Category: phoenix arts
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You who are getting obliterated in the dancing swarm of fireflies
I’ve been attending the Americans for the Arts’s Emerging Leader Council’s winter meeting in Phoenix for the past few days, convening in the amazing Phoenix Art Museum. Today we got a guided tour of the modern and contemporary art exhibits, with some background and explanation of several pieces. My favorite is “You who are getting […]
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showup.com
One of the best things about living in Phoenix is showup.com. It’s a huge archive/calendar/list of arts events going on around town. At my reading on Friday (more later), someone came up to me and told me they saw an upcoming reading of mine there: Hey! That’s so cool. It’s a great tool to use […]
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Envy
I went to a little event at Phoenix’s Shemer Art Center last night. Five artists, working in a variety of media, discussed ideas of “revision” in their work—revised practices, revised forms, revised meanings, etc. I went because my friend and collaborator Kris Sanford was among the speakers. I’ve written about her work here before, so […]
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Spread the Word: Phoenix is Hot (But You Already Knew That)
I’m pointing out interesting factoids to you in bold. Phoenix arts economy is flourishingKyle LawsonThe Arizona RepublicJun. 6, 2007 People may not realize it, but Phoenix maintains a thriving growth industry: the arts. A national survey released today states that the city’s non-profit cultural institutions and their audiences contributed $361 million to the Valley’s economy […]
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Love, Janis
Last night I saw Arizona Theatre Company’s production of Love, Janis at the Herberger Theatre. The show dramatizes the last three-four years of Janis Joplin’s life, her meteoric rise to fame, and her untimely death at 27. It was an interesting show. The narrative switches back and forth between monologues of Janis’s letters to her […]
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Bearing Still
Last night I went to the opening reception for photographer Tracy Longley-Cook’s show “Bearing Still.” Tracy graciously provided me with the cover image for Living Things, her photo “Cedar Waxwing.” We first met several years ago when we worked on ASU’s Visual Text Project, a collaboration between ASU’s MFA programs in visual arts and creative […]
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