Don’t Miss Art Detour 23 on Grand Ave, March 19 & 20!

Join us for Art Detour 23 on Saturday, March 19 & Sunday, March 20! Art galleries and studios across downtown Phoenix will be open to the public, showcasing unique works of art and hosting special events all weekend. One of the stops you won’t want to miss is Grand Avenue! This historic boulevard is lined with some of the most colorful characters and funkiest art on the Art Detour circuit. From Paisley Town to the Bikini Lounge we have a whole weekend of art, music, and entertainment planned. Make sure to visit us on Grand Ave!

Download the official Grand Ave Art Detour 23 guide here!

1205
1205 W Pierce Street
Hosting an opening by photographers Joseph Jankovsky and Marilyn Szabo.
Hours: Third Friday 7-9, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5

Aviary
1020 W Grand Ave
Exhibiting Artists: Lara Plecas, Sergio Aguirre, Melanie Corradi and Grant Wiggins.
Hours: Third Friday 7-10, Saturday noon-5, Sunday noon-5
www.larakupcikevicius.blogspot.com

Barry Sparkman Studio
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
Working studio and gallery of artist Barry Sparkman featuring abstract paintings and prints.
Hours: Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.barrysparkman.com

Deus Ex Machina
La Melgosa Building,
1023 W Grand Ave
Featuring “Small Favors” a small works show by the artists of Deus Ex Machina. During Art Detour weekend the gallery will feature live music by Last Wave and the Bliss Kickers.
Hours: Third Friday 7-10, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.sites.google.com/site/improbableart

Gallery Marsiglia
1018 W Grand Ave
Gallery Marsiglia will host a fundraiser for “SEEDs for Autism,” a non-profit of career artists who volunteer to teach their skills to adults on the autism spectrum. This fundraiser will present functional art work such as jewelry, copper shelves, mosaic pots and planters, iron and wood shelves, copper art and more. Come meet the SEEDs student artists. Gallery showcases will exhibit unique sterling silver jewelry and one-of-a-kind gemstones. Jewelry making demonstrations both days will include lapidary, fused glass, chain making & more. Annelisa Leinbach will show her artwork, “From a Different Perspective.” Hats and hair accessories by Sage and Sage. Special guest musician David Matthews from Shreveport, LA will play Saturday and AJ will play on Sunday.
Hours: Saturday 10-5, Sunday noon-5
www.gallerymarsiglia.com

Gallery Serendipity
La Melgosa Building,
1023 W Grand Ave
Gallery Serendipity houses a collection of drawings, illustrations and paintings both contemporary and traditional in nature, and a variety of subject matter.
Hours: Saturday 9-6, Sunday 9-5

Kooky Krafts Shop
1500 W Grand Ave
“Queer, quirky, fun & fabulous” – this storefront in the heart of the historic Lower Grand Avenue arts & small business district, sells intriguing one-of-a-kind items made by local crafters and artists, with an emphasis on “extreme craftiness”.  The shop has the best selection of local “city folk art” in Arizona. New Times 2010 Best of Phoenix Winner for “Best Shopping on Grand Avenue”!
Hours: Third Friday 5-11, Saturday 10 am-11 pm, Sunday noon-5
Find us on Facebook
www.kookykrafts.etsy.com

Moderncat Studio
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
Open studio offering unique art and handmade gifts for cats and the people who love them. Guest artists: Daniel Shepherd, Ross T. Boyd, and Lee Berger.
Hours: Third Friday 5-8, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.moderncatstudio.com

Mutant Piñata Show
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
The Return of the Mutant Piñata Show! The 4th Annual Mutant Piñata Show will be viewable during the Art Detour weekend, and will run through the end of April. Fun, fantastic, and visually cacophonous work by local artists, crafters, kids, and the community at large will be hung from the rafters of the 20 foot vaulted ceiling at the historic Bragg’s Pie Factory. Free kids’ face painting all weekend!
Hours: Third Friday 6-11, Saturday 10 am -11 pm, Sunday noon-5
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Paisley Town
1030 W Grand Ave
Live jazz music by Sparkle on Saturday from noon to 1 pm followed by a special Paisley Town fashion show at 1 pm featuring fashions from Wicked Wear, Dragonfly, S.P. Villain, and Annie Boomer Vintage with hair by Paisley Town’s Be.Headed Salon. More live music from 3:30 to midnight on Saturday with Sever Ted, Noel, Former Friends, and Tremulants. Sunday live folk music with James Cowden inside from noon to 2 pm and Roosevelt Street Jazz outside on the patio from noon until 3 pm. Group print show curated by Eric Hodgins featuring etchings and photo printing.
Hours: Third Friday 6 am-midnight, Saturday 9 am to midnight, Sunday noon-5
www.thepaisley.com

