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We recently spoke with Jesse to learn about his process for revitalizing the space and to get a sneak-peek of what will be featured in the upcoming reinstallation.

PhxArt: What should we look forward to with the opening of the satellite location?

Jesse Lopez: The opening of the BIG Little Library this November will feature a library exhibition that complements the upcoming Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West special-engagement exhibition, which premieres in the Museum’s Steele Gallery in the same month. It will additionally provide more information on the library, its history and resources, and related library services and programming.

Along with books relating to the exhibition, this space will feature a TV screen with two videos on loop. One video will be a Geographic Information Systems (GIS) video created by the Museum in collaboration with Matthew Toro, head of the Maps and Geospatial Library at Arizona State University. The other featured video is still pending confirmation, but it will be an exciting addition that will support Landscapes of Extraction by demonstrating the complexity of mining in the West.

PhxArt: Can you tell us more about the books that will be featured?

Lopez: There will be about 6 to 8 books that relate to Landscapes of Extraction, as well as other information pamphlets about different subjects relating to the library and exhibition. My process included pulling all books in our collection related to artists whose works will be featured in the exhibition. I went through each of them page by page, and they are my favorites in terms of display and impact. Several copies of the exhibition publication will also be on display. A third display case will feature several fascinating rare books from the Lemon Art Research Library’s Special Collections that are not tied to Landscapes of Extraction.

PhxArt: What artists can visitors expect to learn more about in the BIG Little Library?

Lopez: Most of the books are either about an artist in the exhibition or authored by the artist themselves. Edward Burtynsky and David Maisel, two artists from Landscapes of Extraction, will feature prominently in the display. These photographers create surreal images from a high aerial bird’s eye view to depict the beauty and blight of man-altered landscapes including mines. Specifically, we will be showing Burtynsky’s book Oil and Maisel’s book Black Maps among others.

PhxArt: What are you most excited for with this installation?

Lopez: I am excited to have a space to create a unique exhibition and the opportunity to collaborate with other special libraries and librarians in Metro Phoenix to further explore this topic of mining in the West. This is my first time creating a “library exhibition,” and I am excited to collaborate on future exhibitions, especially the upcoming Desert Rider exhibition.

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For the 2021 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards open call, Phoenix Art Museum is partnering with Artlink, a Phoenix-based arts organization, who will host and help promote the call for artwork submissions. Up to three Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients will be announced on September 30, 2021, with each receiving a $1,500 grant and the opportunity to participate in a group exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum in spring 2022.

Applications are accepted online only and are due on July 15, 2021. There is a $10 fee to submit to the open call, with proceeds supporting arts education and exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum.

Eligibility Requirements

• Artists must be considered emerging artists, meeting at least one of the following criteria:
  • Individuals who have completed degree programs in the last 5 years
  • Artists who exhibit their work in Arizona but may not have shown nationally or internationally
  • Artists with a website and a few different bodies of work that show development over time
• Artists must currently be working.
• Artists working in all media, including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, new media, performance, photography, and video, may apply.
• Artists must be Arizona residents for a minimum of one year.
• Submitted artwork must have been produced within the past two years.
• Artists may not be enrolled in a college-degree program.
• Previous recipients of the Artists’ Grants are
• Artists must be registered as an Artlink Articipant. Register as an Articipant* with Artlink here:

https://artlinkphx.org/articipants/artist-articipant-registration/

*Note: While Articipation with Artlink does not require payment, there are additional benefits to paid levels. Visit artlinkphx.org for details. Questions about Artlink? Please email info@artlinkphx.org. 

Submission Requirements

Applications must be submitted online USING THE FOLLOWING LINK: bit.ly/LehmannAwardsOpenCall

 Submissions MUST include:

• Artist name, street address, email address, and telephone number
• Resume/CV
• Artist statement (optional; 150 words or less)
• Description of each submitted work (title, date, medium, dimensions)
• Three (3) JPEGS or three (3) videos of different examples of work
  • Videos exceeding three minutes will not be accepted.

Submission Deadline

All materials must be submitted online by 11:59 pm Pacific Standard Time on July 15, 2021. Submit applications to the following link: bit.ly/LehmannAwardsOpenCall. Please email curatorial@phxart.org with any questions.

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February 5, 2021

In 2019, Phoenix Art Museum celebrated 60 years of art, life, and community in the heart of our city, at the northeast corner of Central and McDowell. Over these past six decades, we have often heard stories from guests who experienced major life moments within the halls, galleries, garden, and public spaces of the Museum. Couples said “I do” in the Dorrance Sculpture Garden. High school seniors danced the night away with friends at their proms held in Cummings Great Hall. There were stories of breakups in the American Wing, proposals among the French Impressionist gardens, and first dates among the fireflies. As we celebrated our 60th year, we wanted to find a way to tell those stories, to share those life moments that happened in our Museum.

Thanks to the profound generosity of The Steele Foundation, the Museum, in honor of its milestone anniversary, set out to capture the story of Phoenix Art Museum through a series of three films that would weave together the experiences of our visitors using both poetry and narrative and created in collaboration with a team of Arizona-based filmmakers, who brought with them their own perspectives as Museum visitors. Today, we are pleased to announce the virtual world premiere of the third and final film in this series, Represent.

Represent follows a teenage boy through Phoenix Art Museum during a school field trip, an experience that yields an unexpected effect. Written and directed by Chris Heck, who wrote Wish You Were There and directed The First Time, the film explores the power and importance of representation in museum spaces and features Mykhal Polite in his first film.

