FEATURED EVENTS 

ARTIST TALK // Lenhardt Lecture: Adam Pendleton in conversation with Dr. Adrianne Edwards

October 8 | 6:30 – 8 pm
Free for Members | $5 for the general public
Presented in Whiteman Hall. 

Join PhxArt for the fall 2025 Dawn and David Lenhardt Lecture featuring artist Adam Pendleton in conversation with Dr. Adrienne Edwards, the Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Pendleton is a central figure in contemporary American painting who has redefined the medium as it relates to process and abstraction. One of his paintings is now on view at PhxArt. Dr. Adrienne Edwards is the Engell Speyer Family Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Programs at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she most recently curated Edges of Ailey (2024–25). Dr. Edwards is also a professor of practice at Arizona State University. 

Tickets are available here.

The Lenhardt Lecture is made possible through the generosity of The Dawn and David Lenhardt Contemporary Art Initiative.

First Friday

Friday, October 3 | 5 – 8 pm

Free general admission | $5 special exhibition tickets

This First Friday, join PhxArt for the following featured programming, included with pay-what-you-wish admission:

• A BlakTinx Dance Festival pop-up performance from 7 – 7:45pm
• Live art demonstrations + art-making with Lehmann Emerging Artist Award recipient Omar Soto, inspired by their featured series Mediums of Hope
• The premiere of Arizona’s Scrollathon collaborative large-scale installation, created over one week by numerous community partners  
• Opportunities to learn about + engage with community and cultural partners, including the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce 
• In-gallery sketching with Aileen Martinez (@look.see.draw)
• Live DJ sets with resident DJ JME-LEE (@jmelee)
• Specialty drinks from ARTenders
• Docent-led spotlight tours @ 5:30 pm + 6:30 pm

Tickets are available here.

First Friday at PhxArt is made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation.

Kids Day @ PhxArt

Saturday, October 11 |10 am – 2 pm

Free for Members | Included with general admission for the public

Every second Saturday of the month, join Phoenix Art Museum for Kids Day, with special family friendly programming from 10 am – 2 pm! In-gallery art-making activities, Storytime programming, and performances are designed to engage + connect visitors of all ages with the PhxArt Collection and special exhibitions.

For October’s Kids Day, programming will be inspired by Hispanic Heritage Month, featuring:

• Macrame craft-making inspired by Saskia Jorda’s Knots (2021) | 10 AM – 2 PM  
• Storytime featuring the book Dreamers by Yuyi Morales | 10:30 AM – 11 AM 
• Butterfly bookmark-making inspired by Carlos Amorales’ Black Cloud (2007) | 11 AM – 2 PM  
• Stories from Home storytelling workshop + dance performances with Safos Dance Theatre, featuring an all-Mexican American cast of dancers | 11:30 AM – 1 PM  

Tickets are available here.

Kids Day 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.

SOUNDCHECK: 76^th Street

Thursday, October 16 | Doors 5:30 pm | Show 6 – 7 pm
Presented in Whiteman Hall

Free for Members | Included with general admission for the public

SOUNDCHECK is a new live-music series offered every third Thursday of the month that brings popular local and regional acts to the Museum for raw, unmissable performances. SOUNDCHECK tickets include all-day access to the Museum, with the opportunity to pre-purchase discounted drink tickets prior to the event. 

On October 16, SOUNDCHECK kicks off with 76th Street (@76thstreet), hosted by drag artist Benaddiction (@benaddictionn) in collaboration with thems. (@thems.phx), a queer-led non-profit organization based in Phoenix. Nashville-based pop/rock duo 76th Street is the creative force of life-long best friends Haley Gold and Spencer Bryant, known for their soul-stirring harmonies and raw, evocative songwriting rooted in self-discovery, fierce independence, and queer joy. 

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.  

Toward Morning—Nyamathaam’im—‘Abíní 

Thursday, October 23 | 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Presented in Cummings Great Hall Southl

Free for Members | Included with general admission for the public

Experience a suite of performances featuring music, poetry, and literary readings that showcase new works by the most important voices of our time. Hosted by Phoenix Art Museum, this event is the culmination of the two-day program (Oct. 22-23) Toward Morning—Nyamathaam’im—‘Abíní, organized by The Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at Arizona State University. 

Participating artists include: 

• Raven Chacon (Diné) – @ravenchcn 
• Brandon Shimoda – @brandon_shimoda 
• Natalie Diaz (Mojave/Akimel O’otham) – @ndinn  
• Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Maori)

Tickets available soon at phxart.org. 