Phoenix Fall Space
La Melgosa Building
1023 W Grand Ave
Gallery and studio of Denise L. Fleisch and Jimi Girdner featuring modern and abstract painting and sculpture.
Hours: Third Friday 6-11, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.phoenixfallspace.com

ShopDevious.com
1229 W Grand Ave
ShopDevious.com will be open from 10 am to 8 pm Saturday with the 9th installation of Fashion in Motion—Salsa Dance Inspired! Mannequin models in Salsa inspired fashions will be showcased in a rotating fashion show along Grand Avenue; held sporadically during the day, with a fashion set every hour. Surprise giveaways throughout the day both Saturday and Sunday!
Hours: Third Friday 11am-10pm, Saturday 10-8, Sunday 10-6
www.ShopDevious.com

Sticker Club Girl
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
Sticker Club Girl is a studio/boutique at Bragg’s Pie Factory. Here Lisa Jacobs creates and displays handmade, reconstructed, and vintage fashion, accessories, art, crafts, and supplies, along with community art night, arts and crafts workshops, and events.
Hours: Sunday noon-5
www.stickerclubgirl.com

Studio 8
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
Presenting Places and Impressions Photo Exhibit. From Italy to the Inner Basin, lion to landscape, Rick D’Elia will be sharing a combination of his old favorites and more recent impressions of environments, places and objects that inspire him. Rick is a Phoenix area photojournalist and commercial photographer who over his 21 professional years, has photographically documented events, people and places locally and internationally for magazines, newspapers, businesses and relief and development organizations. The work in this show results from moments on the margin of these endeavors as well as direct explorations for the sake of discovering an image. Also on display for Art Detour, modern wedding photography by Modern Wedding Scenes.
Hours: Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.studio8phx.com

The Angel Coop
802 N 10th Ave
A coop of women committed to healthy living. Showing developing artists. Sculpture by Eric Miller, painting by Erica Ledezma, film by Leah, drumming by Fernando + Drum Guru, and more! Saturday & Sunday 11am-12pm Y.E.A.H  Yoga (Yoga Elevates All Humanity), 12-2pm Healthy Snacks Gathering (kids welcome!), 2-3pm Paint Your Message Wood (kids welcome!), 3-4pm Improv Dance Jam.
Hours: Saturday 11-4, Sunday 11-4

The Chocolate Factory
1105 W Grand
The Chocolate Factory will open with “Secret Show 2” on Friday March 18th from 6-9pm. The main gallery will be housing sculpture and painting by Randy Slack, Colin Chillag and Hector Ruiz. The second gallery will be showing Jennifer Carolin’s video/installation “No One Belongs Here More Than YOU”, accompanied by the CONDER dance co., with live performances/ screenings between 7-8pm. The opening on March 18th will also mark the revealing of Dave Quan’s mural “Blue Goo” on the walls of the Factory.
Hours: Third Friday 6-9, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5

The Lodge Art Studio
1231 W Grand Ave
New works by mixed-medium artist Fausto G. Fernandez, sketch artist Joe Brklacich and painter Abbey Messmer.
Hours: Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
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SPECIAL EXHIBIT: The Trophy Room
David Quan & Ashley Pasquan
1504 W Grand Ave
Ugly is the new pretty. “Gimmie Head” was a small book project I did about 10 years ago where I drew a bunch of bodies in a sketchbook and had people draw heads on them. This show is nothing like that, it’s quite the opposite, it’s just a bunch of new paintings of all sorts of crazy heads without bodies. Beautiful, ugly and smelly heads of people you think you might know or wish you knew. There will be rare mini-comics and drawings available from and not from my non-award winning comic: Magical Moments. Also on display will be the dress designs of Ashley Pasquan. Always cute, always classy, a little flirty, a little sassy. Come check out what she has been working on, she’s been as busy as a little chipmunk in a nuthouse.
Hours: Third Friday 6-9, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.lusterkaboom.com
www.sewso.tumblr.com

