Exhibition

The ASU Art Museum presents an audio-visual installation of a version of Cage's "49 Waltzes" for the ASU Tempe campus, realized by 23 students from the School of Music and the School of Arts, Media + Engineering for the museum. In 1977 the American composer John Cage created "49 Waltzes for the Five Boroughs of […]

Join us for a special guided tour of selected prints from the Jules Heller Print Study Room. These tours offer a rare opportunity to study original prints without a frame's glass, allowing for an intimate encounter with artists throughout history. Tours are offered every Thursday–Sunday at 1 p.m. To make a reservation, contact Raechel Miller […]

For the past year, Bay Area artist Tom Franco has been collaborating with his brother, actor James Franco, on a series of enormous ceramic sculptures at Mission Clay Products, a Phoenix-based factory that produces vitrified clay pipes used mainly for sewage. Through their Arts and Industry program, Mission Clay has provided materials and working space […]

This event features sisters Lisa and Janelle Iglesias form the New York City-based artist duo Las Hermanas Iglesias. As a team, they create artworks that disrupt borders, engage absurdity and promote the benefits of working together. This season, they are mounting a site-specific installation at ASU Art Museum as the first family-in-residence. Join us for […]

See the museum's collection through the lens of a scientist. In "Material Beauty," guest curator Nathan Newman, a professor in Solid State Science at Arizona State University's School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy, has selected artworks that engage with the chemistry of color, the neurology of facial recognition and the mathematics of perspective. […]

Actual Source, the collaborative art and design practice of Davis Ngarupe and JP Haynie, designs publications, identities, websites and spaces for local and international clients. "Actual Source: Call Now" uses existing formats in commercial advertising and promotion and appropriates them to fit within the context of contemporary graphic design. The project addresses topics of self-promotion, […]

Nova Scotia-based artist Neil Forrest investigates ceramics, architectonics and the relationship between micro and macro structures in "Porøs" (Norwegian for "porous"). Made up of a series of ceramic cisterns and vessels, this grotto-like installation contains proliferating crystals, percolating rock and moving liquids. This project is part of the Windgate Contemporary Craft Initiative at ASU Art […]