If you’ve ever found yourself gazing into the bottom of your cereal bowl wondering just how it came to be, you’re in luck. The 13th Annual Self-Guided Ceramics Studio Tour will offer a behind-the-scenes look at 14 ceramics studios scattered across the Phoenix metro area on Saturday and Sunday, February…
These days it seems everyone’s a photographer. Even if you have no idea what the rule of thirds means, chances are that device in your pocket is what you use to capture memories of your kid, create envy-inducing images of desert sunsets, or carefully frame everyday life. What’s even more…
Brent Bond’s latest exhibition at Mesa Contemporary Arts might make you rethink artistic appropriation. “Accomplice” features a selection of Bond’s work from the past decade alongside some of the prints he helped bring to fruition through Santo Press, a fine art publishing company he founded in 2009…
I’ve been able to see, touch, and hear art — maybe even smell it — in numerous exhibitions I’ve visited, but getting to take a piece of the artwork in a museum and eat it is a new one for me. “Five Senses” at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art hits…
Just because an artist works in abstraction does not mean an exhibition of that artist’s work should follow suit. Case in point: “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land,” currently on view at the Heard Museum. The biographically driven exhibition, which includes 53 works by the artist,…
Bigger doesn’t always mean better. Before your mind goes into the gutter, we’re talking about housing. Tiny spaces, to be exact. “Microdwellings,” to be most specific. “MicroDwell 2014” comes to Shemer Art Center this week for a month-long hands-on look on how 600 square feet translates into a usable live-work…
Just because an artist works in abstraction does not mean an exhibition of that artist’s work should follow suit. Case in point: “Georgia O’Keeffe in New Mexico: Architecture, Katsinam, and the Land,” currently on view at the Heard Museum. The biographically driven exhibition, which includes 53 works by the artist,…
New Times photographers had a busy weekend. Did they snap your picture? First Friday in Downtown Phoenix, 2/7/14 First Friday was alive with music, street performers, and food trucks Friday night, February 7, in downtown Phoenix. In the name of art, people from all over the valley came out to…
Phoenix artist Monica Aissa Martinez is among the American artists being considered for inclusion in the exhibition “State of the Art” at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, according to a recent New York Times piece. The show will feature works from 100 unsung artists from across…
First Friday heats up tonight with creative works going up all over the city. Here are Jackalope Ranch’s top picks for shows and events not to miss this artful evening. “Onloaded” at Hot Box Gallery With funding from an ArtPlace America grant and support from Roosevelt Row CDC, Greg Esser…
Now in its second year, PhotoTapas is taking over our state for the month of February, offering a nice diverse sampling from the Arizona photo community. This year, the series is being overseen by Art Intersection in Gilbert, but events also will be held in Tucson and across the metro…
Last year, The Clarendon Hotel was transformed into a temporary art installation, thanks to the debut of Artel Phx, a project that brings together the creativity of local artists with the hospitality of local business. As Artel Phx preps for a spring exhibition, event organizers are looking for new artists…
Obie Bowman made a name for himself as an architect with a keen sensitivity for the natural world. Starting in the 1970s and continuing through to the present, Bowman’s work on the Pacific Coast has garnered him numerous architecture and design awards. Recently, four of Bowman’s houses were featured on…
Design obsessors and aspiring architecture snobs, take note. Tickets to the 10th annual Modern Phoenix Home Tour go on sale Saturday, February 1…
Downtown’s poster child for the arts may be Roosevelt Row, but the true homegrown creativity is found on its streets — like Fifth and Sixth — which spider off the main drag, looking like little more than quiet neighborhood stretches. It’s in these homes, often boasting colorful public art themselves,…
Grand Avenue got a makeover of sorts last year on its stretch between Seventh and 15th avenues, and part of its redesign included adding 50-plus planters along the street. Currently, they’re blank canvases. But not for long. Grand Avenue Members Association (GAMA) has issued a call to local artists interested…
Last fall, we were excited to hear that the ASU School of Art was moving one of its five student galleries to the downtown Phoenix warehouse district. With the Step Gallery formally nestled into its new location, we can see that our excitement was not unwarranted. The converted warehouse space…
Upon ending a self-imposed isolation of more than 250 years, Japan opened its doors in the late 19th century to Western travelers eager to explore its heritage. Female artists were among the original pioneers, setting out to Japan on exotic travels and honeymoons where they’d find themselves enraptured by the…
Nominees were announced this morning for the the 33rd annual Governor’s Arts Awards. The 84 nominees include businesses and individuals spanning the state who have made substantial and outstanding contributions to arts and culture in Arizona. Presented by Arizona Citizens for the Arts in partnership with the Arizona Commission on…
If you made it out to Third Friday last week or you’ve happen to drive by the A.R.T.S. Market on Roosevelt Row, chances are you’ve noticed two ocean-certified shipping containers sitting outside. No, they’re not the world’s largest pieces of Ikea furniture. It’s the new home of downtown’s Hot Box…
It’s being described as more than a facelift or a redesign; they’re calling it a “master plan” — a vision to transform Phoenix’s Margaret T. Hance Park from neighborhood play-place to a defined desert oasis. Built atop the Interstate 10 tunnel, the sprawling 32-acre park serves as a distinguishing physical…
The Arizona Commission on the Arts is shaking things up this month with Arizona Art Tank, a new funding initiative designed to give public awards to entrepreneurial arts ventures across the Valley. At Art Tank events, top applicants will have six minutes each to pitch their ideas to a selection…
