| Event Name | Organization | Dates | City | | Open HousePresented by Green Fields Country Day School at Green Fields Country Day School February 12, 2012 Green Fields Country Day School invites parents and students of all grades from kindergarten through 12th grade to an Open House. Those who are just curious to learn more about Southern Arizona's oldest independent day school are also welcome.
| Green Fields Country Day School | 02/12/12 | Tucson |
Exhibit Reception for BeMine: Collaborations between Writers and ArtistsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center February 13, 2012 The Poetry Center plays matchmaker this February. In anticipation of its Poetry Off the Page symposium in May, they want to encourage the ommunity to see that poetry isn't always made up of only words, and also want to highlight the relationship that writers have to artists.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/13/12 | Tucson |
Birding 202 Presented by Tohono Chul Park at Tohono Chul Park January 17-February 14, 2012 This course takes off where Birding 101 left off and explores in greater detail a variety of topics including seasonality and migration, tips for seeing birds year-round, the use of checklists and the importance of note taking, bird vocalizations, characteristics of select families, behaviors associated with courtship and nesting and bird adaptations to desert living.
| Tohono Chul Park | 01/17/12-
02/14/12 | Tucson |
| Reading by Marie Howe | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/16/12 | Tucson |
The Arnold and Doris Roland Distinguished Speaker Series presents Threads through Time: The Art and History of the Navajo PeoplePresented by Arizona State Museum at Arizona State Museum February 17, 2012 Everyone is invited to enjoy this talk by Jackson Clark, third generation trader and owner of Toh-Atin Gallery in Durango, Colorado. With a remarkable depth of knowledge based on 40 years of interaction, Clark relates his and his family's encounters trading with the Navajo people. Humor, respect, and great appreciation punctuate Clark's very personal stories, as he uses examples of specific weavings as mileposts along the shared journey.
| Arizona State Museum | 02/17/12 | Tucson |
The Gardner's Guide to CactusPresented by Tohono Chul Park at Tohono Chul Park February 18, 2012 Author and garden designer Scott Calhoun takes us on a journey into the world of cactus for the discriminating gardener. Learn just how easy, hardy and rewarding cactus can be for everyone, and not just the specialists.
| Tohono Chul Park | 02/18/12 | Tucson |
| smARTy Pants - Tesoros de Arte: Art Treasures | Tucson Museum of Art | 02/18/12 | Tucson |
Family Day, featuring The Physics Factory Presented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center February 18, 2012 The Physics Factory visits with their smoke ring apparatus, whirling-disk electrostatic generator, and other gismos. Participants will work with mathematicians and scientists to produce vivid lightning-like sparks, smoke rings, and other phenomenon and writers will be on hand to guide in crafting original writing inspired by these fun experiments.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/18/12 | Tucson |
Anthropogeomorphological Extrapolations - The Center for Land Use Interpretation on the GroundPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography February 20, 2012 In this lecture Coolidge will take the audience on a virtual tour through a range of built landscapes, in an attempt to extract meaning from the pits and piles that surround you. In this lecture Matthew Coolidge will take the audience on a virtual tour through a range of built landscapes, in an attempt to extract meaning from the pits and piles that surround you. He is the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), which has been constructing stories out of the intentional and... | Center for Creative Photography | 02/20/12 | Tucson |
Beautiful Desert GardensPresented by Tohono Chul Park at Tohono Chul Park February 25, 2012 Landscape designer Shelly Ann Abbott takes us on a colorful and lively arm-chair tour of some of her award-winning Southwest landscapes. Abbott's landscapes feature colorful, low-water, low-maintenance gardens that attract birds butterflies and night pollinators.
| Tohono Chul Park | 02/25/12 | Tucson |
Bridges II: An Artist Exchange ExhibitionPresented by The Drawing Studio at The Drawing Studio Gallery January 28-February 25, 2012 Aptly entitled "Bridges II: An Artist Exchange Exhibition," this exhibit, which premiered at the J Gallery in Northampton, England, in August 2011, is the second exchange exhibition between artists from Tucson and Northampton.
| The Drawing Studio | 01/28/12-
02/25/12 | Tucson |
| Art Now! Contemporary Art and Culture since 1980 | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 02/29/12 | Tucson |
| Art Gallery - Wish You Were Here - Etherton Gallery | Pima County Public Library | 02/01/12-
02/29/12 | Tucson |
| Art Gallery - Arizona Geological Survey | Pima County Public Library | 02/01/12-
02/29/12 | Tucson |
| Annual High School Art Invitational | Pima County Public Library | 03/01/12 | Tucson |
Mary Virginia Swanson: Ansel Adams: Advocate for American PhotographyPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 1, 2012 Mary Virginia Swanson worked closely with Ansel Adams during her tenure as director of education at The Friends of Photography (1980-1984), an organization that Adams co-founded and served as Chair of the Board of Directors until his death in 1984. She will discuss Adams's life-long contributions to the broad acceptance of photography as an art form and will chart his passion for sharing his love of the medium throughout his career.
