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ASU Art Museum

Established in 1950, ASU Art Museum is recognized as one of the Southwest's most significant contemporary art institutions. In addition to serving students and scholars, ASU Art Museum is a cultural hub for the Phoenix Metropolitan area. Through several achievements, the museum also gained international attention. It represented the United States at the 1995 Venice Biennial with the exhibition Bill Viola: Buried Secrets; in 1998, it curated Contemporary Art from Cuba: Irony and Survival on the Utopian Island; and in 2002, it opened the ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center. ASU Art Museum is located in Antoine Predock's architecturally celebrated structure, the Nelson Fine Arts Center and in the Ceramics Research Center, at Tempe Center.


As a university institution, ASU Art Museum has the freedom as well as a mandate to explore new directions and to seek out artists who are often under-recognized. The exhibitions examine art as a contemporary phenomenon that asks questions about our time. Each exhibition is designed to enlighten and challenge as well as to entertain. ASU Art Museum also presents an annual short film and video festival each April that has built a reputation for premiering the work of young talent.

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  ASU Art Museum

  51 East 10th Street
  Tempe, AZ 85287

  Phone: (480)965-2787

  Fax: (480)965-5254

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  Tempe

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• Current Events

  06/07/08- 09/28/08	Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection
  05/17/08- 09/28/08	Exploring Dreams: Images from the Permanent Collection
  03/10/08- 09/07/08	Monumental Proportion: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  01/01/05- Ongoing	The Americas Gallery

• Upcoming Events

  09/27/08- 01/04/09	The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
  10/16/08- 11/19/08	Social Studies: Project 3
  10/16/08	Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series - Annebeth Rosen
  10/18/08- 01/25/09	Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show
  01/24/09- 04/26/09	Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 - The First 1,500
  02/14/09- 05/16/09	Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser
  02/17/09- 07/26/09	Social Studies: Project 4
  03/28/09- 05/31/09	Potters on Paper: Selections from the Collection
  05/16/09- 08/30/09	10th Annual Summer Family Exhibition

