Just as the Mutant Piñata show has become a new tradition for Art Detour weekend, Five15 Arts Gallery hits us once again with a budget-friendly exhibition. This year, it’s the “$99 Only Art Show”…
Tara Logsdon must have a big heart.The artist has dedicated her talents to “rescuing” discarded and unloved teddy bears she finds at thrift stores. You can see the results of her teddy bear makeovers at the “Right to Bear Arms” show at The Artlink Heritage Square Gallery during Art Detour…
You know, it just wouldn’t be Art Detour Weekend without the Mutant Piñata Show at Bragg’s Pie Factory. Curator Beatrice Moore delighted the Detour audience when she initially launched this exhibition in 2008. Now, in its third year, it’s fast become one of our very favorite shows to cover…
Nice painting, eh? You can see others like it this weekend during Artlink’s annual (and totally blog-worthy) Art Detour 22.Brian Boner and Lee Hazel present “The New, Old World” at MonOrchid. And, in the same building, Bokeh Gallery will continue to show its fabulous “Ballerina Series” photography exhibition by Bob…
Yes, Art Detour 22 is upon us!I know, I know…already?This week, I’ll be blogging my booty off about the art events that will bombard our downtown arts district this weekend. Today, we’ll kick things off with a little coverage about the opening of the Westwind Studios. From this Friday evening,…
You dig ceramics?Well, ASU’s Ceramics Research Center has four days of events just for you. It runs from March 4-7 and you need to make your reservation by March 1st.Btw, March 1st is this upcoming Monday. So get on it…
The smell of freshly cut plywood is in the air as 15 audience members, seated in Space 55’s brand-new seating area, buzz with anticipation for the beginning of the Improvised Bookclub. A few minutes later, Sam Haldiman, the emcee of tonight’s Torch Theatre production, sprints onstage. He’s a little man…
You’re really going to want to check out SeeSaw Designs’ new vintage shoppe on Etsy.As you may have picked up from my previous blogs, SeeSaw is a local company run by a group of young designers. They do all the things designers do (branding, brochures, magazines, and album art) but…
The starring ballerina is the same in all fourteen of the mysterious color photographs hanging in Bokeh Gallery, Wayne Rainey’s newest downtown Phoenix gallery venture dedicated solely to photographic art. Hairy barrel chest. Close-cropped haircut. Pink, stiff tulle tutu. Big muscular wrestler’s calves ending in big, slightly flat, bare feet…
This week, local artists will have two chances to learn about how they can expose their art to a national audience through “The People’s Biennial” exhibition, which is slated to tour five cities starting late 2010.And, no, New York is not one of the five cities…
Life’s full of tough choices.Tonight, Valley art enthusiasts have their pick of the litter with three big events happening at three different museums across town: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, ASU Art Museum and the Heard Museum.Here’s the run-down:…
Local artist Carrie Marill is featured on the home page of www.20×200.com today, a website dedicated to selling fine art prints.This, however, isn’t a generic site like www.allposters.com where you can get a millionth reprint of Van Gogh’s Starry Night for your kid’s dorm room. And it doesn’t let just…
Against absurd odds, Lisa Sette Gallery on Scottsdale’s Marshall Way can boast that three of her gallery artists — Enrique Chagoya, Claudio Dicochea and Angela Ellsworth — have been handpicked to show work at the 17th Biennale of Sydney, which runs from May 12 through August 2010. Sydney’s Biennale, a…
Attention struggling artists: On Wednesday, February 17, you can learn how to turn your talent into a business at the “Marketing and Managing Your Art Career” workshop at Tempe Center for the Arts.Now, I understand that some creative types might interpret the integration of business practices into their art as…
The radio tells me that 8.5 million Americans have lost their jobs due to the economy.Make that 8.5 million and one.Today is Senior Curator Claire Schneider’s last day at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts…
So you want to be a published writer, eh? Good news! The Superstition Review online magazine is now accepting submissions.Here, in the offices of the Phoenix New Times, discussing the current state of a career in writing is one of our very favorite things to do.Ok, maybe “favorite” is the…
Scottsdale’s galleries are proof positive that in a recession, art is one of the first luxuries to go. Longtime residents Victoria Boyce and Leslie Levy closed their doors in 2009 and went online. A dozen or so smaller galleries followed. One Scottsdale gallery owner I recently spoke to admitted he…
Man, I am bummed.The West Valley Art Museum’s “temporary closure” has morphed into the sale of the museum’s building. They will have a benefit sale this weekend.In August 2009, the Museum shut its doors to restructure funds. The goal was to open again in the future and, at the time,…
So maybe Roosevelt Row isn’t L.A.’s La Cienega in the 60s and our Grand Avenue ain’t exactly Soho in the 70s and 80s. And we can definitively say that Marcel Duchamp never played chess at Phoenix Art Museum with a nude Eve Babitz (or anyone else, clothed or naked, for…
Alright folks, allow me to take you on a visual journey (actually, it’s just a crap-ton of jpegs) to illustrate what’s happening with the visual arts at First Friday Artwalk tonight. “Natural Origins” by Lara Kupcikevicius and Christina Ramirez @ MonOrchidBoth artists chose patterns and visual themes from nature as…
I’m so relieved to hear that someone else in town doesn’t hate Valentine’s Day.And that someone is Cyndi Coon of Laboratory5 Inc. (Lab5 is a joint venture with fellow artist and husband, Jeremy Briddell, where they both showcase their art). Coon will be leading a workshop at MADE Art Boutique…
Alright, you artists, gallery owners, and any other creative types who want to be featured in the Art Detour 22 brochure, you have your deadline for application.February 11, 2010And you can find the application here…
