Cara Romero, Alika No. 2, 2024, archival pigment print. © Cara Romero. Image courtesy of the artist.

PHOENIX, AZ (December 9, 2025) – In early 2026, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) will present the landmark exhibition Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), the first major museum exhibition dedicated solely to the artist’s evocative work. Romero blends fine art and editorial styles to challenge dominant narratives of Indigenous decline and erasure while disrupting preconceived notions about what it means to be a Native American. Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) features more than 60 iconic large-scale photographs spanning a decade of the artist’s career, including a new, never-before-exhibited work commissioned by PhxArt to be created by Cara Romero—a project based in regional, collaborative storytelling with Native peoples. Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) will be on view at PhxArt from February 28 through June 28, 2026.

“Phoenix Art Museum is profoundly honored to debut Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) during this historic moment for the institution, as we expand our commitment to presenting the most innovative voices shaping contemporary art today,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “Romero stands at the forefront of contemporary photography, masterfully weaving materials, myths, and Indigenous practices with urgent contemporary realities. Though rooted in her personal story and Indigenous futurism, her work speaks universally to themes of women’s empowerment, environmental stewardship, and the role of landscape in shaping identity. This exhibition represents a milestone for our communities to experience the work of a groundbreaking artist with deep cultural and historical ties to the Desert Southwest.” 

Cara Romero (b. 1977; Chemehuevi/American) is a renowned photographer known for dramatic fine-art photography that examines Indigenous life in contemporary contexts. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between the contrasting settings of the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Informed by her identity, Romero’s visual storytelling represents Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, countering dominant narratives of Native American experiences and showcasing the diversity within Indigenous nations and communities. 

“Having a contemporary photography exhibit at Phoenix Art Museum marks a radical turn in my journey as a Native American female photographer,” said Cara Romeo. “I am excited for the work to be integrated into an American Art museum as an intercultural conversation– I’m especially excited that PhxArt is the closest major American Art institution to my homelands on the Chemehuevi Valley Indian Reservation. 

This is my first solo exhibition touring the United States, and Phoenix is the second of four venues. It feels like such an epic venue for this exhibition. My hope is that together, we open people’s minds to the many fascinating diversities of Native people and stories.”

The exhibition’s title, Panûpünüwügai, translates to “living light,” and has multiple meanings: the spirit of light, the way light interacts with human beings, and how both light and people are enlivened through these interactions. Featured works, including site-specific installations and large-scale photographs, are organized across five thematic sections: 

California Desert and Mythos draws inspiration from Romero’s experiences of growing up in the Chemehuevi Valley in Southeastern California along the Colorado River, which shaped her worldview and work. Throughout this section, visitors encounter four young boys who represent not only themselves, but also time-traveling spirit beings of the landscape, reminding audiences that neither time nor the rich ecological and social history of the Mojave Desert are linear. 

In (Re)Imagining Americana Drawing, Romero upends stereotypical images and stories from pop culture and mass media that often define Native-American experiences and opportunities. Working with various collaborators to produce the works featured in this section, Romero riffs on images of American Girl dolls and Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, among other mainstream imagery. 

Rematriation: Empowering Indigenous Women showcases images that position female subjects in spaces of power. Created from a maternal and biographical perspective, these works are informed by the women leaders Romero has encountered in her own life and community. 

Environmental Racism spotlights some of Romero’s most memorable images, speaking to historical and contemporary issues of resource extraction and its impacts on indigenous ecosystems. These photographic dreamscapes—many of which were created underwater—encourage reflection on the relationships among humanity, place, the landscape, and extractive economies.

Throughout Ancestral Futures, Romero’s otherworldly images speculate on playful contexts but assert the sacred role of ancestral knowledges and place-based intelligences in building healthy futures, not only for Indigenous peoples, but for everyone. These works are informed by the artist’s love of magical realism and center narratives such as the life-giving power of women, the intelligence of corn, and the importance of telling stories that are both complicated and hopeful. Within this section, viewers will encounter the introduction of a newly commissioned work that Romero will create by drawing on her relationships with Indigenous community members from the Phoenix region. They will be invited to collaborate on a monumental photographic work that interweaves elements and imagery of desert ecology with the notion of nonlinear time, yielding a piece that will honor ancestors and their deep knowledge of the land while asserting the vitality of Native-American communities now and into the future. Following its debut in the PhxArt presentation of Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), the work will become a part of the Museum’s permanent collection numbering more than 21,000 objects, building upon the institution’s existing strength in contemporary photographic portraiture. 

“Cara Romero is one of the leading image-makers of our time,” said Emilia Mickevicius, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography, who coordinated the exhibition’s presentation at PhxArt. “I’m eager for our audiences to connect with her practice and unique storytelling through this immersive, captivating installation.” 

The exhibition curated by Jami Powell, PhD, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art and is accompanied by a catalogue co-published by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and Radius Books. The publication features contributions by Jami Powell, notable scholars including Suzan Shown Harjo (Mvskoke), former U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (Mvskoke), and Jordan Poorman Cocker (Kiowa and Tongan), Curator of Indigenous Art at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, among others. The catalogue will be available at the Phoenix Art Museum Store.

For high-resolution photography for Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) or to request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum kaylee.weyrauch@phxart.org or press@phxart.org.   

About the Exhibition

Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, and curated by Jami Powell, PhD, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art. It is generously supported by leadership gifts from Claire Foerster and Daniel S. Bernstein, Thomas A. and Georgina T. Russo, and support from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the Charles Gilman Family Endowment, and a gift from Karen Miller Nearburg and Charles Nearburg. The exhibition’s presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. Its Phoenix premiere is made possible by the Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation, Every Page Foundation, and John and Lois Rogers. Additional support provided by Prime Steak Concepts. Contemporary art exhibitions and projects are made possible in part by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose, and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art. All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members and youth aged five and younger. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix and First Fridays from 5 – 8 pm, made possible by APS and Lexus, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation.  For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum

Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, a monthly live-music series, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

About Cara Romero 

Cara Romero, b. 1977, Inglewood, Calif. (American / Chemehuevi), is an artist known for dramatic fine art photography that examines Indigenous life in contemporary contexts. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Informed by her identity, Romero’s visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences results in a blending of fine art and editorial styles. Maintaining a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Romero regularly participates in Native American art fairs and panel discussions and was featured on PBS’s Craft in America in 2019. Her award-winning work is included in numerous public and private collections, domestically and internationally, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, Amon Carter Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and Forge Project Collections, among others. Romero travels between Santa Fe and the Chemehuevi Valley Indian Reservation, where she maintains close ties to her tribal community and ancestral homelands.

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PHOENIX (September 3, 2025) – Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) today announced the recipients of the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards. Alice Leora Briggs was named the recipient of the 2025 Scult Family Artist Award and Chris Ignacio and Jan Talmadge Davids were named the recipients of the 2025 Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards (Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards). New this year is the Sette/Cohn Artist Award, established in 2024 to expand the Arizona Artist Awards program and deepen PhxArt’s support of local artists. Shaunté Glover was named the inaugural recipient. As part of the awards, each artist receives a lifetime Membership to Phoenix Art Museum as well as funds to support their artistic practice. Briggs, Ignacio, and Talmadge Davids will also have the opportunity to exhibit their work in solo and group exhibitions at the Museum premiering in summer 2026.

