Exhibition Overview Spiraling, Twisting, Unraveling: Explorations in Pattern and Form Culled entirely from the Museum’s collection, “Spiraling, Twisting, Unraveling: Explorations in Pattern and Form” explores the dynamic landscape and languages found through contemporary craft today. The exhibition features twenty-five artists who examine dimensions of decoration, pattern and form through their varied practices to engage with […]
“Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center's Collection, 1980–2010” showcases a partnership between ASU’s Hispanic Research Center (HRC) and ASU Art Museum and brings together works from the 1980s into the 2010s drawn from the HRC’s dynamic collection. Featuring over 30 artists who each offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Mexican […]
Exhibition Overview What do you think everyday objects tell us about history and ourselves? What might future archaeologists think about our commonplace items? What might they be able to understand about our current moment and our social and cultural backgrounds? "The Flames Leave a Feathered Mark on the Clay Spider in the Chamber of Ash […]
Exhibition Overview Drawn from the museum’s holdings, “Cooperative Craft: Art of the Mingei Movement” explores the rich history of the Mingei Movement, Japan’s folk craft movement that emerged in the late 1920s. Featuring objects by the five key members of the Movement –– Hamada Shōji (Japan, 1894–1978), Kawai Kanjiro (Japan, 1890–1966), Shimaoka Tatsuzō (Japan, 1919–2007), […]
Exhibition Overview Throughout their dynamic and multidisciplinary practice, José Villalobos (b.1988, El Paso, Texas) interrogates and deconstructs aspects of gender and masculinity found within the U.S. / Mexico borderlands. Their practice underscores the rigid and conservative patriarchal roots of their Evangelical Mexican upbringing merged with the cultural mores of West Texas, bringing to bear how […]
Join Miki Garcia, director of the ASU Art Museum and professor of practice, for a classroom-style lecture exploring 60 years of queer art from underground movements to mainstream breakthroughs. About Art 101: The Art 101 series is a fun and accessible introduction to the world of art, designed for anyone curious about creativity, visual expression and […]
Join José Villalobos at the ASU Art Museum for “Rough Ridin’ The American Dream.” This durational performance is mounted on the occasion of his first U.S. solo museum presentation “Rough Rider” that focuses on the spectacle of rodeo culture, addressing themes related to machismo, protection and gender. In a time when LGBTQIA+ rights are under […]
Join artist José Villalobos as they discuss their performance and practice in context of their first solo museum show in the U.S., “José Villalobos: Rough Rider” at ASU Art Museum. Villalobos will perform at the museum June 11, presenting a work that underscores how queer bodies, brown bodies and immigrant communities are persecuted, policed and […]
The ASU Art Museum and the Hispanic Research Center invite you to join us for a celebration marking the close of “Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection, 1980–2010.” The evening will feature live printmaking, student-created projects, and music that honors the power of graphic arts in shaping culture and resistance. […]