City Listings - Art (January 25

ART

Opening This Week

BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Opening January 25 with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., and continuing through February 24: mixed media photo-constructions and sculptural books by Sharon Holnback and Patricia Katchur. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 795-4503. Opening January 30 and continuing through February 24: mixed media paintings on paper by Monica Jost. Continuing through January 27: the Dinnerware Members' Exhibition, a nine-artist show of mixed-media paintings and three-dimensional works. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
ELEANOR JECK GALLERY. 4280 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 5. 299-2139. Opening January 26 with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m., and continuing through February 23: paper pieces and acrylic mixed-media on canvas by Greg Benson. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Opening January 31 and continuing through March 11 in the Main Gallery: black and white photography of Yosemite National Park, Monument Valley and Death Valley by Allen "Ike" Fordye. Continuing through March 17: Arizona Designer Craftsmen '96: A Treasury of Fine Craft, a juried exhibition featuring jewelry, furniture, art quilts, handmade books, fiber art and clay. Continuing through January 29 in the Main Gallery: Small Wonders: An Exhibition of Miniature Doll Quilts, a juried exhibition of works by Arizona artists. Regular gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday; and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is a $2 donation.

Continuing

ALAMO GALLERY. 101 W. Sixth St. 795-6225. Continuing through February 29: sculpture in stone and bronze by Ed Davenport and photographs, paintings and welded steel lamps by Martin Levowitz. Call for gallery hours.
APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave., Studio C. 791-3505. Continuing through February 29: paintings by Sarah Kucerova. There will be an artist's reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, February 3. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union, Second Floor. 621-5123. Continuing through February 23: The Material and the Dream Can Join, paintings by Barbera Crisp, Deborah McMillion-Nering and Judith Walsh. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Continuing through December 31, 1996: Emergence: The South Park Story, 1940-1950, a photo exhibit tracing the development of the South Park neighborhood, located along Park Avenue south of 22nd Street. Continuing through December 31, 1996: A Memento for My Descendants: The Buehman Studio Perspective, featuring the photographic works of German immigrant Henry Buehman. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through March 2: new paintings by Bruce McGrew and drawings and sculpture by Judith Stewart. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
Center for Creative Photography. UA Fine Arts Complex, southeast of the pedestrian underpass at Speedway and Park Avenue. 621-7968. Continuing through March 10: Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, featuring 12 contemporary American artists who explore themes central to the definition of multi-culturalism in the 1990s. Kim Yusada presents a slide lecture of her work at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, January 25. Ruben Ortiz Torres discusses his work in a slide lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, February 1. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
DESERT ARTISANS GALLERY. 6536-A Tanque Verde Road, La Plaza Shops. 722-4412. Continuing through March 11: New Beginnings, mixed-media works by various artists. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
ECLECTIC GALLERY. 69 E. Pennington St. 620-1668. Continuing through January 31: National Small Works Juried Exhibit, featuring mixed media emphasizing diversity and technique. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through March 30: paintings by Nancy Tokar Miller and Simon Donovan, and drawings by Fred Rhoads. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and 7 to 10 p.m. Downtown Saturday Night.
JCC ART GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through February 11: Persuasive Moments, oil paintings by Bruce Horn and Tucson and San Diego Series, watercolors by Diana Schwartz. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through February 10: Mascaras Pintadas: Retratos Intimos, works in gouache on paper by Cristina Cardenas, and acrylic paintings by Gonzalo Espinoza. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Night or by appointment.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through February 9: Picture This, an exhibit of photographic works by renown artists, including William Wegman, to be auctioned off at the UA Department of Art's black-tie fundraiser on the evening of February 9. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
LOCAL 803, INC. 803 E. Helen St. 882-4625. Continuing through February 10: fiber installation by Julia Latané, fiber sculpture by Melinda Morey and non-silver photography by Elaine Querry. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.
MELIORA GALLERY. 178 E. Broadway. 792-9544. Continuing through January 31: designs by Rammed Earth Development, Inc., featuring the Meyer Avenue Project, located in Bario Viejo and Barrio Santa Rosa. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
PCC WEST CAMPUS ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 884-6385. Continuing through February 20: Photo and Foundry, an invitational exhibition of alternative process photography by Linda Poverman, Keith Schreiber and Todd Walker, and cast metal sculpture by Susan K. Johnson, Susan Krause, Joe Harris and Don Haskin. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday, and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Friday.
PHANTOM GALLERY. 38. E. Congress St. Continuing through February 15: acrylic paintings of children, animals and other natural subjects by Monika Rossa.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through February 10: recent paintings by Joe Forkan and Heather Green. Forkan's works are painterly, multi-image commentaries and observations. Green's works include paintings inspired by travel and impossibilities. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night and Thursday Art Walk.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union. Third Floor. 626-4215. Continuing through February 2: mixed-media works employing found objects in an environmental context, by Tom Ortega. The gallery is open during Student Union hours.
TEMPLE GALLERY. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-8210. Continuing through February 7: clay and iron by Kevin Osborn. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances.
TUCSON/PIMA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Continuing through February 23: Beauty and the Bead: The Many Facets of Beadwork and Pure Color, a combined exhibition featuring the work of members of the Tucson Bead Society. Also showing are a collection of drawings in pastel by TMA students of Gail Marcus-Orlen. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and Thursday Night Art Walk.
Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through March 10: A Gift of Vision, a collection of works donated by the Small family. Admission to the museum is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, free for members and children under 12. Free for all on Tuesdays. Docent-led tours of the TMA Historic Block are offered at 11 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
UA Museum of Art. UA campus, Speedway east of Park Avenue in the Fine Arts Complex. 621-7567. Continuing through March 10: Robert Beckman: The Body of a House, featuring eight large paintings detailing the 2.3 seconds of destruction of a house during the 1953 nuclear bomb test in Nevada. Continuing through January 28: Joseph DiGiorgio: Prospect Park, a visual diary of changes spanning 24 months of observation of Brooklyn's famous Prospect Park. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed on Saturdays and University holidays. Admission is free.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union. 626-4215. Continuing through February 2: paintings and graphics by visiting Louisiana State University art professor, Kimberly Paul Arp. Arp presents a lecture on her work at 7 p.m. Saturday, January 31, in Art History Room 312. Call 621-7004 for information. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
WINGSPAN GALLERY. 422 N. Fourth Ave. 624-1779. Continuing through January 31: black and white photography by Robert A. MacMahon. Artists interested in exhibiting their works at Wingspan may call 624-1779 or Robert MacMahon at 571-8783. Call for gallery hours.

