39th Annual Scottsdale Arts Festival
March 20–22, 2009
Scottsdale Civic Center Mall
(SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.) – Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts will present the 39th annual Scottsdale Arts Festival on March 20–22, 2009, at the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. The event is sponsored by CBS 5, 99.9 KEZ, 95.5 KYOT and SRP.
Consistently ranked among the top arts festivals in the country by the readers of American Style Magazine, the Scottsdale Arts Festival has been an Arizona tradition since 1971. The three-day event features 200 jury-selected artists from throughout North America who display their work for sale on the beautiful grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall. Works of art are available for purchase directly from the artists and from the Scottsdale Arts Festival’s online art auction. Visitors also enjoy continuous live music and entertainment from Arizona’s top bands and performers, the interactive Photoscopia kaleidoscope and a sneak preview of the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project commissioned by the Scottsdale Public Art Program, fun activities for children and families at Imagine Nation, delicious foods and beverages including a wine and beer tasting garden, free admission to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) and free parking and shuttle service.
A complete listing of events, directions, shuttle and parking information is available online at www.scottsdaleartsfestival.org.
HOURS AND ADMISSION
March 20, 2009, Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
March 21, 2009, Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m.
March 22, 2009, Sunday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Admission: $7 for adults; $5 for students; free for children 12 and under and members of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and SMoCA; two-day pass available for $10
Pets are not allowed, except for assistance dogs.
LOCATION AND PARKING
The Scottsdale Arts Festival is held on the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall, adjacent to Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at 7380 E. Second St. in downtown Scottsdale, four blocks south of Indian School Road and three blocks east of Scottsdale Road. Free parking is available in the public parking garage located to the west of Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts and directly behind Los Olivos restaurant on Wells Fargo Avenue. Additional free parking is available at the Old Town Parking Corral at East Second Street and Brown Avenue and at the Civic Center Library parking garage located on Drinkwater Boulevard at East Second Street. Shuttle service is available at the Loloma Transit Center at East Second Street and Marshall Way and along the route of the Downtown Scottsdale Trolley.
ARTISTS
Long recognized for its high-quality fine arts and crafts, the Scottsdale Arts Festival showcases 200 artists selected by jury from a pool of nearly 1,000 applicants. Participating artists come from throughout the United States and Canada and work in all media, from ceramic, glass, jewelry, metals and textiles to painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and drawing. Visitors have the opportunity to meet and talk to each artist and buy works of art directly from them.
ONLINE ART AUCTION
The Scottsdale Arts Festival’s online auction features original works of art in all media donated by participating artists. Auction items are displayed at the event and through the Scottsdale Arts Festival Web site. Benefiting the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, the auction opens on Saturday, March 21, at 10 a.m. and has a rolling close starting on the morning of Monday, March 23. Bidders may view images of all auction items and place and track their bids at any time through www.scottsdaleartsfestival.org.
MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT
Many of Arizona’s top musicians and entertainers perform during the Scottsdale Arts Festival. Performances take place continuously throughout the festival grounds and include jazz, R&B, rock, reggae, world music and much more.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE (subject to change)
MARCH 20, FRIDAY
Amphitheater
2 p.m.–3:30 p.m. – Chris Lukert Band (soft rock)
4 p.m.–6 p.m. – Casabel (Latin fusion)
Fountain Stage
1:30 p.m.–3 p.m. – Ioannis Goudelis (pop/jazz piano)
3:30 p.m.–5:30 p.m. – Ted Allan (solo guitar)
MARCH 21, SATURDAY
Amphitheater
10:30 a.m.–noon – Nosotros Sound (traditional South American)
12:30 p.m.–2 p.m. – Mikioi (Jamaican/Hawaiian fusion)
2:30 p.m.–4 p.m. – Mogollon (country rock)
4:30 p.m.–6 p.m. – Rakata (salsa)
Fountain Stage
10:30 a.m.–11:45 a.m. – Cannedy Jazz (big band)
12:15 p.m.–1:45 p.m. – Don Maloney (solo guitar)
2:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. – Mark Zubia and Los Guys (rock)
4:15 p.m.–6 p.m. – Beggars Clothes (folk-rock)
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – North Entrance
Noon–4 p.m. – Shawn Greer (magician)
Imagine Nation/East Lawn
Noon–4 p.m. – Craig Davis (magician)
Noon–4 p.m. – Taylor Stilt Walkers
MARCH 22, SUNDAY
Amphitheater
11 a.m.–12:30 p.m. – Traveler (world music)
1 p.m.–2:30 p.m. – Marmalade Skies (Beatles covers)
3 p.m.–5 p.m. – Azz Izz Band (funk and reggae fusion)
Fountain Stage
11 a.m.–12:15 p.m. – Scottsdale Community College Jazz Band (big band)
12:45 p.m.–2:15 p.m. – Gabe Ayala (flamenco guitar)
2:45 p.m.–4:45 p.m. – Burnett Family Bluegrass (instrumental and vocal harmonies)
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – North Entrance
Noon–4 p.m. – Shawn Greer (magician)
Imagine Nation/East Lawn
Noon–4 p.m. – Taylor Stilt Walkers
PUBLIC ART PROJECTS
In conjunction with the Scottsdale Arts Festival, the Scottsdale Public Art Program has commissioned Photoscopia, a unique, interactive work of art by artist Vicki Leon. This monumental working kaleidoscope enables visitors to create beautiful geometric patterns, which can be photographed and exhibited at the festival, or taken home as a free souvenir.