OPENING SOON

Scrollathon at Phoenix Art Museum

Premiering October 3, 2025

Rooted in the belief that every human being has creative potential and that there is power in working in community, Scrollathon was founded in 2006 by artist-brothers Steven and William Ladd. Partnering with hundreds of stakeholders and institutions, Scrollathon has engaged more than 10,000 participants nationwide, resulting in large-scale collaborative installations of handmade scrolls.

In September 2025, the Ladds launched the Arizona chapter of Scrollathon at PhxArt, welcoming 171 participants from across the 48th state to create individual artworks expressing their personal stories. On Oct. 3 at First Friday, the Arizona Scrollathon masterwork, titled Core Values, will premiere alongside a portrait mural and signature plate bearing the names of all participants. 

Contributing Community Groups

• Beatitudes Campus
• Cultural Creatives with Channel Powe
• Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona
• Montessori Academy
• one-n-ten
• Opportunity Tree 
• Phoenix Art Museum 
• Phoenix College
• Phoenix Indian Center

For more information on Scrollathon at Phoenix Art Museum, click here.

Scrollathon at Phoenix Art Museum is organized by Phoenix Art Museum in partnership with Steven and William Ladd. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Jessica Jacobson, Director of Education, and Christian Ramírez, Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement. It is made possible by Alice and Jim Bazlen, with additional support from the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts. 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.

Splendors of East Asian Cloisonné

October 22, 2025 – September 6, 2026

One of the most important areas of distinction in PhxArt’s Asian art department is its collection of cloisonné vessels from China and Japan. This dazzling exhibition features spectacular and varied examples of enamel-decorated vessels from the Museum’s holdings, the majority of which were donated from the collections of Robert H. Clague and Waynor and Laurie Petrie-Rogers. This special installation also showcases the most recent gifts from the Rogers collection, on view at the Museum for the first time.

Splendors of East Asian Cloisonne is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian 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.

ON VIEW NOW

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan

Through August 9, 2026

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan celebrates the originality and virtuosity of 36 women artists who have explored sculptural expression outside the traditional field of Japanese studio ceramics since the 1970s. The exhibition’s 40 avant-garde works are drawn from the Horvitz Collection, considered one of the leading collections of Japanese contemporary ceramics outside of Japan. 

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan is organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and is curated by Janice Katz, Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art, the Art Institute of Chicago. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Art. The presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation and Katharine and Nicholas J. Feduska, M.D. 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.

Flowers of the Punjab: Textiles of India and Beyond

Through August 9, 2026      

Discover traditional textiles from the Punjab region of northwestern India, the birthplace of 

Sikhism. At the heart of the display is the phulkari, a richly embroidered garment created by a girl’s female family members starting from her birth and completed by her marriage. 

Flowers of the Punjab: Textiles of India and Beyond is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Art. It is made possible through the generosity of The Sikh Heritage Fund. 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.

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection

Through July 26, 2026

The first exhibition of its kind in Arizona, Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection presents more than 30 examples of painting and sculpture drawn from the most important Florentine Baroque art collection outside of Italy, assembled over more than 40 years by Houston-based art collector and co-founder of the Medici Archive Project Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl. Featured artworks by local Florentine artists and artists living across Europe reflect Florence’s flourishing art industry, as well as the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Medici Grand Dukes on the Renaissance and Baroque movements.

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection is organized by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl with the generous support of the Haukohl Philanthropies. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections. Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection is made possible by FOCUS on European Art. Additional support is provided by Joanna and Mick Levin. 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.

Funny Business: Photography and Humor

Through January 4, 2026

Through 70 photographs drawn primarily from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Funny Business: Photography and Humor offers a compelling view into the ways artists have utilized visual humor not only to provoke laughter and delight but also as a means of resistance 

Funny Business: Photography and Humor 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.

2024 Arizona Artist Awards

Through January 25, 2026

Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute and the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition feature works by Arizona-based contemporary artists. The 2024 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Awardee Safwat Saleem showcases his latest works in an installation that centers on immigrant narratives and the cultural loss that results from assimilation. In the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition, emerging artists Elizabeth Z. Pineda and Omar Soto explores issues surrounding immigration, identity, queer joy, and escapism.