“We are thrilled to announce this year’s Scult, Lehmann, and Sette/Cohn Artist Awards recipients, in recognition of their artistic contributions to our state’s robust arts and culture landscape,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “Each of these artists has built a dynamic, thoughtful practice that speaks to their own lived experiences, communities, and perspectives on identity, connection, and the larger human condition. We are honored to support their work as part of our ongoing commitment to amplifying the voices of Arizona-based artists through our annual Artist Awards program, and we are grateful to the Scult family, the Lehmann family, the Cohn family, Lisa Sette, and Artlink for their generosity and partnership in strengthening those efforts.” 

“I offer my heartfelt congratulations to Alice, Chris, Jan, and Shaunté as our newest cohort of Arizona Artist Awards recipients,” said Christian Ramírez, Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement at Phoenix Art Museum. “These artists have all built multifaceted practices, and their work stands as a testament to the strength of the artistic community here in Arizona. I look forward to working with Alice, Chris, and Jan as we begin planning for their forthcoming exhibitions, which will be designed to engage our community with their evocative works and wide-ranging perspectives, and I look forward to seeing how Shaunté utilizes this award opportunity to support her artistic growth.” 

Scult Family Artist Award

Each year, Phoenix Art Museum recognizes a mid-career Arizona-based artist with the Scult Family Artist Award. Eligible candidates must have resided in Arizona for a minimum of four consecutive years and are nominated by a group of curators, museum directors, and other arts professionals from across the state. Their candidacy is evaluated based on their demonstration of artistic excellence, active creation and exhibition of new work, and career-spanning evolution. Following a robust review process, a jury of curators, art scholars, artists, and other experts and professionals in the field from across the country selects the recipient. The Scult Family Artist Award includes monetary support of $20,000 and an invitation to present a solo exhibition of new and past work at the Museum. The 2025 Scult Artist Award jury included Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art; Olivia Miller, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon; Ann Morton, 2019 Scult Family Artist Award recipient; Christian Ramírez, Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement, Phoenix Art Museum; and Jeff Scult.

The 2025 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award recipient is Alice Leora Briggs. Born in an oil boomtown in West Texas, Briggs grew up in Idaho’s Snake River Valley and is now based in Tucson, Arizona. Through her practice, she investigates human frailties through drawings, woodcuts, letterpress broadsides, site-specific installations, and books. Her work has been featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions and is represented in more than 35 public collections, including those of Phoenix Art Museum; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Museum of Fine Arts Houston; Library of Congress; Oxford’s Bodleian Library; and Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.  Her publications include Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (2010); an illuminated manuscript-police blotter created with writer Charles Bowden; Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon (2022) produced with photojournalist Julián Cardona; and The Room, a portfolio of woodcuts created with U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand. Briggs was a Fulbright Scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava, Slovakia, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa and is represented by Evoke Contemporary in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Etherton Gallery in Tucson, Arizona.  

Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards

The Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards foster the creative practices and careers of emerging Arizona-based artists. Candidates must have resided in Arizona for a minimum of one year and are invited to apply through an annual open call hosted by Artlink, a non-profit organization that has supported and amplified Arizona artists and community-based art events and initiatives for more than 30 years. Recipients receive $10,000 in monetary support and the opportunity to present a joint exhibition at the Museum with fellow Lehmann awardees. The 2025 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards jury was also assembled by Ramírez and included Ramírez; Lana Meador, Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, San Antonio Museum of Art; Olivia Miller, Executive Director, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon; Ann Morton, 2019 Scult Family Artist Award recipient; and Sally Lehmann. 

The Museum has named Chris Ignacio and Jan Talmadge Davids as the recipients of the 2025 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards. Based in Phoenix, ChrisIgnacio is a Filipino-American puppeteer, producer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of voice, technology, and identity. He began his puppetry career in New York in 2012, training with experimental artists at La MaMa and working across theater, community arts, and livestream media. In 2023, he made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera as a puppeteer in Florencia en el Amazonas, directed by Mary Zimmerman. He has also premiered original puppetry works at New York theaters including La MaMa, The Tank, and The Brick, and has toured both nationally and abroad. In Phoenix, Ignacio has served as a media designer for major institutions such as Ballet Arizona, Arizona Broadway Theater, Arizona Opera, and Childsplay. His original projects, including those featured in exhibitions at Vision Gallery and Mesa Arts Center, center community collaboration, particularly with young people or people with limited arts exposure. He holds an MFA in Theatre/Interdisciplinary Digital Media from Arizona State University (ASU), where he now teaches motion capture and 3D animation. Ignacio also serves as creative producer for the T. Denny Sanford Harmony Institute at ASU. 

Jan Talmadge Davids works in clay and mixed media to explore landscapes of her childhood and their local  ecologies and to articulate ideas of place-making. Through installation and material sensitivities, she invites the viewer to engage in the ideas of fragility and vulnerability. Talmadge Davids was born in Tucson, Arizona, spending her youth in the southeastern part of the state. She attended the University of Arizona, California State University at Long Beach, and then came from Los Angeles to pursue her MFA at the Herberger School of Art and Design, where she found the opportunity to reconcile her past with her present, which is embedded in the desert landscape. Her work has been shown at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; The Carolyn Campanga Klefeeld Contemporary Art Museum in Long Beach, CA; Tempe Center for the Arts; eye lounge; The Tucson Museum of Art; and Art d’Core Gala.

Sette/Cohn Artist Award

Established in 2024, the Sette/Cohn Artist Award was created to expand PhxArt’s Arizona Artist Awards program.  The new $5,000 prize is awarded to an emerging Arizona artist selected from the Lehmann Emerging Artist Award application pool as part of a five-year initiative dedicated to supporting arts engagement and strengthening community partnerships. It is named in honor of Lisa Sette, who has supported and represented Arizona-based artists, both through her gallery and personally, for more than 40 years, and Lee and Mike Cohn, longtime Museum supporters who in 2023 provided the seed funding to launch the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund and have extended their generosity to support Arizona-based artists. The award’s recipient is selected by Christian Ramírez, Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement, Phoenix Art Museum; Olga Viso, Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Phoenix Art Museum; Lee and Mike Cohn; and Lisa Sette. 

The inaugural 2025 Sette/Cohn Artist Award recipient is Shaunté Glover. Glover is a multidisciplinary artist based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her creative journey spans photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture, exploring identity and representation to use art as a catalyst to increase visibility, strengthen community engagement, and amplify the voices of marginalized communities, particularly those of Black women. Rooted in her upbringing in South Phoenix, Glover’s work draws from memories of childhood, basketball, family, and everyday neighborhood life. She combines these influences into layered visual narratives that reflect lived experience and cultural nuance. 

The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Scult Family; Sally and Richard Lehmann; the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund; and Lisa Sette.

For high-resolution photography or more information, contact the Museum’s Communications Office at samantha.andreacchi@phxart.org or press@phxart.org. 

About Phoenix Art Museum

Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, an art+music festival, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

About Artlink Inc.

Artlink keeps the arts integral to our development by connecting artists, businesses, and the community. Founded as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization by artists in 1989, the Artlink name is a guiding principle for the organization, as it supports stakeholders of the arts and culture community, amplifying its collective strength. Visit artlinkphx.org to sign up for the Artlink newsletter, or connect socially on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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PHOENIX (August 4, 2025) – This fall, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection. The exhibition provides a unique opportunity to discover the technical achievements and creativity of leading women ceramicists from post-war Japan, highlighting their discovery of new possibilities for clay and its potential as a radical medium. Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan will be on view at PhxArt from September 24, 2025 – August 9, 2026. 