Last Chance

CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Continuing through January 27: Three Ring Circus, photographic installations in three rooms by Jill Susan Kelly, Gail Hewlett and Ruth K. Marblestone. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night, Thursday Night Art Walk and by appointment.
PHILABAUM GALLERY. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through January 27: Desert Heat: Glass Artists of the Southwest, featuring works by artists from New Mexico and Arizona. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Announcements

SARAH LOWE SPEAKS. Sarah Lowe, independent curator, art historian and author, presents Frida Kahlo's Diaries at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 25, in the UA College of Architecture auditorium, located at the south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. Lowe will address the Mexican artist's construction of identity in her personal diaries, which have recently been reprinted. Lowe also lectures on The Career of Tina Modotti at 3:30 p.m. Friday, January 26, at the Center for Creative Photography on the UA campus. Admission to both lectures is free. Call 621-7570 for information.
ART LECTURE. Ceramic artist Catherine Hiersoux presents a lecture on ceramic sculpture at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 25, at Randolph Park Photography Lab, 200 S. Alvernon Way. Heirsoux works in porcelain in both functional and sculptural ways. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Renwick Gallery, The Smithsonian and the American Craft Museum. Admission is free.
ARTISTS' SIGNING. Featured artists in Visions of Global Unity: Inspired Images from the Global Art Project sign postcards of their works from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Sunday, January 28, at the Tucson Museum of Art Museum Store, 140 N. Main Ave. Local artists include Margo Burwell, Gloria Ficalora, Katherine Josten, Michael Mayer, Carol Sano and Clealis Young. Call the Global Art Project at 628-8353 for information.
ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL. The Creative Spirit Arts and Crafts Festival is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, January 27, at the Bank of America, 7130 N. Oracle Road. The festival features over 80 local and visiting juried artisans. A portion of the proceeds benefits the Tucson Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (TABVI). Donations of colored markers will be gladly received at the TABVI booth. Admission and parking are free. Call 529-2072 for information.
ART EDUCATION FORUM. Art teachers and others interested in art education are invited to attend Crossing the Boundaries: Between Art Making and Art History, a forum from 7:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 2, at the ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center, located on the ASU campus in Tempe. This interactive, working forum takes a fresh look at two traditional areas of art curricula: studio art and art history. Cost is $15 and includes lunch. Deadline for registration is February 1. Mail check and networking information to: Focused Forum, ASU Art Museum, P.O. Box 872911, Tempe, AZ 85287-2911. Call (602) 965-2787 for information.
GRANT WORKSHOP. Tucson/Pima Arts Council offers a grantwriting workshop from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, February 3, at 240 N. Stone Ave. Workshop is geared toward arts organizations. Reservations required. Call 624-0595, ext. 16, for registration and information.
ART INSTRUCTION. Andrew Rush offers Advanced Composition: Mastering Visual Thinking, on Wednesday afternoons beginning February 7 and continuing through March 27, at the Drawing Studio, 601 S. Fifth Ave. Course is designed to take basic studio art skills and turn them into "deeper" visions. Registration required. Call 620-0947 for registration and information.
PRINT WORKSHOP. Artist Kimberly Paul Arp offers a printmaking workshop from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. January 29 through February 2. Call Lori Wolverton at 621-7004 for registration and information.
CREATIVE CARTOONING. Professional cartoonist Steve Forrester offers a six-week course in Creative Cartooning on Saturdays beginning February 3 at Tucson Open University, 2030 E. Broadway. Cost is $26, with registration open through second class meeting. Call 622-0170 for registration and information.
CAPT. SPIFFY'S CLASSES. Capt. Spiffy's is offering a four-week class in comic book illustration from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Mondays, beginning February 5, at 944 E. University Blvd. Class will focus on figure and dynamic motion. Superheroes are not required, though spandex is encouraged--but please, no body armor. Call 624-4643 for registration and information, or stop by the store.
