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February 22, 2013
Southwest Indian Art Fair Juried Competition
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September 27–December 1, 2012
Talavera Contemporánea
Commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Battle of May 5th, contemporary artists were invited to put a modern spin on the popular and iconic Mexican ceramic style. Twelve colorful, innovative, and edgy pieces reflecting current discourse and poetics came to Arizona State Museum, courtesy of the Consulate of Mexico in Tucson and Uriarte Talavera Contemporánea in Puebla, Mexico, to complement the award-winning Many Mexicos exhibit for a limited time. |
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February 17, 2012
Southwest Indian Art Fair Juried Competition
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November 19, 2010–December 1, 2012
Many Mexicos: Vistas de la Frontera
This exhibition interpreted the broad sweep of Mexican history from the perspective of the borderlands—a vast, contested space that was the outer rim of Mesoamerica in the pre-Columbian period and later evolved into the northern frontier of Spanish-Indian relations following the conquest of Mexico. The establishment of the international border between the United States and Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century set the stage for a new set of cross-cultural contacts and commercial exchanges. The debates currently raging over immigration by no means diminish these relationships. In so many ways, the history of Arizona reflects the history of Mexico.
Dr. Michael M. Brescia's remarks at the exhibition opening.
Related blog post: Many Mexicos: Exhibitions as Creative Team Products |
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January 21–September 24, 2012
Hopi Quilts: Unique Yet Universal
A cozy exhibit of Hopi quilts! Twenty inspiring examples from the 1970s to today demonstrated adaptation and use of the old American tradition.
This exhibit was made possible by the generosity of Beatrice A. Kabler and by a grant from The
Joseph and Mary Cacioppo Foundation.
Watch a video slide show , The Art and Function of Hopi Quilts, produced by UANews. |
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October 15, 2011–January 7, 2012
Through the Eyes of the Eagle: Illustrating Healthy Living
This family-friendly exhibition, inspired by a children’s book series of the same name, raised awareness about type 2 diabetes prevention from a Native American perspective. History, culture, and health were explored through objects, photographs, artwork, storytelling, and video. Interactive and hands-on activities encouraged healthy living.
More About the Exhibition
About the It's Up to You! Digital Comic
It’s Up 2 You! is available online at HealthyPima.org, and as a free app for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad from the iTunes Store.
Video: YOUTH on Health, Family & Community |
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February 2–28, 2011
Original Pages from Historic Treaty on Loan from National Archives
Visitors could see original pages from the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , which ended the Mexican-American War (1846–1848). Also on display was the "Disturnell map," detailing the boundaries of North America in the 1840s.
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February 18, 2011
Southwest Indian Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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November 16, 2010–mid-January, 2011
Native Perspectives
Part of Native American Heritage Month at the University of Arizona, this exhibition, sponsored by Native American Student Affairs (NASA), featured images showing the many sides of Native American life. The images also previewed some of the stories featured in Native Perspectives, a student newspaper published once a semester. |
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March 13–September 18, 2010
Salvador Corona: Matador to Muralist
This exhibition highlights the works of beloved Mexican-born muralist and decorative artist Salvador Corona (1895–1984). Beginning in 1919 following a career as a bullfighter, which ended when his leg was gored, Corona worked artistically in Mexico, Tucson, and other parts of southern Arizona. His murals, easel paintings, and painted furniture graced (in some cases still grace) homes and businesses all over the region, illustrating idyllic pastoral scenes of Mexico’s past. Video about the exhibition from UA News |
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March 2010
Southwest Indian Art Fair Juried Competition
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April 1, 2010 –August 2011
Ice Age Arizona: Preserving the Naco Mammoth
Arizona State Museum’s mammoth bones are the world’s most significant objects of their type and tell a story of a 12,000 year-old hunt—a hunt conducted by some of the earliest people living in Arizona. Clovis points embedded in the skeleton are the earliest evidence we have for human interaction with the colossal species.
Excavated over spring break in the early 1950's by a student team led by renowned archaeologist and then ASM director Emil “Doc” Haury, the bones were rescued from an exposed arroyo bank near Naco, Arizona. Recent conservation study and treatment activities have rediscovered the remarkably innovative methods used by the team. As they did fifty years ago, the osteological remains stir imaginations.
Listen to podcast featuring the last surviving member of the student crew.
