Local Artists Archives - Phoenix Art Museum https://phxart.org/community_category/local-artists/ Art, Culture, Film in Downtown Phoenix, AZ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:50:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://phxart.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/PAM-Favicon.png Local Artists Archives - Phoenix Art Museum https://phxart.org/community_category/local-artists/ 32 32 Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence https://phxart.org/community/safety-blankets/ Tue, 02 Jan 2024 21:50:54 +0000 https://phxart.org/?post_type=community&p=28067 Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence aims to disrupt misconceptions, spark connections and discourse, and challenge the meaning of neurodivergence. The installation, presented in PhxArt’s administration building, showcases quilt and textile works by 15 artists from Arizona and across the U.S. who depict their lives and experiences as neurodivergent people. Works include 10 intentional universal design

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]]> Safety Blankets: Discourse on Neurodivergence aims to disrupt misconceptions, spark connections and discourse, and challenge the meaning of neurodivergence. The installation, presented in PhxArt’s administration building, showcases quilt and textile works by 15 artists from Arizona and across the U.S. who depict their lives and experiences as neurodivergent people. Works include 10 intentional universal design elements for neurodivergent and disabled people, and their fabrics evoke an expanded understanding of encounters artists may have and what occurs within their minds and bodies.  

Safety Blankets is organized by Charissa Lucille, an artist and arts administrator based in Phoenix who works with quilting, self-publishes zines, and explores genetics, access needs, and communication styles related to their neurodivergence through their personal practice. It is made possible in part by the City of Phoenix’s New Artist to Work Grant. 

The installation is accompanied by an audio component, available via in-gallery QR codes. To learn more about the project and its forthcoming catalogue (May 2024), visit charissalucille.com and follow @safetyblankets on Instagram. 

Featured Artists

Sheena Cly Wahid
Yolie Contreras
Alice Costas
Phoenix Alvarado
Alistair Malone
Layla Nieves
Ari Rendon
Caroline Wilson
Aaron Davis
Michelle Dawn
Chris Leon Armarillas
Maira McDermott
Janelle Novotny
vivid schisms
Charissa Lucille

Alica Costas, Feel, Felt, Found, 2023. Collaborative Quilt. Student contributors: Phoenix Alvarado, Alistair Malone, Layla Nieves, Ari Rendon, Caroline Wilson. Photo Credit: Alica Costa.

Michelle Dawn (They/She), Concurrence, 2023. Textile quadriptych. Photo Credit: Michelle Dawn.
Image credits: (Header) Sheena Wahid (She/Her), Untitled, 2019. Woven rug. Photo Credit: Sheena Wahid; Alica Costas, Feel, Felt, Found, 2023. Collaborative Quilt. Student contributors: Phoenix Alvarado, Alistair Malone, Layla Nieves, Ari Rendon, Caroline Wilson. Photo Credit: Alica Costa; Michelle Dawn (They/She), Concurrence, 2023. Textile quadriptych. Photo Credit: Michelle Dawn.

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]]> Reflecting the Landscape: A Discount Tire Free Family Weekend Collaboration with Laura Spalding Best https://phxart.org/community/reflecting-the-landscape-a-discount-tire-free-family-weekend-collaboration-with-laura-spalding-best/ Mon, 18 Jun 2018 19:48:33 +0000 https://phxart.wpengine.com/?post_type=community&p=16092 June 18 – August 1, 2018 Discount Tire Free Family Weekend participants explored angles in relation to the landscape with Phoenix-based artist Laura Spalding Best. Currently on view in the 2017 Contemporary Forum Artists’ Grants Recipients exhibition, Best’s paintings on found objects depict mirages on the horizon of desert highways in the southwest. These phenomena of

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Discount Tire Free Family Weekend participants explored angles in relation to the landscape with Phoenix-based artist Laura Spalding Best. Currently on view in the 2017 Contemporary Forum Artists’ Grants Recipients exhibition, Best’s paintings on found objects depict mirages on the horizon of desert highways in the southwest. These phenomena of light and temperature appear as reflections that resemble water on the road surface. Free Family Weekend participants created their own reflections of objects found throughout the local urban landscape, which Best combined to create the murals on view in this gallery.

Reflecting the Landscape is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. The installation will be on view through August 1 in the Wolfswinkel Education Center Children’s Gallery. It is made possible through the generosity of Discount Tire.

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]]> Standard Size: A Discount Tire Free Family Weekend Collaboration with Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson https://phxart.org/community/standard-size-a-discount-tire-free-family-weekend-collaboration-with-roy-wasson-valle-and-koryn-woodward-wasson/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:55:35 +0000 https://phxart.wpengine.com/?post_type=community&p=16097 January 22 – February 26, 2018 Discount Tire Free Family Weekend participants investigated the concept of scale with Phoenix-based artists Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson. Known for creating immersive, learning spaces using a variety of media, the artists drew inspiration from Phoenix Art Museum’s Thorne Miniature Rooms. Intrigued by the rooms’ rich history,

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Discount Tire Free Family Weekend participants investigated the concept of scale with Phoenix-based artists Roy Wasson Valle and Koryn Woodward Wasson. Known for creating immersive, learning spaces using a variety of media, the artists drew inspiration from Phoenix Art Museum’s Thorne Miniature Rooms. Intrigued by the rooms’ rich history, meticulous detail, and exacting scale of 12:1, Wasson and Woodward’s mural depicts objects with the opposite scale of 1:12. Incorporated throughout the installation are photographs of miniature rooms constructed by Free Family Weekend participants. Using repurposed materials, their newly practiced measurement skills and creative problem solving are on full display.

Standard Size is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. The installation will be on view through February 26 in the Wolfswinkel Education Center Children’s Gallery. It is made possible through the generosity of donors to the Museum’s annual fund.

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