visual arts
Posted May 2, 2022, 10:30 am
Victoria Prieskop
/Courthouse News
After two years of virtual events, the Gathering of Nations - the world’s largest pow wow - returned in Albuquerque as people from 560 Native American tribes and more than 200 Indigenous tribes from Canada attended to celebrate traditional culture.... Read more»
Posted Mar 28, 2022, 4:56 am
Troy Hill
/Cronkite News
La industria cinematográfica de Arizona se mantuvo a sí misma a través de incentivos fiscales hasta 2010, cuando la Legislatura puso fin al programa, y ahora, después de años de abandono, el estado se ha convertido nuevamente en terreno fértil para las producciones independientes.... Read more»
Posted Mar 24, 2022, 5:33 am
Troy Hill
/Cronkite News
El Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace ha regresado a su hogar justo al sur de Gold Canyon después de una pausa causada por la pandemia de COVID-19. Con él vienen los elementos básicos del festival: juegos divertidos, grandes multitudes y novedades anacrónicas.... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2022, 5:59 am
Troy Hill
/Cronkite News
The Arizona Renaissance Festival & Artisan Marketplace has returned to its home just south of Gold Canyon after a hiatus caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. With it comes the long-running festival’s staples: fun games, big crowds and anachronistic novelties. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 10, 2022, 5:00 am
Samantha Chow
/Cronkite News
Over the past 30 years, about 200 “Holocaust survivors, liberators and righteous gentiles” have sat in the chair of Werner Salinger - himself a survivor of Nazi atrocities - to have their faces preserved as a “life mask" in his art studio east of Old Town Scottsdale.... Read more»
Posted Feb 22, 2022, 6:32 am
Hope O’Brien
/Cronkite News
La Shining Light Foundation encargó 28 murales, que representan los días del Mes de la Historia Negra, como parte del Proyecto de Murales de la Historia Negra para educar y empoderar a los arizonenses.... Read more»
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Posted Feb 21, 2022, 12:11 pm
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The Yume Japenese Gardens is starting their spring events soon and have opened more of its spaces to the public. Founder Patricia Derrider said that she's excited but expects financial support to be "more difficult" to come by since the start of the pandemic. ... Read more»
Posted Feb 8, 2022, 6:55 am
Hope O’Brien
/Cronkite News
The Shining Light Foundation commissioned 28 murals representing the days of Black History Month for the Black History Mural Project, started last year to educate and empower Arizonans - each mural features prominent or impactful Black figures with a unique theme.... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 12:19 pm
TucsonSentinel.com
A new fulltime reporter will be covering Cultural Expression and Community Values in Southern Arizona this year, with support from TucsonSentinel.com's readers and the national Report for America program.... Read more»
Posted Jan 3, 2022, 11:48 am
Ella Ho Ching
/Cronkite News
Cahokia, a modern Phoenix Indigenous art and social space owned by women, is a hub for Indigenous and marginalized creatives and entrepreneurs to host events, sell products, showcase and sell their artwork and collaborate on various projects.... Read more»
Posted Dec 31, 2021, 10:54 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
The city of Tucson is considering a film-set safety ordinance after the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins by actor Alec Baldwin in late October on the Santa Fe, N.M., set of the Western movie “Rust.” ... Read more»
Posted Dec 29, 2021, 9:19 am
Bennito L. Kelty
/TucsonSentinel.com
After finishing a mural on a curved wall along North Stone Avenue in 2001, Pasqualina Azzarello was asked to come back to Tucson two decades later to restore what has become a cornerstone for the neighborhood association that was created alongside it.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 23, 2021, 11:18 am
Maura Ives
/Texas A&M University/The Conversation
The writers who created Mrs. Claus were not just interested in filling in the blanks of Santa’s personal life - the poems and stories about Mrs. Claus spoke to women’s central role in the Christmas holiday and also provided a canvas to explore contemporary debates about gender.... Read more»
Posted Dec 19, 2021, 7:40 pm
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
Give to real local journalism that matters — your donation TRIPLED (or more) before Dec. 31! Support the nonprofit independent watchdog reporters of TucsonSentinel.com.... Read more»
Posted Dec 19, 2021, 4:21 pm
Gary Nabhan
/Special to TucsonSentinel.com
No one can fill "Big Jim" Griffith's shoes, for he — more than any other Tucsonan — triggered enormous and lasting community pride in our "folk" traditions of music, food, santos, architecture, and border culture. — Gary Nabhan... Read more»
Posted Dec 8, 2021, 8:05 am
Dylan Smith
/TucsonSentinel.com
A new fulltime reporter will be covering Cultural Expression and Community Values in Southern Arizona next year, with support from TucsonSentinel.com's readers and the national Report for America program.... Read more»