Holidays at the Museum

Holiday Mixer at ASU Art Museum

*Co-sponsored by Heidi’s Events and Catering*

December 15, 2009

5:30 – 7:30 pm

FREE

Open to the public

Join Heidi’s Events and Catering, the Tempe Chamber of Commerce and ASU Art Museum as we celebrate the holiday season with our friends in the community!

Heidi’s Events is providing an amazing feast you won’t want to miss.

Refreshments including wine and sodas provided

See the exhibitions of the ASU Art Museum’s Defining Sustainability season:

Canalscape – extended through Dec. 16!

Defining Sustainability: From the ASU Art Museum Collection

Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert (Julie Anand, Richard Lerman & Carrie Marill)

Jillian Mcdonald: Alone Together in the Dark, video exhibition

Also open: I’m Keeping an Eye on You, video exhibition; historic art in the Americas Gallery

While you’re here:

Mel Chin’s Fundred Dollar Bill project will be set up in the museum lobby. Plan to spend a few minutes creating your own fake hundred dollar bill, a.k.a., a “fundred”, to donate to the project. It’s free and doesn’t take long to do – your art contribution will help petition the government to make New Orleans a lead-safe city, hopefully the first of many to be so. All materials will be available in the museum’s lobby for you to use. Donated Fundreds are planned for the Smithsonian!

*The Museum Store will be open! Get those last minute gifts at our unique and eclectic store!*

Plus – we’re doing a few STORE GIVE-AWAYs!

Make sure you drop in a business card when you get here – we’re drawing for some fun prizes!

LOTS OF FREE PARKING - literally!

Attendees to this event will be able to park for free in ASU’s Lot 16!

Lot 16 is located in two areas – immediately next to the Ceramics Research Center (CRC) on the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and 10^th Street, and between Chili’s Restaurant (at the southeast corner of University and Mill Ave) and the Tempe Center (where Sacks is located).

There is also metered parking available immediately in front of the museum and located along both Mill Avenue and 10^th Street. *You will still have to pay for metered parking.*

Please refer to the map for lot location details:

There's LOTS of FREE PARKING for our event!

this Tempe Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours is co-sponsored by:

Gordon Knox named new ASU Art Museum Director

Exciting news here at ASU Art Museum – we have officially announced our new, permanent director.

We’re thrilled to welcome Gordon Knox to Arizona from Stanford, where he’s currently Director of Global Initiatives in their School of Humanities and Sciences. He’ll join us part time in January while he finishes out his current projects, and will be full time here by July 2010.

Welcome, Gordon! I can’t promise you won’t be turned into a zombie at some point while you’re here. Or that no one will suggest you volunteer to be dunked in a tank for fundraising purposes (the greater good, Gordon! the Greater Good!) but it will be rewarding, challenging and fun. We think you’ll fit right in, and we’re looking forward to working with you!

-diane

zombies, fin.

We were so sad to say goodbye to artist Jillian Mcdonald and her motley collection of vampires and zombies this past week.

But the exhibition lives on! You can still come in and see her gallery in the ASU Art Museum, showing the final films, through January 9, 2010.

If you missed any part of it, search through this blog from Oct5 – Nov. 14 – Jillian was great about documenting her work and what was happening with the project. So you can get caught up either before or after viewing her films.

zombies at ASU Art Museum

 

-diane

truly a native confluence

A short video (done on my iPhone!) showing off the latest addition to Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures at ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center. The exhibition, which features Postcommodity Collective, Nora Naranjo Morse and Bill and Athena Steen, runs through November 28, 2009.

The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is open Tuesday 11am – 8pm, and Wed – Sat 11am – 5pm. Free parking is located immediately outside the building at the northeast corner of Mill Ave. at 10th Street.

When you’re done, come on over to the main building to see the rest of the Defining Sustainability season including Canalscape, Alone Together in the Dark, I’m Keeping an Eye on You and more!

-diane

zombies are never really gone…

Come to ASU Art Museum tonight – Friday the 13th – for the premiere screening of artist-in-residence and master vampire slayer Jillian Mcdonald’s exhibition project.

The goodbye party is 5:30 – 7pm in the first floor gallery of the museum. Jillian leaves us for home tomorrow so come and help us see her off!

-diane

*The video above, which we’ve titled The Undeath of John Spiak, was an elementary art class project – the kids did their own makeup and their own short film while they were here earlier this week. Is that a cool class or what?

I stole this content

The following post comes courtesy of the City of Tempe’s Green Street Party. You can find it, plus a video and some other details, on their page that’s dedicated to the event, or you can just read below.

This is all happening outside our doors on Mill Avenue at the same time that our reception for Canalscape is happening inside the ASU Art Museum. The reception is FREE and open to everyone. Come inside to see this amazing project and what it could mean for our great city, plus food and beverages, music and a dance performance!

Thank you, Tempe (Tanya and crew) for letting me borrow your info.  Click the title link next to go straight to their site.

-diane

 

Green Street Tempe Party
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 6 – 9 p.m.

Tempe is taking it to the streets – in a big, green way. On Tuesday, Nov. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. downtown Tempe is the place to be for some good, green fun! You can shop Tempe’s carbon-neutral Community Market, featuring products created by local artists, growers and crafters; hear some great local musicians and performers at Music on Mill, celebrating Tempe’s vibrant music history; or have Drinks and Discussion at one of Tempe’s many charming restaurants. You can also check out sustainable dog houses, see a green film, and visit ASU Art Museum’s Defining Sustainability exhibition – among a variety of other fun, sustainable activities.  Please visit our website periodically for more updates.

Defining Sustainability Art Exhibit ASU Art Museum presents, Defining Sustainability, a series of dynamic and interactive projects that will come together at the ASU Art Museum and its Ceramics Research Center to illustrate sustainability ideas. Each exhibition or project tells a simple story, an artist’s proposal for green transportation or a designer’s solution for recycled shade structures, which together convey the complexity of sustaining life on earth. The diverse projects range in materials and format, and are installed throughout the ASU Art Museum to tell stories of environmental, social and cultural sustainability. Free bus services is available from Mill Ave. to the ASU Art Museum. ASU LEEDing the way in green building design – http://www.vimeo.com/4483342 Drinks and Discussions Enjoy drinks and discussion with an industry expert at one of Tempe’s many charming restaurants and patio lounges from 7 – 9 p.m.  Enter a raffle to win great prizes by giving your business card at any Drinks and Discussion location.  Increase your odds of winning by visiting all four Drinks and Discussion locations.  Locations include: o        La Bocca Pizzeria & Wine Bar – 699 S. Mill Avenue - o        Studio 5C – 200 E. 5th Street – Discussion topic: Integration of Sustainable Design in Moving Towards a Low-Carbon Future o        House of Tricks- 114 E. 7th Street – Discussion topic: Think Globally, Eat Locally o        Pho Thang Long – 414 S. Mill Avenue   Desert Doghouse Showcase & Auction Teams of high school students will collaborate with professionals as they design and construct a sustainable doghouse.  Ten lucky students will be showcasing and auctioning off their creations at the Green Street Tempe party.  Auction will take place at 8 p.m.  All proceeds benefiting the Habitat for Humanity. Green Film Showcase – Valley Art Theater, located in downtown Tempe on Mill Avenue, will be showcasing No Impact Man Nov. 6 through Nov 12.   Showtimes: 2:00 p.m., 4:10 p.m., 6:20 p.m., 8:30 p.m. Live Music – Music on Mill Musicians and performers, covering a gamut of musical genres, will activate the streets and give visitors a positive, unique experience.  Music on Mill is a nod to Tempe’s vibrant music history, and particularly Mill Avenue, where all of the venues were located that sprouted such bands as the Gin Blossoms, The Refreshments, Dead Hot Workshop and the Meat Puppets. Market Garden – An important component to the Market on Mill, the Market Garden is being created to help offset the carbon footprint of the event and to providing a central downtown location where residents and schools can come and learn how to garden in the desert and how to live more sustainably on their own land or porch or terrace.  It will initially include micro greens and flowers for local restaurants and the Market on Mill.  Phase 1 of the garden should be completed by Nov. 10 for the Green Street Tempe Party.  The land proposed for the garden is the southwest corner of 5th Street and Forest Avenue. Market on Mill & Green Scene Tempe’s first carbon neutral, “green” Market on Mill and Green Scene will include products created by local artists, growers and crafters from the greater Tempe community.  The Phoenix Permaculture Guild will be onsite offering classes and demonstrations held in the MADCAP Theater, and a market booth to respond to sustainable gardening issues and provide information on how to “do-it-yourself.” Transportation, Parking & Maps Metro Light Rail Schedule and Map Downtown Tempe Map Tempe Bus Schedule Orbit Bus Schedule and Maps Flash Bus Schedule and Maps Bicycle Cellar – Indoor Bicycle Parking For more information about the Green Street event please contact, (480) 858-2215 or e-mail tanya_chavez@tempe.gov.  Visit www.tempe.gov/newsroom to connect with the City of Tempe, follow us on Twitter and get our latest news!

“It’s not easy being green”

Canalscape being installed at ASU Art Museum

Canalscape turns ASU Art Museum green

Actually, it isn’t all that difficult. Especially when the Canalscape installation is in full swing at ASU Art Museum – we have green plants all over the front of the building and in the Nymphaeum (that’s our swanky name for our front entry area that’s located down the stairs). This is going to be an exciting project, and one that I personally hope becomes reality in the near future. Imagine seeing a currently-dull-and-uninhabited canal from the street, fully redesigned with parks, or shopping, or restaurants, or anything creative that reflects the neighborhood around it. We may soon have (more!) really wonderful spaces around our fair city that are inviting, relaxing, invigorating – our very own oases.

Come see what it’s about at the opening reception on Tuesday, November 10, from 6 – 9 pm at ASU Art Museum. It’s free. There will be food, drink, music and a dance performance! All this amid the fun of Tempe Greenstreets, happening outside our door on Mill Avenue in conjunction with the U.S. Greenbuild Conference. It’s going to be an exciting evening!

-diane

…in case you missed it, the title reference.

 

tagged

I am not condoning random painting on the outside of our building. It’s not ok. Please refrain from tagging the museum with random art even if it is sort of cool.

-diane

edit: By the way, we did get the reference.

First Saturday projects!

collage project for First Saturdays, November 2009

If all these events just aren’t enough for you (have you even come in to do a Fundred yet??) this coming weekend is the first Saturday of November, which means, FREE MANUAL ART LABOR FOR THE MINORS free hands-on art projects for kids!

This month’s project is based on the Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert exhibition, with artists Richard Lerman, Carrie Marill and Julie Anand. Based on Anand’s collage-type work and Marill’s birds, we’ve got some fun bird-inspired collage projects just waiting to happen. The beautiful collage pictured above was done by our Ed. Department assistant, Dawn. She’s good, no?

Don’t forget- everything is free and the kids can keep their projects. With the holidays quickly approaching, what better way to keep the kids entertained for a day than a FREE day at ASU Art Museum?

Following is a real quote from a real teacher who brought her class into the museum for a tour: “They liked the museum better than the zoo!”

hear that? BETTER THAN THE ZOO. you should come on Saturday and see why.

-diane :)

Friday Conversations

Please join us Friday at 11 a.m. as artist Richard Lerman talks with us about his installation, Hoover: Water | Power at ASU Art Museum. These are always super-interesting conversations, and always free! Free parking is located outside of the Ceramics Research Center, on the northeast corner of Mill Ave. at 10th Street.

-diane