The Scottsdale Arts Festival is known for showcasing thousands of works of art in every imaginable style, but Texas artist Natalie Irish is sure to turn heads this year with her eye-popping celebrity portraits created with lipstick and hundreds of her carefully planted kisses.
Irish will be in residence during the three-day Festival on March 9–11 exhibiting her works and demonstrating her unconventional artistic technique that recently has attracted international headlines from The Huffington Post, Yahoo!, Time, Glamour and Daily Mail. The YouTube video of Irish at work on a portrait of Marilyn Monroe has been viewed more than 500,000 times.
All day at SMoCA
Create a miniature hand-made book, perfect for recreating familiar fairy tales in the way you wish they had been written! In conjunction with I Myself Have Seen It: Photography and Kiki Smith, in front of SMoCA entrance. All ages welcome.
All day at SMoCA
 Art Intersection and Scottsdale Public Art invite Scottsdale Arts Festival attendees to join the 100+ Journals Project. Guest artists will host an outdoor art-making station during the Festival. Stop by to learn new techniques from local artists in a variety of free workshops or add your contribution to some of the 100+ journals that have been travelling the Valley since May 2011.
Scottsdale’s 100+ Journals are featured with the 1,000 Journals Project in the Gallery@theLibrary at Scottsdale Civic Center Library, March–May 2012.
 Art Intersection, located in historic downtown Gilbert, is a space for learning, creating and exhibiting art as it intersects with life.
Friday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Josie Cirincione
Visual journaling has become one of the most popular ways to reveal your most inner self, to express everyday situations and to explore life’s experiences. In this workshop, we will learn a variety of techniques that will allow you to articulate yourself by blending both words and images.
Friday, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Join Beth Staples (Managing Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review) and Tania Katan in the SMoCA Lounge to meet other art lovers and share all the smells, sights, sounds, and images that make the Arts Festival come to life for you. Through fun writing exercises, sharing observations and accessing the senses, participants will transform what they see, hear, touch, taste and smell into a vibrant story!
Saturday: 11 a.m., 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Josie Cirincione
Visual journaling has become one of the most popular ways to reveal your most inner self, to express everyday situations and to explore life’s experiences. In this workshop, we will learn a variety of techniques that will allow you to articulate yourself by blending both words and images.
Saturday, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Rosemarie Dombrowski
Rosemarie will take you on a literary journey to evoke emotions and feelings surrounding the experience of using sound, smell, sight and touch to recall a special memory that will be shared in the journals for all to enjoy.
Saturday, 3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Join Beth Staples (Managing Editor of Hayden’s Ferry Review) and Tania Katan in the SMoCA Lounge to meet other art lovers and share all the smells, sights, sounds, and images that make the Arts Festival come to life for you. Through fun writing exercises, sharing observations and accessing the senses, participants will transform what they see, hear, touch, taste and smell into a vibrant story!
Sunday: Noon – 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Beth Staples
Meet other art lovers and put some words to what you’ve experienced at the Festival through this group creative-writing exercise! Writer and teacher Beth Staples will lead you through a writing prompt to help leave your personal beauty mark on the 100+ Journals Project. No writing experience needed – just a love of art and a willingness to experiment with language.
Sunday: 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Saskia Jordà
Join Saskia in exploring line and mapping by using thread and needle as your instruments. In this workshop, you will follow your muse to create/connect/draw beautiful lines, pattern and texture as you wander through the pages of your journal and add dimension to your mark making. Make an abstract map, a memory map, a personal landscape or simply an exciting gesture on the page!
Josie Cirincione is an artist, teacher and author of “Collage Lost and Found,” “Bent, Bound and Stitched” and “Solder Technique Studio.” She also deals in vintage objects, and this passion has enabled her to amass quite a collection that finds a home in her work. She currently teaches arts and crafts workshops and sells her jewelry, art and other handmade objects at specialty boutiques around the Valley.
Rosemarie Dombrowski is the founder and editor of the poetry journal merge and is the co-founder and host of the Phoenix Poetry Series, now in its fourth year. She received a Ph.D. in American literature from Arizona State University, where she has been teaching for the past 13 years. She lives in Scottsdale.
Saskia Jordà was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and is currently working in Arizona as an interdisciplinary artist. Her site-specific installations and performances map the tension between retaining one’s identity and assimilating a foreign persona, while referencing the body in a transitional space and as an alternate artifact. She received her M.F.A. from The School of Visual Arts in New York and her B.F.A. in painting from Arizona State University.
Beth Staples works at the Piper Center for Creative Writing as managing editor of the literary journal Hayden’s Ferry Review. She teaches fiction writing at Arizona State University and Mesa Community College. She received her M.F.A. in fiction writing from ASU and currently lives in Phoenix.
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