Events, Scottsdale, Arizona

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

2-Hour Night Lights on the Desert Tour

May 07 - September 24
Recurring weekly on Friday
Times: 6:30 p.m., 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
Location: Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West
Phone: (480) 860-2700
Admission: $25 ($20 seniors/military/students)

On this twilight tour you'll have the unusual opportunity to view Wright's desert masterpiece in a nighttime setting. In the evening the site assumes a luminous, jewel-like quality.

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

Cézanne and American Modernism

July 03 - September 26
Recurring daily
Times: Wednesday, 10:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m., Thursday thru Saturday, 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. and Sunday, Noon – 5:00 p.m. The museum is closed Mondays, Tuesdays and major holidays.
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults; $8 senior citizens (65+) and full-time students with ID; $4 children ages 6 to 17; Child

This exhibition demonstrates the impact Cézanne had on American artists, bringing together the 16 examples by the French master with 83 paintings, works on paper and photographs by major American modernists, including, among others, Marsden Hartley.

Scottsdale ArtWalk

January 07 - December 30
Recurring weekly on Thursday
Times: Every Thursday, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Location: Scottsdale Gallery Association
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: Free

Scottsdale ArtWalk is perfect for a casual evening with friends and family or for those searching for that special piece. Many special exhibitions, demonstrations and entertainment are offered each Thursday night from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Young @ Art Gallery - "txt messages"

May 13 - September 10
Recurring daily
Times: Closed Mondays / Tuesday-Wed, Fri-Sat: 10a-5p / Thursday 10a-8p / Sun: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: $7 adults / $5 students / Free Children 15 and under / Free on Thursdays

Teens today communicate with technology that has shaped a new language. Text messaging and emailing encourage the abbreviations of words and phrases that are decipherable only to their own generation. Many contemporary artists also use text juxtaposed with visual imagery. Students from Central, Coronado, Marcos de Niza and McClintock high schools met with local and national artists through VISIONS, SMoCA's teen program. This exhibition is the result of ideas and conversations sparked by these monthly meetings.

Spy Hopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Part board game come to life, part art installation, this exhibition is infused with Phoenix based artist Sue Chenoweth's profound and uniquely creative way of seeing the world. Chenoweth simultaneously draws from concepts as diverse as The Game of Goose (a board game that dates back to Renaissance Italy) and the social practices of "spyhopping," which is a behavior where Gray whales thrust their bodies above the surface of the ocean to get a good look around. The installation will combine a new series of paintings by Chenoweth with a selection of works from SMoCA's permanent collection. This delightful and innovative approach to showcasing the Museum's permanent collection will transform the gallery into a world unto itself, a world in which artworks serve as windows into imaginative narrative possibilities.

Architecture + Art Series featuring 90 Days Over 100

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

In keeping with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's mission to champion innovation in contemporary art, architecture and design, SMoCA launches a new series this summer: Architecture + Art. This new programmatic series will invite architects to create site specific installations in SMoCA and the specific environmental context of Scottsdale, Arizona in order to push forward the practice of architects working in the art museum setting. SMoCA inaugurates the Architecture + Art series with an exhibition titled 90 Days Over 100° by Phoenix-based architects Atherton | Keener.

For their installation at SMoCA, Atherton | Keener will assemble a temporary orchestration of frozen water and channeled sunlight within the context of Museum space over the summer in Arizona, where the temperatures regularly exceed 100° for over 90 days. The installation will explore temporal and physical qualities inherent in material phase change from solid to liquid. The piece will transform over the course of each day. Light intensity and color will evolve as water melts, drips and collects. The project aims to alert visitors to the relationship between water and electricity in this highly constructed desert environment.

Re-imagining the West

May 22 - September 19
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7, Students: $5, Children 15 and under: Free, Free on Thursdays

Experience artworks from the last one hundred years that both reinforce and challenge the mythology of the American West. Grapple with competing histories of the West that alternate between representing the landscape as a romanticized Eden to critically examining issues like urban sprawl, environmental hazards facing the modern West. Enjoy artworks like Lon Megargee's sincere American Impressionist landscapes of the 1920s and survey Matthew Moore's 2008 critical video portrait of water's journey through our Valley. The exhibition, which acts as an archaeology of SMoCA's collecting history, will shed light on the values underscored by "the West's Most Western Town."

Free Docent-led Tours of SMoCA

January 07 - December 30
Recurring weekly on Thursday
Times: 1:30 p.m. and by appointment.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4641
Admission: Free

Learn more about the compelling exhibitions at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art from SMoCA's expert guides. Tours of the Museum are led by SMoCA docents every Thursday at 1:30 pm. Meet in the Museum lobby. Tours also available by appointment: Call 480-874-4641.