| Center for Creative Photography | 03/01/12 | Tucson |
Museum Studies Lecture: Reality, hyper-reality, virtual reality, relative reality: Museums and AuthenticityPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art March 2, 2012 This course is designed for participants in our Museum Studies Internship Program; however, they are opening up the course to interested parties. Prospective docents, students, community members, artists wanting to learn more about art culture and the industry, teens considering a museum career, and anyone interested in learning more about new art and new ideas are welcome to attend.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/02/12 | Tucson |
Katherine Gregg: Guideposts and AnchorsPresented by Tucson Tamale Company at Tucson Tamale Company January 9-March 3, 2012 A series of mixed-media paintings featuring grayscale fields with markings that show a mix a mix of Middle Eastern and Asian influences.
| Tucson Tamale Company | 01/09/12-
03/03/12 | Tucson |
The Art of the GuitarPresented by Tohono Chul Park at Tohono Chul Park December 15, 2011-March 4, 2012 In tandem with the Tucson Museum of Art exhibit Who Shot Rock and Roll this exhibit explores the cultural and historical impact of the guitar in the Southwest region, with an eye towards the sheer beauty of the instrument and its contemporary popularity.
| Tohono Chul Park | 12/15/11-
03/04/12 | Tucson |
Ansel Adams: The View from HerePresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography December 10, 2011-March 4, 2012 Perhaps no photographer's work has enjoyed such popularity as Ansel Adams's awe-inspiring views of the natural world. His early trips to the Yosemite wilderness in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s informed the stylistic approach that made him famous.
| Center for Creative Photography | 12/10/11-
03/04/12 | Tucson |
The Art of the GuitarPresented by Tohono Chul Park at Tohono Chul Park December 15, 2011-March 4, 2012 In tandem with the Tucson Museum of Art exhibit Who Shot Rock and Roll this exhibit highlights regional artists who are exploring the guitar as a central subject in their work. With an eye towards the sheer beauty of the instrument and its contemporary popularity, Art of the Guitar is an exciting look at this dynamic instrument, and an exploration of its cultural and historical impact in the Southwest region.
| Tohono Chul Park | 12/15/11-
03/04/12 | Tucson |
FUISIONfest AZPresented by Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance at Pima Community College Northwest Campus March 3-March 4, 2012 Celebrating the diverse cultural art forms from around the world! FUISIONfest AZ is a two day festival that explores the rich artistic elements of our diverse and expansive global cultures. Explore the colorful and exotic flavors, sights and sounds from every corner and continent across the world while visiting the beautiful Pima Community College Northwest campus. The festival will feature cultural pavilions presenting culinary arts, fashion, visual arts and crafts, film and digital art,... | Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance | 03/03/12-
03/04/12 | Tucson |
| Art Now! Contemporary Art and Culture since 1980: Identity Politics and The Culture Wars | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/07/12 | Tucson |
Ed Asner as FDRPresented by Fox Tucson Theatre at Fox Tucson Theatre March 8, 2012 Television icon Ed Asner stars in this one-man show that takes them through FDR's White House years including the Depression, the steps leading up to WWII and the war years. Asner shows them why this president was know as that man in the White House, scorned by many and admired by most.
| Fox Tucson Theatre | 03/08/12 | Tucson |
Writer in Residence: Joan Juliet BuckPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art March 8, 2012 Check in with writer and social critic Joan Juliet Buck this spring as she develops and shares a series of performative monologues during her residency at MOCA. Imagine a sort of memoir told through fables, with a dose of morality tale and a dash of wicked humor.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/08/12 | Tucson |
The Poetics of Influence: Eddie JonesPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art March 10, 2012 Join them to welcome world-renowned, Phoenix-based architect Eddie Jones as he shares his practice with Tucson audiences. Jones will speak about the influence of contemporary art on his practice as an alternative way to tell the Jones Studio narrative. Jones' deeply poetic, powerful, intelligent and compelling built works will take on a new dimension as you learn about the myriad ways in which contemporary artists have inspired his practice.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/10/12 | Tucson |
Chris Gall: Please Don't TellPresented by ArtsEye at ArtsEye December 3, 2011-March 15, 2012 ArtsEye Gallery presents: Please Don't Tell; a collection of Chris Gall illustrated prints from the collaborative PDT Cocktail Book by world renowned mixologist Jim Meehan. Gall's colorful and comic-book inspired prints pay tribute to American cocktail culture with wit and nostalgia.