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• Past Events

  07/12/08	Family Fun Day
  05/18/08	International Museum Day
  04/11/08	Friday Conversations: Annual Short Film and Video Festival Teaser
  04/05/08	Symposium: Sites of Transition
  04/01/08	12th Annual Short Film and Video Festival
  04/01/08	Artist Lecture: Nils Norman
  03/28/08	Friday Conversations: Susan Beiner: Synthetic Reality
  03/25/08	Artist Lecture: Joan Fontcuberta
  03/21/08	Friday Conversations: Social Studies: Josh Greene
  03/15/08- 08/02/08	Susan Beiner: Synthetic Reality
  03/14/08	Friday Conversations: Hogarth Looks at Handel's London
  02/23/08- 02/24/08	7th Annual Ceramic Open Studio Tour
  02/21/08- 02/24/08	Ceram*A*Rama: Soul on Fire
  02/18/08- 05/18/08	Josh Greene - 'Some Parts Might Be Greater Than the Whole'
  02/16/08- 05/18/08	Hogarth Looks at Handel’s London
  02/15/08	Friday Conversations: Selections from the Collection
  02/08/08	Friday Conversations: Carl Andre and Tim Hawkinson
  01/26/08- 04/26/08	A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
  01/26/08- 04/27/08	Carl Andre and Tim Hawkinson
  01/26/08- 04/27/08	A Human Impulse: Figuration from the Diane and Sandy Besser Collection
  12/04/07	Social Studies - What happened here, and now what?
  11/20/07	Social Studies - Communities Engaging/Unlikely Places
  11/17/07	Brunch Conversation about 'Everyday Miracles'
  11/14/07	Gallery Talk: Everyday Miracles
  11/08/07	Elaine Horwitch Lecture
  10/20/07- 02/24/08	Moulthrop Generations: Turned Wood Bowls by Ed, Philip and Matt Moulthrop
  09/22/07- 01/06/08	Following the Rhythms of Life: The Ceramic Art of David Shaner
  09/15/07- 12/09/07	Business as Usual/New Video from China/Cao Fei and Yang Fudong
  09/07/07- 12/30/07	Jarbas Lopes: Cicloaerovia
  09/07/07	Gallery Talk: Everyday Miracles
  08/28/07	Welcome Back Student Party
  07/14/07	Target Family Fun Day - July
  07/14/07- 01/05/08	Everyday Miracles: Latin American Folk Art from the Cecere Collection
  06/02/07- 09/29/07	Sean Duffy: The Grove
  06/02/07- 09/15/07	Visual Melodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  06/01/07- 09/04/07	Renegade Clay: Five Views From the West
  04/14/07- 08/28/07	Herberger College School of Art Faculty Exhibition
  04/14/07	11th Annual Short Film and Video Festival
  04/14/07- 06/23/07	Drawing from History
  04/14/07- 09/29/07	Connectivity Stage 1: Interlab
  03/31/07	Carnaval do Rio - Oba!
  03/03/07- 03/10/07	Art Inspires Music
  03/03/07- 05/12/07	Connivences: Stefan de Jaeger/Stéphane Janssen
  01/13/07- 04/21/07	Raku: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression
  01/13/07	Why is Creative Capital in Arizona?
  11/03/06	CultureFest: Craftsman's Theatre - Tourism, Craft Markets and Indigenous Cultures in Oaxaca, Mexico
  11/03/06	Lecture: Contemporary Native Art: Redefining the Future
  10/21/06- 12/30/06	Regalos Magnificos: Introducing Donations from the collection of Peter P. Cecere
  10/14/06- 02/13/07	Gardening with Oscar Oiwa: Recent Paintings by Brazilian artist Oscar Oiwa
  10/13/06	Public Conversation: Gardening with Oscar Oiwa: New Paintings
  10/07/06	Studio Bus Tour
  09/26/06	Illuminating the Mirror: Reflections on WaterFire by Barnaby Evans
  09/09/06- 01/27/07	New American City: Artists Look Forward
  08/22/06- 12/16/06	Dwell
  08/12/06- 12/16/06	City Prints: From the Permanent Collection
  07/15/06	Seeing Ourselves: Family Fun Day
  07/01/06- 09/23/06	Seeing Ourselves
  06/19/06- 06/26/06	The School for Pan-American Unrest
  04/22/06- 08/12/06	Turning Point: Inspired by the Edward Jacobson Collection of Turned Wood Bowls
  04/11/06	Night Moves
  04/01/06- 04/02/06	Tempe Festival of the Arts' Kids Cottage
  03/24/06	Carol Eckert
  03/14/06- 04/23/06	Helme Prinzen: Moon World Project
  03/11/06- 06/10/06	Lawrence Gipe: Three Five-Year Plans
  02/23/06- 02/26/06	CERAM-A-RAMA: California Dreamin’
  02/11/06- 08/05/06	A Ceramic Legacy: Selections from the Stephane Janssen and R. Michael Johns Collection
  02/11/06- 08/05/06	The Ceramics of R. Michael Johns
  02/07/06	Dorothy Gill Barnes
  02/04/06- 06/10/06	New Acquisitions: News from Latin America
  01/26/06	JUICE!
  01/21/06	Demonstration
  01/14/06- 02/18/06	Event Space in Top Gallery
  12/10/05- 04/01/06	Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection
  11/30/05- 01/21/06	Innovation and Change: Great Ceramics from the Permanent Collection
  11/15/05	Night Moves: Contemporary Dance Performance
  11/05/05	Public Art Tour of Tucson
  11/04/05	Gallery Talk: Xiaoze Xie
  10/28/05	Inside/Out in the Cultural Borderlands: the Challenges of Performance Ethnography
  10/25/05- 01/28/06	Juane Quick-To-See Smith: Paintings and Prints
  10/25/05- 01/28/06	Contemporary Native American Ceramics from Local Collections
  10/07/05	Colleague-Critic: Performance and Queer Collegiality
  10/07/05	Colleague-Critic: Performance and Queer Collegiality
  09/24/05- 12/23/05	Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S.
  09/13/05	Return to Chiapas - A photographer on the road
  09/09/05- 01/14/06	Between Clouds of Memory: Akio Takamori, A Mid-Career Survey
  09/01/05- 11/19/05	Stella Lai: Let's Stop Pretending
  08/26/05- 12/10/05	**Leave un-posted**Lawrence Gipe: Three Five-Year Plans
  08/13/05	ADOPT-A-POT! Back to School Tea Party
  08/06/05- 10/08/05	Araceli Herrera: Mexico through the Lens
  07/15/05- 10/15/05	The Next Wave: New Works from the Cuban Collection
  06/25/05- 09/03/05	Mark Newport: Super Heroics
  05/14/05- 09/03/05	Contemporary Art
  05/01/05- 07/31/05	Impressions of 18th century life revealed in prints
  04/23/05	Ninth Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival
  04/16/05	The Write Connection
  04/15/05- 08/27/05	Look Alikes: The Decal Plates of Howard Kottler
  04/12/05	Night Moves
  04/12/05	From Cannibalism to Geometry: A Quick Overview of Brazilian Art
  04/05/05	ASU’s 12th Annual Elaine Horwitch: Larry Rinder
  03/10/05- 06/10/05	Lawrence Gipe: Three Five-Year Plans