The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Scult Family; Sally and Richard Lehmann; and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute and 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards are organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement. The exhibitions are made possible by the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Additional support provided 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.useum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

CLOSING SOON

Philip C. Curtis and the Landscapes of Arizona

Through October 12, 2025

Discover the surreal landscapes of Philip C. Curtis, who came to Arizona in 1937 to establish the Phoenix Federal Art Center, the first iteration of Phoenix Art Museum. Curtis saw the desert through a lens of magic realism, a departure from the approach of artists such as Maxfield Parrish, Eugene Berman, and other artists who preferred to depict the state’s desert landscapes through more representational modes.

Philip C. Curtis and the Landscapes of Arizona is organized by Phoenix Art Museum. It is made possible through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation, The Virginia M. Ullman Foundation, and the Philip C. Curtis Charitable Trust, with additional support from the Museum’s Circles of Support and Museum Members.

GALLERY RENOVATIONS // Art of the Americas + Europe Galleries

The Art of the Americas + Europe galleries and the Thorne Miniature Rooms are currently closed for renovation and conservation work. The refreshed spaces and installations will open again to the public on November 26, 2025, featuring visitor favorites and recent acquisitions to the Museum’s American, Western American, Latin American, and European art collections.

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

OTHER AUGUST EVENTS

LEARN // Lemon Library Book Club: The Devil’s Highway 

Wednesday, October 1 | 6:30 pm 

Location: The Amphitheater inside the Museum

Free event. Please reserve your ticket and check in at the Guest Services Desk.

For more information, click here.

KIDS // Storytime

Thursday, October 2 | 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.

LEARN // Object of the Month: Repellent Fence, Postcommodity 

October 2, 4, 16, 23, 30 | 11:30 am

Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public

For more information, click here.

KIDS // Create Playdate

October 4, 11, 18, 25 | 11 am – 3 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. 

FILM // MANHATTAN SHORT Film Festival 2025

Sunday, October 5 | 1 – 4 pm

$10 for Members | $15 for non-Members
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. 

Tickets are available for reservation here.

Films at PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films.

FILM // The Shape of Water

Wednesday, October 15 | 6 pm

Free for Members | $8 for non-Members

Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. Tickets are available for reservation here.

Films at PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Film

OTHER AUGUST EVENTS

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays

Every Wednesday | 3 – 8 pm

Voluntary-donation general admission

$10 off Memberships when purchased on-site

SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKET fees apply for the general public | FREE for Museum Members 

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, with additional support by Arizona Community Foundation.

Military Discount  

Active-duty U.S. military personnel and veterans enjoy $5 off general admission tickets to Phoenix Art Museum. A valid ID is required for on-site redemption. 

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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Featured events in August include a laugh-out-loud First Friday, inspired by the exhibition Funny Business: Photography and Humor. Then on August 23, the Museum hosts its annual Educator Arts Day + Cultural Resource Fair. Exclusively for Arizona educators to support arts curriculum in the classroom, the free, day-long workshop and resource fair focuses on arts-integrated learning.  

Additional programming includes film screenings, Storytime, and more. 

FEATURED EVENTS 

First Friday 

Friday, August 1 | 5 – 8 pm 

Free General Admission + On-Site Membership Discount 

Programming includes: 

• A Bridge Improv Comedy Show from 5:30 – 6:30 pm 
• An in-gallery conversation between artists Liz Cohen and Steffi Faircloth (featured in Funny Business: Photograph and Humor) from 6:30 – 7:30pm 
• Live caricature artist and one-of-a-kind take-home portraits 
• In-gallery sketching with Aileen Martinez 
• Live music with PhxArt’s resident DJ, J-ME-LEE 
• Drinks by ARTenders 
• Docent guided tours at 5:30 pm + 6:30 pm 

First Fridays are made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation. 

Educator Arts Day 

Saturday, August 23 | 8 AM – 4 PM

Exclusive + free for Arizona educators 

Arizona educators are invited to join PhxArt for a free day of celebrating arts-integrated learning at our annual Educator Arts Day + Cultural Resource Fair.  

Tickets include: 

For event reservation, click here. The last day to register is Monday, August 18. 

 
Educator Arts Day + Cultural Resource Fair is made possible by CSAA Insurance Group. 

OPENING SOON

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection

August 28, 2025 – July 26, 2026 

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection presents more than 30 examples of painting, sculpture, and decorative arts drawn from the most important Florentine Baroque art collection outside of Italy, assembled over more than 40 years by Houston-based art collector and co-founder of the Medici Archive Project Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl. Featured artworks by local Florentine artists and artists living across Europe reflect Florence’s flourishing art industry, as well as the cultural and intellectual legacy of the Medici Grand Dukes on the Renaissance and Baroque movements. 

