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Phoenix Art Museum premieres new installations, will host virtual programs and in-person events in June 2022

May, 23, 2022

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Phoenix Art Museum premieres new installations, will host virtual programs and in-person events in June 2022

PHOENIX (May 23, 2022) – New installations on view at Phoenix Art Museum now and starting in June include Desert Rider: Streets and Avenues, Figural Variations, and A Tradition Redefined: Gifts from the Li Family Collection of Chinese Painting. Visitors also have the opportunity to experience some of the Museum’s newest acquisitions in the recently refreshed installation This Just In: A Spotlight on New Acquisitions.

Additionally, PhxArt will host virtual programs and free in-person events in June. Featured programs include Creative Saturday, Storytime in the Galleries, PhxArt Teen Writers’ Lab, and much more.

For a full list of exhibitions on view now at Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org/art/exhibitions/.

OPENING SOON
A Tradition Redefined: Gifts from the Li Family Collection of Chinese Painting
June 25, 2022 – July 2, 2023
During the 20th century, Chinese ink painters experimented with a variety of techniques and subject matters to create works of art that speak to contemporary aesthetics, social issues, and personal expression from around the world. This installation features artworks from the era that illuminate this evolution while maintaining elements from traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy. More information about A Tradition Redefined is available here.

A Tradition Redefined: Gifts from the Li Family Collection of Chinese Painting is an installation of the permanent collection of Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members and features objects donated to the Phoenix Art Museum collection by Dr. Chu-tsing Li and Family and B.U.K. Li in memory of Chu-tsing Li, Yao-wen Kwang Li and Teri Ho Li.

ON VIEW NOW
Desert Rider
Through September 18, 2022
Desert Rider explores the relationships between transportation, industry, landscape, and identity in our desert region. With a diverse display of large-scale installations, prints, sculptures, and more, the major exhibition illuminates the influence of lowrider and custom-car culture on contemporary artists working in the Southwest today, including Cara Romero, Margarita Cabrera, Justin Favela, Liz Cohen, and Douglas Miles, who examine themes of masculinity and femininity, migration and mobility, queer identity, and more.

Desert Rider is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of the Arizona Office of Tourism and Men’s Arts Council, with additional support from the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members

Figural Variations
Through June 9, 2022
Figural Variations illuminates the ways American artists through the centuries have interpreted the human figure in painted portraits and self-portraits. Featured works, drawn from the collection of Phoenix Art Museum, portray a broad range of subjects in various artistic styles, capturing the nuances of the human form. Paintings include those by Marcia Marcus, Sylvia Sleigh, Lorser Feitelson, Arthur B. Carles, and Miné Okubo.

Figural Variations is an installation of the permanent collection of Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of Western Art Associates Endowment for Western American Art and Mabel Woodyard Endowment for American Art, with additional support from the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members.

This Just In: A Spotlight on New Acquisitions
On View Now
This Just In: A Spotlight on New Acquisitions showcases a rotating selection of artworks as they are accepted into the collection of Phoenix Art Museum, which features more than 20,000 works of fashion design, Asian art, American and Western American art, Latin American art, European art, photography, and modern and contemporary art.

Now on view in this regularly rotating installation is a painting by Jacob Van Ruisdael, considered by many to be the greatest Dutch landscape painter of the 17th century. Van Ruisdael’s A River Landscape with a Waterfall is a recovered and since restored Nazi-looted work of art, depicting a turbulent waterfall churning into a still pond and surrounded by trees.

This Just In: A Spotlight on New Acquisitions is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members.

Ballinger Interactive Gallery – Desert Rider: Streets and Avenues
On View Now
Desert Rider: Streets and Avenues draws from the archives of the Museum’s Gene and Cathie Lemon Art Research Library and highlights new acquisitions, complementing the special-engagement exhibition Desert Rider. Featuring books, magazines, and other ephemera, the satellite library installation examines the links between Chicanx lowrider culture and its Mexican and ancient Latin American roots. For more information on the Lemon Art Research Library, visit here.

FEATURED EVENTS
First Friday
June 3 | 3 – 9 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $5 for adults
| FREE for Museum Members and veterans/active-duty military*
On June 3, Phoenix Art Museum will host First Friday with various in-person programming, including:

First Fridays are supported in part through the generosity of the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts.

*The Military Access Program at Phoenix Art Museum (MAP@PAM) is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Hong and Doris Ong, Nancy Hanley Eriksson, and Shamrock Foods Foundation.

Creative Saturday
June 11 | Noon – 3 pm
Free for Members | Included in general admission for the general public

For this summer’s Creative Saturday, PhxArt will present art-making programs and performances for the entire family. Visitors of all ages and abilities will enjoy Desert Rider-inspired screen-printing with The Sagrado, a performance by internationally recognized Native flute player Tony Duncan (Apache, Arikara, and Hidatsa), and the premiere of a puppet show by mixed-media artist Dain Q. Gore. Tickets are available for purchase here.

Creative Saturday is made possible in part by Carolyn Dunkin Schulte Educational Endowment Fund, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Education Programs.

