PHOENIX (February 19, 2025) – In March, Phoenix Art Museum will host Women Powered: Stories that Define Leaders, a two-part event offering guests the opportunity to network amongst peers and hear from dynamic women leaders as they share stories of their leadership journey. A panel discussion of incredible women serving in leadership roles from a wide variety of industries will share their personal insights and aggregated wisdom. Prior to the panel, there is a Sip+Share networking hour for dedicated time intended to connect the community with local entrepreneurs and executives. New commission Eamon Ore-Giron: Tomorrow’s Monsoon will be unveiled to the public this month in the Museum’s Greenbaum Lobby.
Special-engagement photography exhibition Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape opens to the public on February 26. Additional programming includes First Friday, film screenings, workshops, and more.
FEATURED FREE-ACCESS PROGRAMS
Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays
Every Wednesday | 3 – 8 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
$10 off Memberships when purchased on-site
SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $7 for adults | $5 for youth under 17 | FREE for Museum Members and Maricopa County Community College students*
Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. The Maricopa County Community College District program at Phoenix Art Museum (MC3@PAM) is made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council.
Free Admission for Maricopa County Community Colleges Students
All Maricopa County Community Colleges students enjoy free general admission to PhxArt, including admission into special-engagement exhibitions. Active student ID required.
The Maricopa County Community College District program at Phoenix Art Museum (MC3@PAM) is made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council.
Military Discount
Active-duty U.S. military personnel and veterans enjoy discounted admission to PhxArt throughout the year. Qualified members must show a valid ID on-site to receive $5 off general admission tickets.
FEATURED EVENTS
First Friday
March 7 | 5 – 8 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $7 for Adults | $5 for Youth (6-17)
Join us for First Friday, featuring free general admission and programming, including:
First Friday at PhxArt is made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus.
WORKSHOP // Family Studio
March 23 | 10 am – 12:30 pm
$20 for Members/$10 for youth (8-17)| $40 for the general public/$20 for youth (ages 8-17)
Presented in the classroom located in the admin building.
Limited capacity. Advance registration required.
Join artist educator Meg Gizzi, for a hands-on workshop inspired by Kelly Akashi’s artwork Polar Vista (1993 – 2023). Participants will explore the intricate relationship between people and art, creating sculptures that reflect their own meaningful moments. Guided by Gizzi’s expertise, the workshop will also highlight Akashi’s work, which often intertwines organic forms and materials to evoke themes of transformation and memory.
Family Studio is a collaborative workshop designed for children ages eight and up, along with their parents or caregivers, to experience and create art together. You’ll be guided through the art-making activity, gaining insights into its artistic value and unique characteristics. Each session includes a conversation in the galleries about the workshop’s inspired artwork on display, followed by a hands-on studio art activity. All children must be accompanied by a parent or caregiver. Tickets are available for reservation here.
Family Studio is made possible by Jane A. Lehman and Alan G. Lehman Foundation.
PhxArt Family Funday
March 23 | 10 am – 5 pm
Complimentary admission | Free-access event
PhxArt Family Funday returns, activated by free admission, art-making workshops, and specialty food and drink experiences, including:
PhxArt Family Fundays are made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council.
Women Powered: Stories that Define Leaders
Thursday, March 27, 2025 | 5 – 8 pm
Sip+Share | 5 pm, Garden
Panel | 6:30 pm, Whiteman Hall
$20 for Museum Members | Tickets include general admission
Join us for the return of Women Powered: Stories that Define Leaders, a two-part event offering guests the opportunity to network amongst peers and hear from dynamic women leaders as they share stories of their leadership journey. We welcome those who are just starting out their careers, looking for a career evolution, or those bravely embarking on a career change.
A panel discussion of incredible women serving in leadership roles from a wide variety of industries will share their personal insights and aggregated wisdom. Prior to the panel, there is a Sip+Share networking hour for dedicated time intended to connect the community with local entrepreneurs and executives. These women will host ‘question and answer’ time for those seeking more individual guidance, all offered in a museum setting that encourages creativity, connection, and community. Tickets are available for reservation here.
Women Powered: Stories that Define Leaders is made possible through the generosity of Austin Commercial, Morgan Stanely, and Versant Capital Management.
OPENING SOON
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape
February 26 – June 15, 2025
Featuring nearly 65 works by 18 lens-based artists, including black-and-white images and sculptural installations, Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape 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. Widening the Lens offers a compelling view into ecological trauma, our personal and collective relationships to land, and how photography can help us envision paths forward.
Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape is organized by the Carnegie Museum of Art and curated by Dan Leers, curator of photography, with Keenan Saiz, former 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. Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape 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.
Eamon Ore-Giron: Tomorrow’s Monsoon
Opening March 7 – ongoing
Eamon Ore-Giron’s new large-scale commission Tomorrow’s Monsoon will unveil this March in the Museum’s Greenbaum Lobby. Born in Tucson, Ore-Giron’s practice embodies a transcultural, cross-disciplinary approach to seeing and making. Referencing Indigenous and craft traditions, as well as 20th century avant-gardes, his paintings resonate across cultural contexts and draw on vocabularies of architecture, textiles, maps, hieroglyphics, and astral charts to arrive at a visual language that is uniquely his own. Ore-Giron also works in video and music, and his interdisciplinary projects explore the interrelationship of sound, color, rhythm, and pattern and manifest a history of transnational exchange. His practice seeks to destabilize linear, Western art-historical inheritances by suggesting a shared heritage of forms and ideas.
Tomorrow’s Monsoon draws inspiration from the natural world and particularly the Arizona desert that he grew up in. As Ore-Giron was conceiving the work, he was drawn to the idea of the vastness of the desert and of the perspective you get on the space around you as you drive through Arizona. The installation is a tribute to the desert that he loves, offering a panoramic vista of that environment and a note of hope––of the relief and life that the rains bring.
Museum commission with funds provided by Men’s Arts Council, Joan Cremin, and Carl and Marilynn Thoma Foundation.
For a full list of exhibitions on view now at Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org/art/exhibitions/.
OTHER EVENTS
KIDS // Create Playdate
March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 | 10 am – 2 pm
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public
For more information, click here.
Create Playdate is made possible by First Things First, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.
LEARN // Object of the Month: Bolts of a Storm by Ed Mell
March 1, 6, 20, 27 | 11:30 am
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public
For more information, click here.
FILM // Sugarcane
March 5 | 6 pm
Free for Members | $8 for the general public
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. More information available soon at phxart.org.
Films@PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films.
KIDS // Storytime
March 6 | 10:30 am
Free for Members | Included in general admission for the general public
Advance registration recommended.
For more information, click here.
Storytime is made possible by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs, and First Things First.
FILM // National Theatre Live: Nye
March 13 | 6 pm
$15 for Members | $20 for the general public
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.
Tickets are available for reservation here.
National Theatre Live screenings are made possible in part by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts.
FILM // Now Showing: Certain Women
March 19 | 6 pm
Free for Members | $8 for the general public
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. Tickets are available for reservation here.
Films@PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films.
FILM // National Theatre Live: NYE
March 30 | 1 pm
$15 for Members | $20 for the general public
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity.
Tickets are available for reservation here.
National Theatre Live screenings are made possible in part by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts.
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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