“It is a privilege for Phoenix Art Museum to present Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “Selected from the private collection of Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz, long-time supporters of Phoenix Art Museum, this exhibition highlights an incredible selection of innovative artists who have expanded the creative boundaries of ceramics as a medium. This is a rare opportunity to experience the technical advancement and innovation in contemporary Japanese art and complements the Museum’s historical works in the institution’s Asian Art Collection.”

Radical Clay celebrates the originality and virtuosity of 36 women artists from Japan who have explored sculptural expression outside the traditional field of Japanese studio ceramics since the 1970s. The exhibition’s 40 avant-garde works are drawn from the Horvitz Collection, considered one of the leading collections of Japanese contemporary ceramics outside of Japan, and explore wide-ranging content and motifs, including the human body, geology, flora, and fantastical abstract forms. Through the evocative display, visitors discover an often-overlooked history of Japanese women artists who have made significant contributions to the traditionally male-dominated field of ceramics since World War II. Featured works demonstrate these artists’ bold approaches to form, color, and surface texture, as well as the ways in which they have resisted gendered expectations by working in so-called “masculine” modes while depicting traditionally “feminine” subjects, including in large scale. An example of one of these captivating works includes Erosion No. 4 Shokka (Eroding Flower) (2021) by Shingu Sayaka, whose floral sculpture aims to capture both the fragility and strength of nature and the medium of ceramics. Thin needles of clay, each shaped by hand, are gathered into tufts evocative of the inside of a flower, with somber colors that suggest a sense of decay and the passage of time.

“Visitors will see a wide sweep of sculptures in Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan, from the innovative to the expressive to the mysterious,” said Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Art at Phoenix Art Museum. “The exhibition is a powerful opportunity to discover the many ways technically accomplished ceramicists—many of whom have long been overlooked in their field—have pushed the physical limits of the medium, stepping outside the conventional nature of working with clay despite societal and cultural expectations.” 

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue published by the Art Institute of Chicago. It features contributions by Hollis Goodall, former Curator of Japanese Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art.  

To request interviews and high resolution photography, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at samantha.andreacchi@phxart.org or kaylee.weyrauch@phxart.org. 

About the Exhibition

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection and curated by Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Curator of Japanese Art. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Art. 

The exhibition is presented by Katharine and Nicholas J. Feduska, M.D. and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.

All contemporary art exhibitions and projects are made possible in part by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose, and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art.

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation, with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, and First Fridays from 5 – 8 pm, made possible by APS and Lexus, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum

Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, a monthly live-music series, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

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PHOENIX (July 16, 2025) – This summer, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents the Southwest premiere of Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection, showcasing a superlative collection of historically significant works from 17^th– and 18^th-century Florence that are rarely seen outside of Italy. The exhibition features gilded paintings and delicate sculptures that demonstrate the distinctive Florentine Baroque style, known for its poetic and colorful symbolism. Drawn from The Haukohl Collection, works feature dramatic and vibrant depictions of religious, classical, mythological, and allegorical narratives. The first exhibition of its kind in Arizona, Florentine Baroque is an unprecedented opportunity for regional audiences to unravel the legacy of many important Florentine artists of the period who contributed to the Tuscan city’s cultural legacy, most notably supported by the Medici Grand Dukes. Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection will be on view at PhxArt from August 28, 2025 – July 26, 2026. 

“Phoenix Art Museum is excited to present the Arizona and Southwest premiere of Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection,’” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “This exhibition offers a unique opportunity for our audiences to explore works from a specific place and art historical period that are not prominently represented in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection. Additionally, it is the only chance to view these stunning sculptures, paintings, and more in the Southwest. We are grateful to Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl for his partnership in bringing this collection to our visitors.”

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection showcases more than 30 examples of large- and small-scale works from some of the most prominent artist families in Italy. Featuring work by Florentine artists who lived and produced across Europe, the collection was assembled over more than 40 years by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, a Houston-based art collector and co-founder of the Medici Archive Project. The exhibition at Phoenix Art Museum uncovers the splendor and significance of the Florentine Baroque art movement. Visitors to the exhibition will discover how Florentine Baroque works unite influences of Florentine tradition with Renaissance sensibilities, yielding a style that is at once sensuous and poetic. The rare display of works also provides the opportunity to examine the legacy of the House of Medici. The Medici Bank was founded in 1397 and for hundreds of years was the largest bank in Europe. The renowned Italian banking family eventually became one of the most influential families in European history, serving as the de facto rulers of the Republic of Florence through their financial patronage of advancements in art, banking, and architecture before taking political office in the 16^th century. The family’s lineage also includes four popes, thirteen cardinals, and various bishops. 

Florentine Baroque is organized into three distinct thematic sections. Faith, Strength, and Courage features depictions of Biblical narratives and religious figures that reference the dominant Catholic faith in Florence as well as the Renaissance interest in humanism, a classical movement that emphasized human values. Sacred Beauty, Fierce Devotion showcases portraits of saints, but unlike previous generations of artists, works by featured 17^th-century painters represent these pious figures as distinctly human rather than divine, with naturalistic forms, expressions, and mannerisms. Finally, Allegory, Gods, and Heroes presents mythological and allegorical figures and stories that reflect the intellectual, artistic, and moral ideals of the time, which was characterized by significant advancements in music, philosophy, science, and all the humanities. Undergirding each section is the marked influence of the Medici Grand Dukes of Florence, whose patronage of the arts fostered a wide range of artists in Italy and across Europe, including Leonardo Da Vinci, Raphael, and Donatello, among many other notable artists.

“The Haukohl Philanthropies are thrilled to be working with the experienced curatorial and management team of Phoenix Art Museum. We are delighted to loan the Medici Collection to the Museum for one year and work with the Arizona community to offer a wide range of special programs,” said Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl, co-founder of the Medici Archive Project. “The exhibition is dedicated in honor of my late cousin, Dr. Howard Somers Conant, Chair of the Art Department of New York University and later, Head of the Department of Art at the University of Arizona.” 

The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated 288-page catalogue, Beyond the Medici: The Haukohl Family Collection, which will be available for purchase in The Museum Store with editions in English, German, and Italian. The publication features paintings, drawings, textiles, and sculpture in the collection that document the Medici patronage and artists of the period. Particular attention is paid to the Dandini Family of painters—Cesare, Vincenzo, and Pier—each reviewed in depth along with a generous bibliography. Essays by Drs. Eike Schmidt, James Bradburn, Federico Berti, Fabio Sottili, and Francesco Scasciamacchia address a broad overview of collecting and history of the period.

Throughout the run of the exhibition, the Museum will host dynamic programs to provide deeper historical and social context to the featured artworks. The calendar of events includes:

August 27 | 10 am – 8 pm 
Members-Only Preview Day
PhxArt Members enjoy exclusive access to the exhibition before it opens to the public, with Docent presentations throughout the day. Member RSVP only.

September 4 | 10:30 – 11 am
Storytime in the Gallery 
Designed for the Museum’s youngest visitors (ages 0-5), this edition of Storytime will feature a book and art-making activity inspired by the Florentine Baroque art movement. Tickets available here.