| ArtsEye | 12/03/11-
03/15/12 | Tucson |
Fall in Love with FlowersPresented by Madaras Gallery at Madaras Gallery February 1-March 15, 2012 Fall in Love with Flowers featuring Diana Madaras's "Flowers for Susan" and other floral paintings. The award-winning Gallery features the most extensive collection of Madaras' work in the Southwest.
| Madaras Gallery | 02/01/12-
03/15/12 | Tucson |
Artist's Talk and Book Signing: Jose GalvezPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 19, 2012 Prize-winning photojournalist Jose Galvez will discuss his career documenting the everyday lives of Latinos in the United States, with special focus on his new work from the South. Born into the Mexican barrios of Tucson, Galvez entered the building of the Arizona Daily Star carrying his shoeshine box when he was 10 years old. He became a permanent fixture in the newsroom and bought a camera at a pawn shop in high school.
| Center for Creative Photography | 03/19/12 | Tucson |
| Art Now! Contemporary Art and Culture since 1980: Photography is the New Painting | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/21/12 | Tucson |
The Work and Life of Mark RothkoPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art March 22, 2012 In partnership with the Arizona Theatre Company, MOCA presents a lecture on the artist Mark Rothko. The lecture is given in conjunction with the Arizona Theatre Company's presentation of Red, a production based on true events from Rothko's life as one of the most visionary artists of the 20th century. Learn more about Rothko's work and life and deepen your theatre-going experience.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/22/12 | Tucson |
Studio Glass Movement Fiftieth Anniversary Celebration Presented by Sonoran Glass Art Academy at Sonoran Glass Art Academy March 22-March 24, 2012 Enjoy this celebration of the 50 year anniversary of the American Studio Glass Movement. Sonoran Glass Art Academy will be the home of a wonderful collection of Anniversary Exhibitions, Demos and Lectures by important Studio Glass Artists. Featured artists will include: Laura Donefer, Henry Halem, Tom Philabaum and more!
| Sonoran Glass Art Academy | 03/22/12-
03/24/12 | Tucson |
Family Day, featuring Opening Minds Through the ArtsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center March 24, 2012 This month, children from TUSD's award-winning Opening Minds Through the Arts program will be performing Shel Silverstein's "Where the Sidewalk Ends" in Persian among other songs that connect dance, instrumental music, and opera to the written word. The students range in age from five to eight years old and work with local teaching artists at various schools in Tucson.
| University of Arizona Poetry Center | 03/24/12 | Tucson |
Don't Look Now: Craig Cully, Chris Rush and James ReedPresented by Etherton Gallery at Etherton Gallery January 28-March 27, 2012 Etherton Gallery is pleased to present Don't Look Now, a new exhibition featuring painting and mixed media by Tucson artists Craig Cully, Chris Rush and James Reed. Don't Look Now highlights the ways in which the ordinary is made exotic.
| Etherton Gallery | 01/28/12-
03/27/12 | Tucson |
Newton and Helen Mayer HarrisonPresented by Center for Creative Photography at Center for Creative Photography March 27, 2012 Among the leading pioneers of the eco-art movement, the collaborative team of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison has worked for almost forty years with interdisciplinary teams to initiate collaborative dialogues to uncover ideas and solutions which support biodiversity and community development. Acting as historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, emissaries and art activists, their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and... | Center for Creative Photography | 03/27/12 | Tucson |
Barbara Brandel and Lorrie Parsell ExhibitPresented by Tucson Pima Arts Council at Tucson Pima Arts Council (TPAC) Offices in the Pioneer Building January 4-March 28, 2012 An exhibition of combined media paintings by Barbara Brandel and Lorrie Parsell in the historic Pioneer Building at downtown Tucson.
