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Steve Weiss wanted to be clear: The Arizona Architectural Film Showcase isn’t a film festival.
Steve Weiss wanted to be clear: The Arizona Architectural Film Showcase isn’t a film festival.
Ask Ariana Enriquez about creating an outdoor mural rendered in oil paint, and she’ll burst out laughing.
Arizona-themed vintage valentines are more than kitschy keepsakes, according to cultural historian and longtime ephemera collector Lisa Sutton.
“I’ve been drawing and painting since before I could speak, really,” artist K. Nari says. “Back then, a set of crayons for Christmas was a really good thing.”
Julia Taggart sort of stumbled into her gig as a historian.
“I eat, breathe and sleep Christmas lights,” Simon Kreisberger says when I ask about his job. “I wake up every morning thinking about the happiest time of the year. Christmas isn’t seasonal for me.”
The Wisconsin native, whose oil paintings and jewelry will be exhibited in the Sonoran Arts League’s 29th annual Hidden in the Hills Artist Studio Tour this November, figures she’s been making art – and other things – her whole life.
Morgan Andersen set out to be a computer programmer. “Then I started doing theater in college,” she says, “and I fell in love with it. I switched my major and got an MFA in costume design instead.”
¡Sombra! Experiments in Shade, is a newish public art project about urban heat in Phoenix.
Are local museums – leery of funding cuts and conservative activism – censoring art and artists?
There’s something beautifully wrong with artist Luke Watson’s oil paintings. His landscapes are lush with pointy turquoise trees, wet with exquisitely violet rivers, and overgrown with paper-maze-like foliage.
I wasn’t surprised to hear, earlier this year, that Steve Schumacher was on the hunt for a children’s book about the founding of Phoenix.
Could The Cher Show possibly satisfy a superfan?
Weller, who teaches art at the same Phoenix high school she attended as a kid, somehow managed to miss lessons on perspective and shading skills.
The Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts staff is showing its arty side.