Mid-century modern maven Alison King led the first of Phoenix Design Week’s Modern Phoenix tours on Saturday. The daylong excursion is best described as a grownup field trip (complete with Capri Suns on the bus) catering to lovers of architecture, innovative design, and historic preservation. After exploring the Phoenix Financial…
There was a distinct chill in the air last night, which provided the perfect setting for the arrival of Monsterland.The Mesa haunted house and horror film museum held a special sneak preview on Wednesday night, offering a select few the chance to catch a glimpse of its undead denizens. When Monsterland’s…
Retrofitting sprawl. Latino urbanism. The evolving streetscape of greater Phoenix. These are all topics of interest at this Friday’s PURL Jam, an urban visual research exhibition hosted by the think tank (and branch of Arizona State University) Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory. The event, part of the ongoing Phoenix Design Week(s),…
Two years after a U.S. Bureau of Land Management ranger noticed graffiti on one of Tucson’s oldest archeological sites, five people have been ordered by Assistant U.S. Attorney Ann DeMarais to pay more than $43,240 in damages. Johnathan Lopez, 23, Andrew Magallanes, 21, Robert Norton, 23 Cynthia Norton, 20 and…
Ted Decker smells really good. But don’t ask him what scent he’s wearing. Decker can recite the names of every one of the artists who created the more than 1,000 pieces in his private art collection, but he has no idea what his cologne is called. “It’s some kind of…
To celebrate its second year in downtown Phoenix, the Urban Grocery & Wine Bar is looking for a little color. The market is currently looking for mural concepts that “capture the essence of the Downtown Phoenix community and our mission of making good food accessible to all.” According to the official…
Imagine whirring together Circus Vargas, a downtown Phoenix botanica, Lagunilla and/or Plaza del Ángel flea market in Mexico City, and a walk down Tijuana’s Avenida Revolución during which you are beset with insistent barkers pushing stuffed frogs dressed as mariachis for “almost free.” Got it? If you can, maybe, just…
We know October is going to be a crazy month. It’s nice enough to walk (a short distance) outside, Chaos Theory and the Grand Avenue Festival are right around the corner, and we’ve been keeping our wide eyes on the growing schedule of Phoenix Design Week(s), a three now four…
If you want to catch up with Gennaro Garcia sometime this fall, you’ll want to take a look at his calendar. The local artist has seven gallery exhibitions opening before the end of the year, a few ideas in the works for the Calle 16 mural project, and his current…
Josephine Davis is one of Red Hot Robot’s youngest regular shoppers and one of Phoenix’s youngest comic book artists. The 11-year-old visits the comic/collectible toy shop on 16th Street to check out new work by a few of her favorite local artists and to convince her dad (local artist Turner Davis)…
Rough outlines, accents stripes, and shades of blue, green and hot pink splash across a brick wall at the Cesar Chavez Community School in south Phoenix. A 15-by-12 foot, cement book stands in the center, where the face of the school’s namesake will soon be carved. The mural-in-progress is a project by…
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, “Whoa, when did that go up?”, we bring you Mural City, a series on the murals springing up around town — their artists,…
David Quan deals in blue ooze. You may have noticed his signature paint drips on canvases around town, and if you’ve taken a drive down Grand Avenue or Jefferson Street, you’ve likely seen them on a few façades. The local artist is a rare breed in the street art community,…
As if the lineup for the 12th installment of Chaos Theory, the annual art show/who’s who in the local art community, couldn’t get sweeter, organizer and local painter Randy Slack was nice enough to put donuts on the postcard. On October 7, the doors of Legend City Studios will open to…
With just a little less than a month to flex our creative cartography skills, Jackalope Ranch and Regular Gallery proudly announce the ten artists participating in You Are Here: a collection of maps of Phoenix: Melinda Bergman, Safwat Saleem, Angela Cazel Jahn, Marshall Shore, Sarah Hurwitz, Breeze, Sue Chenoweth, Carrie…
Gina and Derrick Suarez shut the doors (and stripped the interior) of Paisley Violin, their house/cafe/art gallery, at the beginning of this month and announced they’ll be reopening their operation across the street — in the old Universal Hair Salon at 925 Grand Avenue. The couple took the iconic Paisley…
It’s no secret we love maps. Big maps, small maps, maps of First Friday, maps of local foodie events, maps of the world, and maps of our favorite place in the world: Phoenix. For October’s Third Friday, we’ve asked 10 local artists to create maps of Phoenix. No medium, scale,…
You might not see William Barajas or his tag, MAWD around Phoenix streets for a while; Phoenix Judge Sherry K. Stephens sentenced Barajas to two and a half years in prison after he confessed to more than 300 acts of graffiti in Phoenix. The 20-year-old was caught tagging a light…
Phoenix Design Week is right around the corner and a handful (actually, more than 100) local designers created posters for the annual poster exhibition. This year’s theme: “Perception.” Interpretation of that theme was left up to the designers when they created their posters and the interpretation is now up to you, as…
Tempe Center for the Arts’ latest exhibition, Mixing It Up: Building an Identity celebrates Mexican American artwork and examines the identity of artists who have been influenced by the mixing of Mexican and American Culture in the United States. More than 60 pieces by Mexican, American, and Mexican American artists, including Luis Jimenez, Enrique…
