PHOENIX (February 20, 2020) – This March, event and exhibition highlights at Phoenix Art Museum include an additional week to experience Legends of Speed, the opening of Teresita Fernández: Elemental followed by a public lecture by the artist, a live performance of Southwest Shakespeare Company’s BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey, a public talk on the early works of iconic photographer Ansel Adams, and more. Make sure to share your experience on social media by tagging @phxart or using #phxart.
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM EXTENDS LEGENDS OF SPEED
Due to popular demand, Phoenix Art Museum has extended public access to Legends of Speed. The exhibition of vintage race cars is now open through March 22, 2020.
FEATURED EVENTS
March First Friday | Legends of Speed and PhxArt Drag Race
Friday, March 6 | 6 pm
March First
Friday at Phoenix Art Museum will be inspired by Legends of Speed, with a PhxArt Drag Race hosted by Mynx De Milo
and featuring drag queens and kings from across the Valley. Share your First
Friday experience by tagging @phxart or using #phxartff #FastandFierce.
Voluntary-donation admission.
Sponsored by the Carl & Marilynn
Thoma Art Foundation.
Sunday, March 8 | Noon
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Phoenix Art Museum staff will present art making and gallery tours highlighting women artists in the Museum’s collection.
Free for Museum Members. Included with general admission.
Lenhardt Lecture: Teresita Fernández
Saturday, March 21 | 1 pm
Teresita Fernández, considered one of the most innovative artists of
her generation, will discuss her mid-career retrospective, Teresita Fernández: Elemental. Fernández
is renowned for her experiential
sculptures and her prominent public installations at Harvard College, Madison
Square Park, and Olympic Sculpture Park in Seattle.
RSVP required.
Free for Museum Members.
SPECIAL PROMOTION FOR CROSSFADE LAB TICKETHOLDERS
Crossfade Lab (CFL) ticketholders can show their CFL tickets at admissions to receive buy-one-get-one admission to Phoenix Art Museum during the opening weekend of Teresita Fernández: Elemental (Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22, 2020). Admission on Saturday, March 21 includes entry to the Lenhardt Lecture at 1 pm with the artist herself. CFL ticketholders can also show their tickets at The Museum Store on Saturday, March 21 and Sunday, March 22, 2020 to receive a 10% discount on the Teresita Fernández: Elemental exhibition catalogue. These offers are available on-site only at Phoenix Art Museum.
BECOMING OTHELLO: A Black Girl’s Journey
Friday, March 27 | 7 pm
Sunday, March 29 | 2 pm
90 minutes
In partnership with Southwest Shakespeare Company, audiences experience a live performance that explores a young woman’s ups and downs on her journey to becoming Othello.
$25 for Museum Members; $35 for the general public. Includes general Museum admission.
Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams Book Talk and Signing with Rebecca A. Senf, PhD
Saturday, March 28 | 1 pm
Rebecca A. Senf, PhD, chief curator at the Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, will discuss her upcoming book, Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, to shed light on the iconic, yet mysterious, early life and work of one of the most influential photographers of all time.
RSVP required.
Free for Museum Members.
Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams is available for purchase at The Museum Store.
MUSEUM MEMBER EVENTS
Members’ Preview Day: Teresita Fernández: Elemental
Friday, March 20 | 10 am
This is an exclusive event for Museum Members (including Circle of Support donors), featuring exclusive access to Teresita Fernández: Elemental before it opens to the public.
To become a Museum Member, visit phxart.org.
Members’ Morning: Teresita Fernández: Elemental
Saturday, March 21 | 10 am
This is an exclusive event for Museum Members (including Circle of Support donors), featuring exclusive access to Teresita Fernández: Elemental before it opens to the public at noon and light refreshments in Palette Restaurant.
RSVP required.
To become a Museum Member, visit phxart.org.
ARIZONA COSTUME INSTITUTE EVENTS
ACI 2nd Wednesday Luncheon: Author Rebecca C. Tuite
Wednesday, March 11 | 11:30 am
Arizona Costume Institute (ACI) presents author Rebecca C. Tuite, who will discuss her book 1950s in Vogue: The Jessica Daves Years, 1952-1962, which illuminates the journey of Vogue’s former editor-in-chief.
$35 for ACI members; $45 for non-members.
PUBLIC TALKS + DISCUSSIONS
Letting Go of Anxiety: A Public Talk and Meditation with International Teacher Gen-la Kelsang Jampa
Wednesday, March 11 | 7 pm
In collaboration with Kadampa Meditation Center Phoenix, Phoenix Art Museum welcomes internationally renowned and ordained Buddhist teacher and monk Gen-la Kelsang Jampa, who will offer tactical approaches for relieving everyday anxiety.
$5 for Museum Members; $10 for the general public.
FILMS
National Theatre Live: All My Sons
Saturday, March 14 | 1 pm
Sunday, March 22 | 1 pm
Directed by Jeremy Herrin, PG-13, 165 minutes
Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Arthur Miller’s drama All My Sons presents Academy Award-winner Sally Field and Bill Pullman as successful couple Kate and Joe Keller, who come to grapple with the fact that their long-buried truths are about to come to the surface.
$15 for Museum Members; $18 for the general public. Not included with general Museum admission.
