Looking for a way to explore some local art and get a little workout? Scottsdale Public Art is hosting their 7th Annual Cycle of the Arts ride this Sunday, April 1, to explore some of the newer public arts around a short loop through Scottsdale.Registration for the ride begins at…
Local designers and bike enthusiasts Jon Ashcroft, Dorina Bustamante, Jonce Walker, Jeremy Stapleton, and Nicole Underwood know there’s a very geeky and compositionally beautiful place where cycling and design meet. And on April 20, they’re inviting the community to celebrate the intersection. PEDAL CRAFT PHX will feature hundreds of bicyclists, a bicycle-themed…
If you ever find yourself struck by an idea while sitting poolside at the Arizona Biltmore, chances are you should pursue it. It worked for Irving Berlin, who composed “White Christmas” next to the pool, and it worked for Chris Bale and Travis Smith, who were on vacation when they…
The 24th annual Art Detour went down during the third weekend of March, and the fact that it happened at all is perhaps its greatest accomplishment. Something needs to change. A lot of things, actually. Our impressions from the weekend: A lot of artists have given up on the annual…
Every year, the endowment recognizes projects across the country that reach audiences and bring art programming to under-served populations in one of four categories: guest artist, cultural tourism, public art, and civic design. Recipients are given $10,000 each…
Good news for anyone who’s been dying to know who won this year’s Phoenix Comicon Badge Art Contest. Organizers of the four-day comics and pop culture convention, which takes place during Memorial Day weekend, posted the top 20 entries on Sunday afternoon via the event’s Facebook page.Each of the pieces,…
Earlier this month, the American Advertising Federation’s Metro Phoenix branch announced this year’s ADDY winners, which honor the best in local advertising campaigns. One young ADDY winner caught our eye: Raven Cruz, a 20-year-old senior at the Art Institute of Phoenix, won best in show in the student category for…
Tempe’s Mill Avenue and Scottsdale’s Marshall Way are about to get a second dose of public art eye candy. The second cycle of IN FLUX — a program that commissions, promotes and enables the installation of temporary art in and among vacant and active storefronts — is in full gear…
If you’ve never been up to the rooftop patio or the eighth floor balcony of the Security Building, at 234 N. Central Ave. in downtown Phoenix, these next few months might hold your last chance.The Phoenix Urban Research Lab, an arm of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts…
Summer’s around the corner, which means there’s plenty of time to get creative (and finish a few projects) before the heat sets in. Lucky you, there happen to be a handful of great opportunities for local artists to have their work displayed and recognized. From paintings to puppets, here are…
Matthew Moore grew up in Waddell, Arizona, on his family’s farm that’s been around since the 1920s. Much of the local artist’s work is influenced by the landscape he remembered from growing up and the changes to that landscape since his family began losing the land to development. Moore documents…
Typography fans are in for a treat: AIGA is hosting two events next week that celebrate the ol’ printing press. On Monday, AIGA’s monthly FilmBar series offers a screening of Typeface, a 2009 documentary by Justine Nagan. The film follows the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum (http://woodtype.org/), a Wisconsin…
In the back of the exhibition space for “And the Land Grew Quiet: New Work by Matthew Moore” sits a crazy one-and-a-half-scale stud-skeleton house. Built askew and appearing to be sinking into the ground, the house is surreal. Walk through its beams and a disorienting sense of vertigo might knock…
On the opening night of Eye Lounge’s annual fundraiser show, art community members mingled and snatched up small-scale works donated by local artists. The show’s an opportunity for the Eye Lounge to raise money, for collectors to snatch up pieces they recognize (each is signed by the artist on the…
It was a humid, soggy weekend for Art Detour 24. And the weather was as unpredictable as the artwork. The weekend, officially organized by Downtown non-profit Artlink, is two days of studio tours and gallery openings (we’d argue that it should have included the night of Third Friday, but more…
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 artists,…
In the six months since the Crescent Ballroom opened, the renowned concert venue has hosted fashion shows, comedy gigs, dance nights, and (of course) plenty of concerts. As for art shows? Eh…not so much.That all changes starting tonight as painter Hugo Medina, Xico, and Cuervo Studios unveil “Celebrating Beauty,” a…
Christina Pruitt says that the idea for her latest exhibition, Swept, came from growing up in a culture of façades. The local artist was raised in West Texas. When she moved to Phoenix and joined Eye Lounge, she had the opportunity to work auto-biographically for the first time. In Texas…
It must have been intimidating. Less than six weeks on the job and Sean Malone, CEO of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, had to announce that he was installing solar panels at Taliesin West, making it one of the first structures in the National Register of Historic Places and on…
When Legends Entertainment District announced it would be unveiling a “community-building six-story mural” on the west-facing wall of the Luhrs Building, we grabbed our cameras. The historic 10-story building at 11 West Jefferson Street opened its doors in 1924 and its red-brick exterior has gone virtually untouched since. A mural…
