Matthew Bowman

The vandalism is a low blow for the guys who have invested their talent, money, and vision to contribute to their community

The end of the Honeymoon and the challenges ahead for the Arizona arts. The “Arts Eco-System” panel discussion at SMoCA.

As a native of Phoenix, Luis Gutierrez has matured as an artist and painter alongside the developing Phoenix culture and arts scene. Luis first began exploring the arts in his high school art room and consuming works in the Phoenix galleries of the mid-80’s.

In the world of film, young initiates are soon confronted with the contrast between promises of a land ripe with opportunity and warnings of an ocean of hard competition. A pool of filmmakers are rising out of that tension, sifted of the faint of heart, with a ready idealism tempered by challenge. Kane Black is one Phoenix-area actor and filmmaker to emerge from that pool, with the recent recognition of his horror-short, “No. 12.”