Amy Young, Author at PHOENIX magazine

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MusicGirls Rock! Phoenix Turns Band Camp into a Concert at The Nash on July 30

Amy YoungJuly 13, 2016

“This one time, at band camp...”

No, not THAT band camp. THIS band camp empowers young girls to bring out their inner Joan Jetts: Girls Rock! Phoenix, which launched in February, is a nonprofit organization formed by Sarah Ventre, a senior producer at KJZZ 91.5 FM. The idea – gathering girls ages 8-17, giving them instruments and teaching them how to play, having them form bands and write an original song, culminating in a showcase – came from Girls Rock! camps in other states, including Washington, D.C., where Ventre volunteered in rock camp activities.

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ArtsKoryn Woodward Wasson

Amy YoungMay 1, 2016

Phoenix artist's “Watergraphs” series combines Spirographs and watercolors.

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Visual ArtsArt Detour Recap

Amy YoungMarch 28, 2016

March 18 and 19 marked the 28th anniversary of the annual Art Detour event hosted by local non-profit, Artlink, Inc. This self-guided tour of artists’ studios, art galleries and local businesses in and around Downtown Phoenix is also the foundation of monthly events like the First Fridays Art Walk and Third Fridays, when a lot of venues hold their opening receptions. The event also featured pop-up spaces, live painting, entertainment and specialty tours.

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Visual ArtsPaint PHX Returns This Weekend

Amy YoungMarch 4, 2016

It’s that time of year again, when the annual Paint PHX event brings local and visiting muralists together to create large-scale artwork in diverse and magnificent styles on the walls of buildings around Phoenix.

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Visual ArtsArtist Betye Saar is ‘Still Tickin” at SMOCA

Amy YoungFebruary 16, 2016

If the quality of the art exhibitions that have opened during this early part of the new year are indicators of what to expect from area galleries and museums in 2016, then we are in for an exceptional year. Of these recent openings, one of the most powerful is Betye Saar’s Still Tickin’, which opened at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) on January 30.

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Visual ArtsLocal Artists and Collectors on Phoenix Art Scene, Art Basel and National Attention

Amy YoungJanuary 8, 2016

Each December, thousands of people flock to Miami Beach for Art Basel’s large-scale, self-titled exhibition presenting modern and contemporary art. The organization has been hosting art events since its inception in 1970, and the Miami Beach fair began in 2002. That inaugural event featured nearly 300 galleries from around the world and drew in a crowd of nearly 100,000 people, a big mix of whom were art collectors, gallerists, artists, and members of the media.

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Visual ArtsGet ‘Entangled’ in Deborah Hodder’s Sculptures

Amy YoungJanuary 6, 2016

You only need one look at Deborah Hodder’s current exhibition at downtown’s Five15 Arts Gallery to completely understand its title: Entangled. The show features the artist’s figurative ceramic sculptures, many of which fuse together multiple subjects into one piece.

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CultureHe Never Died: Q&A with Henry Rollins

Amy YoungDecember 17, 2015

Though he's widely known as a punk rock icon, Henry Rollins, former frontman of California hardcore band Black Flag, also wears several other hats: writer, humorist, spoken word performer, publicist, DJ and actor, to name a few. Regarding the latter, Rollins is currently starring as lead character Jack in writer/director Jason Krawczyk’s He Never Died, a horror flick chock-full of sharp comedy and gore.