Landscape Legacies Exhibit at Pueblo Grande

July 07 - January 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon. - Sat., 9am - 4:45pm / Sun., 1pm - 4:45pm
Location: Pueblo Grande Museum and Archaeological Park
Phone: (602) 495-0901
Admission: Adults: $6 / Children 6-17: $5 / Children under 6: Free

Pueblo Grande Museum would like to invite you to visit our newest exhibit, Landscape Legacies: The Art and Archaeology of Perry Mesa. Come explore the interaction of the environment and people of Perry Mesa - the cultural landscape - through the photographer's lens, and through the scientific examination of a changing archaeological landscape.

This exhibit features the recent research of Arizona State University Doctoral Candidate Hoske Schaafsma on prehistoric agricultural practices on Perry Mesa, north of Phoenix, as well as displays a number of large-format photographs of nearby rock art by photographer Pat Gorraiz. The exhibit is available to the public until January 30, 2011.

Ancient Techniques & Modern Interpretations

September 01 - September 30
Recurring daily
Times: Mon-Sat: 10am - 5pm / Thurs: 7-9pm
Location: Duley Jones Gallery
Phone: (480) 945-8475
Admission: FREE

During the month of September, Duley-Jones Gallery will feature the exquisite pottery of Michael Wisner and the richly colored baskets by Francina Kraynek and Neil Prince. These artists are using ancient techniques to create distinctively contemporary work.

Inspired by ancient Anasazi Mimbres potsherds, Wisner creates pottery with a distinctive Southwest flavor. Since 1989, he has studied extensively with potters from American Indian pueblos and from Mata Ortiz, Mexico. Utilizing their age-old techniques, he creates work that is new and fresh, alive with rhythmic textures and patterns. After digging the clay in the Elk Mountains near his studio in Colorado, Wisner hand-coils each piece. The pots are then precisely incised by hand with repeating patterns with various metal tools. Each piece is unique.

Equally unique are the Torrey pine needle baskets woven by Kraynek and Prince. After gathering and staining, dying, or painting the needles, they then use a coiling technique adapted from one used by Native Americans of the Southwest to create textured vessels with abstract patterns.

Small Works Summer Sale

July 15 - September 15
Recurring daily
Times: Tues-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 12-4p / Thurs ArtWalks: 7-9p / Closed Mondays
Location: Scottsdale Fine Art
Phone: (480) 990-3100
Admission: FREE

For a limited time only, Scottsdale Fine Art is offering 20% off on selected small works by these participating artists. Artists include: Nancy Seamons Crookston, Douglas R. Diehl, Gil Dellinger, Camille Engel, Peter Fiore, Allen Garns, David Gray, Kathy Hirsh, Clinton T. Hobart, Julee Hutchison, Ramon Kelley, Michael Maczuga, Tom Murray, Tim Perkins and
Seth Winegar

Sale Dates: July 15th - September 15th

Now is the perfect time to pick up that "little something" for someone special, even if that "someone" is you. At these prices you can afford to put it away for a special gift or decorate those small spaces you've been looking to fill.

Visit www.scottsdalefineart.com to view the complete online catalog of sale paintings. Or, if you are in the Scottsdale area, view the works displayed in our spacious Main Street gallery.

Creative Continuum

July 24 - November 28
Recurring daily
Times: Wed: 10a-9p / Thurs-Sat: 10a-5p / Sun: 6p-10p / Closed Mon & Tues
Location: Phoenix Art Museum
Phone: (602) 257-1222
Admission: $10 adults / $4 children 6-17

Founded by legendary photographer Ansel Adams and then University of Arizona President John P. Schaefer, The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona was the vision of two men who wanted to create an institution dedicated to collecting, preserving, interpreting and managing all materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history. Today, 35 years later, the Center has acquired more archives and individual works by 20th century North American photographers than any other museum in the nation.

Creative Continuum charts the Center's dynamic evolution, beginning with the inaugural exhibition of works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer through today's contemporary artists that are reinventing the medium. This special look at the Center's history is an exciting and engaging "who's who" of American photography and features works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston.

In addition to nearly ninety photographs, Creative Continuum also includes a sampling from the Center's Voices of Photography video oral history project, rare archival objects from the vault and examples of past exhibition catalogues

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum

September 04 - January 23
Recurring daily
Times: Tues., Wed., Fri., & Sat.: 10a-5p / Thurs.: 10a-8p / Sun.: 12p-5p / Closed Mon.
Location: Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Phone: (480) 874-4666
Admission: Adults: $7 / Students: $5 / Children 15 & under: Free / Free on Thursdays

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum showcases approximately 100 new works of contemporary art given this year to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art by Don and Carolyn Eason. Santa Fe-based collectors, the Easons purchased art throughout their relationship and this wonderful collection is a testament to their shared vision and passion for contemporary art. Daring art collectors, the couple sought out the work of both established and lesser known artists. For example, Kenneth Noland and Ken Price are both represented in the collection alongside the art of John Tinker and Bill Metcalf. In an interview published before Don Eason's death, the couple described their collection as favoring "the maverick, the quirky, the slightly off."

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