Related links:
Arizona Daily Star: In UA exhibit, early man takes on mammoth
KUAZ Arizona Spotlight: Naco Mammoth podcast
KOLD News 13: Arizona ice age: Man vs. mammoth Be sure to click on the video! |
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December 14, 2007–February 20, 2010
Set in Stone: 2000 Years of Gem and Mineral Trade in the Southwest
Gems, minerals, copper, and even sea shells and other exotic goods have been carried across the Southwest along well-established and well-worn routes for more than 2000 years. Set in Stone brought this long history to light, featuring 800 objects and audio-visual displays. With Native jewelry and mining tools from across the span of time, and with mineral samples, photographs, and recordings, the viewer was transported on a journey of deep historical resonance along routes that trace how the quest for mineral wealth has shaped the identity of the Southwest. Designed to complement and coincide with the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, Set in Stone gave context and perspective to our community’s annual gathering.
Video about the exhibition from UA News |
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December 4, 2009–January 16, 2010
Mexico, the Revolution and Beyond:
The Casasola Archives, 1900-1940
Agustín Víctor Casasola was not a painter or a poet or one of the many intellectuals or revolutionaries during the early decades of the twentieth century who consciously strove to forge a Mexican identity. Yet, as witness and recorder of those tumultuous years, his influence was as great and may prove to be more lasting. The photographic archives Casasola assembled with his brother comprise nearly 500,000 images and are considered the finest collection available on Mexican history documenting the first part of the twentieth century.
This exhibition was organized by the Fototeca Nacional of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (Mexico) and presented in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Tucson.
More About the Exhibition (PDF*) | Article by Rita Pomade | Video from Arizona Public Media
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September 11–November 6, 2009
The Border Project
The Border Project is a mixed-media art installation highlighting the perspectives of high school students living along the borders of Arizona, Mexico, the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation, and the town of Ajo.
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July 17–August 22, 2009
Our Fathers, Our Grandfathers, Our Heroes:
The Navajo Code Talkers of World War II
This exhibition traces the story of, and is a tribute to, the famed United States Marine Corps Navajo Code Talkers of World War II. Over 400 Navajo Marines, communicating in an unbreakable code based on the Navajo language, greatly helped in the effort to win the war in the Pacific. More About the Exhibition |
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February 2009
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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February 7–July 5, 2009
Circles of Life: Katsina Imagery in Hopi Basketry
The katsina [kachina] religion is pervasive in Hopi culture. Many people are familiar with carved representations of katsinam, but images of the beneficent supernatural messengers also appear on Hopi pottery, paintings, and basketry.
This traveling exhibit provided an historic overview of Hopi basket-making traditions, techniques, types, and katsina iconography. More About the Exhibition
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January 17–February 20, 2009
Current Southwest Archaeology 2008: A Traveling Exhibit
What's going on in Southwest archaeology today? This traveling exhibition from the Amerind Foundation highlights the work of eight scholars, chosen in a competition held at the 2008 Society for American Archaeology annual meetings. The scholars present six current studies in Arizona, New Mexico, and Chihuahua in their own words. This exhibition will tour to six anthropology museums in 2009.
Proud of its continuing tradition of bringing archaeology to the public, the Amerind Foundation in Dragoon, Arizona, has been sponsoring original anthropological research since 1937. More about the exhibition (PDF*) |
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November 8, 2008–January 9, 2009
Beyond the Naked Eye: Science Reveals Nature's Art
Art and science have always been connected—from alchemists' experiments producing art materials to Renaissance explorations of anatomy, and artists still draw on scientific technology as inspiration and in process. This exhibit aims to reverse the traditional roles by presenting the science as the art by looking beyond what is accessible to the unaided human eye. The images in this exhibition are taken at scales varying from satellite imagery at the upper end to electron micrographs of objects only a few nanometers in size, and include biological structures, geological features, and the materials produced by prehistoric and historic technologies.
This exhibition was mounted with financial assistance from the National Science Foundation/University of Arizona Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) Program in archaeological science.
