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How many types of magnets have you come across in your life? Starting May 1st, stick to SMoCA and bring a magnet to place on the outside of the Museum’s metal building during May Museum Magnet Month. We encourage everyone to participate with fun magnets that are a variety of sizes, shapes and colors. Let’s see what attracts you to SMoCA. Join us for a collective group portrait with the accumulated result on Thursday May 31 at 5:30 pm
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>Tours
- Led by SMoCA docents,
every Thursday at 1:30 pm, and by appointment.
Call 480-874-4641.
Free Sunday Sculpture Tours in the park:
- Tours of sculpture on the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall led by SMoCA
docents
Sundays, 3
pm.
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Contemporary art
reflects the world today. Want to learn more, meet people with similar
interests and share your new knowledge with museum visitors? Join us for
an informative session for prospective Museum guides. RSVP to 480-874-4641.
Stage 2 Theater
(inside the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts). Free event. |
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the space race with SMoCA! Explore fascinating
works of art in interactive guided tours of the exhibition Space is
the Place, inside the way-cool
galleries. Then
zoom out to the Scottsdale Civic Center Mall to listen to live “space
music,” such as the theme from Star Wars , by the trio Nuance
(named “Best Jazz Performers” by The Arizona Republic ).
Create crazy space aliens and out-of-this-world art, blow giant soap bubbles,
splash in the fountain and enjoy cool treats. |
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Wear play clothes and bring towels. Meet in the Museum lobby.
$20
for a family of four ($16 for members);
$4 for each additional child.
Pre-registration
required by
July 3rd;
Call
480-874-4641 to register!
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| A panel of respected curators
and artists critique the Valley's exploding art scene. Roberto
Bedoya, executive director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, will
talk about the results of a recent study of Arizona by Creative
Capital, a New York foundation committed to fostering professional
development and opportunities for innovation. Greg Esser discusses the unique artist-owned spaces on Roosevelt Street in downtown Phoenix and his store Made; Anne-Marie Russell (director/curator
at MOCA, Tucson) invites conversation about artist-in-residence
programs; and artist Angela Ellsworth discusses
balancing a job and artistic practice. Moderated by Marilu Knode,
senior curator. Co-sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Stage
2 Theater. Free event. |
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Join
us for this free casual gallery talk with Erin Kane,
formerly SMoCA’s associate curator, about the history of
video art and its current global explosion. She will discuss
the vast variety of approaches to video, using examples from SMoCA’s
summer exhibitions. Kane worked at D'AmelioTerras gallery, New York, and
managed a private collection of video art before working at SMoCA from
2003-05. She received her M.A. in post-war and contemporary art from Sotheby's
Institute, London, and completed her B.A. in art history at Ohio State
University, Columbus. In conjunction with the exhibitions Space is the
Place and Contemporary Scandinavian Art. Meet in the Museum lobby. Free
event. |
Above image: Egill Sæbjörnsson, The Wall, 2005, video projection, running time: 24 minutes, courtesy of the artist. Photo: Egill Sæbjörnsson. |
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| Alexander Calder loved to delight and engage his audiences.
He unabashedly brought fun into fine art. Calder created over 16,000 works,
(ranging from tiny mobiles that could fit in a matchbox to soaring monuments
over seven-stories high) and invented the mobile, making sculpture move.
This highly acclaimed episode from the PBS series “American
Masters” (Thirteen/WNET, 1998; Roger Sherman, director,
55 minutes), features shots of his lyrical mobiles and majestic
animal-like sculptures; footage of a playful Calder performing
with his pieces and talking about his work; and interviews with experts
and friends such as playwright Arthur Miller. “American Masters”
has received five Emmy Awards, a Grammy Award and three Oscar nominations.
In conjunction with the exhibition Modern(ist) Love: The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith
and Harvey K. Smith Collection. Meet in the Museum lobby.
Free Event. |
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 Image: Oleg Kulik, Cosmonaut, 2003, wax and mixed media. Approximately 54 x 30 x
30 inches. Courtesy XL Gallery, Moscow.
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Join Diane Gruber, (professor of film and media and director of lifelong learning, ASU),
for an amusing and informative overview of vintage and contemporary space
films, in conjunction with the exhibition Space Is The Place.
Since the inception of cinema, space travel has been a means of examining
human ingenuity, lofty visions and frailty. Join the journey as we recount
a hundred years of cinematic depictions of humanity’s desire to
escape the chains of gravity.Meet in the Museum lobby. Free event. |
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Looking for a cool escape from the summer heat? Join film critic
Colin Boyd for a double-feature screening of Scandinavian films,
in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Scandinavian Art.
Boyd will introduce Swedish director Ingmar Bergman’s 1957
masterpiece The Seventh Seal, followed by Danish
director Lone Sherfig’s 2001 comedy Italian for Beginners.
Boyd is film critic for ABC-15 and College Times and is a contributing
writer for Las Vegas City Life. See his website www.bigpictureradio.com for reviews and interviews. Co-sponsored by the Phoenix Film Foundation
and Phoenix Film Festival. Complementary snacks
and cash bar. Inside Stage 2 Theater.