The Trunk Space
1506 W Grand Ave
Trunk Space will be showing a special exhibit called “Dividers: An Eastside Records Tribute” featuring a hand selected collection of the CD and LP dividers from Eastside Records which closed in Tempe at the end of 2010. Stop by and enjoy our award winning espresso drinks, and snap some pics in our classic REAL FILM black & white photo booth! These events are FREE, up to 6 pm. At 8 pm, we will be hosting The Squidling Brothers Sideshow Circus, a death defying Stunt Show from Coney Island full of humor and amazing feats of the human body! $9 in advance, $12 day of.
Hours: Third Friday 6-9, Saturday noon-11
www.thetrunkspace.com

Tilt Gallery
919 W Filmore
Presenting “The Victorian Art Walk,” a collection from Jeremy Rowe. The exhibition presents cased images including Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes, tintypes, and albumen paper processes, from the cartes-de-visite and stereograph of the 1850s to the mounted cabinet and boudoir cards. Many of these images are unique and range from fine art prints to vernacular and found images, each with their own special magic.
Hours: Third Friday 6-9, Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.tiltgallery.com

Plus live music all along the street!

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And if you get hungry or thirsty, check out these awesome offerings:

Hey Joe Food Truck
Serving Filipino street food.
Third Friday 5pm-2am at The Bikini Lounge, 1502 W Grand
Sunday noon-5 in the Bragg’s Pie Factory parking lot at Grand and McKinley
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My Goodness Cakes
Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
Specialty cake bakery, serving gourmet cupcakes and coffee during Art Detour weekend.
Hours: Saturday 10-6, Sunday noon-5
www.mygoodnesscakes.com

Paisley Violin Café
1030 W Grand Ave
Eclectic European-style café and bistro serving a variety of culturally inspired delicacies and offering a full bar. Live music inside and outside on the patio (see Paisley Town listing for schedule).
Hours: Third Friday 6 am-midnight, Saturday 9 am to midnight, Sunday noon-5
www.thepaisley.com

The Bikini Lounge
1502 W Grand
Third Friday at 7 pm Tom Cooper the resident tiki maestro presents “Psychenesian Polydelica,” a collection of tiki under the influence;  DJ Shane Kennedy to spin early and the “Hey Joe” food truck for the famished. Saturday and Sunday Tom goes live, painting under the Bikini’s “marquee” with $1 PBR bottles and drink specials all weekend.
Hours: Third Friday 3-midnight, Saturday noon-midnight, Sunday noon-midnight
Find us on Facebook

Valley Pizza
1348 W Roosevelt
Serving specialty pizza, chicken wings, sandwiches, and more.
Hours: Friday 11-11, Saturday 11-11,
Sunday 11-6
www.valleypizzadowntown.com

Download the official Grand Ave Art Detour 23 guide here!

March First Friday on Grand Ave

Grand is the place to be on First Friday! Here’s what we have going on this month:

• Phoenix Fall Space will be open from 6- 10 pm with art work by Denise Fleisch and Jimi Girdner.1023 W Grand Ave
• The Trunk Space features new collage & drawings by Christian Michael Filardo. Also, Greg Ginn of Black Flag on tour with The Body at 8 pm. Performing live with Destruction Unit, Vladee Divacc, and Princess Eater. Presented by Select Concerts. $10 at the door.
• Lazy Lab Art Studio will be showcasing wonderful art work by Greg Robinson including photography, oil painting, and sculpture. Also have some great Jewelry items for sale. Hours 6:30 to 10:30. Paisley Town, 1030 W Grand Ave
• My Goodness Cakes will be open until 9pm with coffee, hot chocolate and tea and of course, cupcakes in red velvet, lemon, pumpkin spice and chocolate peanut butter. Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
• Moderncat Studio will be open form 6 to 9 pm selling handmade cat toys and gifts for cat lovers. Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
• Deus Ex Machina presents Small Favors, featuring works by Michele Bledsoe, Richard Bledsoe, Jeff Falk, Steve Gompf and Annie Lopez. 1023 W Grand Ave
• The 4th Annual Mutant Pinata Show opens at Bragg’s Pie Factory with a live mutant pinata performance at 9pm. Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
• Kooky Krafts Shop open 5 to 10 pm selling incredible handmade creations. 1500 W Grand Ave
• Studio 8 will be open from 6:30-10:30 pm with a new photography exhibit, Bragg’s Pie Factory, 1301 W Grand Ave
• Gallery Marsiglia open from 6 to 10 pm featuring artwork created by the SEEDs for Autism program participants. 1018 W Grand Ave

March Events at The Trunk Space

Thurs. March 3rd: On tour from Norway, SILJE NES, gauzy mysterious singer-songwriter tunes. With Courier New, Talisha & the Golden Touch, & Naked For Now.
>more info
$6–Our S X S W KICKOFF SHOW!

