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First Friday At After Hours Gallery

August 5, 2009 | By

After Hours Gallery is hosting an opening reception this Friday, August 7 for their new African art exhibit, Masks. The reception will be from 6 to 10pm and a portion of all Mask proceeds benefits Community Outreach and Advocacy for Refugees, a local non-profit that helps resettle refugees.

Chicano Art Exhibit At Phoenix Art Museum

July 1, 2009 | By

Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement, the first comprehensive consideration of Chicano art in two decades, will open at the Phoenix Art Museum on July 12. It explores the work of a young generation of artists working today after the initial social struggles of the Chicano movement, a larger political and cultural movement that in the late 1960s and early 1970s began campaigning for justice and equality for Americans of Mexican and Latin American heritage.

In Contemporary Rhythm Exhibit Closes This Sunday

June 8, 2009 | By

In Contemporary Rhythm: The Art of Ernest L. Blumenschein, an exhibit at the Phoenix Art Museum, will close on Sunday, June 14.

Phoenix Art Museum celebrates the career of one of the most successful American artists of the early 20th century with the opening of the exhibit. A founder of the famed Taos Society of Artists, Blumenschein rocketed into the spotlight with his modernist approach to capturing the American West. This major retrospective, which opened on March 15, covers every aspect of the artist’s career and is the first Blumenschein exhibition in 30 years and the first in Arizona.