Exhibition Overview This exhibition begins with a question: What if we grew up learning that migration was part of the natural order of our world? Rather than assuming animals, plants, and people belong to fixed regions, what if we understood instead that movement across borders, ecosystems, and cultures is necessary for survival and resilience? Tierras […]
Making Meaning: Place and Space at ASU Art Museum At the ASU Art Museum, we’re reimagining every corner of the museum — from the scent in the air to the spaces where people gather, transforming visitor experiences beyond the galleries and reflecting the spirit of the land on which we are sited, the historic homelands […]
Art in Focus is dedicated to intimate, project-based presentations by invited artists or drawn from the museum’s collection that encourage sustained engagement and deep attention. “Tonia Calderon: Endless” extends this commitment by positioning the gallery as a site of learning, reflection and experimentation. For this project, Los Angeles–based artist Tonia Calderon brings elements of her […]
“Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar” is the first major exhibition devoted to artist, activist and educator Carmen Lomas Garza (b. 1948) since 2001. Bringing fresh insight to her expansive career, the exhibition follows Garza’s work across media. It also situates her practice within a broader cultural landscape, featuring works by contemporaries who collaborated with […]
This May, ASU Art Museum presents "Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar," the artist’s first major retrospective, bringing together a lifetime of work centered around community resilience and everyday life. Join us for a vibrant opening-night celebration featuring local food and live music. The evening features a one-night-only tasting by Chef Fernando Hernandez of Testal, […]
Join featured artist Carmen Lomas Garza and panelists Amalia Mesa Bains and Carmen Guerrero in a special discussion moderated by Alana Hernandez, that delves into community solidarity, cultural memory, and collective resistance within labor activism inspired by the retrospective, Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar. Date: Sunday, May 3rd, 2026 Time: 12-1:30 pm Location: ASU […]
Celebrate World Collage Day on May 9 at the Ceramics Research Center with cut+paste! Observed each year on the second Saturday in May, World Collage Day is a global invitation for people across cities, studios, and kitchen tables worldwide to cut, assemble, and reimagine together. And honestly, this is exactly the kind of moment for […]
Join the Bilingual Press | Editorial Bilingüe for an engaging conversation with award-winning author Reyna Grande and writer and BP|EB editorial team member Ofelia Montelongo about Grande’s new memoir-in-essays, Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget. Palabras Bilingual Bookstore will be onsite selling books. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.; Event starts at 6 p.m. Sponsored […]