Fri. March 4th, 6-8pm: First Friday. New collage & drawings by Christian Michael Filardo.
FREE

* * Fri. March 4th, 8pm: GREG GINN (Black Flag) on tour w/ The Body from (RI). Noise Art from one of the fathers of American Punk Music. Expect epic experimentalism! w/ Destruction Unit, Vladee Divacc, and Princess Eater.
Presented by SELECT Concerts. $10 at the door.

Sat. March 5th, 7pm: Start 2011 the improv way! Unscripted Longform theater by GALAPAGOS! 7-8 The All City Bingo Jam! Anyone can join the fun! The at 8 watch The Neighborhood where celebrity guest storytellers keep the ball rolling with true life anecdotes. $5

Sat. March 5th, 9pm: THE MINI BOSSES! w/ VinFiz and Sweetbleeders! Mini Bosses are one of the most fun live bands in PHX. Funds from this show are being generously donated by the band so we can upgrade our PA Gear. Yaaaa, thanks guys! VInFiz are one of the original SHiZZ bands, and (I think) this is their first TS show)! Cap it off w/ the sweet sweet sounds of Sweetbleeders, and you’ve got a night in heaven!
www.minibosses.com
$5

* * *Mon. March 7th: on tour JAPANTHER! High energy spazzpunk! w/ AZ legend I Hate You When You’re Pregnant (Flag)! and Tempe’s Vegetable! www.japanther.com
$8

Tues. March 8th: Tempe’s THE TEEETS tour kickoff! Watch out SanFran!  w/ The Pods & Dionysians!
last.fm/music/The+Teeets

* * * Wed. March 9th : Musical Ingenues on the road, ZOE BOEKBINDER & DAKOTA BELL. w/ Hello the Mind Control and Of The Earth!  www.zoeboekbinder.com
$6–One of our all time favs!

Thurs. March 10th: from OR, EAST CACKALACKY ASCETIC MARCHING DEATH BAND–Peppy 2 person twee folk! w/ Phoenix’s Happy Dirt (Ambur Gore & friends), Wiggle Puppy (folky hiphop)!
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Fri. March 11th: HOSSANAS, laid back psyk from OR. Locals TBD.
Presented by SELECT Concerts. $8
hosannas.bandcamp.com

Sat. March 12th: friends from far away: iji on tour w/ JAMES RABBIT + Flagstaff’s FEEL FREE! w/ locals French Quarter and Hello the Mind Control.  This will be a night of goodness, kicked off w/ a bazooka shot from Flag-friends!
www.dogvibrations.com
www.jamesrabbit.com
facebook.com/FeelFreeFlagstaff

Sun. March 13th: Stateside Presents STRFKR, indie-electro from OR on tour w/ UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA, BRAHMS, and local St. Ranger.
$10 adv, $12 day of

Deus Ex Machina Presents Small Favors

Size should not matter in the arts-bigger is not necessarily better. Small works are intimate, thoughtful, personable. The perfect type of art to enrich and accent on the human scale.

In March, and for Art Detour 23, Deus Ex Machina features small works by the core artists:

Michele Bledsoe
Richard Bledsoe
Jeff Falk
Steve Gompf
Annie Lopez

Opening Reception:
Friday, March 4, 2011
6PM to 10PM

Third Friday – March 18
7PM to 10PM

Art Detour 23
Saturday March 19 10am-6pm
Sunday March 20 12pm-5pm
Featuring Live Music:
Last Wave
Bliss Kickers

Deus Ex Machina
1023 NW Grand Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85007
website

Aviary

Studio of painters Lara Plecas and Sergio Aguirre. Open by appointment.

Aviary
1020 W Grand Ave
Phoenix, AZ

Bragg’s Pie Factory Hosts 4th Annual Mutant Pinata Show

Bragg’s Pie Factory will host the 4th Annual Mutant Pinata Show in the spectacular 4,800 sq. ft. vaulted space in this historic, cast-in-place concrete warehouse. A live “mutant pinata” performance will take place at 9 pm on March 4th during the popular First Friday artwalk.