Visitors also will have the opportunity to learn about and create a piece for the Scottsdale Public Art Program’s upcoming Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project, a traveling homage to the Great Barrier Reef, which will be exhibited at the Scottsdale Civic Center Library in April 2009. Designed and curated by Christine and Margaret Wertheim, co-directors of The Institute for Figuring, the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project is a woolly celebration of higher geometry and feminine handicraft and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world. For more information visit www.ScottsdaleCoralReef.com.
IMAGINE NATION
Located on the north side of Scottsdale City Hall, Imagine Nation is open throughout the Scottsdale Arts Festival and offers free arts activities and entertainment for children and their families. This year’s theme, Bug O’Rama: Small and Mighty!, explores the amazing and often strange world of insects through a variety of sights, sounds and hands-on art activities that engage kids’ creativity and imaginations. Magicians, dancers and stilt walkers also will perform throughout the weekend. Imagine Nation is made possible by volunteers from Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Public Art Program, Free Arts of Arizona, Boys and Girls Clubs of Scottsdale, PeaceKids, Vista Del Camino Community Center, Scottsdale Pride Commission and City of Scottsdale Parks and Recreation.
FOOD AND BEVERAGES
The Scottsdale Arts Festival features a tempting variety of delicious foods and refreshing beverages available for sale throughout the grounds, including tastings of specialty wines and beers offered by Arcadia Farms in scenic Marshall Garden. Among the other festival vendors are Alaskan Salmon Grill, Barrie’s Original Kettle Korn, Big Belly’s BBQ Co., Crepe Tyme, Earthly Delights, Euro Gyro, The Gelato Spot, Repicci’s Real Italian Ice of Arizona, San Francisco Chocolate Factory and Shishkaberry’s.
FREE MUSEUM ADMISSION
Visitors to the Scottsdale Arts Festival enjoy free admission to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, which features the exhibitions At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer and Seriously Funny as well as artist James Turrell’s skyspace Knight Rise. SMoCA is located next to the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts at 7374 E. Second St.
FESTIVAL ARTWALK
To kick off the Scottsdale Arts Festival in style, the Scottsdale ArtWalk will present Festival ArtWalk: A Glass Act on March 19 from 7–9 p.m. in downtown Scottsdale. The event features more than a dozen top glass artists from Scottsdale Arts District galleries and the Scottsdale Arts Festival as well as a diverse musical lineup, street performers and samples from sponsors Café Carumba, Icelandic Glacial Waters and Malee’s Thai on Main, among other restaurants. The ArtWalk takes place just west of Scottsdale Road and north and south of Indian School Road along Main Street, Marshall Way, Stetson and Sixth Avenue. Free parking is available throughout the downtown area. For more details about Scottsdale ArtWalk or directions visit www.scottsdalegalleries.com.
SCOTTSDALE CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Opened in 1975, Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts presents a dynamic, culturally diverse season of dance, jazz, classical and world music, theater and satire. Approximately 1,000 performances, educational programs, festivals and other events are showcased annually serving more than 300,000 people and contributing substantially to Scottsdale’s high quality of life and vibrant arts scene. Performances take place in the Center’s 838-seat Virginia G. Piper Theater (closed for renovation during the 2008–09 season) and 136-seat Stage 2 as well as the 2,200-seat amphitheater on the grounds of the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall and the 326-seat Theater 4301 in the Galleria Corporate Centre. The Center’s youth education and outreach programs reach more than 40,000 school children each year, and its free programs are available to the entire public. Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts also produces the popular Scottsdale Arts Festival every March; Sunday A’Fair, a series of free outdoor music festivals held on Sunday afternoons from January to April; and Native Trails, a collaboration with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and the Scottsdale Convention & Visitors Bureau that features free demonstrations of Native American arts and culture from January to April. Open daily and during performances, The Store @ Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts offers hand-crafted jewelry, accessories for the home, toys for imaginative young minds, recordings, books, greeting cards and more.
The Scottsdale Cultural Council, a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, is contracted by the City of Scottsdale, Arizona, to administer certain City arts and cultural projects and to manage the City-owned Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and Scottsdale Public Art Program. The programs of the Scottsdale Cultural Council are made possible, in part, by the support of members and donors and grants received from the Arizona Commission on the Arts through appropriations from the Arizona State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts.
HOW TO REACH US
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
7380 E. Second St.
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
Box Office: (480) 994-ARTS (2787)
TDD: (480) 874-4694
Web: www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org
E-mail: info@sccarts.org
Fax: (480) 874-4699
For interviews, digital photographs or additional information please contact:
Bill Thompson
Public Relations Manager
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Phone: (480) 874-4626
E-mail: billt@sccarts.org
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