Business types will tell you it’s best to keep a one-minute “elevator speech” at the ready. Typically, that’s about all the time you get to reply after someone asks about what you make or do. But 32 Arizona artists and arts organizations had the luxury of a full six minutes…
What started with a petition to save one building is poised to morph into a full-blown movement protesting developments that significantly would change the urban landscape of Roosevelt Row. Though some are preparing pop-up art experiences for Super Bowl fans who visit Roosevelt Row, arguably the best-known arts district in…
The first round of Third Friday exhibitions in 2015 is setting the bar high for the rest of the year. It was a pretty quiet evening on the streets, but most of the galleries were filled with work and people to view it. Most of these exhibitions will be around…
We don’t know if you worship on Sunday or sleep in the like the rest of us. (And frankly, we don’t care.) But chances are, you can appreciate good design when you see it. While we’ve taken the time to pay tribute the coolest buildings in metro Phoenix, from hospitals…
We’re figuring the year’s first Third Friday is bound to be busy, after a relative lull in some parts of the metro Phoenix art scene for First Friday earlier this month. By now, you’ve either recovered from New Year’s festivities, or you need a little jump start to make it…
While the trio of petitioners who’ve so far gathered just over 900 signatures continue to hope for a final-hour reprieve on the fate of the building at 222 East Roosevelt, home of the GreenHaus until Cole and Dayna Reed move their business to Portland, there’s no real reason to expect…
We caught muralist El Mac in the act of art-making at The Heavy Pedal, 1309 E. Van Buren last week, working on his latest Phoenix mural. It’s a collaboration between El Mac, Pablo Luna, and Mando Rascón that took a full week of steady work to execute. The results are…
When we first popped in to see the Mesa Urban Garden a couple of years ago, it was a relatively simple affair. Raised beds had just been filled with dark, moist soil. Kyllan Maney and Lauren Lee had painted the first of many murals to don garden walls. Community members…
Figuring there’s at least a bit of artist in all of us, we went in search of some of the coolest beginning art classes and workshops for adults in metro Phoenix — and found a little something for everyone, from blacksmithing to printmaking. We appreciate the lure of affordable options,…
New year, new art. One of our cultural highlights of last year was easily ARTELPHX. So imagine our excitement when the The Clarendon Hotel announced that it would be brining in a new batch of multimedia art displays come May of 2015. The weekend show, set to open Thursday, May…
Poetry. Circus Performance. Improvisation. Sewing. Video projections. They’re all part of innovative projects moving forward thanks to funding from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, which announced late last month the names of 13 artists receiving 2015 Artist Research and Development Grants. Ninety-five artists applied for the grants, which provide…
Mark your calendars and make sure you have Thursday nights off, because ASU School of Art recently announced its Visiting Artist/Scholar programming for Spring 2015. Just like last year, the lectures will take place at ASU’s Grant Street Studios near downtown Phoenix. Each lecture will take place on Thursday evening…
Cold weather did little to deter the party atmosphere as colorful club-style lights and music blared along Roosevelt Row during the first First Friday of the year, although things were considerably calmer in some other parts of the Phoenix arts scene. Never fear if you missed it, because most of…
Once you’ve done the whole ringing in the New Year thing, it’ll be time to jump back on the First Friday horse to show your love for local artists is still going strong. Weather and hangovers be damned. Make the year’s first First Friday one to remember. Art 360: Nicole…
After recent visits by the ghosts of art exhibits past, present and future, we awoke with five resolutions certain to help all sorts of artists up their creativity and community engagement. Work outside your comfort zone. Maybe you’ve been so keen on supporting the arts in your own familiar venues…
While most of us were scurrying around with holiday errands and festivities, artists participating in a public art program called IN FLUX were readying a diverse assortment of works you’ll soon be able to enjoy in several Valley cities. Think of it as a public art-a-palooza — with support from…
Grand Avenue is about to get even more livable, thanks to a future complex of apartment-converted shipping containers aptly called Containers on Grand. The container-based housing, located at Grand and 12th avenues, is expect to open in March of 2015. While developers have only secured permits for eight units, they…
The Marvel Experience has begun in Scottsdale, and it’s a couple hours of bliss for superhero fans. The first stop of the event’s global tour is at Salt River Fields through January 3. While there are still some technological kinks to iron out, it is a must-see for Marvel fans…
In a city progressively known internationally for its downtown’s mural art, arguably the oldest surviving murals in downtown (along with the building housing them) are now threatened with imminent destruction. So reads the opening salvo of a petition crafted by a trio of Phoenix residents hoping to preserve the building…
The year’s best exhibitions included a fabulous diversity of artwork, from ceramics to mail art, shown in a nifty assorted of places. Think museums, library, galleries, shipping containers, pop-up spaces, and re-purposed spaces that once housed ice blocks and forensic evidence. Several of the exhibits we loved best featured works…
A relatively light crowd during December’s Third Friday meant more opportunities to get up close and personal with artworks normally surrounded by eager viewers. Some suspected protests in downtown Phoenix during this month’s First Friday left folks wary of hitting the downtown art scene, but there was nary a protester…
A little of this, a little of that. It’s what we do this time of year — with food, spare time, and family gathered for the holidays. So we’ve picked five exhibitions that’ll help you explore the diversity of Arizona artists in some delightfully different settings. “Snoop” Halt Gallery, one…
