The FCP Top 5 - October

Here in the offices of Flagstaff Cultural Partners, we are obsessed with lists. We love to rank the things we love (and even the things we don't love so much). For over a year now, we have done informal staff "Top 5 Lists" of everything from our favorite lunch spots, to music we can't stop playing, to exhibitions we can't wait to see. These were once in our own little world - a way for us to break up a busy day. But now, we have decided, for better or worse, to release one of our Top 5 Lists each month in the Culture Club.

So... *gulp* here goes...

The Top 5 "Hot Now" Local Artists
We define this as local artists that are catching our eye right now, or receiving a lot of exposure recently (or should be). Click on each artist to learn more about them. In no particular order...

Jason Bohnert
Jessica Dawn
Sambatuque
Karen McClanahan
Charmagne Coe

How did we get to these five? Individually, each of the five staff members at FCP created their own top 5 and then we met and chose these. Want to know what other artists were on our lists? Keep reading...

First of all, we have a special Honorable Mention. Four of our five staff members wanted to include two exciting artists in our final top 5: Joe Cornett (photography) and Robin Cadigan (ceramics, photo to left). One problem: they are both members of our five-person staff! We felt that we couldn't put them up there because we'd appear biased (and we also didn't want to exclude them because they are on our staff). Regardless, we feel that they are really, really, really good artists.

Here are the other names that were listed by individual staff but didn't make the final top 5...

Telescope
Molly Holland
Nick Rosso
Edward Haswood
Joan Scott
Sam Jones
Julie Heisterman
Jeremy Singer
Cate Ziebell
The Shindaggers
The Merkins

Our next FCP Top 5 will be unveiled beginning of November...