The Haukohl Collection has been shared with museums and exhibitions worldwide, revealing the broader historical significance of Florentine art within European art history. The presentation of these works at Phoenix Art Museum is the first of its kind in Arizona. 

Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection is organized by Sir Mark Fehrs Haukohl with the generous support of the Haukohl Philanthropies. Its presentation at Phoenix Art Museum is coordinated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections. Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection is made possible by Joanna and Mick Levin. 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. 

ON VIEW NOW

2024 Arizona Artist Awards 

Through January 25, 2026 

Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute and the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition feature works by Arizona-based contemporary artists. The 2024 Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Awardee Safwat Saleem showcases his latest works in an installation that centers on immigrant narratives and the cultural loss that results from assimilation. 

The 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition features works by emerging artists Elizabeth Z. Pineda and Omar Soto. Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is an emerging artist whose practice using historical and untraditional photographic, printmaking, papermaking, and book-art processes explores issues surrounding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert. Omar Soto is a DACAmented Phoenix-based photographer who creates surreal imagery that explores queer joy and escapism to navigate the marginalization they endure while living at the intersection of race, gender, and social class. 

The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Arlene and Morton Scult Artist Award; Sally and Richard Lehmann; and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute and 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards are organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement. The exhibitions are made possible by the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Additional support provided 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. 

Funny Business: Photography and Humor

Through January 4, 2026 

Spanning nearly the entire history of the medium, Funny Business: Photography and Humor offers a compelling view into the ways artists have utilized visual humor not only to provoke laughter and delight, but also as a means of resistance, an antidote to the heaviness of the world, and a way to interrogate and subvert norms and hierarchies. Drawn primarily from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the exhibition presents 70 photographs that showcase the mechanics of photographic humor, while examining the reasons for which artists throughout time have employed it as a strategy in their work. Featured artists include Liz Cohen, Steffi Faircloth, Jeff Mermelstein, Bucky Miller, Reynier Leyva Novo, among others. 

Funny Business: Photography and Humor 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.

CLOSING SOON

The Collection: Art of Asia

PhxArt’s Art of Asia collection is home to the Museum’s oldest objects, with a range of works that span 1,000 years and represent numerous countries across the world’s largest continent. Exchanges East and West explores a rich period of cross-cultural exchange within Asia and with Europe and the Americas from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Divinity and Devotion in Tibet explores the art forms that distinguish Tibetan Buddhist art from similar art forms of other regions.  

The Collection: Art of Asia is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Colin Pearson, adjunct curator for Art of Asia. Divinity and Devotion in Tibet is made possible through the generosity of the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. 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. 

Renovations // Thorne Miniatures Rooms + Art of the Americas and Europe Galleries 

Closed through August  

The second floor of the Museum’s North Wing, featuring the Art of the Americas + Europe galleries and the Thorne Miniature Rooms, is closed for a major renovation of the spaces. Refreshed galleries will open in late November with all new installations, showcasing old favorites from and new acquisitions to the Museum’s American, Western American, Latin American, and European art collections. The popular Thorne Miniature Rooms are also undergoing conservation work and gallery renovations. More information coming soon at phxart.org. 

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

OTHER AUGUST EVENTS

KIDS // Storytime

August 7 | 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.

LEARN // Object of the Month: Facing North, Looking West by Guanyu Xu

August 3, 5, 17, 24, 31 | 11:30 am
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public

For more information, click here.

CatVideoFest 2025 

August 3 | 1 pm 
$10 for Members | $12 for the general public   
Presented in Whiteman Hall. Limited capacity. Tickets are available for reservation here.    

KIDS // Create Playdate 

August 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 | 11 am – 3 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. 

FILM // National Theatre Live: Fleabag 

August 7 | 6 pm 

August 10 | 1 pm

Free for Members | $8 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. 

OTHER AUGUST EVENTS

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays 

Every Wednesday | 3 – 8 pm 
Voluntary-donation general admission 
$10 off Memberships when purchased on-site 

SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $10 for adults | $5 for youth under 17 | FREE for Museum Members  

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation. 

Military Discount  

Active-duty U.S. military personnel and their families enjoy free admission from Armed Forces Day (May 17, 2025) through Labor Day (September 1, 2025) as part of the Blue Star Museums program. The Museum will also extend the benefit to veterans with a valid ID. 

