Cattle Track Arts and Preservation in Scottsdale existed before the city of Scottsdale officially existed; the city actually built up around this artist colony that started in the 1930s.
It's a few buildings on a city block where a variety of full-time professional artists from a luthier to a blacksmith to printmakers and ceramicists live and work. You can stop by and visit with the artists and take a look at what they've got going on. The relatively unknown historic spot also hosts gallery shows and events during October to May, their main season.
If you can't make it to the preservation, you can see more work on display at the Andaz Scottsdale Resort and Spa. There, you'll find floating, felted balls in the lobby, one-of-a-kind plates and cups in the restaurant, and a mini gift shop with artists' works for sale. And it isn't a one-off partnership; as Mark McDowell, an artist at Cattle Track since 1959, puts it, "There's not a day that goes by we're not working on something for them.
