Antoinette Cauley: I Do It for The Hood, Pt. 2 at Modified Arts
Antoinette Cauley creates expressive portraiture to bridge hyperlocal and global concerns in I Do It For The Hood, Pt. 2 in Phoenix.
January 16, 2024
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How Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn Unintentionally Founded the Grand Avenue Arts District
Artists and preservationists Beatrice Moore and Tony Zahn recall how they established Phoenix’s Grand Avenue arts district despite wanting to do the opposite.
January 12, 2024
Appropriation in the Arts Series Dissects Thievery of Indigenous Art and Culture
The Appropriation in the Arts series of panel discussions at the Museum of Northern Arizona and Sedona Arts Center tackles topics ranging from mass-produced costume Navajo jewelry to spiritual colonialism.
December 08, 2023
Lloyd Kiva New Documentary Highlights the Late Designer’s Influence on Indigenous Fashion and Southwest Culture
The story of artist, fashion designer, and Institute of American Indian Arts co-founder Lloyd Kiva New is brought to life in a new documentary by Indigenous filmmaker Nathaniel Fuentes.
December 04, 2023
Crafting Resistance Slays the Binaries Separating Art and Craft
Curated by Erin Joyce, the small-scale exhibition at ASU Art Museum posits big questions about art and craft, resistance and identity.
November 17, 2023
Amy Ernst, Granddaughter of Max Ernst, Extends Family Art Legacy with Surrealist Collage
Amy Ernst, who "tried to run away" from her art-making family legacy, which includes Philipp, Max, and Jimmy Ernst, showcases abstract surrealist collages at Sedona City Hall.
September 29, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
alejandro t. acierto
Phoenix-based artist alejandro t. acierto's work explores the nodes of digital culture, neoimperialism, genealogies of image-making practices, and the de- and re-contextualization of Indigenous cultural artifacts.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Safwat Saleem
Born in Pakistan and residing in Phoenix, Safwat Saleem’s multidisciplinary art explores the experience of being an immigrant father with equal measures of joy, sorrow, and resistance.
September 01, 2023
Studio VisitArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Estrella Esquilín: Terraforming Identity in the Sonoran Desert
Phoenix-based artist Estrella Esquilín talks about her evolving studio practice, in which community is as important as the construction materials and experimental animation she uses to address identity and place.
September 01, 2023
PhotographyArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Claire A. Warden: Finding Photography’s Edge
Phoenix-based artist Claire A. Warden experiments with camera-less processes to push against the boundaries of photography and identity.
September 01, 2023
ArtistsArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Lizz Denneau
Tucson-based artist Lizz Denneau’s sumptuous and extravagant creations force us to reckon with their simultaneous beauty and horror.
September 01, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 8 Medium + Support
Reynier Leyva Novo: The Flowers of My Exile
The Flowers of My Exile at Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix explores conceptual art by Cuban dissident Reynier Leyva Novo, now an artist in exile in Houston, Texas.
September 01, 2023
Artists Allege Censorship After Exhibitions Postponed at Mesa Contemporary Arts
The City of Mesa brusquely postponed every exhibition on the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s fall 2023 calendar. A major free speech organization, a civil rights group, and artists allege censorship.
August 14, 2023
How a Phoenix Mural Project Could Bring Local Latino History to Life
The La Flor Del Pueblo mural project in Phoenix will transform an Arizona Public Service utility substation into a canvas for telling diverse stories of the Grant Park neighborhood.
August 11, 2023
Work in Progress with lydia see
Lydia see, a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and educator, works with diverse materials in her Tucson studio to explore social justice, foster civic engagement, and broaden access to the arts.
August 09, 2023
Hazel Larsen Archer: Out of the Shadows and Into the Light
Hazel Larsen Archer was a luminary yet underrecognized photographer and educator who inspired countless others, celebrated now at the Center for Creative Photography along with her student, Linda McCartney.
August 01, 2023
Designed to Move at Museum of Northern Arizona Elucidates Complete Worlds in the Microscopic
In Designed to Move, the microscopic is magnified in Taylor James’s photographs of Colorado Plateau seedpods, revealing a design intelligence humans can only hope to approximate.
July 06, 2023
Arizona Received Another $5 Million for the Arts. How Will it Get Spent? And When?
Leadership changes at the Arizona Commission on the Arts could impact how the state agency spends the $5 million allocated for arts and culture in Arizona’s 2024 budget.
June 19, 2023
People from MARS: The History of Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, a Phoenix-Based Chicano Artist Collective
Movimiento Artistico del Rio Salado, or MARS, a Phoenix-based artist collective, became an inclusive home for Chicano and Indigenous artists starting in the 1970s.
June 09, 2023
Arizona Biennial 2023 Artists Make Their Mark Beyond the Southwest
Arizona Biennial 2023, a six-month showcase at the Tucson Museum of Art, includes sixty-seven works by fifty-six artists selected by curator Taína Caragol.
June 05, 2023
Arizona Artists Take Umbrage at a Proposed Development in Phoenix’s Already Gentrified Roosevelt Row
Chicago-based tequila and taco restaurant Federales wants to set up shop in downtown Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. Artists and arts leaders aren’t having it.
May 30, 2023
Language in Times of Miscommunication at SMoCA Issues a Call That Asks for a Response
Language in Times of Miscommunication presents work by eighteen artists illuminating the mercurial interplay between opinion, fact, and fiction.
May 24, 2023
“I Really Like the Way You Respect Native American Rights”: The Native Guide Project by Anna Tsouhlarakis
The Native Guide Project by Colorado-based artist Anna Tsouhlarakis (Navajo, Creek, Greek) comprises twenty-three phrases on billboard vinyl and Instagram posts that counter stereotypes of Native people and Native art.
May 10, 2023
Making Visible at ASU Art Museum Addresses Archival Silences
Making Visible at the ASU Art Museum upends white narratives of the colonized West with contemporary ruptures.
April 17, 2023
Cecilia Vicuña’s Community-Centric Tucson Sculpture Riffs On Ancient Andean Tech
Cecilia Vicuña created the site-specific installation Sonoran Quipu at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson with materials shared by community members and through a deeply collaborative process.
April 12, 2023
So You Want Your City to Spend More on the Arts—Now What?
Ever wish your city had more arts funding? Learn how artists and arts allies in Phoenix are working to make it happen through the city’s budget process.
April 10, 2023
The Black Experience is Showcased in Vision and Sound in Sedona
Vision and Sound brings work by African American artists in Arizona to the overwhelmingly white town of Sedona.
March 24, 2023
USPS Set to Dedicate Postage Stamp by Arizona-based Native American Artist and Skater
A new Art of the Skateboard USPS stamp series that includes work by Di’Orr Greenwood (Diné) will be dedicated this weekend as part of the 2023 Cowtown Phoenix AM skateboarding competition.
March 21, 2023
Oak Street Alley Mural Festival Celebrates Art and Community in Phoenix
The Oak Street Alley Mural Festival in Phoenix’s Coronado neighborhood gives community members a chance to meet and talk with local artists whose live painting reflects diverse styles and themes.
March 14, 2023
ArizonaArtistsVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Yvette Serrano
Yvette Serrano's multimedia practice is informed by her deeply rooted understanding of water as a precious resource in the American Southwest.
March 03, 2023