September 6, 13, 20, 27 | 11 am – 3 pm
Create Playdate
Create Playdate offers young artists a variety of hands-on maker experiences every Saturday with the Museum’s mobile, in-gallery art cart. Throughout the month of September, discover themed activities inspired by the groundbreaking exhibition. No RSVP required.

December 18 | 6 – 7 pm
SOUNDCHECK
This holiday season, enjoy a live music performance in the Museum’s picturesque Dorrance Sculpture Garden inspired by Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection. SOUNDCHECK is the Museum’s new live-music series that brings popular local + regional acts to the Museum for raw, unmissable performances in our gallery spaces. Performer information and tickets forthcoming.

January 28 | 6 – 7 pm 
Carved Splendors: Florentine Baroque Frames at the Medici Court 
Hosted by FOCUS on European Art in partnership with Phoenix Art Museum, hear from Dr. Davide Gasparotto, Senior Curator of Paintings at the Getty Museum, who will discuss the gilded frames of the Florentine Baroque. Tickets forthcoming.

February 4 | 5 – 8 pm
Lemon Library Book Club + Lecture
Inspired by Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection, join Lemon Art Research Librarian Jesse Lopez for a book club discussion and lecture focused on The Beauty and the Terror by Catherine Fletcher. Book selection and tickets forthcoming. 

April 3 | 5 – 8 pm  
First Friday  
Enjoy exhibition tours, art-making activities, and more, all with pay-what-you-wish admission to the entire Museum, including Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection. Tickets forthcoming.

To receive high-resolution photography for Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at press@phxart.org and samantha.andreacchi@phxart.org. 

About the Exhibition

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection is organized by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl with the generous support of Haukohl Philanthropies. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections. It is made possible by Joanna and Mick Levin. All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, and First Fridays from 5 – 8 pm, made possible by APS and Lexus. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum

Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art and fashion of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and art experiences. Each year, more than 250,000 guests engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions, as well as the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion. The Museum also presents vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson and is home to The Gene and Cathy Lemon Art Research Library, The Thorne Miniature Rooms, The Ullman Center for the Art of Philip C. Curtis, and Arizona Costume Institute (ACI). For the community, PhxArt hosts lectures, live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education workshops, family-focused programs, and more. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880. 

About Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl and The Haukohl Philanthropies

Sir Mark is a collector and philanthropist residing in Houston, Texas. He is Chairman of the Board of The Vero Group, a Family Office. Sir Mark is an experienced Wall Street investor having previously been Managing Director of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. He is co-founder of The Medici Archive Project of Florence, Italy. The Haukohl Family Philanthropies, whose objective is to advance art education for underserved audiences, have underwritten numerous acquisitions and exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Arp Museum in Banhof Rolandseck of Remagen, Germany and the BOZAR in Brussels, to name only a few.

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PHOENIX (April 23, 2025) – This fall, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents Eric Fischl: Stories Told, organized by PhxArt and guest curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Curator Emeritus at the Arizona State University Art Museum. The major exhibition explores several notable series created by the figurative painter from the late 1970s to today, foregrounding his career-long commitment to depicting the human figure amid middle-class suburban settings inspired by his childhood and personal experiences. Eric Fischl: Stories Told will be on view at PhxArt from November 7, 2025 – June 14, 2026.

“Phoenix Art Museum is honored to premiere Eric Fischl: Stories Told in the very city where Fischl began his artistic career,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Museum’s Sybil Harrington Director and CEO. “For decades, Eric Fischl’s painting, drawing, and sculptural practice have garnered tremendous art-world acclaim, especially from artists with a particular interest in the human figure. In addition to his international stature, Fischl has had a profound impact on the Phoenix arts scene through longtime mentorship and philanthropic endeavors at Phoenix College, making this survey of signature works—the first full-scale, solo exhibition of Fischl’s art since 2018—a homecoming of sorts.” 

Fischl (b. 1948) grew up in Long Island, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona, where he attended Phoenix College and Arizona State University in the late 1960s. After studying under contemporary landscape painter Merrill Mahaffey, Fischl received his B.F.A. in 1972 as part of the first graduating class at the California Institute for the Arts (CalArts). During a time when new art forms and ideas reigned at CalArts, Fischl largely had to teach himself to paint in the traditional manner, studying early modern artists like Manet and Degas. Working with figurative painting and narrative content in the late 1970s, when it was decidedly out of favor in the art world, Fischl made his subject what he knew best: memories of suburban life and the nuclear family of his childhood. Across his oeuvre, Fischl has explored themes such as the aspirational American Dream of the 1950s, the radical social and aesthetic shifts of the 1960s and 1970s, and the heady culture of New York City and its defining art movements of the 1980s. Throughout his long career, Fischl  has consistently centered the human figure in his work, placing it in fraught, ambiguous moments where social taboos, anxieties, family secrets, masculinity, unacknowledged privilege, the collision of the public and the private, and more bubble just below the surface.

Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together approximately 40 large-scale works that prominently display Fischl’s astounding consistency in and commitment to painting the human form within the context of middle-class America. Organized into four thematic sections, the exhibition showcases Fischl’s well-known early paintings and works on paper in conversation with paintings from series created later in Fischl’s career, including Late America, My Old Neighborhood, Presence of an Absence, Complications from an Already Unfulfilled Life, Melancholia, and Hotel Stories. The sections are defined by their key compositional element—the human body—depicted alone, in a couple, as part of a family, or in a crowd. This straightforward approach underlines Fischl’s constant consideration of the relationship between individual and collective identities, and highlights recurring themes throughout his career.

“For more than 45 years, Eric Fischl has used figurative painting to examine the defining social issues and current events of our time,” said Heather Sealy Lineberry, the exhibition’s curator. “Eric Fischl: Stories Told is a timely opportunity to recontextualize the artist’s work within our contemporary moment as figure painting experiences an international resurgence and as Fischl continues to examine the possibilities and promises, the disparities and contradictions of the American experience.”

Eric Fischl: Stories Told is accompanied by a fully illustrated, 160-page catalogue published by Scala Arts Publishers, Inc., with an introduction by curator Heather Sealy Lineberry and essays by art historian Dr. Kathryn Brown; art critic and curator Eleanor Heartney; and Eleanor Nairne, the Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art and Department Head, Modern and Contemporary at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The publication also features a conversation between Eric Fischl and artist Arcmanoro Niles, as well as an annotated chronology of Fischl’s life and career.

High-resolution photography for Eric Fischl: Stories Told can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibition
Eric Fischl: Stories Told is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and guest curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Curator Emeritus at the Arizona State University Art Museum, faculty associate in the ASU School of Art’s Museum Studies program. The exhibition is made possible by Men’s Arts Council, Margaret T. Morris Foundation, Steven Martin and Anne Stringfield, James and Janet Dicke, Bruce and Suzie Kovner, and DL Winters Foundation, with additional support provided by Rafael Jablonka.

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, and First Fridays from 5 – 8 pm, made possible by APS and Lexus. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, an art+music festival, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

About Eric Fischl
Eric Fischl was born in 1948 in New York City and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. He began his art education in Phoenix, Arizona, where his parents had moved in 1967. He attended Phoenix College and Arizona State University before earning his B.F.A. from the California Institute for the Arts in 1972. He then spent some time in Chicago, where he worked as a guard at the Museum of Contemporary Art. In 1974, he moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to teach painting at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Fischl had his first solo show, curated by Bruce W. Ferguson, at Dalhousie Art Gallery in Nova Scotia in 1975 before relocating to New York City in 1978.