$15 members; $18 nonmembers;
call 480-994-ARTS for tickets. |
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Starring Max von Sydow, The Seventh Seal is
Bergman’s allegorical, existentialist breakthrough film. Set in
medieval Sweden, the film focuses on a medieval knight who returns from
the Crusades across a plague-ridden landscape, to challenge Death to a
game of chess. This classic won the 1957 Special Jury Prize at the Cannes
Film Festival, the 1958 Grand Prix International du Film d’Avant-garde,
the 1959 Finnish Film Journalists Award and the Nastro d’Argento
(silver ribbon) for Best Director of a foreign film by the Italian National
Syndicate of Film Journalists in 1961. (96 minutes; subtitled; Allan Ekelund;
Ingmar Bergman, director).
Don’t be fooled by the title: Lone Sherfig’s Italian
for Beginners isn’t a language primer but rather an
unforgettable romantic comedy. It broke box office records for a Danish-language
film in Denmark and won a Silver Bear for Best Director award at the 2001
Berlin Film Festival. This amusing story follows six, lonely thirty-something
singles from Copenhagen who travel together to Venice to study Italian.
Sherfig belongs to the Dogme 95 film movement and is a champion of cinéma
vérité. (97 minutes; subtitled; Ib Tardini, DR V/Marianne
Mortizen, Gert Duve Skovlund, 2001; Lone Sherfig, director). |
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Test your hand at drawing and exercising your right brain, led by the
area artists featured in southwestNET: drawing outside the lines. ENTHUSIASM
BUT NO PRIOR ART TRAINING REQUIRED.
Image:
a sketch by Adria Pecora (one of the artists featured in the summer group
exhibition southwestNET: Drawing Outside the Lines |
| All sessions are free. For all levels. Pre-registration is required.
Call 480-874-4641. |
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 "A line is a point taken for a walk," said
the early modernist Paul Klee. Imagine a simple line
drawing that meanders across a surface, traverses edges, shadow, texture,
form. Imagine yourself walking that line. Join Angela Ellsworth,
assistant professor of intermedia at the Herberger College of Fine Art,
Arizona State University [ASU], to experience drawing as you move through
the landscape and connect mark and movement. Ellsworth has taught interdisciplinary
art in Italy and the United States for fifteen years. She believes anyone
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 Bring a sketchbook (at least 8" x 10" but not larger than 14" x 17,” easy to carry and comfortable to use); pencils or charcoal; and a gum eraser. If you are a beginner and have no art supplies, a few basic materials will be provided. Wear sunscreen, a hat, comfortable shoes and clothing: bring a light backpack or pouch for your belongings. Bring water. Participants will not be able to carry anything but paper and drawing utensils. In conjunction with the summer exhibition southwestNET: drawing outside the lines. Meet in the Museum lobby. Above: picture of artist Angela Ellsworth. right: A Love Walk enitled "Is This The Place", Performance /Intervention,
2006. Both images courtesy of the artist.
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Learn to see more closely and experience the creative process of art-making
in this interactive gallery experience. Join artists Deborah Salac
and Adria Pecora as they redefine drawing in two sequential
45-minute workshops.
Forget your standard pencil and instead experiment with transparent media
such as tape and glue with Deborah Salac as you make drawings that play
with the subtleties of light and line.
Adria Pecora will show participants how to use age-old systems of divination,
(such as tarot cards and the I Ching), to generate imagery. Students will
create group drawings by layering images made individually on transparent
paper, then combined in compositions generated through divination games
with cards, string and sticks.
Supplies will be provided. Meet in the Museum lobby. |
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Feed your imagination and creative curiosity in two sequential
45-minute interactive workshops in the galleries with artists Steve Yazzie and Jen Urso. |
Jen Urso, Ice Flow (study), 2007, ink, water on paper. Courtesy of the artist. |
Most of what we see daily is out of our control. Drawing is, in part,
a means of framing and controlling a set of images. With Jen Urso,
create a drawing that integrates control with unpredictability—the
delicate balance of life. Spill a soda, stain paper, make a rubbing of
natural forms, fracture glass: start with a chance process and then riff
off of the result with a drawing. Or try the reverse—create a drawing,
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Sometimes speed helps one overcome the limitations of the conscious mind.
See what happens when you work fast and from impulse. Participants will
make quick drawings with Steven Yazzie, viewing video footage he has taken
at locations such as Glen Canyon Dam, the Grand Canyon, Saguaro National
Park and South Mountain.
Participants will have a special opportunity
to view Yazzie’s
working “out takes” and to hear more about Steve Yazzie's
most-unusual process of landscape drawing on a customized go-cart.
Supplies will be provided.
Meet in the Museum lobby.
Picture of artist Steve Yazzie as he prepares for a
drawing session ride on his customized go-cart.
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Be reminded of the curative power of camaraderie as you listen
to this reading by mothers with stories to tell. The participants in weekly
writing workshops, led by professional writers Amy Silverman and Deborah
Sussman Susser, read poems and prose in which they reflect on the humor
and the pathos behind life in the family lane.Stage 2 Theater.
Free.
Pictured:
Class instructors Deborah Sussman Susser (left) and Amy Silverman (right) |
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The world of motherhood is rich territory for creative inspiration. If
you are a mother and need an expressive outlet, join these popular, weekly
writing workshops taught by professional writers Amy Silverman and Deborah
Sussman Susser. No prior experience necessary. $125 members; $140 non-members. Registration begins July 1, 2007. Sign
up early, as the class often fills quickly. Call 480-874-4641.
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Tours of Artists' Studios
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Currently, SMoCA's
spring 2007 Artist Studio Tours are full. Please call 480-874-4641 to
inquire about being placed on a waiting list or to find out about future
tours in the fall.
Pictured
above: visitors arrive to see the sketches and paintings of artist Monique
Prieto.
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