San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, New York City, Kansas City and Phoenix are all places fashion designer Maria Behnen has called home. Currently, she teaches at Arizona State University’s Fusion on First, an apartment community and entrepreneurial incubator that helps students master their crafts, from architecture to fashion design. “It’s very rewarding to give back and help ASU grow the fashion program,” Behnen says. It’s a full-circle moment for the designer: She found her love...
Welcome back, life. As the pandemic winds down, the Valley’s cultural diversions – festivals, the arts, gyms and tours – are blossoming anew.
What does it mean to be “beautiful”? According to Nancy Gómez, Miss Latin American of the World, the definition of “beautiful” transcends physical appearance. “Beauty comes from within,” she says, “Sometimes it’s with their spirituality, sometimes with their mind, their thoughts, their actions, and/or their relationships with others, but it all comes from within and so that is how it shines through to the outer self.” To call Nancy Gómez just a beauty queen is...
Art and science collide in a new exhibit presented by ASU, True North Studio and Downtown Phoenix’s monOrchid gallery.
Igneous meets ingenious at this otherworldly art destination in Northern Arizona.
We catch up with Arizona State University golfer Olivia Mehaffey.
Award winning Chilean author Alejandro Zambra begins his literary residency in Phoenix next week.Presented by CALA Alliance (Celebracion Artistica de las Americas) in partnership with Changing Hands Bookstore, Palabras Bilingual Bookstore, and Cardboard House Press, the Bonsái author will participate in a series of free literary events in the Valley including a bilingual workshop at Palabras Bilingual Bookstore, a visit to Arizona State University and a lecture and book reading at Changing Hands Bookstore. (Event details below.)
Last summer, as Phoenicians tried the old fry-an-egg-on-the-burning-asphalt trick, a fellow Valley-ite became a traitor and took his icy talents back east. Just kidding, but former ASU Sun Devil Kyle Billig did jump on a coastal trend and moved back home to Pennsylvania to open Sweet Charlie’s, a Thai rolled ice cream shop in downtown Philadelphia.
Dozens of ceramic artists will open their studios to the public this weekend at 17 locations across the Valley for Arizona State University Art Museum's annual Ceramic Studio Tour. Each studio has a lead artist who has invited special “guest artists,” enticing us with a promising variety of shapes, sizes and styles.
“Permanent Collection,” a play directed by Arizona State University professor Charles St. Clair, is now performing at the Herberger Theater after opening at ASU West Campus in celebration of Black History Month, and it’s worth checking out.