The Blue Star Museums program at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible through the generosity of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona. 

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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Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) will close to the public on July 6. On July 27, the Museum’s Thorne Miniature Rooms and Art of the Americas + Europe galleries will close to undergo renovations, with new installations and refreshed gallery spaces opening in November 2025. 

SUMMER DISCOUNT DAYS + ACCESS PROGRAMS

Family Funday

June 29 | 10 am – 5 pm 

Free general admission

Visitors of all ages can enjoy a free Family Funday at PhxArt inspired by The World of Anna Sui. Tickets are available here. Special programming throughout the day includes:

• Art + fashion + science activities with the Arizona Science Center
• The exploration of Anna Sui patterns and their connection to nature’s microscopic worlds
• DIY fashion accessories workshop with ThereSpace (@there.space)
• Outfit design with Angela Johnson (@tshirtballgown)
• DIY slap bracelets and custom buttons
• Perfume bottle design with the Gene and Cathie Lemon Art Research Library
• Early Learners Storytime with Childsplay (@Childsplay)
• A fashion inspired scavenger hunt
• Zine-making with Wasted Ink Zine Distro (@wastedinkzinedistro)
• Specialty food and beverages with ARTenders, Mustache Pretzels (@mustachepretzels), El Fogon de Joy (@elfogondejoy), and Crete Tea Room (@crete.tearoo)
• Docent-led public tours

PhxArt Family Fundays are made possible by Men’s Arts Council, with additional support from Applied Materials Foundation and Desert Diamond Casino.

PhxArt + Sol Pass 

Limited-time discounted access pass | Valid through August 31, 2025

The PhxArt + Sol Pass is designed to get families out of the heat and into great art, all summer long. For just $75, two adults and unlimited youth under 17 can gain unlimited admission to the Museum during the Valley’s hottest months. Passes can be purchased here or on-site and come with a free kid-friendly swag + activity bag!

Access passholders can enjoy every exhibition in our core collection galleries as often as they’d like between now and August 31.* After August 31, passholders can apply the cost of their access pass to an annual Membership and gain full access to every gallery and exhibition, plus special discounts, for a full year. 

*Pass excludes special-exhibition tickets on Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays and First Fridays, as well as in-store/café discounts. 

First Fridays

Every First Friday of the month | 5 – 8 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
$10 off Memberships when purchased on-site

SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $10 for adults | $5 for youth under 17 | FREE for Museum Members

First Fridays are made possible by APS and Lexus.

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays

Every Wednesday | 3 – 8 pm
Voluntary-donation general admission
$10 off Memberships when purchased on-site

SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $10 for adults | $5 for youth under 17 | FREE for Museum Members

Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible by SRP and City of Phoenix. 

Military Discount 

Active-duty U.S. military personnel and their families enjoy free admission from Armed Forces Day (May 17, 2025) through Labor Day (September 1, 2025) as part of the Blue Star Museums program. The Museum also extends the benefit to veterans with a valid ID.

The Blue Star Museums program at Phoenix Art Museum is made possible by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona and Shamrock Foods Foundation.

FEATURED JULY EVENT

Arizona Artist Awards Opening Celebration + Artist Talk

July 23 | Artist Reception @ 5 pm // Artist Talk @ 6:30 pm

Free for Members and the general public 

Celebrate the exhibition openings for the 2024 Scult Family Artist Award and the 2024 Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients with a reception in Cummings Great Hall that includes a cash bar. Following the reception, enjoy an artist talk with the 2024 Scult Family Artist Award awardee, Safwat Saleem, as he discusses his work and process. Tickets are free and can be reserved here.

The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Scult Family Artist Award; Sally and Richard Lehmann; and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund.  

OPENING SOON

2024 Arizona Artist Awards

July 23, 2024 – January 25, 2026

Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute and the 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition feature works by Arizona-based contemporary artists. The 2024 Scult Family Artist Awardee Safwat Saleem will showcase his latest works in an immersive installation that centers on immigrant narratives and the cultural loss that results from assimilation.

The 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards Exhibition features works by emerging artists Elizabeth Z. Pineda and Omar Soto. Originally from Mexico City, Elizabeth Z. Pineda is an emerging artist whose practice using historical and untraditional photographic, printmaking, papermaking, and book-art processes explores issues surrounding immigration, identity, displacement, and migrant deaths that occur in the Arizona desert. Omar Soto is a DACAmented Phoenix-based photographer who creates surreal imagery that explores queer joy and escapism to navigate the marginalization they endure while living at the intersection of race, gender, and social class.

