Outsourced
Susan Allred wraps emotionally significant objects in delicate, vibrant cocoons.
The community project became a thoughtful meditation on memory, loss, and what we might be holding onto—or letting go of.
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Dispatches
Field notes, exhibition reflections, interviews, and photo essays from the people and places shaping art across the Valley.
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What stayed with us.
Earlier Dispatches
Grand Avenue Is Alive
Four First Friday stops brought big openings, fresh perspectives, and a little bit of something for everyone.
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The Art Is the Invitation
One last look at Summer Groove, an exhibition filled with lightness, playfulness, and childlike wonder.
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Why Arizona Artists Shouldn’t Sleep on the Public Gallery
Open Spaces stitched together the timeless beauty of nature and the unease of watching it change.
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Valiance, Defeat, Nobility and Even Death
Heather Weller’s Fable places suffering center stage through theatrical oil paintings where animals stand in for the human condition.
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Close Encounters at de Sarthe Gallery
David Moquay’s immersive Beyond Sight: Cosmos & LIDAR expands the possibilities of human sight.
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Pennies, Plates and Shoes, Oh My!
Heidi Dauphin and Laura Spaulding Best welcome us into a wonderfully odd world filled with whozits, whatisits and the beauty of the mundane.
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Let’s Talk About Dicks
Christian McDonald’s solo exhibition at Dialog became a funny, vulnerable study of the desire to be seen and understood.
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Dreaming of Quantum Gateways
Tender Alchemy brought the distinct practices of Beth Ames Swartz and Julianne Swartz into a masterful mother-daughter collaboration at SMoCA.
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