Fischl’s suburban upbringing provided him with a backdrop of alcoholism and a country club culture obsessed with image over content. His early work thus became focused on the rift between what was experienced and what could not be said. His first New York City solo show was at Edward Thorp Gallery in 1979, during a time when suburbia was not considered a legitimate genre for art. He first received critical attention for depicting the dark, disturbing undercurrents of mainstream American life. Fischl’s paintings, sculptures, drawings and prints have been the subject of numerous solo and major group exhibitions, and his work is represented in many museums, as well as prestigious private and corporate collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Museum of Modem Art in New York City, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, St. Louis Art Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, Musèe Beaubourg in Paris, The Paine Weber Collection, and many others. Fischl has collaborated with other artists and authors, including E.L. Doctorow, Allen Ginsberg, Jamaica Kincaid, Jerry Saltz and Frederic Tuten. He is also the founder, President, and lead curator for America: Now and Here, an project that launched in 2011 and featured 150 of some of America’s most celebrated visual artists, musicians, poets, playwrights, and filmmakers.

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PHOENIX (December 17, 2024) – In the spring, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) will present Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, an expansive photography exhibition that features the work of nearly 20 contemporary artists examining environmental history and degradation, particularly in the American landscape, as well as urgent concerns about climate change, through the camera lens. Organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Widening the Lens invites viewers to reconsider their relationship to the environment and explore how photography can help envision new paths forward. Widening the Lens will be on view at Phoenix Art Museum from February 26 – June 15, 2025.

“We are excited to bring Widening the Lens to Phoenix in continuation of the Museum’s long history of presenting thought-provoking programming centered on the environment and American landscape to our audiences,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “Widening the Lens is a particularly compelling opportunity to explore contemporary artists’ use of photography to expand our understanding of the natural world, its history, and the ways in which people impact it, both positively and negatively. The exhibition will provide an intriguing counterpoint to the landscape works on view in our American art galleries, offering insight into how perceptions and the reality of the American landscape have changed through time.”

Featuring nearly 65 works by 18 lens-based artists, including black-and-white images and sculptural installations, Widening the Lens defies traditional conceptions of photography to infuse the landscape with a greater awareness of histories, natural forces, and inhabitants going back thousands of years. The exhibition is arranged across four thematic sections. Archive challenges dominant narratives established in historical photographs. Remembering delves into nature as a memorial landscape, charged with the complexity of human identity and personal relationships. Pathfinding features works of art that illuminate human adaptability, complicity, and paralysis in the environment. Finally, Horizon looks toward the future and considers environmental anxiety, anticipation, possibility, and alternative paths forward.

“I am delighted to share this powerful and richly layered exhibition with our audiences here in Arizona,” said Emilia Mickevicius, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. “Widening the Lens features a phenomenal and diverse roster of artists who are working at critical intersections of landscape with history, identity, and climate change. Together, they present a thrillingly expansive take on the potential of landscape photography. I hope that experiencing the exhibition in our setting of the Sonoran Desert will inspire visitors to look at our surrounding landscape with fresh eyes.”

Featured artists in the exhibition include:

• A.K. Burns
• Chanell Stone
• David O. Alekhuogie
• David Hartt
• Dionne Lee
• Edra Soto
• Erin Jane Nelson
• Fazal Sheikh
• Justine Kurland
• Lucy Raven
• Mark Armijo McKnight
• Melissa Catanese
• Raven Chacon
• Sam Contis
• Sky Hopinka
• Tomás Saraceno
• Victoria Sambunaris
• Xaviera Simmons

High-resolution photography for Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibition
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape is organized by Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh and curated by Dan Leers, Curator of Photography, with Keenan Saiz, Hillman Photography Initiative project curatorial assistant. The exhibition’s presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Emilia Mickevicius, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography.

The exhibition’s presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible through the generosity of The William Talbott Hillman Foundation, The Henry L. Hillman Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Henry Luce Foundation, The Teiger Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. 

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, an art+music festival, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

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PHOENIX (December 9, 2024) – On April 12, 2025, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents its newest major fashion exhibition, The World of Anna Sui, which travels to Phoenix from the Fashion and Textile Museum in London. The expansive display features more than 100 ensembles, including looks from Sui’s personal archive, fashions from her newest collection, and various objects and ensembles from the Museum’s renowned fashion collection selected in collaboration with the designer. The World of Anna Sui will be on view at PhxArt from April 12 – September 28, 2025.

“Anna Sui defined a fashion generation, and Phoenix Art Museum is pleased to present The World of Anna Sui—exploring the impact of this extraordinary designer,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “In the 1990s, Anna Sui was one of the driving forces behind the decade’s now-iconic style, many of which inspire today’s Gen Z trends. Ever since, she has continued to shape the fashion landscape, building an elaborate, imaginative universe that draws inspiration from grunge music, goth aesthetics, romanticism, and more. In addition, we are excited to present an expanded version of this incredible archival exhibition through the collaboration between Anna and Helen Jean, Jacquie Dorrance, Curator of Fashion, curating select objects from the PhxArt Collection to appear in conversation with Anna’s award-winning work.”

Raised outside of Detroit and now based in New York, Anna Sui taps into the timeless nostalgia and romanticism of contemporary fashion’s earlier days and pairs it with her signature rocker aesthetic. Since premiering her first runway show in 1991, Sui has launched over 80 collections of ready-to-wear garments, accessories, cosmetics, and fragrances through her independent brand, effectively popularizing the boutique fashion look. Through head to toe looks, she has created a graphic universe inhabited by alter-egos from the worlds of cowgirls, grunge girls, hippie chicks, hula girls, Mods, pirate rock stars, Pre-Raphaelite maidens, and surfer nomads.Sui’s designs have been brought to life on the runway by models such as Christy Turlington, Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, and Gigi Hadid, and have been worn by Anne Hathaway, Zooey Deschanel, Madonna, and other pop-culture icons. Her work was also featured in the 2019 high fashion exhibition Camp at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The World of Anna Sui features more than 100 ensembles from the renowned designer’s archive, presenting a roll call of 12 archetypes that are staples of the Sui aesthetic. Spanning garments and accessories, to hair styles and makeup, to scent and sound, the exhibition explores in minute detail the materials, cultural obsessions, and global styles that have inspired Sui for decades. As a special addition to the exhibition, PhxArt will present looks from Sui’s recent collections between F/W 2019 and F/W 2024 that show the designer’s ongoing experimentalism as she continues to embrace new materials into her universe of design. A unique example of this is Sui’s use of metallized paper material in her S/S 2024 collection, which is similar to special works in the Museum’s fashion collection. The designer has also been invited to select works from the Museum’s renowned collection that exemplify the spirit and aesthetics from which she draws creative inspiration.

“Anna Sui is a self-taught historian of culture, art, and fashion, and a true master at threading narratives and aesthetics from seemingly conflicting genres into her designs,” said Helen Jean, the Museum’s Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion. “Visitors to the exhibition will discover how her work samples elements of popular music, books, movies, and art movements, while referencing wide-ranging fashion trends from sportswear to army surplus jackets to Japanese hankies and qipao dresses. The World of Anna Sui is a pure visual delight, with incredible pop-culture history woven throughout, and is yet another powerful opportunity to see how fashion designers absorb, reference, and engage with the defining styles and social movements of our collective past and present.”

