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
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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
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All Things Visible: Author Lydia Millet on the Sonoran Desert, Strange Morphologies, and Small Acts of Courage
Tucson-based author Lydia Millet reflects on themes of climate change, place, and privilege in her new book Dinosaurs.
March 03, 2023
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Bryan David Griffith
Bryan David Griffith explores environmental and climate issues through creative intersections of photography and found natural elements.
March 03, 2023
ReviewArizonaVol. 7 Finding Water in the West
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum, Phoenix
Substance of Stars at the Heard Museum in Phoenix elevates the sky knowledge and origin stories of four Indigenous peoples.
March 03, 2023
Art Detour in Phoenix, Now a Month-Long, Takes a Left Turn
Art Detour, the thirty-four-year-old annual studio tour, has shifted course to match Phoenix’s shrinking arts enclave.
February 28, 2023
Work in Progress with Jacob Meders
Jacob Meders (Mechoopda/Maidu) works in his Phoenix studio to counter historical and contemporary stereotypes of Native Americans through printmaking that addresses issues related to culture, identity, and place.
February 24, 2023
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas at ASU Art Museum
Lucha Libre: Beyond the Arenas is a compelling mix of art and artifacts that elevate themes of identity, power, resistance, and performance.
January 31, 2023
A Brief History of Sonoran Modern, Illuminated by Tucson Modernism Week
Sonoran Modern shaped Southern Arizona architecture nearly eighty years ago. Tucson Modernism Week makes a dedicated effort to highlight the region’s distinctive mid-century modern style.
January 30, 2023
Work in Progress with Patricia Sannit
Patricia Sannit, in this deeply personal visit to her Phoenix studio, reflects on the ways loss, vulnerable ecologies, and recent residencies in Iceland and Sweden are shifting her practice.
January 24, 2023
When, Where, and How Did Phoenix’s Downtown Art Scene Commence? Four Local Artists Remember.
Janet de Berge Lange, Jeff Falk, James B. Hunt, and Annie Lopez—in roundtable style—dish on downtown Phoenix’s art scene pre-America West Arena and prior to First Friday.
January 20, 2023
Riding Off into the Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson
Sunsets at Everybody in Tucson is a group exhibition of 16mm video, silver-gelatin prints, and sculptural fabrications that share formally austere and technically complex approaches to composition.
January 16, 2023
Arizona Commission on the Arts Currently Fails to Represent the Whole State
Arizona Commission on the Arts' new director says its governing board lacks geographic diversity, which goes against Arizona statute. It’s not the only violation of state law involving the agency.
January 09, 2023
Local Tucson Gift Guide 2022
Whether giving or receiving gifts is your love language, you’ll never run out of original Tucson gift options for friends and family this holiday season.
November 29, 2022
Artists Speak About the Impacts of Rampant Development in Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row
Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row arts district is different (read: more corporate) these days. How are all of the speedy commercial and residential developments impacting local artists?
November 22, 2022
Downtown Phoenix Art Existed Before Roosevelt Row. Just Ask Pete Petrisko.
Pete Petrisko has spent decades participating in and documenting the downtown Phoenix arts scene, which has morphed from the grit of Metropophobobia and Gallery X to a place for brewpub-hopping.
November 15, 2022
In Our Time: SMoCA Shows Works by Contemporary Black Artists From the Singer Collection
On view in In Our Time, Arizona-based collectors Iris and Adam Singer have been collecting contemporary art by Black artists for almost two decades.
November 07, 2022
Stephen Marc Explores the American Psyche Amid Midterm Elections
As midterm elections loom, Stephen Marc, an Arizona-based photographer and Guggenheim fellow, explores what protests reveal about the American psyche in An American Journey Continues.
November 04, 2022
Anne L’Ecuyer Abruptly Fired from Arizona’s State Arts Agency
Arizona Commission on the Arts, which secured the state’s largest allocation of arts funding this past summer, dismisses executive director Anne L’Ecuyer less than a year into her term.
November 02, 2022
Pete Petrisko: 35 Years Onward at Lost Leaf Counterpunches at In-Flux Phoenix
Pete Petrisko, one of the few remaining old heads in the local art scene who has lived in downtown Phoenix since the 1980s, exhibits selections from the past thirty-five years.
October 28, 2022
Work in Progress with Monica Aissa Martinez
Monica Aissa Martinez talks about her drawings of human figures, animals, and viruses during a studio visit in Phoenix, where she shares past inspirations and future projects.
October 24, 2022
