From putting a subversive twist on famous historical paintings to creating uranium glass jewelry, The Show looks back at some favorite interviews with creatives from 2025.
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Picture Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus” — but instead of the goddess rising out of a seashell in the ocean, it’s a plastic shell in a Phoenix backyard. Venus is a queer woman who’s tattooed and wearing stilettos. That’s what the iconic work looks like through the eyes of Phoenix photographer and artist Omar Soto.
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Twice a day, ASU Professor Betsy Schneider took a picture of her daughter, and saw them as a document of human development. Schneider exhibited the photographs, which was controversial.
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Artist Antoinette Cauley made a name for herself in Phoenix. But not too long ago, she took a residency in Berlin and left. And now, she’s back.
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A new children’s TV show, "Navajo Highways," follows a Navajo child, a puppet named Sadie, from the city who decides she wants to spend the summer with her grandmother on the Navajo Nation.
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Sabrina Manygoats is a Diné activist and artist who makes jewelry out of antique uranium glass to raise awareness about abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation as the tribe agreed to more hauling.