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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

  11/07/09- 12/01/09	Canalscape for Metro Phoenix
  10/05/09- 01/09/10	Jillian McDonald: Alone Together in the Dark
  10/01/09- 12/31/09	Political Ply: Recycled Evaporative Cooling Shade Structures
  09/19/09- 01/30/10	Defining Sustainability: From the ASU Art Museum Collection
  09/19/09- 12/12/09	I'm Keeping An Eye On You
  08/29/09- 11/28/09	Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures
  08/01/09- Ongoing	First Saturdays for Families
  01/01/05- Ongoing	The Americas Gallery

• Upcoming Events

  12/01/09	The Tao of Canalscape Panel Discussion
  12/19/09- 03/20/10	Teapot Collection of Gerry Cramer

• Past Events

  11/13/09	Friday Conversations@11: Alone Together in the Dark, with Jillian McDonald and John Spiak, The End
  10/30/09	Friday Conversations@11: Political Ply, with Jason Griffins
  10/22/09	Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series
  10/16/09	Friday Conversations@11: Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert, with Julie Anand
  10/10/09- 02/20/09	Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert
  10/09/09	Friday Conversations@11: Alone Together in the Dark: The Beginning with Jillian McDonald
  10/02/09	Friday Conversations@11: Defining Sustainability: Sustainable Interiors, with Deborah Schneiderman
  09/30/09	Landscapes of the Americas - Carol Frankliyn
  09/25/09	Friday Conversations: Defining Sustainability with Heather Lineberry, Claudia Mesch
  09/18/09	Friday Conversations@11: I'm Keeping an Eye on You
  08/25/09	Welcome Back/Tuesday Night Openings
  07/11/09	Family Fun Day
  06/20/09- 09/19/09	I Never Saw So Clearly
  06/13/09- 10/29/09	Hits from the 60s and 70s
  06/06/09- 09/19/09	Figuring Prominently
  05/16/09- 08/29/09	Food: Feast for the Eyes
  04/18/09	13th Annual Short Film and Video Festival
  04/10/09	Conversations @ 11: Curator John Spiak , Short Film & Video Festival Preview
  03/28/09- 05/30/09	Potters on Paper: Selections from the Collection
  03/28/09	3rd Annual Art History Graduate Symposium
  03/27/09	Conversations @ 11: artist Paulo Nenflidio and Curator John Spiak
  03/21/09- 05/30/09	NCECA Clay National
  03/20/09	Conversations @ 11: Curator Peter Held on NCECA
  03/06/09	Conversations @ 11: Curator Jean Makin: Potters on Paper
  02/28/09- 04/25/09	Titans: Robert Arneson and Viola Frey
  02/27/09	Conversations @ 11: artist Kurt Weiser, on Eden Revisited
  02/20/09	Conversations @ 11: Artist Paulo Nenflidio and Curator John Spiak
  02/17/09- 07/26/09	Social Studies: Project 4
  02/14/09- 05/16/09	Eden Revisited: The Ceramic Art of Kurt Weiser
  02/06/09	Conversations @ 11: Performance Artist Angela Ellsworth
  01/30/09	Conversations @ 11: Heather Lineberry, Sr. Curator, on Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba
  01/24/09- 04/26/09	Breathing is Free: 12,756.3 - The First 1,500
  10/24/08	Mikki Weithorn: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
  10/17/08- 01/25/09	ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty Exhibition
  10/17/08- 01/25/09	Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show
  10/17/08	Nadia Hironaki and John Spiak Discussion
  10/16/08	Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture Series – Annebeth Rosen
  10/16/08- 11/19/08	Social Studies: Project 3
  10/16/08- 11/18/08	Anila Rubiku
  10/04/08	The Other Mainstream: Artist Studio Tour 2008
  10/03/08	Steven Yazzie: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
  09/27/08- 01/04/09	The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
  09/12/08	Dr Betsy Fahlman - America's Gallery
  09/05/08	Midstream: New Ceramics from the Heartland Conversation
  08/23/08- 02/28/09	Midstream: New Ceramics from the Heartland
  07/12/08	Family Fun Day
  06/07/08- 09/28/08	Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection
  06/07/08- 09/28/08	ASU Art Museum NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection
  05/18/08	International Museum Day
  05/17/08- 09/28/08	Exploring Dreams: Images from the Permanent Collection
  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
  03/10/08- 09/07/08	Monumental Proportion: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  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