Great Art on Screen | The Prado Museum: A Collection of Wonders
Sunday, March 15 | 1 pm
90 minutes
With Academy Award-winner Jeremy Irons, the film take viewers on a journey through the Prado Museum, one of the most popular museums in the world, and explores the history of Spain from an artistic perspective.
$15 for Museum Members; $18 for the general public. Not included with general Museum admission.
WEEKLY + MONTHLY EVENTS
Arts Integration and Appetizers
Wednesday, March 4 | 5 pm
Arizona educators are
invited to discover new ways of integrating art into their classrooms while
meeting fellow Valley teachers and enjoying light appetizers. No art background required.
Space is limited. Pre-registration
required.
Free for Museum Members; $10 for non-Members. Includes resources, appetizers, and general Museum admission.
March 5, 7, 19, 26 | 11:30 am
A Museum Docent will offer an in-depth examination of an object from the Phoenix Art Museum collection or a special exhibition.
Free for Museum Members. Included with general Museum admission.
Tuesday, March 10 | 10:30 am
Little ones, ages 0-18 months, and their caregivers are invited to participate in new creative, in-gallery experiences and activities each month.
Space is limited. Advance registration is encouraged.
Free for Museum Members. Included with general Museum admission.
Thursday, March 12 | 10:30 am, 1:30 pm
Museum Members ages 65 and older are invited to enjoy complimentary coffee, breakfast items, and a Docent-led presentation on a featured object from the Phoenix Art Museum collection.
RSVP required.
Free for Museum Members ages 65 and older.
To become a Museum Member, visitphxart.org.
Saturday, March 14 | 10:30 am
Little ones, ages 0-18 months, and their caregivers are invited to participate in new creative, in-gallery experiences and activities each month.
Space is limited. Advance registration is encouraged.
Free for Museum Members. Included with general Museum admission.
Bring Your Own (Teen) Perspective
Saturday, March 14 | 2 pm
Wednesday, March 25 | 6 pm
Valley teens are invited to explore the works of art in Color Vibrations, the Museum’s first installation curated by its Teen Art Council, and experiment with specific art processes related to the artworks on view.
RSVP required.
Open to ages 13–18.
Program included with general Museum admission.
Wednesday, March 18 | 3:30 pm
This hands-on event for visitors of all ages and abilities explores a different object and art technique each month.
Open to the public with voluntary-donation admission during Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays.
Free Under 18: Creative Saturdays
Saturday, March 28 | 10 am
Between the hours of noon and 4 pm, visitors of all ages and abilities are invited to engage in hands-on activities—including a scavenger hunt with prizes—inspired by the Museum’s collection.
Free for Members. Included with general Museum admission.
All materials are provided.
Through March 22, 2020
Experience more than 20 legendary vintage race cars by Maserati, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz, Ford, and more in the first major exhibition of its kind at Phoenix Art Museum.
February 29 – June 21, 2020
Explore the history of India’s enduring influence on Western fashion through jewelry, accessories, and ensembles by designers such as McQueen, Givenchy, and Chanel, and discover how contemporary Indian designers are expertly merging the exquisite craft of the ancient world with the aesthetics and technology of the 21st century.
February 29 – July 19, 2020
Discover how the vibrant, expressive colors and forms of abstract art reflect human emotion from the chaotic to the serene in the first special installation curated by the Museum’s Teen Art Council.
March 21 – July 26, 2020
Experience the exhibition that took Art Basel Miami by storm, featuring more than 50 immersive and unpredictable sculptures, installations, and wall works that explore perception and the relationships between history, nature, and identity.
Guru Nanak: 550th Birth Anniversary of Sikhism’s Founder
Through November 8, 2020
Learn about the life of the First Sikh Guru and his concepts of oneness and equality that later came to be recognized as tenets of Sikhism.
Selections from the Schorr Collection
Through December 31, 2020
Examine a wide range of Old-Master and 19th-century paintings.
Ansel Adams: Performing the Print
Through June 7, 2020
Discover how the 20th-century’s foremost American photographer often created multiple interpretations of a single image to express his creative vision.
Through July 12, 2020
Discover how Joseph Cornell used progressive art forms to explore surrealist concepts of memories, fantasies, and dreams.
Through August 30, 2020
Explore how artists use materials from leftover spaghetti to dried bugs to reimagine a new meaning of art.
SPECIAL INSTALLATIONS
Yayoi Kusama: You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies
Permanent special installation
Crickets, Tea, and Snuff: Chinese Intellectual Pursuits
Through March 29, 2020
American Scenes / Americas Seen
Through June 14, 2020
Through June 20, 2021
Clay and Bamboo: Japanese Ceramics and Flower Baskets
Through November 8, 2020
Phillip C. Curtis and the Landscapes of Arizona
Through November 15, 2020
American Abstraction from the Thirties and Forties
Through June 12, 2022
Still Life: Ordinary Pleasures
Through November 27, 2022
COMING SOON
Stories of Abstraction: Contemporary Latin American Art
May 2 – September 20, 2020
Freedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America
July 8, 2020 – January 3, 2021
September 5, 2020 – January 17, 2021
September 19, 2020 – January 31, 2021
For more details about exhibitions, please visit phxart.org/exhibition/current and phxart.org/exhibition/upcoming. For more detailed information about events, please visit phxart.org/events/calendar.
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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 connection, 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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