The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Scult Family Artist Award; Sally and Richard Lehmann; and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Safwat Saleem: The Unrequited Love Institute is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Additional support is provided by the Rob Walton, Jordan Rose and Rose Law Group Fund for Contemporary Art. The 2024 Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund. Additional support is provided 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.

UPCOMING RENOVATIONS

Thorne Miniature Rooms // Art of the Americas + Europe Galleries

Closing July 27, 2025 | Re-opening November 26, 2025

This July, PhxArt will close the second floor of its North Wing, featuring the Art of the Americas + Europe galleries and the Thorne Miniature Rooms, for a major renovation of the spaces. Refreshed galleries will open in late November with all new installations showcasing old favorites from and new acquisitions to the Museum’s American, Western American, Latin American, and European art collections. The popular Thorne Miniature Rooms will also undergo conservation work and gallery renovations. More information coming soon at phxart.org.

ON VIEW NOW

Funny Business: Photography and Humor

Through January 4, 2026

Spanning nearly the entire history of the medium, Funny Business: Photography and Humor offers a compelling view into the ways artists have utilized visual humor not only to provoke laughter and delight, but also as a means of resistance, an antidote to the heaviness of the world, and a way to interrogate and subvert norms and hierarchies. Drawn primarily from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography (CCP) at the University of Arizona in Tucson, the exhibition presents 70 photographs that showcase the mechanics of photographic humor, while examining the reasons why artists throughout time have employed it as a strategy in their work. Featured artists include Liz Cohen, Steffi Faircloth, Jeff Mermelstein, Bucky Miller, and Reynier Leyva Novo, among others.

Funny Business: Photography and Humor 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.

CLOSING SOON

The Collection: Keith Haring

Closing July 20, 2025

Celebrating the impactful relationship between the Pop artist and Phoenix Art Museum in the 1980s.

The Collection: Keith Haring is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Christian Ramírez, the Cohn Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art and Director of Engagement , with Aspen Reynolds, Archivist, and Charlotte Quinney, Interpretation Manager. 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.

Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series)

Closing July 20, 2025

Debuting the complete series of the most recent body of work by renowned conceptual artist Charles Gaines and featuring eight large-scale triptychs depicting cottonwoods that were photographed along the San Pedro River outside Sierra Vista, AZ.

Charles Gaines: Numbers and Trees (Arizona Series) is organized by Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Olga Viso, Selig Family Chief Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs. It is made possible through the generosity of Men’s Arts Council, Carl and Marilynn Thoma, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Exhibition Endowment Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, Hauser & Wirth, Ellen and Howard Katz, Jane and Mal Jozoff, Ten Figures, and Avnet. Thank you to community members who contributed to exhibition interpretation and content: Bryan Beckon, artist and PhxArt gallery attendant; Raquel Gomez, founder of Atabey Outdoors; Ashley LaRae Sampson, image and brand consultant, business and spiritual advisor, and art advocate; Rashaad Thomas, poet, freelance journalist, scholar, activist, and genre-fluid artist; and Rashad Shabazz, Associate Professor of Geography and African American Studies, Arizona State University. 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.

The Collection: Dutch Art Expanded

Closing July 27, 2025

Highlighting the PhxArt European art collection alongside contemporary works by Arizona-based artists to create conversations across cultures and time periods.

The Collection: Dutch Art Expanded is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum and curated by Rachel Sadvary Zebro, Associate Curator of Collections, with Destiny Montoya, Association of Art Museum Directors Curatorial Intern. The Collection: Dutch Art Expanded is made possible through the generosity of FOCUS on European Art and an anonymous donor. 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 JULY EVENTS

KIDS // Storytime
July 3 | 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.

LEARN // Object of the Month: Tomorrow’s Monsoon by Eamon Ore-Giron
July 3, 5, 17, 24, 31 | 11:30 am
Free for Members | Included with general admission for the general public

For more information, click here.

First Friday

July 4 | 5 – 8 pm 

Voluntary-donation general admission

SPECIAL-EXHIBITION TICKETS: $10 for Adults | $5 for Youth (6-17) 
Tickets available here.

KIDS // Create Playdate

July 5, 12, 19, 26 | 11 am – 3 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.

FILM // Now Showing: The 400 Blows

June 18 | 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.

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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