Pinatas have been created by local artists, children, school groups, the YMCA, boys and girls clubs, and community members at large. Over 70 pinatas will be on view during the First and Third Friday events in March and April (from 6 – 11 pm), as well as during the Art Detour weekend (Bragg’s hours are Saturday March 19th from 10 am to 10 pm; Sunday March 20th from Noon to 5:30 pm).

Bragg’s Pie Factory
1301 W Grand Ave

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First Annual Phoestivus Market, Dec 15

The Grand Avenue Merchants’ Association is pleased to be a co-sponsor of the First Annual Phoestivus Market being held on Wednesday, December 15th, 2010. The event will take place at the Downtown Public Market from 5:30 to 8:30 pm, highlighting locally-owned businesses selling organic and locally produced food and wares. There will be unique gifts for everyone on your list, plus food, drinks, and entertainment throughout the evening.

The Phoestivus Market is being coordinated by Get Your PHX and co-sponsored by CenPho.com, CO+HOOTS, Downtown Phoenix Partnership, Grand Avenue Merchant’s Association, Local First AZ, Phoenix Community Alliance, Phoenix Public Market, and Roosevelt Row.

>More info about the Phoesitivus Market on Facebook

First Ever Phoenix Holiday Craft Rave at Bragg’s Pie Factory, Saturday, Dec 4

What:
On Saturday December 4th, 2010 from 2 p.m. to 12 a.m. Phoenix will experience a first, a craft rave. What’s a craft rave? 10 hours of non-stop hands-on making action under one crafting roof! This isn’t another holiday craft sale – but a gathering space where artists will teach mini make-and-go projects and/or techniques to attendees. Instead of shopping for gifts, guests will receive the tools and instruction to make their gifts.

Attendees will enter the doors of Braggs Pie Factory and preview the artists stations to determine which projects they would like to create. For a fee ranging from $5-$15, guests can choose to learn crafts and techniques such as flower tiaras by The Phoenix Fridas, shrinemaking, fashion graffiti, needle felting, screen printing, tee-shirt yarn flowers and others. Guests will then make their way to the payment station to purchase the projects, stopping by the treats station or grabbing a coffee before heading out to get making! There will also be free crafting stations and empty tables where guest can bring their own projects they need to complete before the holiday.

In between making their masterpieces, guests can enjoy coffee, sweets and energy drinks. Instructors will also have their artwork for sale.

We will also have a donation drop off area to collect new art supplies to be donated to women and family shelters.

Who:
This event is hosted by professional crafters, Kathy Cano-Murillo, The Crafty Chica, and Cyndi Coon, of Laboratory 5 and Lovely Lula. Michael’s Craft store will provide goody bags to the first 100 attendees. In addition, Provo Craft and iLoveToCreate will provide give-a-ways. Late into the evening there will be a live video-cast through 2Cool Crafts.

When:
Event Hours: Saturday December 4, 2010, 2 p.m. to 12 a.m.

Where:
Braggs Pie Factory
1301 W Grand Avenue Phoenix, AZ, 85007

Cost:
$5 at the door and $5 to $15 per project

Holiday Discounts at ShopDevious.com

Throughout the month of December, ShopDevious.com is offering buy one get one half off on the entire boutique. Discount taken on equal or lesser valued item.

ShopDevious.com Beauty Lounge & Boutique
1229 NW Grand Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Hours: T-W 11 – 3pm & Th-F 11 – 7pm & Sat 11 – 3pm

www.ShopDevious.com

PRESENT-TENSE Exhibit at Deus Ex Machina

PRESENT-TENSE

Present: 1.adj. being here now. 2. v.t. gift. 3. to put on a show.
Tense: 1. adj. stretched tight. 2. nervous and anxious. 3. warlike state.

The words “present tense” together are a literary term meaning the events in your narrative plot are occurring now. We narrate our own story choosing how we share our experiences with an audience.

In December Deus Ex Machina features the work of artist and writer Annie Lopez. Says Annie, “We use our viewpoint but reveal or withhold information to control the way our character develops in the eyes of others. We observe and report, selecting our words carefully.

” I know what I create is a reflection of my everyday (and not-so-everyday) adventures. I am present, but I am also tense.”

Also exhibiting are gallery members Michele Bledsoe, Richard Bledsoe, Jeff Falk, and Steve Gompf.

Opening Reception:
Friday, December 3, 2010
6PM to 10PM

Saturday After – December 4
12PM to 4PM

Third Friday – December 17
7PM to 10PM

image: “Amazing Similarities” by Annie Lopez – Mixed Media

Deus Ex Machina
1023 NW Grand Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85007
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