Saturday, March 17, 2012
Exotic Finale | Spring Ball
Annual vernal celebration, global multi-cultural dance rhythms beats, and performances celebrating spring’s fecundity.
“Exotic” Origins: Rudy Turk, ASU Art Museum curator emeritus and Alwun House Board Member, suggested that as a fundraiser we showcase working artists most personal, edgy, beyond-the-ordinary pieces for an “Exotic Art Show”; he added with a twinkle in his eye, everyone will read “EROTIC!” Rudy’s inspiration has grown into our “Nutcracker of a fundraiser.” Proceeds benefit Alwun House Foundations non-profit arts activities transforming our community.
March 16, 17, 18
Art Detour
Downtown’s free self-guided tour of Downtown art galleries and studios. Sat –Sun Daytime: Intro friends to birthplace of today’s burgeoning arts scene. Tour House and Gardens, inside viewing mature Exotic Art Show, refreshments and light entertainment. Sunday meet the artists.
Friday, March 23 – 30
Salon des Enfants
Phoenix Elementary School District #1 Art Teachers band together to create this juried exhibit of their students best work.
There will be approximately 300 pieces made by students in the 5th through 8th grades, representing 16 Schools, and 18 teachers. All art works sell for $20 with 100% going to student artist. Support the importance of arts in our schools.
March 23rd, 3-6pm. Opening Performances:
band, chorus, and folkloric dance groups. The public is invited to stop by after work, and enjoy this “feel good” show, and make the day of your child within. Popular naive art sells right off the wall, quickly replaced with more. Punch and Cookies served.
April 6 – May 4
Downtown explodes with Steampunk, displaying a whimsical juxtaposition of time and place. This aesthetic has been adapted by all the arts; literature, film, dance music, contemporary arts, design and fashion – all are an amalgamation of Victorian aesthetic principals with modern sensibilities and technologies. Our artists have modded into pseudo-Victorian mechanical “steampunk” style: clockworks, guitars, computers, television, spring and gear driven reconfigurations steam-era or anachronistic technologies that redesign practical items into fantastical contraptions, illustrations and paintings, fashion adornments and costume “props”. Over 20 artists statewide explore this fantastical world. Artists interested in exhibiting may download registration form here.
April 6, Opening Night: Wild West Steampunk Exposition.
Time-warping Intertemporalist fantasies, dancing saloon girls, exotic Middle Eastern tribal dancers, interlaced with steampunk dance music. Complimentary hors d’oeuvres, Wild West Cash Bar with “Rattlesnake Whiskey” drink specials. Also, a Venders Bazaar with crafts and costume accoutrement.
