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5 Free (or Cheap) January Art Events in Phoenix
Along with losing weight and eating healthfully, saving money is one of the top New Year’s resolutions for 2016. Counting pennies usually means cutting down on daily extravagances like morning lattes...
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Local Artists and Collectors on Phoenix Art Scene, Art Basel and National...
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...
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Boring Walls Are Bad For Business – Adorn Them with Andrew Pielage's Artful...
Let’s face it: Your office needs more than a computer, a desk, a thirsty plant and a few random mementos. It needs walls that tell a story – your story.
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Spencer Tunick’s Mass Nudes Travel to ASU Art Museum
Still life aside, nudes and landscapes are among the most prevalent subjects in art. From Degas and Dalí to Andy Warhol and Thomas Kinkade, nearly every famous artist – whether painter, sculptor or...
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Ceramics Are Front and Center on ASU'S Annual Tour
Humans have fabricated pottery since some ancient knucklehead threw a ball of mud in the embers. When that clay was stone-hard by morning, a sharper friend had an epiphany, and ceramics was born. Over...
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Artist Betye Saar is 'Still Tickin'' at SMOCA
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...
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3 Must-See Public Art Installations
Have you ever spotted a colorful mural on the side of a building or an abstract sculpture in a park and wondered why it’s there?
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Paint PHX Returns This Weekend
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...
View ArticleKnock on Wood: James Schwarz Hopes to Dazzle with Woodchip Mosaics
James Schwarz has a background in theater. Not on the stage, but building it. He's a scenic carpenter, to be precise, surrounded by a world of 3-D art, with all the world his diorama. Schwarz is...
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Art Detour Recap
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...
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Phoenix Art Museum Hits a Home Run with Rarest Cards in Baseball History
Once a children’s hobby, collecting baseball cards has become as much a National Pastime as the game itself. The first cards were created in the mid-19th century, with tobacco companies later including...
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Grand Avenue’s ArtHaus Gallery Draws Up-and-Comers
While the stereotype of starving artists living off of ramen noodles and paint fumes isn’t always accurate – painter Damien Hirst’s net worth is reportedly several hundred thousand dollars, for example...
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Painter Tara Catalano: Bring on the Meditation
“New Age” can conjure lousy memories of a funky store ripe with too much incense, or a trippy movie scene. But, lest we forget, the so-called New Age did help popularize meditation, yoga and...
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Artist Chibuzor Isiogu Brings Focus Through Glass
She goes by the name “Glass Chi” professionally. These words – glass and Chi – combine specifically to represent both her and her art. Chibuzor Isiogu describes herself as glass-like: fragile, yet...
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Arizona artist Chad Little's “Dogs, Frogs and Flying Hogs” Exhibit Benefits...
Tell Arizona native artist Chad Little something can only happen “when pigs fly,” and he'll show you a pig flying – specifically, the winged oinker in his cleverly titled painting “The Swine Flew.” The...
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Q & A: Ingrid Donaldson, Metalsmith & Owner of Blink Gallery
Ingrid Donaldson is an artist, art teacher, gallery owner and advocate for local artists. The PHiX visited with her at her Scottsdale gallery Blink.
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Fused, Glued and Blended: Q&A with Multi-Media Artist Kelly Birg
The PHiX sat down with Kelly Birg at the venerable Sugar Bowl restaurant in Old Town Scottsdale.
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(State) Fair to Excellent: Art Show, Demos & Hands-On Projects
Step right up! The Arizona State Fair returns this week, along with its Fine Arts & Photography Competition & Exhibition. Come see, play and – why not? – buy a piece of wonderful and affordable...
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Art Affairs at the Arizona State Fair
Rielle Oase is assistant curator of the art exhibit at the Arizona State Fair. A student of the University of Arizona College of Fine Art, Oase never expected to get the gig. She applied to be a...
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Black Cat Vintage Opens First Pop-Up Shop in Downtown Phoenix
There's just something about vintage clothing. Fabric feels more luxurious; skirts seem fuller; waist lines appear impossibly small. It's all so elegant in comparison to today's cheaply made casual...
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