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…
I hesitate to tell others about this but both Rowdy Boutique and frances vintage are having winter sales.I’ve been keeping my mouth shut about it all week but the guilt of denying my precious readers this information has proven too great…and I broke.(My apologies to my fellow female co-workers for…
Frida Kahlo and Pablo Picasso created art inspired by their own personal tragedies. They took a risk, because personal pieces are often so intimate that audiences can’t relate. Local artist Jen Urso successfully overcame this challenge — and the demons of her past — in creating “White Space,” a multimedia…
I usually snark it up on this blog but if I were to make wise cracks about this very serious disease, you could classify me as pure evil.Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, along with Banner Health, is hosting “Arts Engagement”, a series of workshops for individuals with early to mid-stage…
Even though I recently betrayed my feminist roots by writing this piece, I still have loyalty to the cause. Especially when it comes to Art History.It’s no secret that, historically, female artists haven’t really gotten their fair shake. Lack of education, lack of opportunity for status and all that baby-raising…
It’s really no secret that I’m a big fan of the independently owned boutique. I have a hunch that most slightly fashionable women who loved art class as kids have fantasized at least once in their lives about opening their own little spot; filled to the brim with adorable garments,…
