Don’t forget to check out The Pit, Part One and The Pit, Part Two

Roosevelt & 2nd/3rd St.

Click here to view more of JB Snyder’s work

Join Theater13 and friends on Saturday May 19th, 6pm at Medlock Plaza for our second annual summer block party featuring great food, music, and short films. The event is FREE and open to all ages. We recommend bringing your own seat or a blanket.

Once again Short Leash Hot Dogs will be acting as our gourmet concession stand, serving up the best hot dogs this city could come with.

Visit the facebook event page for more information and to view a list of short films playing

Images from “Slap Yourself Stupid”, an interactive sticker show and black book trade that took place last April at Just Blaze City Art Supply.

Click here to view the original flyer for the event.

Hello Friends,

I want to thank everyone for their support over these last eleven years, but it is time to move on and close this chapter of my life. I couldn’t have asked for a more wonderful group of friends and time spent here at Wet Paint, but it’s with a heavy heart that I have decided to shut down the business. I have been fighting this for years now; I have such a strong since of identity associated with this place. But, due to increased corporate competition and their massive buying power, more people buying online, it has been harder and harder to maintain this small independent art supply. I am very excited to move on and take this opportunity to finish school and complete my BS and Maters in Horticulture and Restoration Ecology.

I have had the privilege to watch and be a part of so many awesome friendships, gallery openings, artist collectives and artistic creations because of this common meeting ground. For those who have been around since the beginning, you have seen the birth of Wet Paint’s Final Fridays, Attic Records, the Oil Bar, the B-side Gallery, and CBAG in Phoenix. For some of you, we might have been the first gallery to hang your art and I thank you for letting us have that opportunity.

So, as of July 1st, Wet Paint’s Tempe location will be closing.
Wet Paint’s 806 S. Ash Ave store front will be under new ownership and the new guys will be fully stocked in all types of Graffiti goods and Hip Hop gear.

So, I am asking for one last favor… we really need your help to clear this place out of all art supply products. Everything is on sale and priced to move from now until July 1st.
I hope to see you soon!!!

Oh, and yes we will be having a closing party… it would be silly not to.

I can’t thank you enough,
Jessica Jordan

Congrats to Jessica Jordan and everyone at Wet Paint for a solid eleven years of business. PHXTACO would not exist if it wasn’t for the support they’ve shown this website since the very beginning.

Check out Luey’s blog for more

Por Vida Gallery

Jetsonorama

From a Brooklyn Street Art article:

As recently as this January, the Obama Administration acted to protect a 1-million acre area around the Grand Canyon from uranium mining with a 20-year ban, despite pressure from mining advocates. But that won’t prevent the current requests on record to mine the area from progressing.

Wanting to draw attention to this situation, artist Jetsonorama did this installation in Flagstaff, AZ over the weekend called “Owen Dreams of Atomic Sheep,” and one called “JC at the Reservation”. With infants as their spokespeople these new pieces on water storage containers spotlight the next generation, the inheritors of whatever we decide to do with the earth and it’s resources. American Indian tribes in the region — Havasupai, Hualapai, Kaibab-Paiute, Navajo and Hopi — have banned uranium mining on their lands, according to the Center for Biological Diversity and Sierra Club, and it makes you wonder if environmental defense will become the preeminent issue that this generation will seize as their own.

Read and see more on this installation at Jetsonorama’s website

Signage by Jessica Jordan

From Otto’s Pizza website:

Otto’s is where it’s at! This family-owned and operated restaurant has been open for more than 16 years. Walk into Otto’s and you will always see Otto hard at work, unless you catch him when he is on a small coffee break – he is French after all.

Don’t tell anyone, but Otto’s real name isn’t Otto at all. Reza (AKA “Otto”) moved to Arizona from France in 1992 with dreams of running the most successful, family-owned restaurant in Tempe. But he’s not alone. You can always catch his daughters, wife, brothers, nephews or nieces hard at work. Ask nice and they may even tell you some of their favorite Otto’s stories.

Otto’s Pizza & Pastry
804 S. Ash Ave
Tempe, AZ 85281

Photos by Candace Porth

This past March, community members came out  revitalize an empty lot next to the event/gallery space MonOrchid at Roosevelt & 3rd St for The Lot: What Should Go Here? project. Phoenix is plagued by empty dirt lots, which pose a number of aesthetic and health-related problems.

Artists and organizations involved included Rogue Green, Colton Brock, Pablo Luna, Angel Diaz, Lalo Cota, Breeze, Gennaro Garcia, and more.

From The Lot: What Should Go Here? facebook:

“What Should Go Here” is a singular experience designed for a larger conversation about how communities are created and developed in what has been called by author Andrew Ross in his book “Bird on Fire,” as ‘the world’s least sustainable city.’

“The Lot” is important figuratively as a metaphor for (Phoenix) the Valley of the Sun itself. And, it is important literally as a piece of property that could reveal an answer about the future of development – an answer that emerges from the question, “What Should Go Here?”

May 17th 2012 Day 1

@ Yucca Tap Room
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May 18th 2012 Day 2 “Classic Blunt Club”

@ The Hollywood Alley
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