High-resolution photography for The World of Anna Sui can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibition
The World of Anna Sui is organized by the Fashion and Textile Museum, London, and curated by Dennis Nothdruft, Head of Exhibitions at the Fashion and Textile Museum, London. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Helen Jean, The Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion, with Catherine Wise, the Hirabayashi Intern in Fashion.

Its Phoenix premiere is made possible by presenting sponsor Thomas Carlton Rogers II, with support provided by Arizona Costume Institute, and Bennett and Jacquie Dorrance. 

Additional support provided by Tran Tran, Founder, Axis Employment Services.  

In-kind support provided by Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix and KJZZ. 

All Fashion exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by The Kelly Ellman Fashion Endowment Fund.

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin. 

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 8 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) has engaged millions of visitors with the art of our region and world. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, PhxArt creates spaces of exchange and belonging for all audiences through dynamic exhibitions, collections, and experiences with art. Each year, 300,000 guests on average engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 21,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern, and contemporary art and fashion design, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson. PhxArt also presents live performances, outstanding examples of global cinema, arts-education programs and workshops, an art+music festival, and more for the community. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

About Anna Sui
Anna Sui is one of New York’s most beloved and accomplished fashion designers, known for creating contemporary original clothing inspired by spectacular amounts of research into vintage styles and cultural arcana. Sui joined New York’s intensely creative cultural underground in the 1970s, forging important relationships in the worlds of fashion, photography, art, music, and design. She was part of a generation of fashion designers who remade American style in the 1990s. Together with Marc Jacobs, Isaac Mizrahi, Todd Oldham, and Vivienne Tam, she rejected 1980s power dressing, with its corporate suites and big shoulder pads, in favor of a more relaxed silhouette that reflected the values of youth culture.

Sui has received numerous awards, including the CFDA Perry Ellis Award for New Fashion Talent (1992) and the CFDA Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award (2009). She is also a passionate advocate for New York’s Garment District. She is a first-generation Chinese American and came of age in a suburb of Detroit.

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PHOENIX (May 8, 2024) – This fall, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) opens the original exhibition Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series), marking the first complete public display of Gaines’ most recent body of work, Numbers and Trees: Arizona Trees 1, 2023. Curated by Olga Viso, the Museum’s Selig Family Chief Curator, the presentation is mounted concurrently with Charles Gaines: 1992-2023, a major survey of the artist’s career organized by the ICA Miami. Both exhibitions highlight Gaines’ unique use of sign systems, language, and layered imagery to explore various themes including race, class, climate change and philosophies of meaning-making, perception, and the subject. Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) is on view from October 30, 2024 through July 20, 2025 in the Museum’s Cummings Great Hall, and Charles Gaines: 1992-2023 is on view from October 30, 2024 through March 9, 2025 in Steele Gallery.

“We are honored to premiere the entire series of Charles Gaines’ Numbers and Trees: Arizona Series 1, 2023, which he created after time spent in the Sonoran Desert,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “The cottonwood, which is a beloved tree species native to the southwestern United States and Mexico, is the central focus of this series. This exhibition, along with Charles Gaines: 1992-2023, provides a unique opportunity for viewers to experience a critical and timely survey of Gaines’s career-reaching oeuvre, while also exploring his latest body of work that delves into his layered approach to creating systems and structures around a single subject.”

A preeminent figure in conceptual art, Charles Gaines is widely known for converting images and text-based documents into numerical structures, musical notations, and other sign systems through rigorous translation mechanisms. Since the 1970s, he has drawn inspiration from various forms including the imagery of trees, spanning from California walnuts and palms to southern pecans. In his newest tree series, Numbers and Trees: Arizona Series 1, 2023, the artist focuses on the Arizona cottonwood. Using his signature gridding and layer techniques, Gaines produced eight large-scale triptychs depicting cottonwoods that were photographed along the San Pedro River outside Sierra Vista, AZ. The trees were then plotted with specific colors and a numbered grid reflecting the full form before sequentially overlaying the trees. Each work’s title references rivers, creeks, washes, and arroyos of Utah and Arizona, where cottonwoods are most often found growing near significant bodies of water.

“With this exhibition of Gaines’ newest work centered on the Arizona cottonwood, we invite regional and visiting audiences to explore the artist’s ongoing investigation of this powerful imagery in a local context,” said Olga Viso, the Museum’s Selig Family Chief Curator, who curated the exhibition. “Presented in tandem with a larger survey of Gaines’ work from the past three decades, Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) highlights the trajectory of the artist’s career, illuminating themes and approaches to art-making that he continues to revisit and refine throughout his practice.”    

Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) is complemented by the presentation of Charles Gaines: 1992-2023 in the Museum’s Steele Gallery. Organized by the ICA Miami, the exhibition features a selection of works from series that Gaines has worked on since 1992, when his practice underwent a pivotal shift, and he began to replace non-descript images with critical theory frameworks, ranging from the writings of Franz Kafka and Frantz Fanon to the manifestos of the Black Panthers and the American Indian Movement. Utilizing these texts, Gaines channels decolonial discourse into complex formal and conceptual works. 

Artworks featured in the survey include Greenhouse (2003–2023), a massive 12 x 16-foot sculptural enclosure that contains three stainless steel trees at the center. These trees become enveloped with smoke as adjacent monitors track historical and real-time temperature patterns of global warming. The work represents a poignant meditation on the global climate crisis that has persisted from the 18th century to the present. The exhibition also features the sculptural installation Falling Rock (2000–2023), in which a 65-lb piece of granite drops at randomized intervals either striking or falling just short of a sheet of glass. Viewers are left in suspense of the work’s outcome and whether (or when) the glass will shatter.

These exhibitions simultaneously demonstrate Gaines’ enduring aesthetic commitment to demystifying systems of representation as well as his ongoing and indispensable contributions to the field of conceptual art.

High-resolution photography for Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) can be downloaded here. Images for Charles Gaines: 1992-2003 can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibitions
Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Olga Viso, the Selig Family Chief Curator. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of Men’s Arts Council, Carl and Marilynn Thoma, the National Endowment for the Arts, Hauser and Wirth, Ellen and Howard Katz, and Jane and Mal Jozoff.

Charles Gaines: 1992–2023 is organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, and curated by Gean Moreno, Director of ICA Miami’s Knight Foundation Art + Research Center. Major support is provided by Hauser & Wirth, the Nicoll Family Fund, and The Steven and Kathy Guttman Family Foundation. Additional support is provided by Funding Arts Network and by the State of Florida through the Division of Arts and Culture and the National Endowment for the Arts. Thanks to ICA Miami’s Leadership Partner Cartier for their support of this exhibition. The presentation of Charles Gaines: 1992–2023 at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Olga Viso, the Selig Family Chief Curator of Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of Men’s Arts Council, Carl and Marilynn Thoma, and Ellen and Howard Katz.

