May, 20, 2026
Media AlertsSpecial Events and Programs
Phoenix Art Museum offers Summer Pass with discounted admission and access to films, other events; celebrates Juneteenth with discounted admission; hosts June SOUNDCHECK
PHOENIX (May 20, 2026) – This June, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) relaunches its Summer Pass, providing discounted admission from May through September as an affordable way for families to escape the heat and immerse themselves in art. On June 13, the Museum will also offer discounted admission all day in honor of Juneteenth and in collaboration with Black Rodeo USA Foundation and The Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration. The next edition of monthly music series SOUNDCHECK showcases The Joeys. Additional event details and ticket links are provided below.
PhxArt Summer Pass
Summers in Phoenix require the perfect indoor escape to get out of the heat. Phoenix Art Museum has you covered with its PhxArt Summer Pass. For just $75, pass holders get unlimited free general admission* from Memorial Day through Labor Day weekend for two adults and all youth (17 and under) to experience great art and engagement opportunities in our air-conditioned galleries.
Summer Pass perks include:
- Unlimited visits from May 27–September 6, 2026
- Free general admission for two adults and all youth (17 and under)
- Monthly film screenings
- 10% off at the award-winning Museum Store
- Art-making activities + more
And if pass holders don’t want the fun to end after Labor Day, they can apply the cost of their Summer Access pass toward any annual Membership. Join today!
*General Admission access during regular Museum hours. Does not include special exhibition tickets during Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays and First Fridays or discounts at Alden restaurant. Valid May 27 –September 6, 2026. Cannot be combined with other offers. May be applied to annual Membership at the end of the access period.
FEATURED EVENTS
Juneteenth
June 13 | 10 am – 5 pm
$10 for Adults + Students | $5 for Youth (6–17)
In collaboration with Black Rodeo USA Foundation, PhxArt is celebrating Juneteenth on Saturday, June 13 as a kickoff to The Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration taking place later in the evening. The Museum will be open with discounted admission all day on Saturday, including additional programming and access to special-engagement exhibitions Eric Fischl: Stories Told and Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection.
The word “Juneteenth” is derived from combining the words “June” and “nineteenth,” in honor of the day in 1865 when Union soldiers landed in Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and all enslaved peoples were free. The Valley of the Sun Juneteenth Celebration has been a tradition in Phoenix for more than 20 years.
Tickets are available here.
SOUNDCHECK | The Joeys
Thursday, June 18 | Bar + Doors open @ 5 pm | Show @ 6 pm
Free for Members | General Admission for the public
On June 18, SOUNDCHECK welcomes The Joeys, a three-piece Rock n’ Roll outfit from Phoenix, Arizona. Dean Cheney, Logan Cormany, and Hayden Lamm began performing together in 2019 and have been frequenting local music clubs and festival lineups ever since. They’ve opened for Alice Cooper, The Black Lips, 10cc, and The Meteors and were voted “Best Band” in PHOENIX Magazine’s 2025 “Best of the Valley” issue. They’ve also won the Proof is in the Pudding, one of the biggest music competitions in Arizona. With inspirations ranging from The Stray Cats, The Doors, Everly Brothers, and X, The Joeys combine classic and modern songwriting with a distinctive Southwestern flavor.
Tickets are available here.
SOUNDCHECK is made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council, with additional support from Desert Financial Credit Union and the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for the Performing Arts.
OPENING SOON
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller: The Instrument of Troubled Dreams
Opening June 13, 2026
This summer, Phoenix Art Museum (PhxArt) will present the acclaimed art installation The Instrument of Troubled Dreams by Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller to Arizona audiences for the first time. Internationally recognized Canadian artists Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller are known for their immersive multimedia sound installations and audio and video walking tours that invite visitor engagement and sensory engagement. Created in 2019, The Instrument of Troubled Dreams is an interactive, room-sized audio installation featuring a modified 1960s Mellotron MK II keyboard, 23 speakers, and chairs. Museum visitors are invited to sit and play the instrument, experiencing a range of music, vocal tracks, and background sounds.
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller’s The Instrument of Troubled Dreams is on loan from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection.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.
Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection
Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection
Opening June 13, 2026
Just in time for the 100th anniversary of Route 66, PhxArt presents Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection, featuring 15 oversized posters from approximately 1900 to 1930 that celebrate industrial innovation and the growing popularity of the automobile. Following the urbanization of Paris, industry giants such as Michelin, Dunlop, Continental, Pirelli, and Goodyear followed the footsteps of talented lithographers and recognized posters as an effective form of communication. Drawn exclusively from the Collection of Discount Tire, the posters trace both artistic innovation and industrial transformation.
Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and co-curated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections and Susan Driver, Curator, Collection of Discount Tire. Modern Treads: The Discount Tire Poster Collection is made possible by Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council. 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.
NEW ON VIEW
The Collection: 1960 – Now
Ongoing
This spring, PhxArt refreshes its contemporary art galleries with works by Emily Cheng, Helen Frankenthaler, Jim Hodges, Donald Judd, Louise Nevelson, Fritz Scholder, and Pat Steir, among others. The installation also highlights recent acquisitions including paintings by Zio Ziegler, Konrad Annor, Deborah Kass, Mokha Laget, and Michi Meko, and a new large-scale mobile sculpture—Reflections Between Flashes (2023)—by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, recently acquired into the Museum’s collection through the generosity of the Men’s Arts Council.
This iteration of The Collection: 1960 – Now is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement, Olga Viso, Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Art, and Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections. 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.
CLOSING SOON
Eric Fischl: Stories Told
Closing June 14, 2026
Eric Fischl: Stories Told brings together 40 large-scale works by the renowned painter, who grew up in Long Island, New York, and Phoenix, Arizona. 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. Stories Told features work from the late 1970s to today, illuminating the artist’s continued exploration of the human figure 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 is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and guest-curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, Curator Emeritus at the Arizona State University Art Museum and faculty associate in the ASU School of Art’s Museum Studies program. The exhibition is presented by the Men’s Arts Council, with leadership support from Margaret T. Morris Foundation, and Steven Martin and Anne Stringfield. Major support provided by Michael and Nancy Gifford, James and Janet Dicke, Bruce and Suzie Kovner, and DL Withers Foundation. Additional support is provided by Rafael Jablonka, Erica Samuels, and Skarstedt Gallery. In-kind support provided by Kimpton Hotel Palomar Phoenix. 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. Leadership support for the exhibition publication, Eric Fischl: Late America, is provided by Skarstedt Gallery.
Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)
Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light)
Closing June 28, 2026
Organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) is the first major solo exhibition exploring the narrative artistic practice of the Chemehuevi photographer, presenting more than 50 works Romero created between 2013 and 2024. The exhibition features new and never-before-seen photographs, site-specific installations, large scale photographs, and iconic views across five thematic sections.
Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) is organized by the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 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.
Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body
Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body
Closing June 28, 2026
Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body explores the ways in which photographers across history have represented and reckoned with the human body and its associated dimensionality, evolution, and politicization. The exhibition showcases more than 80 wide-ranging works that contend with the body’s form, physicality, and limitations.
Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body is co-organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. The exhibition is curated by Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography. 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.
For a full list of exhibitions on view now at Phoenix Art Museum, visit phxart.org/art/exhibitions/.
OTHER JUNE EVENTS
| Lemon Library Book Club: What We Keep Wednesday, June 3 | 6:30 pm Location: The Amphitheater inside the Museum Free event For more information, click here. The June Book Club is sponsored by Collectors Study Club in memory of treasured members Emily Stephenson, Anne Gale, Steve Thomas, Jennifer Sands, Joan Myers, Mary Wentworth, Tish Smidt, and Anne Zeller. | Object of the Month: Reflection Between Flashes June 4, 6, 18, 25 | 11:30 am Free for Members |Included with general admission For more information, click here. Object of the Month is made possible by CMI Gold & Silver. | Films at PhxArt: Call Me by Your Name Wednesday, June 10 | 6 pm Free for Members | $8 for general public Tickets are available here. Films at PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films. |
| Films at PhxArt: Close Encounters of the Third Kind Wednesday, June 3 | 6 pm Free for Members | $8 for general public Tickets are available here. Films at PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films. | First Friday Friday, June 5 | 5 – 8 pm Free general admission | $10 special exhibition Tickets are available here. First Friday at PhxArt is made possible through the generosity of APS with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation. | Kids Day at PhxArt Saturday, June 13| 10 am – 2 pm Free for Members | Included with general admission Every second Saturday of the month. Tickets are available here. Kids Day is made possible by Desert Financial Credit Union, the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs. |
| Storytime Thursday, June 4 | 10:30 am Free for Members | Included with general admission 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 and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs. | Create Playdate Saturday, June 6, 13, 20, 27| 11 am – 3 pm Free for Members | Included with general admission For more information, click here. Create Playdate is made possible by The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, and the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs. |
OTHER DISCOUNTED + FREE-ACCESS PROGRAMS
Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays
Every Wednesday | 3 – 8 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
Free for Museum Members | $10 special exhibition
Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation.
Active-duty U.S. military personnel and their families enjoy free admission from Armed Forces Day (May 16, 2026) through Labor Day (September 7, 2026) as part of the Blue Star Museums program.
Blue Star Museums at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Shamrock Foods Foundation.
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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