph on linenThe countdown to Best of Phoenix continues! Last year, we profiled 100 Creatives who made a mark on the local arts scene. This year, we’ll have 100 creative representations of Phoenix. No scope or requirement on medium or size — we’ll include photography, painting, sculpture, video, installation, literary, and more. What…
It’s no secret we love maps. Big maps, small maps, maps of First Friday, maps of local foodie events, maps of the world, and maps of our favorite place in the world: Phoenix. For October’s Third Friday, we’ve asked 10 local artists to create maps of Phoenix. No medium, scale,…
Artist: Clifton Batchelor Medium: PhotographyThe Phoenix Arrow is a sign carved into the Usery Mountains, 30 miles from Sky Harbor Airport. Story goes, the sign dates back to the 1950s and created as a guide for lost pilots. Today, the sign’s seen by passengers on commercial flights approaching from the east…
You might not see William Barajas or his tag, MAWD around Phoenix streets for a while; Phoenix Judge Sherry K. Stephens sentenced Barajas to two and a half years in prison after he confessed to more than 300 acts of graffiti in Phoenix. The 20-year-old was caught tagging a light…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Last year, Phoenix-based photographer Bob Carey had an idea: I was going to take a picture every day. In the rain. In the sun. When I was…
Artist: J.R. WilliamsMedium: Phoenix Tourism AdvertisementIn 1930, cartoonist J.R. Williams (of Out Our Way fame) was commissioned to draw a panel for the Valley of the Sun. The advertisement was used in conjunction with winter rates on the Transcontinental Railroad to “a romantic desert country of intriguing wonders.” The countdown to Best of…
Last night, Facebook rolled out its latest edition of the constant stream of updates from all of your friends you don’t really keep in touch with News Feed, complete with a real-time, scrolling update box on the upper left, the introduction of user-determined “top” stories, and an annoying box for new people…
One new idea for every day in 2011. We’re talking big, small, local, international, in action, and on the drawing board. Here’s today’s — what’s yours? Good Fucking Design Advice started as a humorous side project of designers/educators Brian Buirge and Jason Bacher and developed into a collection of tools…
To the guaranteed rage of local Peta members (who have already started a petition), and anyone who’s been to a real Pamplona-style Running of the Bulls, organizers of the Cave Creek knock-off still have the green light for their event, currently slated for October 14, 15, and 16. This week (in…
Name: Steve Dreiseszun Medium: Digital Photography Created in March 2010, this image was my contribution for the 26 Blocks project, Block “V” in Downtown Phoenix. Tasked with telling the story of the “0/0” block of Phoenix, once considered our ‘town square’ and now part of the new CityScape project, I felt a…
Phoenix Design Week is right around the corner and a handful (actually, more than 100) local designers created posters for the annual poster exhibition. This year’s theme: “Perception.” Interpretation of that theme was left up to the designers when they created their posters and the interpretation is now up to you, as…
