Kaui Wilson is among the artists on the Studio Crawl this week. Photo by Raquel Hendrickson

A Studio Crawl is the first of its kind in Maricopa and will launch a series of February “Got Arts, Maricopa” expo events.

The Studio Crawl will be open Feb. 3, 6:30–8:30 p.m., and Feb. 5, 1–3:30 p.m. Color maps showing each studio location and brief info on each artist and business partner are available around town.

Studio Crawls are a drive-yourself tour around the city to artists’ studios to experience the artists in their own creative environment, chat with the artists about their approach to creation, and examine the tools they use – kiln, loom, easels, brushes and paints, work spaces etching stones, etc.

This first crawl includes a fused-glass artist, weaver and painters.

Artists in this crawl are Kaui Wilson, Cynthia Portrey, Rocky Dunne, Anne Marie Carrington, Megan Perry and the Maricopa High School Student Art Club.

Feb. 4, Maricopa Arts Council presents the opening 2017 lecture in its series to bring creative types front and center to present and explain their work in person. This lecture will be by Ak-Chin Indian Community artist Waylon Antone. The lecture will take place 10:30–11:30 a.m. at the Ak-Chin Him-Dak Eco-Museum, 47685 W. Eco-Museum Road. A museum tour follows the artist’s presentation.

Next up is a radical event: a Silent Reading Party. Leave your electronics home, grab a book of your own or select one from the cart the Maricopa Public Library will bring to the Party. Then sit back, relax, read, eat and drink for a quiet two hours at Honeycutt Coffee, 44400 W. Honeycutt Road, Suite 109.

The event is Feb. 9, 6–8 p.m.

These events are very popular in Seattle, New York, Denver, Austin and San Francisco, and one was held in Phoenix in September 2016. It’s not a book club where everyone reads the same book and then discusses it.

Judith Zaimont, [email protected]

This article appears in the February issue of InMaricopa.

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