More About the Exhibition | Video Podcast Tour with Co-Curator David Killick |
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September 15–October 27, 2008
Anatomy of Sorrow: A Solo Exhibition by Daniel Martin Diaz
In celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Arizona State Museum featured paintings by renowned Tucson artist Daniel Martin Diaz in the Native Goods Gallery. Nationally recognized for an archaic style redolent of centuries past, Diaz’s work is based upon his deep interest in early devotional art. His works are noted for rich visual complexity punctuated with mystical arcane iconography. In “Anatomy of Sorrow” Tucson had the first opportunity to see Diaz’s newest body of work. A larger version of this exhibition is set to premiere in Los Angeles at the end of 2008.
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February 2008
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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October 2005–November 2007
Masks of Mexico: Santos, Diablos y Más
Beauty, pageantry, and power are hallmarks of traditionally carved Mexican masks from pre-Hispanic times to the present. Using bright colors and rich imagery, the artisans of Mexico create a fantastic and marvelous world of hand carved wooden masks. Faces smile, grimace, look angelic or diabolic. Whether they are part animal, part human, or stylized characters from Mexican history, they are all most importantly part of a compelling and continuing tradition.
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Virtual Gallery | Podcast Audio Tour
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October 2007
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
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January–March 2007
Walking in Two Worlds: The Art of Jerry Brown
(Native Goods Featured Artist)
Brown, a Navajo painter making fearless forays into the abstract tradition, brings a sense of will to the cultural and creative challenge of shaping himself as an artist who walks in two worlds. When asked about the cultural content in his painting, he replies, “I use pattern, texture, and color in my paintings to communicate what I see and experience everyday.”
Online Exhibtion |
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February 2007
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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April–September 2006
Las Super Luchas
Born and raised in Rio Grande Valley, Xavier Garza grew up loving the
legends of Lucha Libre. Las Super Luchas honors the
masked men and women who, by donning disguises and in essence leading a
double life, immortalized the sport of Lucha Libre. In all twenty works
commemorated major events in Lucha Libre history.
News Release | Listen to our podcast about Lucha Libre! |
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February–April 2006
Carving Culture: The Yoeme Masks of Frank Martinez
Martinez has carved pahkola masks yearly since his teenage years. In the 1980s there was a florescence of mask carving among the Tucson Yoemem and Martinez was at the forefront of the movement. This exhibit was
a testament to Martinez' skill and artistic abilities.
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February 2006
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
News Release | Online Exhibition |
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October 2005–January 2006
Inspired by Masks of Mexico
In a special "Masks of Mexico" museum-school project, La Cima Middle
School 6th grade students learned about the history of Mexican masks, their
use in performance, and the art of making them. The students then created
a collection of papier-mâché masks that were used in a performance and
displayed in the Museum.
News Release |
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September–November
2005
Mystery of Faith: The Art of Daniel Martin Diaz
(Native Goods Featured Artist)
Diaz's paintings, prints, and drawings are inspired by Spanish
devotional folk art, which he blends with archaic imagery and old-world
techniques to evoke the religious imagery of 12th century European
paintings. |
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February 2005
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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March–September 2005
The Art of Form: Alice Cling and Her Family of Navajo
Potters
The Williams/Cling family, led by Alice, has paved the way for Navajo art pottery. Her trademark high luster pots of exquisite form are collected by pottery connoisseurs nationwide.
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October 2004–May 2005
Navajo Weaving at Arizona State Museum: 19th Century
Blankets, 20th Century Rugs, 21st Century Views
This unprecedented exhibition showcased weaving from 150 years ago along
with contemporary weaving of the last four decades. More than 60 textiles
from ASM's nationally recognized collection and the renowned Santa Fe
Collection filled two galleries. Navajo weavers of today shared the significance
of this rich and enduring tradition in their own words.
More Info | News Release | Online Exhibition |
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September–October
2004
Tiempo: The Art of Gonzalo Espinosa
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
ASM presented an intimate exhibition
of mixed-media paintings by Mexican-born artist Gonzalo Espinosa. Espinosa
is known for his murals in South Tucson and for his vibrant depiction of
the
Mexico he knew as a teenager in Guadalajara, Jalisco. |
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February 2004
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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October 2003–June 2004
With an Eye on Culture:
The Photography of Helga Teiwes
During her 30-year
career, former Arizona State Museum photographer, Helga Teiwes, focused her
lens on American Indian peoples across the state - their arts, their
communities, and their lifeways. She also documented some of the most
significant archaeological excavations throughout the region.