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 9 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum has provided millions of guests with access to world-class art and experiences in an effort to ignite imaginations, create meaningful connections, and serve as a brave space for all people who wish to experience the transformative power of art. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, the Museum is a vibrant destination for the visual arts and the largest art museum in the southwestern United States. Each year, more than 300,000 guests engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 20,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. The Museum also presents a comprehensive film program, live performances, and educational programs designed for visitors of all ages, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

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PHOENIX (February 21, 2024) – This spring, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) presents Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s, a major survey featuring nearly 100 artists from six Central-Eastern European nations, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Organized by the Walker Art Center, the exhibition features rarely seen and newly reconstructed works, tracing how a generation of artists with distinct experiences of locally specific state-sanctioned control embraced experimentation and interdisciplinary practices to confront at times harsh conditions of everyday life. Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s will be on view from April 17 through September 15, 2024 in Steele Gallery at Phoenix Art Museum.

“Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is an incredible opportunity in the Southwest to experience art from a region and time that is neither represented in the Phoenix Art Museum Collection nor often explored in U.S. museums,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “Through each of the artists represented, we hope this exhibition broadens our audience’s understanding of the challenges artists faced in Central and Eastern Europe during the tumultuous period of the 1960s to the 1980s. Multiple Realities and its subject matter are a stark reminder of the ways artists throughout history have fought for artistic freedom by devising experimental modes of expression to survive periods of censorship and struggle, all while persevering and creating some of the most arresting and engaging work in art history.”

Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s draws on visual arts, performance, music, and material culture to demonstrate the conceptual and formal innovation practiced by Eastern Bloc artists of the era, who were daily negotiating and adapting their artistic practices within societies that enforced restrictions on how art could be produced, circulated, and received by the public. The exhibition is organized into four thematic sections. Public and Private Spaces of Control explores how artists used documentary and covert photography, impromptu performances, and somber memorial works to reflect on state regulation of space, including the policing of artist behavior. Dimensions of the Self showcases how artists used their own bodies as media to explore different representations of self-expression and subversion. This section includes examples by women artists who radically reconsidered the female form, merging the body with landscape or representing the body as a site of sickness, trauma, pleasure, eroticism, and sexuality. Being Together: Alternative Forms of the Social explores the many ways artists built community and networks of exchange to move beyond the prescribed system of making and presenting art as dictated by the state. Looking to the Future: Science, Technology, and Utopia speaks to how the Space Race, the advancement of nuclear energy, and new forms of communication sparked major technological advancements, all of which inspired utopian thinking and experimentation. Works in this section chart the rise of Op art, kinetics and cybernetics, and the use of experimental sound and images.

“This expansive survey takes a fresh and interdisciplinary look into the defying moments and experimental art forms that characterize a 20-year period in Central and Eastern Europe,” said Rachel Sadvary Zebro, associate curator of collections and the exhibition’s coordinating curator at Phoenix Art Museum. “Independently seeking new artistic practices under varying degrees of censorship, surveillance, and control, artists in Multiple Realities explore a complex history filled with creativity, community, self-expression, and adventure.”

Key highlights from the exhibition include:

• Hungarian artist Bálint Szombathy’s Selection from Lenin Budapesten (Lenin in Budapest) (1972), in which Szombathy poses with a portrait of Vladimir Lenin, the architect of the Russian Revolution. Discarded after the May Day parade, and hollowed of its weighty symbolism, Lenin’s image is reduced to a prop on Szombathy’s casual walk through the streets of Budapest.

• Jürgen Wittdorf’s Baubrigade der Sportstudenten from the series Jugend und Sport (Sport Student’s Builders Brigade from the series Youth and Sport) (1964), which was commissioned by the Academy of Sports in Leipzig. The linocuts hung for years at the school and were published in the Communist Youth Organization’s daily newspaper. The prints seem to depict the heroic, strong men of socialist realism, the Soviet-promoted art style that featured idealized portrayals of workers and industry, but a barely concealed homoeroticism courses through the scenes.

• Works by German artist Gabriele Stötzer, including Nora (1983). A rare voice of open dissent in East Germany, Stötzer paid a high price for her activities when she was detained for a year at the Hoheneck women’s prison for signing a petition in support of exiled musician Wolf Biermann. The artist’s underground gallery in Erfurt was shut down in 1981 by the Stasi, the East German secret police.

• A selection of Czech artist Libuše Jarcovjáková’s photographs, including Selection from the T-Club series, Prague (1980s), which capture the vibrant nightlife of the T-Club, a legendary underground LGBTQIA+ bar in Prague. Shot in black and white with a dramatic camera flash, these images offer a glimpse into Prague’s vivid and joyous nightlife. Rather than publish the photographs, the artist gifted them to her subjects.

• Système Esthétique (Aesthetic System) (1973) by Sherban Epuré, who focused his artistic practice on the intersections of art and science, incorporating algorithms, geometry, and mathematical principles into his visual experimentations. His core reference points—information theory, cybernetics, structuralism, and Constructivism—were explored in relation to spirituality, intuition, rational thought, and the relationships between humans and machines.

• Bleeding Monument(1969/2023) by Gyula Konkoly, which was recreated especially for Multiple Realities and” represents the first time the work is being shown in the U.S. The sculpture offers a pointed critique and meditation on the thaw that followed the 1956 Hungarian Revolution of the decade prior, while also acknowledging the aggression of the Soviet invasion of the 1968 Prague Spring. An iconic work by the Hungarian artist, it suggests a bleeding torso and constitutes a rare example of a work that immediately registers as a commentary on the political situation of the time.

• Revisiting of Herakles (1982/2023) by Lutz Dammbeck. This work draws from the artist’s interdisciplinary “media collages,” in which he layered painting, objects, sound, moving images, and performance to create highly atmospheric installations that blurred the boundaries of mythic and historical events to explore and create new meanings.

The exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue produced by the Walker Art Center and featuring newly commissioned essays, a roundtable discussion, and thematic timelines that not only reflect on the specificity of the period but consider how the exhibition’s artworks and themes will resonate with today’s audiences.

High-resolution photography can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibition
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s is organized by the Walker Art Center with major support provided by Martha and Bruce Atwater. Exhibition research was supported by a curatorial fellowship from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The exhibition is curated by Pavel S. Pyś, Curator of Visual Arts and Collections Strategy, at Walker Art Center. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, associate curator of collections. The presentation of Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible through the generosity of The Opatrny Family Foundation, Joan Cremin, Men’s Arts Council, and Diana and Mark Feldman. In-kind support provided by Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix and KJZZ/KBACH. All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation, with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged 5 and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. Visitors may also enjoy reduced admission to the exhibition during voluntary-donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 9 pm, made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. For a full breakdown of general admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum has provided millions of guests with access to world-class art and experiences in an effort to ignite imaginations, create meaningful connections, and serve as a brave space for all people who wish to experience the transformative power of art. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, the Museum is a vibrant destination for the visual arts and the largest art museum in the southwestern United States. Each year, more than 300,000 guests engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 20,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. The Museum also presents a comprehensive film program, live performances, and educational programs designed for visitors of all ages, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

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PHOENIX (September 19, 2023) – On February 14, 2024, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt), in collaboration with Illusion Projects and Mattel, Inc., a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world, opens Barbie: A Cultural Icon, the first presentation of the major exhibition in Arizona. The expansive display examines the Barbie brand’s 60+ year history and the doll’s global impact on pop culture through a wide-ranging showcase of more than 250 vintage dolls, life-size fashion designs, exclusive interviews, and narrative sections that consider the style trends, careers, and identities that Barbie has embodied and popularized over the decades. The exhibition will be complemented by an original PhxArt fashion-design exhibition titled The Power of Pink, which explores the history, science, and associations of the color synonymous with the iconic Barbie brand. Barbie: A Cultural Icon will be on view at Phoenix Art Museum from February 14 through July 7, 2024.

