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1 month ago | 
phgmag.com | Robrt Pela
Peek Inside the Studio of one of the Valley’s Most Fascinating Architects Inside the studio (and mind) of celebrated Arizona architect Eddie Jones.
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2 months ago | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
The Cher Show is coming to the Mesa Arts Center, and I’ve been trying to talk myself into going. I’m not embarrassed to admit that I’m a great, big, giant Cher fan, but I’ve never loved watching actors portray famous people. I’m still recovering from seeing Tovah Feldshuh play Kate Hepburn in some cruddy TV movie in the late ’70s.
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2 months ago | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
Artist Heather Weller might have ended up a chef. “I was into baking in high school,” she recalls. “And I signed up for a culinary arts class, but it was full. Somehow I ended up in Intro to Art. Like Bob Ross says, it was a happy accident.”Weller, who teaches art at the same Phoenix high school she attended as a kid, somehow managed to miss lessons on perspective and shading skills. “I had to teach myself to paint,” she says of the large-scale oil paintings she makes.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
phgmag.com | Robrt Pela
Why Scottsdale Artists’ School is a Hidden Gem for Valley Creatives Hiding in plain sight, the nationally respected Scottsdale Artists’ School remains a mystery to many locals. By Robrt L.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
That future would include a successful career in theater and television set design (most notably the sets used on CNN news shows) and, more recently, a full-time foray into fine art. Ulfers works in two disparate media, making gouache-and-pencil portraits of fantastical flying creatures (a rooster crossed with what might be a sparrow; a griffin-like creature with a rat’s tail) and intricate clock-inspired assemblages he calls “timepieces.”“I’ve always drawn and painted,” Ulfers says.
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Jan 3, 2025 | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
Teryn Ashleigh has made a mixed-media jellyfish. “It combines all my creative hobbies,” she tells me about the jellyfish, which is titled “Pastime” and is one among 21 pieces in After Hours, an exhibition of artwork by staff members of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts running through March 3. “I do acrylic painting, crochet and sculpting,” confides Ashleigh, who – when she’s not crocheting jellyfish – is the center’s accounts payable coordinator.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
Apublicist sent me a media kit about Stradivarius and the Golden Age of Violins and Guitars, an exhibition of beautiful string instruments opening at the Musical Instrument Museum on November 8. The exhibition, the press release explained, is a collection of more than 70 violins, guitars and bows crafted by legendary instrument-makers from the 16th to the 19th centuries. It includes notable work by the iconic Antonio Stradivari. Not just musical instruments, but works of art. Well, I thought.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
“My family teases me because I’m always bent over, looking at the ground,” says Cave Creek ceramic artist Jeanne Anne Baughman. “I’m searching for pinecones and rocks to use in my work.”That work includes stunning ceramic totems that incorporate her found objects – driftwood and cactus spikes and rocks – into towering stacks. Her cactus-inspired pots and hyper-textured bowls are stamped with barnacles she applies one at a time using tools she’s made herself.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
phgmag.com | Robrt Pela
How former Phoenix mayor Terry Goddard and architect Eddie Jones saved a historic church. By Robrt L. Pela | Photography by Bill Timmerman Eddie Jones remembers the first time he saw the ravaged Phoenix First Baptist Church on Monroe Street and Third Avenue. “It was 2006, and I was peeking through a little hole in a window because the building was boarded up,” says Jones.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
phoenixmag.com | Robrt Pela
How a Phoenix couple created a home that is both cool—and kid-proof. By Robrt L. Pela | Photography by Michael DuerinckxThe occasional smudges on the many glass surfaces of his home make Tyler Kuenzi laugh. “The little handprints on the walls? I like them,” he says. “They’re part of life in this house. They remind me of why we built it in the first place.” The “we” are Tyler and his husband, Shawn Kuenzi.