More Info | News Release | Online Exhibition |
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October–November 2003
In the Name of God / En el Nombre de Dios
Photographs by Alejandra Platt (Native Goods Featured
Artist)
Platt, a well-known photographer from Sonora, records the indigenous
cultures of Mexico — from her native state of Sonora to Yucatan, Chihuahua,
Cohauila, Nayarit, Jalisco, Guanajuato, San Luis Potosi, Veracruz, Michoacan,
Tabasco, Oaxaca, and Chiapas.
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March 2003–October
2004
The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the
Secrets of Southwestern Pottery
Walking into a large scale reproduction, visitors could examine
its shape, design, decoration, content residue, clay, and other features.
The exhibition focused on how archaeologists "read" those
clues and why it is important to
examine the past.
More Info | News Release |
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February 2003
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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January–February
2003
The Art of Louis David Valenzuela
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
Valenzuela is one of the best-known Yaqui artists living in Arizona. Valenzuela practices several art forms including painting and drawing, but he is best known for his willow wood and cottonwood mask carvings.
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December 2002–January 2003
Nizhonigoo Bil Iina: Paintings by Shonto Begay, Diné
(Native Goods
Featured Artist)
This exhibition was a rare, brief opportunity
to see the world through the clear vision of one of the Navajo Nation's
most respected artists. Shonto Begay's acrylic paintings vibrate with the
color and music of life.
More Info | News Release |
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October 2002–May
2003
Connections Across Generations:
The Avery Collection
of American Indian Paintings
This exhibition showcased 355 paintings donated by the Avery family
to the Museum. The paintings, collected over 40 years, bracket the period
1935 to 1990, a time that brought many changes to reservation and rural
economies. The entire collection can be browsed
or searched online.
More Info | News Release |
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September–October 2002
Rituales: Mexican-American Rites and Rituals
Photographs by José Galvez (Native
Goods Featured Artist)
Galvez' work celebrates various Mexican-American ceremonies such as baptisms, First Communions, quinceañeras, weddings, home altars, graduations, naturalization ceremonies and even low rider competitions.
More Info | News Release |
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February 2002
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
Online Exhibition |
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November 2001–May 2002
In Flight: Adriel
Heisey's Images of Trincheras Archaeology
En Vuelo: Imágenes de Adriel Heisey
de los cerros de trincheras
Trincheras (the term literally means "entrenchments") are prehistoric
hilltop ruins of rock terraces, walls, and houses. Heisey's spectacular
images of these sites, taken from an ultra-light airplane of his own construction,
formed the core of this exhibition.
Online Exhibition | Exhibición en línea |
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July–August 2001
Seven Eyes, Seven Legs: Supernatural Stories of the
Abenaki
(Native Goods
Featured Artists)
This exhibition, a celebration of the Abenaki culture from eastern Canada and the northeastern United States, featured original carvings by gifted Abenaki artists Gerard Rancourt Tsonakwa and Yalaikia Wapitaska.
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March 2001
Evidence
Paintings by Robert Sorrell (Native Goods
Featured Artist)
Using the motif of suits, Sorrel's show expressed modern art forms and attitudes on native art and motifs that speak to a contemporary Native American culture. More Info |
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February 2001
Southwest Inidan Art Fair Juried Competition
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January–May 2001
Portraits in Cloth: Tohono O'odham Quilts of Goldie
Richmond
The exhibition celebrated the life and art of an exceptional Arizona
woman. It featured three of Goldie's
quilts with themes related to the Tohono O'odham.
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2000–2002
Saving Southwest Traditions
The Pottery Project: 2,000 Years—20,000 Vessels
ASM's Pottery Project is a major effort to create a new storage
vault for our unique collection of some 20,000 Southwest Indian whole-vessel
ceramics, and at the same time making it more accessible to the public
and to scholars. This unique collection spans 2000 years of life in the
American desert Southwest and northern Mexico, and reflects almost every
cultural group in the region. Our
curators created an exhibition demonstrating the collection's breadth
and depth to focus public attention on the Project.
News Release | Online Exhibition |
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Fall 1998
Visions and Voices: A Contemporary American Indian Portrait Exhibit
The exhibit consisted of portraits by Michael S. Shipman of U of A students, faculty and staff as well as students from St Gregory College Preparatory School. Personal statements from the subjects and contemporary Native American arts and crafts accompanied the portraits.
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