“For generations, Barbie has been a popular and prominent figure in our contemporary culture, reflecting the evolution of gender, identity, beauty, empowerment, and success. Often influencing and shifting societal norms in tangible ways, Barbie has also been in step with trends throughout fashion history,” said Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum. “As an institution dedicated to the research, scholarship, and exhibition of fashion design and one of only seven art museums in the United States with an active collecting focus, we remain dedicated to presenting exhibitions that offer new and exciting explorations of this incredible artform, including the intersections of couture and popular culture. We are excited to provide our visitors with a unique opportunity to examine Barbie within this context through Barbie: A Cultural Icon.”

Created by Illusion Projects and curated by costume historian Karan Feder in collaboration with Mattel, Barbie: A Cultural Icon examines the cultural impact of Barbie spanning from 1959 to the present day, showcasing more than 250 vintage dolls—including the original Barbie—from the collections of private collector David Porcello and Mattel. The exhibition also features 50+ historical objects and life-size fashion designs, video interviews with Barbie designers on five custom-made Barbie Dreamhouse TVs, and five unique photo opportunities, including a life-size Barbie Mirror-Pink Corvette with which guests can interact.

“We’re delighted to announce the opening of Barbie: A Cultural Icon at PhxArt” said Julie Freeland, Senior Director of Global Location Based Entertainment at Mattel. “Barbie is a brand that has evolved through generations, and we can’t wait for fans of all ages to take a journey through time with us!”

Visitors to the exhibition will trace the Barbie evolution from a child’s toy to a global icon across six distinct sections. The first section relays the Barbie origin story and presents all 22 original ensemble outfits, while subsequent areas consider the influence of the Space Age; the creation of Christie, the first Black doll; the arrival of Ken; and the creation of the Barbie Dreamhouse™. Visitors will also see Barbie in the iconic fashions of the 1970s, including Groovy Style, beachwear, and disco-themed designs, while sections on the 1980s and 1990s present a selection of diverse Barbie dolls that represent a range of ethnicities, body types, and careers. The exhibition culminates in the 2000s, spotlighting the continued diversification of characters within the Barbie universe and connecting them to contemporary fashion trends, perspectives, and identities.

“Barbie has always been associated with innovative fashion, wearing pantsuits and dresses, roller blades and workout clothes, right in line with the trends of the times,” said Helen Jean, PhxArt’s Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design. “Over the past decade, however, we’ve seen Barbie shift from a mirror of trends to a trendsetter, no longer simply wearing the silhouettes and styles most prominently promoted to girls and women but instead dictating what those fashions are or can be. She’s inspired runway-fashion collections over the last 10 years. Barbie: A Cultural Icon offers an exciting opportunity to explore this paradigm shift.”

The presentation of Barbie: A Cultural Icon at PhxArt will be complemented by an exhibition drawn exclusively from the Museum’s expansive fashion-design collection. On view from February 14 through July 7, 2024, The Power of Pink celebrates the complex history of the color pink, which is typically associated with feminine expression. The exhibition traces the history of the hue and the evolution of its role in fashion from its origins in 17^th-century France, where it was worn by both men and women as a symbol of status, luxury, and power, to 1940s North America, when mass-marketing efforts began to gender the color, assigning pink to girls and blue to boys. Through more than 10 garments and ensembles, The Power of Pink encourages thoughtful examination of the color and its influence on major designers such as Gianfranco Ferré, Christian Dior, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, and more.  “Our presentation of Barbie: A Cultural Icon offers a timely opportunity for us to draw upon our incredible fashion-design collection to explore Barbie’s favorite color,” said Jean, who curated The Power of Pink. “Just like Barbie, the color pink sparks conversations, and just like Barbie, pink is having its day in the spotlight. We look forward to considering the history, politics, and science behind this popular yet polarizing color.”

High-resolution photography for Barbie: A Cultural Icon can be downloaded here. Images from The Power Pink can be downloaded here. To request interviews, contact the Communications Office of Phoenix Art Museum at 602.257.2117 or samantha.santos@phxart.org.

About the Exhibitions
Barbie®: A Cultural Icon was created by Illusion Projects and curated by costume historian Karan Feder, in collaboration with Mattel. The exhibition’s presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Helen Jean, the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design. The Phoenix premiere of Barbie®: A Cultural Icon is made possible through the generosity of The Opatrny Family Foundation, Arizona Costume Institute, Desert Financial Credit Union, Men’s Arts Council, My Sister’s Closet, Shamrock Farms, and Miriam and Yefim Sukhman. All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

The Power of Pink is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Helen Jean, the Jacquie Dorrance Curator of Fashion Design at Phoenix Art Museum. The Power of Pink is made possible by the generosity of Arizona Costume Institute, My Sister’s Closet, and the Kelly Ellman Fashion Design Endowment Fund. All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Admission is free for Museum Members; youth aged five and younger; and Maricopa County Community Colleges students. Entrance into the exhibition is included in general admission for the public. During voluntary donation times on Wednesdays from 3 – 9 pm, made possible by SRP and the City of Phoenix, admission to special-engagement exhibitions is offered at a discounted price. For a full breakdown of general-admission prices and hours, see phxart.org/visit/.

About Phoenix Art Museum
Since 1959, Phoenix Art Museum has provided millions of guests with access to world-class art and experiences in an effort to ignite imaginations, create meaningful connections, and serve as a brave space for all people who wish to experience the transformative power of art. Located in Phoenix’s Central Corridor, the Museum is a vibrant destination for the visual arts and the largest art museum in the southwestern United States. Each year, more than 300,000 guests engage with critically acclaimed national and international exhibitions and the Museum’s collection of more than 20,000 works of American and Western American, Asian, European, Latin American, modern and contemporary art, and fashion design. The Museum also presents a comprehensive film program, live performances, and educational programs designed for visitors of all ages, along with vibrant photography exhibitions made possible through the Museum’s landmark partnership with the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. To learn more about Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org, or call 602.257.1880.

About Mattel, Inc.
Mattel is a leading global toy company and owner of one of the strongest catalogs of children’s and family entertainment franchises in the world. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire, entertain, and develop children through play. We engage consumers through our portfolio of iconic brands, including Barbie®, Hot Wheels®, Fisher-Price®, American Girl®, Thomas & Friends®, UNO®, Masters of the Universe®, Monster High® and MEGA®, as well as other popular intellectual properties that we own or license in partnership with global entertainment companies. Our offerings include film and television content, gaming, music, and live events. We operate in 35 locations and our products are available in more than 150 countries in collaboration with the world’s leading retail and ecommerce companies. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted partner in empowering children to explore the wonder of childhood and reach their full potential. Visit us online at mattel.com.

About Illusion Projects Inc.
Illusion Projects is a creative design and production company. Working with industry leaders such as Meow Wolf, Spiegelworld, Caesars Entertainment, and Cirque du Soleil; they specialize in the production, design and fabrication of exciting experiences and theatrical entertainment. As a creative company, they believe in pulling together intrigue, spectacle, education, and fascination; to deliver lasting memories and amazing adventures.

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