PhxArt Teen Writers’ Lab
June 22, 29 | 5:30 – 7 pm
Free for teens (ages 13 – 18)
Limited capacity. Advance registration required.
Valley teens can escape the summer heat and discover how to use original works of art to inspire their writing during this writers’ lab hosted by PhxArt. Participants will connect with Phoenix-based writers in a creative and supportive space while working with new in-gallery writing prompts each week. Tickets are available for reservation here.

PhxArt Teen Writers’ Lab is supported by Carolyn Dunkin Schulte Educational Endowment Fund and William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs.

BlakTinx Phoenix Preview Performances
June 29 | 7:30 pm
Free for Members | Included in general admission for the general public
This June, Phoenix Art Museum will host a special preview of the BlakTinx Phoenix Dance Festival. Since 2017, the festival celebrates and shares the unique voices of Latinx and Black choreographers based in Arizona. Co-founded by Phoenix creative Liliana Gomez and Los Angeles creative Licea Perea, BlakTinx performances challenge the structures of dance through the fusions of styles, aesthetics, and innovative approaches. More information available soon at phxart.org.

ADDITIONAL JUNE 2022 EVENTS
Storytime in the Galleries
June 1 | 10:30 am
Free for Members | Included in general admission for the general public
Limited capacity. Advance registration required.
Designed for our youngest PhxArt visitors (ages 0-5) and their parents or caregivers, Storytime in the Galleries is a wonderful opportunity to share the joy of early literacy, art-inspired play, and hands-on learning with family and friends.

The Storytime in the Galleries series will be offered on the first Wednesday of each month. Tickets are available for reservation here.

Storytime in the Galleries is made possible by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for the Performing Arts, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and William Randolph Hearst Endowment Fund for Education Programs.

Object of the Month: Columna interminable (Endless Column) by Betsabeé Romero
June 2, 4, 16, 23, 30 | 11:30 am
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public
The phenomena of relocation and borders are constant preoccupations for Betsabeè Romero. Romero uses her tires to depict circulation and mobility and to serve as “emblematic symbols of the theme of migration.” Join Museum Docent Susan McGee to explore the many layers of Columna interminable featured in Desert Rider. For more information, click here.

Weekly Virtual Mindfulness Sessions
June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | Noon
Free for Members | $5 suggested donation for the general public
Scientific studies show the art of mindfulness can relieve anxiety, depression, pain, and stress and actually change the way we feel, think, work, and play by opening new pathways in the brain. Presented in collaboration with Hospice of the Valley, this free, 30-minute, at-home mindfulness session promotes living in the present. This session is hosted live on Zoom, a video-conference platform. For more information, click here.

FREE-ACCESS TIMES
First Friday
June 3 | 3 – 9 pmVoluntary-donation general admissionSPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $5 for adults | FREE for Museum Members and veterans/active-duty military*
Every First Friday from 3 – 9 pm, Phoenix Art Museum offers voluntary-donation general admission and reduced rates to view special-engagement exhibitions.

*The Military Access Program at Phoenix Art Museum (MAP@PAM) is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Hong and Doris Ong,
Nancy Hanley Eriksson, and Shamrock Foods Foundation.

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays
Every Wednesday | 3 – 9 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $5 for Adults | FREE for Museum Members and veterans/active-duty military*
From 3 – 9 pm every Wednesday, the Museum offers voluntary-donation general admission and reduced rates to view special-engagement exhibitions.

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and supported in part by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts, with additional support from the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members.

*The Military Access Program at Phoenix Art Museum (MAP@PAM) is made possible through the generosity of Dr. Hong and Doris Ong,
Nancy Hanley Eriksson, and Shamrock Foods Foundation.

SCHOOL AND ADULT TOURS
On-site school and adult tours have returned at Phoenix Art Museum. To learn more about school tour offerings and planning a school visit, click here. For adult and college group tour requests, click here.

In addition, Phoenix Art Museum offers live virtual and in-person presentations for school classrooms and community organizations.

PhxArt Virtual Classroom Visits
Led by Museum Docents, the institution’s corps of volunteer educators, PhxArt Virtual Classroom Visits engage students with various art-related topics that complement classroom curriculum. These live, virtual art presentations can be presented on a range of video platforms for a fee of $25 per presentation, with free or reduced-cost PhxArt Virtual Classroom Visits available for Title-I schools. For more information, click here.

PhxArt Virtual Presentations for Adults
PhxArt Virtual Presentations for Adults are available for both community-serving institutions and private groups of 10 adults or more. Led by Museum Docents, these live, image-based presentations explore various themes related to the Museum’s collection of more than 20,000 artworks from around the world, creating opportunities for meaningful peer interaction and engagement. For more information, click here

PHXARTIST SPOTLIGHTS
Presented by Phoenix Art Museum, PhxArtist Spotlight is a monthly series that explores what inspires and motivates Valley creatives, while leveraging the Museum’s reach in its community to support and expand awareness of working artists. Each month, the Museum highlights a different artist working in Arizona, posting a Q&A with the artist and images of their work on the Museum’s Instagram and Facebook channels and on the Museum’s bilingual blog. The artist is also highlighted in a monthly email sent to Museum Members, Circles of Support donors, and a subscriber list of more than 65,000 followers.For more information on the series, click here. For recent spotlights on Hugo Medina and Daniel Mariotti, click here.

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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