STUDY IN FLORENCE. Artists interested in studying with Catherine Nash for six weeks in Florence, Italy, are encouraged to attend a slide lecture entitled Artist Books and Handmade Paper at 4 p.m. Sunday, January 28. Affordable study packages are offered by Art Research Tours and Independent Study (ARTIS). Call 740-1673 for location and information.
NON-PROFIT GRANTS. The Tucson/Pima Arts Council, 240 N. Stone Ave., has grants available for non-profit organizations whose primary focus is to provide arts programs to the Tucson area. Applications may be picked up at the T/PAC office. Deadline is March 15. Call Albert Soto at 624-0595, ext. 18, for information.
CALL FOR ENTRIES. Capt. Spiffy's, 944 E. University Blvd., seeks submissions for the ultra-generic, no-theme art contest. Turn in some comic-booky art by February 2 and bask in the warming glow of artistic expression. Prizes will be awarded. Call 624-4643 for information or stop by the store.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Artists needed to create indoor and outdoor murals and glass window walls for the El Rio Neighborhood Center. Involvement and participation of the neighborhood community is desirable and should be considered by all applicants. Maintenance and durability are important. There will be a pre-submission meeting at 4 p.m. Wednesday, January 31, at El Rio Neighborhood Center, 1390 W. Speedway. Tucson Parks and Recreation, Albanese-Brooks Associates, El Rio Center and the Tucson/Pima Arts Council will explain the scope of work, application procedures and answer questions. Call 624-0595, ext. 21, for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The PCC West Campus Gallery is accepting submissions for upcoming shows. Works by two to four artists are usually exhibited for four-week periods. College provides announcements and a reception. Interested artists should send 10 35mm slides, slide list, resume, other pertinent information, and SASE to: Linda Rosenfield, Gallery Coordinator, Arts Division, Pima Community College, 2202 W. Anklam Road, Tucson, AZ 85709-0001. Call Linda at 884-6385 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. G.A.S.P. Gallery seeks proposals for group and solo exhibitions. All media accepted. Include up to 20 slides and support material with SASE and send to: Linda Poverman, G.A.S.P. Gallery, Utterback Fine Arts Magnet School, 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Tucson, AZ 85713.
PICTURE THIS. Tickets are on sale for the UA Department of Art fundraiser Picture This, scheduled for February 9. This black-tie event features cocktails, dinner and a live auction of works by renowned Arizona photographers. Featured works by photographer William Wegman will be auctioned. Tickets range from $100 to $150 per person. Call the UA Fine Arts box office at 621-3117 for tickets and information.
CALL FOR ARTISTS. Local 803, Inc., a cooperative contemporary art gallery, seeks submissions from visual artists working in any medium and living in the Tucson area for the upcoming season, to run August 1996 through July 1997. Send 10 or more slides, resume and SASE to: Local 803, Inc., P.O. Box 40488, Tucson, AZ 85717; or deliver directly to the gallery at 803 E. Helen St. Installation and performance artists should submit both a visual and written proposal in addition to slides of previous work. Video submissions are also welcome. Deadline is January 31.
CALL FOR MEMBERS. Desert Artisans Cooperative gallery seeks artists for membership. All media except video and performance art are considered. Immediate openings are available for three-dimensional work. Deadline for application is February 2. Send SASE for prospectus to: Desert Artisans, 6536 Tanque Verde Road, No. 120, Tucson, AZ 85715. Call 722-4412 for information.
ART TALK. Tucson Museum of Art, 140 N. Main Ave., offers the following free lectures at 1:30 p.m. in the Education Building: January 25, Cynthia Murr discusses The Getty Museum; January 29, Pat Gilbert presents Birds and Flowers on Hiroshige's Wood Block Prints; and Joan Jacobson discusses Folk Art of Michoacan, Mexico, on February 1. Call 624-2333 for information.
TEMPLE TOURS. ATC hosts tours of the historic Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Ave., at 11 a.m. every Monday and at 10 a.m. every Saturday through May 18, 1996. Tours begin in the courtyard and are guided by ATC docents. Reservations are not needed for these free public tours. Group tours may be arranged by calling Hope Towner at 884-8210.
ART WALK. Visit the Downtown Arts District from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, with free docent-led Art Walk tours beginning at 5:30 p.m. at the Park Inn Suite Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.

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