Represent was made possible through the generosity of The Steele Foundation. It enjoyed its world premiere in 2020 at the Providence Children’s Film Festival in Rhode Island, where it received the 2020 Hasbro Children’s Hospital Audience Choice Award. The film was also selected for the 2020 New York International Children’s Film Festival, an Oscar-qualifying festival, and the Pasadena International Film Festival. Represent additionally made its international debut in 2020 at the International Changing Perspectives Film Festival in Istanbul, Turkey; was featured at the PRIDE Queer Film Festival in Perth Australia; and was presented at the Festival Brasil de Cinema Internacional, where it won for Best Production and was nominated for Best Short Film and Best Actor: Mykhal Polite.

Image credit: Represent, 2020. Film. Copyright ©2020 Quantum Leap Productions and Phoenix Art Museum. Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum.

About the Director: PhxArtist Spotlight

Chris Heck: In His Own Words

About the Film Editor: PhxArtist Spotlight

Misty Wilson: In Her Own Words

WISH YOU WERE THERE

December 4, 2020

In 2019, Phoenix Art Museum celebrated 60 years of art, life, and community in the heart of our city, at the northeast corner of Central and McDowell. Over these past six decades, we have often heard stories from guests who experienced major life moments within the halls, galleries, garden, and public spaces of the Museum. Couples said “I do” in the Dorrance Sculpture Garden. High school seniors danced the night away with friends at their proms held in Cummings Great Hall. There were stories of breakups in the American Wing, proposals among the French Impressionist gardens, and first dates among the fireflies. As we celebrated our 60th year, we wanted to find a way to tell those stories, to capture those life moments that happened in our Museum.

Thanks to the profound generosity of The Steele Foundation, the Museum, in honor of its milestone anniversary, set out to capture the story of Phoenix Art Museum through a series of three films that would weave together the experiences of our visitors using both poetry and narrative and created in collaboration with a team of Arizona-based filmmakers, who brought with them their own perspectives as Museum visitors. Today, we are pleased to announce the virtual world premiere of our second film in the series, Wish You Were There.

Set in the galleries of Phoenix Art Museum, Wish You Were There illustrates the power of art to create tender moments rooted in memory, connection, and love, both old and new. We hope you enjoy this narrative journey with us.

Wish You Were There was made possible through the generosity of The Steele Foundation. The world premiere of Wish You Were There was hosted earlier this year at the Sedona International Film Festival. The film, which was additionally released on Short of the Week and Omeleto today, is also an Official Selection of the Arizona Short Film Festival and was recently awarded the Phoenix Film Festival 2020 Copper Wing Award for Best Arizona Short Film.

Image credit: Wish You Were There, 2020. Film. Copyright ©2020 Quantum Leap Productions and Phoenix Art Museum. Courtesy of Phoenix Art Museum.

About the Director: PhxArtist Spotlight

Kieran Thompson: In His Own Words

THE FIRST TIME

October 1, 2020

In 2019, Phoenix Art Museum celebrated 60 years of art, life, and community in the heart of our city, at the northeast corner of Central and McDowell. Over these past six decades, we have often heard from guests about their first visit to see us, which is often their first visit to any art museum. The Monet in our European wing was their first Impressionist painting. The Suicide of Dorothy Hale was their first Frida Kahlo. Kusama’s Fireflies was the first time they explored the universe without leaving Arizona. Traveling exhibitions over the years brought treasures from Asia, Europe, and beyond, from the legends of Hollywood films to the relics of Egypt to the mastery of Monet, Rembrandt, and da Vinci. As we celebrated our 60th year, we wanted to find a way to tell those stories, to capture those experiences of visitors passing through the doors of this institution for the first time.

Thanks to the profound generosity of The Steele Foundation, the Museum, in honor of its milestone anniversary, set out to create a series of films that would weave together the experiences of our visitors using both poetry and narrative to capture the story of Phoenix Art Museum.

Over the coming months, we will be releasing three short films, created by Phoenix Art Museum in collaboration with a team of local filmmakers who brought with them their own perspectives as Museum visitors. This October, we are pleased to announce the virtual world-premiere of our first film in the series: The First Time.

The First Time is a love letter, of sorts, from Phoenix Art Museum. And like any good love letter that waxes poetic about the moment when two star-crossed lovers meet, this film is the story of the first time the Museum met you.

Image credit: Alfredo Ramos Martinez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca) (detail), c. 1940. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art.

About the Director: PhxArtist Spotlight

Chris Heck: In His Own Words

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Join us now for the 2021 State of the Museum, the annual meeting of Phoenix Art Museum. Due to social-distancing measures, this year’s annual meeting is presented exclusively in video format for you to view and enjoy from the comfort of your own home or office.

This year’s virtual State of the Museum presentation provides an update on Fiscal Year 2020, which concluded on June 30, 2020, and previews our progress amidst the COVID-19 pandemic during the first half of this Fiscal Year 2021. Learn more about the impact of the pandemic on Museum operations, significant new acquisitions, upcoming exhibitions, and the Museum’s impact on the community, and enjoy the first keynote address from Tim Rodgers, PhD, the Museum’s new Sybil Harrington Director and CEO.

Can’t watch now? The 2021 State of the Museum will remain available at the link above to watch at your own convenience.

Questions? Comments? Submit your questions or feedback to director@phxart.org, and we will respond within 7 to 10 business days.

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