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Local Luminaries: Ace Bailey

Each year, Experience Scottsdale profiles a selection of local celebrities, from restaurateurs and sports figures to artists and adventurers for our Destination Guide. We invite you to meet this year’s luminaries and find out what they have to say about living, working and enjoying life in Scottsdale.
Ace Bailey is president of Ultimate Art & Cultural [...]

Invest in the Community by Joining in Community Love

This past Fall, artist Jesse Fairchild recruited dozens of volunteers to create over 100 signs which feature expressions of positivity. “Paint the most positive word in your life,” he instructed. The results range from love, to dance, to ice cream. Now it is time to use these optimistic expressions to create one simple act of [...]

Award-winning Scottsdale Arts Festival Celebrates 40 Years as Arizona’s Finest

40th Annual Scottsdale Arts Festival
March 12–14, 2010
Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts / Scottsdale Civic Center
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the 40th annual Scottsdale Arts Festival on March 12–14, 2010, on the beautiful grounds of the [...]

Meet Artists at Indian Fair & Market

Three visionary artists who encompass many different mediums will be showing works for sale at the Berlin Gallery, February 19 – March 19.
Meet the Artists
All three artists will be in the Berlin Gallery at the Heard Museum Guild Indian Fair & Market on Saturday, March 6.
See new works by master Rick [...]

Best of Scottsdale ArtWalk Soiree

Join us on Thursday, February 25th from 7:00 to 10:00 pm for the Best of Scottsdale ArtWalk Soiree. Enjoy food and wine throughout the evening. Guests are encouraged to walk ArtWalk throughout the evening and experience the Best of Scottsdale. A “special” performance at 9 pm for all guests. Participate in the $500 restaurant raffle by having your [...]

Giant Book and Treasure Sale at the Heard Museum!

The Heard Museum is hosting their 14th Annual Guild Library Book sale at the end of the month on January 30-31. If you’re looking for a good bargain on more than 30,000 books or even other fine items such as katsina dolls or American Indian and vintage jewelry, this is one event that you you [...]

Raise Your Glasses to the Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival this Weekend

Travel the world over and you would be hard-pressed to find a more spectacular gathering of artists than at the Carefree Fine Art & Wine Festival.  The streets of downtown Carefree are closed this weekend, making room for more than 160 artists and in excess of 5,000 original masterpieces of fine art.  You can find [...]

The Art of Maintenance

As a follow up to the fish roundup post from last week, I received an email tipping me off to the following video. It was shot and edited by Pat Shannahan.

Apache master sculptor Allan Houser

For the first time, see the breadth of Houser’s work at two of Scottsdale’s most prestigious destinations: the Desert Botanical Garden and the Heard Museum. this collaborative exhibition features 18 large sculptures and a variety of paintings, drawings, sketches and smaller sculptures by this master artist.

Fish Roundup at the Scottsdale Waterfront this Saturday

Join Salt River Project and Scottsdale Public Art in the first fish roundup at Scottsdale Waterfront since its construction.  Come out and enjoy permanent and temporary public art, meet Dewey the Waterdrop SRP’s water safety mascot, and learn more about the canals from experts and educational displays.  Watch SRP crews herd the white amur fish, [...]