/// FRIDAY, February 7 • 5 – 8 PM

PhxArt First Fridays are officially back! Join us Friday, February 7 from 5 – 8 pm for FREE general admission to the Museum.

RESERVE TICKETS

WITH FREE GENERAL ADMISSION YOU CAN EXPERIENCE:

🗣️ A conversation with Rashaad Thomas, poet, freelance journalist, scholar, activist, and genre-fluid artist; and Dr. Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor of Geography and African American Studies, Arizona State University.

🎹 A special performance of Manifestos 3 (2018). This production includes Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 speech and James Baldwin’s 1957 essay Princes and Powers. Produced by Mads Falcone and performed by pianist richard valitutto.

🎵 Sound and Visual Installation by Ashley LaRae Sampson and Cierra Holston

🖼️ Installation by Black River Life’s Artist Collective in the Sculpture Garden

🎨 Create layered portraits inspired by Charles Gaines with Bryan Beckon

🎨 In-gallery sketching with Aileen Martinez

🎶 Live music with resident DJ J-ME LEE

Enjoy delicious bites and beverages from our Food Vendors:
🌴 Island Boyz Jerk Spot
🍗 Bearded BBQ
☕️ Harlem Coffee
🌮 El Fogón de Joy
🍸 ARTenders

👩🏻‍🏫 Bilingual Docent-led art tours of Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series)

ON VIEW NOW @ PHXART

Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series)

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.

Charles Gaines: 1992–2023

In 1992, Gaines’s practice underwent a pivotal shift when 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.

PhxArt First Friday is made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus.