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Here are a bunch of images from todays event as it gets set-up…

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:

If You’re in Santa Fe!

Mounira Al Solh, The Sea Is a Stereo, Video number 2, Paris Without a Sea, 2007-2008. Courtesy of the artist.

If you are in the Santa Fe, NM area, a heads-up that the exhibition “I’m Keeping an Eye on You” is traveling to the Center for Contemporary Art December 4 -January 31!
http://ccasantafe.blogspot.com/2009/11/im-keeping-eye-on-you.html

- John

Friday Conversations@11: Canalscape with Braden Kay

Don’t miss the next great discussion in our ongoing series.  This Friday the 20th, ASU graduate student Braden Kay, who has worked extensively with Dr. Nan Ellin,  will host the discussion about the Canalscape project.  The conversation will be held in our Nymphaeum amongst the current installation of Canalscape at our museum.  It’s from 11-12 and, as always, free of charge.

 

-Nick

Canalscape photos

Canalscape photo by Nick Klofkorn

A photo of the canalscape installation at ASU ART Museum, as part of the season on Defining Sustainability.  I took this photo of the nymphaeum in infrared, which requires special film or a modified camera, because I thought it would look cool.

Infrared turns foliage white and skies black (unless they are overcast.)  There are a few more on the flickr page of the museum which is at flickr.com/asuartmuseum.

 -Nick

 

Zombies vs Vampires – tonight!

Opening tonight at ASU Art Museum! Join us!
Show runs through January 9th, 2010.

Zombies vs Vampires is a video installation featuring two videos projected on opposite walls where zombies and vampires stage a dramatic Western-style showdown at dawn in the desert, amidst photographic murals that wrap the gallery in local desert imagery: cacti, mountain, rugged terrain, contemporary ghost towns, and graveyards. This work was created with a wonderful cast of locals in Tempe, Arizona, including 50 actors, 4 videographers, 1 photographer, 10 make-up artists, and 1 sound designer.

Very special thanks to Bluemedia for their generous in-kind printing of a 100-foot wide photo mural.

~photos by Stephen Gittins

-Jillian

Jillian Mcdonald: Zombies vs. Vampires – Premiere Reception (Fri. 13th) @ ASU Art Museum

Friday, November 13, 2009

5-7pm

FREE Public Reception and World Premiere

Jillian Mcdonald: Zombies vs. Vampires

 

Please join us for the FREE Public Reception and World Premiere

of Jillian Mcdonald’s two channel video installation Zombies vs. Vampires,

a work created with the community during the artists six-week Social Studies

residency at the Arizona State University Art Museum

 

Image documentation of the six-week residency and creation of the work can be

found on the ASU Art Museum FaceBook page at:

Asuart Museumstaff

 

Commentary by the artist during the project can be found through postings

on the ASU Art Museum blog: http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/

 

Special thanks to all the volunteer community members who participated in the

project as Zombies, Vampires, Make-up Artists, Videographers, Still Camera

Photographer, Support Crew and Prof. Muriel Magenta.

Thank you to BlueMedia for their in-kind printing support for the installation:

http://www.bluemedia.com/

 

We look forward to having you join us!

Arizona State University Art Museum

Mill Avenue @ 10th Street

Tempe, AZ 85287-2911

t. 480.965.2787

f. 480.965.5254

e. asuartmuseum@asu.edu

w. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu

blog. http://asuartmuseum.wordpress.com/

- John

Short Film Festival 2010

Prior year's event. Photo courtesy Ken Storch.

Please join us at the museum for the 2010 Short Film Festival.  The festival will be held on April 17, at 8 PM, at our museum on the plaza. 

The festival is an annual outdoor film and video event to celebrate the artistic and creative endeavors of people with different visions and levels of experience.  More information is, as always, available on the museum’s event page.

-Nick

Kathy Butterly lecture tonight!

Just a reminder that we will be having a lecture by Kathy Butterly, part of the Jan Fisher Memorial Lecture series! Tonight at 7:45 PM at Core 170.  There is a free reception with the artist following at the CRC.

-Nick

New installation going up in the galleries!

Installing a bottles which depicts change in water levels at the Hoover dam over time

Just a brief update to show some of the new work going up in one of our galleries.  Being involved working or volunteering at an organization that changes so rapidly is an interesting experience.

Sometimes things are changing so rapidly I have a tough time keeping track of them all.  In this installation, “Hoover: Water | Power,” artist Richard Lerman uses  different materials to explore water as a resource, the Hoover dam and interaction of man with his environment.  This will definitely be one of the exhibitions to keep an eye on as it nears completion.

- Nick