The exhibition is the seventh in a series organized by the Tucson Pima Arts Council to showcase artwork by Pima County artists. In collaged mixed media paintings with recycled world stamps and maps, Brandel creates costumed characters traveling through life displaying experiences, ancestries, desires, wishes, and perhaps regrets on their... | Tucson Pima Arts Council | 01/04/12-
03/28/12 | Tucson |
| Art Now! Contemporary Art and Culture since 1980: The Art Market goes Retail | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/28/12 | Tucson |
| Artist's Talk: Carter Mull | Center for Creative Photography | 03/29/12 | Tucson |
Armando Miguelez: Legislate CrazyPresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art January 27-March 30, 2012 As part of MOCA's current exhibition Legislate Crazy, artist Armando Miguelez is inviting museum visitors to engage with the artwork in a weekly interactive photo booth. Visitors may have their photo taken with a sign from Miguelez's Legislate Crazy series, and photographs will be installed in the museum as part of the exhibition.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 01/27/12-
03/30/12 | Tucson |
BeMine: Collaborations between Writers and ArtistsPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center February 1-March 30, 2012 The Poetry Center plays matchmaker this February. In anticipation of their Poetry Off the Page symposium, they want to encourage community to see that poetry isn't always made up of only words, and they want to highlight the relationship that writers have to artists. In order to elicit partnerships/collaborations between Tucson writers and photographers, painters, videographers, and musicians, curated pairs of local writers and artists have been asked to collaborate create or re-consider the... | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 02/01/12-
03/30/12 | Tucson |
| Curator Tour | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 03/30/12 | Tucson |
"Chuck Albanese and Maurice Sevigny: Taking in thePresented by Mesch, Clark and Rothschild at Mesch, Clark and Rothschild January 18-March 31, 2012 An exhibit entitled Taking in the Views ? Places on Two Artists' Bucket Lists will feature Chuck Albanese and Maurice Sevigny, former deans of the University of Arizona who share a spirit of adventure, travel and art.
| Mesch, Clark and Rothschild | 01/18/12-
03/31/12 | Tucson |
Tom Kiefer's Jouney West Presented by Tucson International Airport at Tucson International Airport January 4-March 31, 2012 Tom Kiefer's Journey West is the final section of a three-part series of black and white photographs taken around the state of Arizona; with the first leg of his journey from Ajo to Tucson, then Tucson to Phoenix, and finally completing the triangle from Phoenix to Ajo.
| Tucson International Airport | 01/04/12-
03/31/12 | Tucson |
Sharlot Hall and Hattie Lockett: An Arizona Centennial ExhibitionPresented by University of Arizona Poetry Center at University of Arizona Poetry Center January 3-March 31, 2012 They celebrate 100 years of Arizona statehood with a look at the achievements of two Arizona poets, Sharlot Mabridth Hall and Hattie Greene Lockett, members of the Arizona Women's Hall of Fame. Both Hall and Lockett were women of thought and action, pioneers in word and deed. Thanks to the generosity of the Hattie Lockett family and partnering institutions including the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections, this exhibit gathers published volumes and original materials from their... | University of Arizona Poetry Center | 01/03/12-
03/31/12 | Tucson |
Introductions to TucsonPresented by Wilde Meyer Gallery - Tucson at Wilde Meyer Gallery - Tucson March 1-March 31, 2012 This is a group show with established and up-and-coming artists, new for Wilde Meyer Gallery in Tucson. Martha Braun explores color relationships and harmony In her color field abstract paintings. Kristen Knight's resin varnished paintings feature skillfully rendered animals hovering over a patchwork collage background of antique papers and book pages.
| Wilde Meyer Gallery - Tucson | 03/01/12-
03/31/12 | Tucson |
| 2012 Spring Arts in the Plaza Fine Art and Jazz Festival | Southern Arizona Arts and Cultural Alliance | 03/31/12-
04/01/12 | Tucson |
Dirk Arnold: Endangered ArchitecturePresented by Etherton Gallery at Temple Gallery at the Temple of Music and Art March 2-April 3, 2012 The Temple Gallery is pleased to present the work of Dirk Arnold in its new exhibition, Dirk Arnold: Endangered Architecture. The exhibition features Arnold's framed shadowbox miniatures of Tucson's historic building facades, many of which have disappeared as generic urban sprawl has encroached upon the city.
| Etherton Gallery | 03/02/12-
04/03/12 | Tucson |
| Art Now! Contemporary Art and Culture since 1980 - Barbarians at the Gate: Institutional Intervention and Critique | Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 04/04/12 | Tucson |
Museum Studies Lecture: Modernism, Post-Modernism, High Corporatism: How Global Capital Affects World HeritagePresented by Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art at Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art April 6, 2012 This course is designed for participants in our Museum Studies Internship Program; however, we are opening up the course to interested parties. Prospective docents, students, community members, artists wanting to learn more about art culture and the industry, teens considering a museum career, and anyone interested in learning more about new art and new ideas are welcome to attend.
| Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art | 04/06/12 | Tucson |
Barbara Smith- Landforms and LepidopteraPresented by Tucson Botanical Gardens at Tucson Botanical Gardens March 1-April 8, 2012 Tucson painter Barbara Smith knows what she loves and what she loves is what she paints. Her first love, color, is evident through richly imbued oils and watercolors - blues and oranges that will forever change your impression of the high chaparral of the Sonoran Desert and the creatures that reside within its range. The second love is the Sonoran Desert and the many forms it takes throughout the seasons; both its vastness and intricate detail, act as subject.
| Tucson Botanical Gardens | 03/01/12-
04/08/12 | Tucson |
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