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Volume 33 Issue 28 Goodyear, AZ
April 27, 2022
Business Briefcase
BY LAUREN SERRATO
West Valley View Staff Writer
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his week we continue looking at new businesses in the West Valley by focusing on Goodyear. Curious about Goodyear restaurants? Check out the city’s economic development page, developgoodyearaz.com. Have tips or questions about Business Briefcase? Feel free to email lserrato@timespublications.com.
Sun Devil Auto opens
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Location: 13850 W. Test Drive Sun Auto Tire & Service Inc. expanded the brand into Goodyear, with the shop opening on April 1. “Our company was founded in Arizona, and we’re proud to be expanding within the state,” said Chris Garman, vice president of business development, Sun Auto Tire & Service. “We are committed to being a part of the communities where we are located, providing more than high-quality auto repair and service by supporting their local causes and organizations.” As the 22nd Sun Devil Auto store in the greater Phoenix area, the new location offers a full range of automotive repair services backed by its written guarantee. Sun Devil Auto offers vehicle maintenance, repair and tire replacement services. For more information, visit sundevilauto.com. Public Notices ............... page 3 © Copyright, 2022 West Valley View, Inc.
Sun Auto Tire & Service Inc. expanded the brand into Goodyear, with the shop opening on April 1. (Submitted photo)
El Tataki Sushi Fusion Express opens Location: 790 N. Estrella Parkway, Suites D & E After signing a lease for a roughly 3,000-square-foot retail space in Goodyear, El Tataki Sushi Fusion opened its second West Valley location. At the Mexican-Asian fusion restaurant, the menu ranges from traditional sushi to popular Asian cuisine dishes, as well as Mexican sushi fusions like the culichi roll, carne asada roll, and various deep fried sushi rolls. The menu also includes raw Mexican sea(USPS 004-616) is published weekly
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food specialties, including shrimp ceviche and aguachiles. In addition to the sushi menu featuring over 50 different rolls, El Tataki Sushi Fusion offers a full bar and a variety of house specialty drinks. Customers can dine in seven days a week at the two West Valley locations in Avondale and Goodyear. A location in Tempe is coming soon.
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Goodyear artist Kyoko Iwasaka showcases her pen sketches on 5- by 5-inch paper napkins. She hopes to inspire others to express their feelings, even if only on a napkin. (Kyoko Iwasaka/Submitted)
Goodyear artist unveils ‘Napkin Sketches’ BY JORDAN HOUSTON
West Valley View Staff Writer
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ward-winning artist and Japan native Kyoko Iwasaka says anyone can be an artist. All it takes is a napkin and pen. This notion, the accessibility of art, is what the Goodyear resident wants to convey in her solo art exhibit “Napkin Sketches — Grab the Napkin, Draw It Now!,” featured at the Phoenix Burton Barr Central Library, 1221 N. Central Avenue. The display, tucked inside the library’s Central Gallery, runs through Friday, May 13. It showcases Iwasaka’s black ink sketches on 5-by-5-inch white paper napkins. The art pieces, intricate images of buildings, landscapes and people, are designed to embody “powerful tools” that allow anyone with a pen to “express their feeling and inspiration at a
right moment.” “It’s about sending a message to everybody that art is for everyone (and to) draw without fear of being judged,” said Iwasaka, a licensed architect specializing in designs geared toward sustainability, health and wellness. “Art is an expression of the self and people think it’s difficult because they think it has to be pretty pictures,” she added. “If we sit down with watercolors and papers, it’s kind of intimidating – but with a napkin, you can just grab it and you don’t have to show anybody. You just draw something, and if you like it, keep it. If you don’t like it, just throw it away; it was only pennies.” The artist, who has worked on many juried exhibitions and received multiple commissions from public and private clients, described her style as “broadly diverse.” Iwasaka said she frequently alters
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between watercolor and mixed media, and realism and abstract. The napkin sketches are another testament to her fluidity, she added. The exhibit’s drawings have the same materials, but each piece differs, Iwasaka said. The sketches, which individually blend elements of realism and abstract, feature images of animals, like cats, donkeys and owls, as well as scenic landscape settings, such as windmills, bridges and other architecture. All of them, according to Iwasaka, were inspired by travels throughout the United States, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Finland and Thailand, she explained. Iwasaka said the nature of the sketches, which can be done anywhere in real-time, are what make the concept so “wonderful.” “This is the kind of art that is not complete,” Iwasaka said. “Because it’s
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a napkin, you see wrinkles engulfed by red rock, was because it sucks up water installed at the southwest from the pen. Maybe you corner of North Pebble see a little bit of a stain. It’s Creek Parkway and West alive and it’s living art.” Virginia Avenue. A certified architect with Iwasaka said she hopes years of experience under to continue making her her belt, Iwasaka said art mark in the Arizona art and architecture “coexist” scene, showcasing her nap— making it only a natural kin sketches at more public transition when she decidvenues in various settings. ed to explore her passions “My hope is (this) is not as an artist. just a one-time (thing) in a “Art and architecture — public library setting,” she especially in the U.S. — it said. “I’m kind of starting coexists. I’m more into the the way to another exhibit aesthetics of architecture,” in a different location to said the architect, who see how people respond boasts master’s degrees in and how people actually architecture and business encourage it.” administration and a bachFor more information elor’s in fine art education. about the “Napkin SketchIwasaka’s resume ines – Grab the Napkin, cludes certifications as an Draw It Now!,” visit calenarchitect and professional The solo exhibition “Napkin Sketches – Grab the Napkin, Draw It Now!” dar.phoenixpubliclibrary. from a handful of organi- is located at the Burton Barr Central Gallery, 1221 N. Central Avenue, in org/event/9043615. Learn zations, including The Na- Phoenix. It began on March 6 and runs through May 13. (Kyoko Iwasaka/ more about Iwasaka and Submitted) tional Council of Architecher work on her website at tural Registration Boards, ple and animals. I just draw people in kiartarchitecture.com. The Leadership in Energy and Envi- the cafes and the animals around, esperonmental Design and The Construc- cially on a hike or trail.” If You Go... tion Document Technology. In Arizona, Iwasaka’s work can WHAT: Central Gallery May First Her work has guided her across the be seen throughout the streets of Friday Reception globe, eventually acting as a catalyst to Goodyear. WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 6 draw the sketches as means to capture The city in 2021 bought her waterWHERE: Central Gallery of the life’s moments along the way, she said. color painting, “Cotton Snowfield,” Burton Barr Central Library, 1221 N. “I’m very particular about aesthet- for its 75th anniversary Celebration Central Avenue, Phoenix ics,” Iwasaka said. “I was doing draw- Project. Goodyear also commissioned COST: Free ings and traveling to places, and I drew her to design a piece for its Traffic SigINFO: calendar.phoenixpubliclibrary. the architecture of buildings and land- nal Cabinet Art Project. The resulting org/event/9039066 scapes. But I’m also interested in peo- piece, a starry desert setting of a cactus
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