City Listings - Art (February 29

ART

Opening This Week

ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union. 621-5123. Opening February 29 and continuing through April 11: Tyrant Figures, an exhibition of paintings by Aaron Morse. Gallery is open during Student Union hours.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Opening February 29 with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., and continuing through March 30: Myths, Milagros and Magic, an exhibit by New Mexico photographer Judith Vejvoda of photo transfers on linen stretched over canvas in celebration of the Goddess. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Opening March 5 and continuing through March 30: 13 Easy Pieces, a members' exhibition. There will be an artists' reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, March 16. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night, Thursday Night Art Walk and by appointment.
IRONWOOD GALLERY. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Opening March 1 and continuing through April 25: an exhibition by the second generation potters of Mata Ortiz, featuring ceramics, photographs and demonstrations. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Admittance is free with museum admission.
JCC ART GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Opening February 29 and continuing through March 25: Angels and Ancestors, lithographs, etchings and monotypes by Leonard Baskin, including the Native American series Angels to the Jews. There will be an artist's reception from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 6. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. St. Philip's Plaza. 4340 N. Campbell Ave. 577-3598. Opening March 2 and continuing through April 27: clay works by Donna and Wesley Anderegg and natural fiber baskets by Gail Campbell. Continuing through March 24: jewelry by Michael Boyd, Jude Clarke and Diane Egbert; tapestry art by Amy Weber; work in handmade paper by Nancy Wilkoff and new drawings by Mary Ryan. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Opening March 4 and continuing through March 24: Celebrations of Form and Color, a mixed media exhibition by children in grades K through 8. Continuing through March 24 in the John K. Goodman Pavilion: the sixth annual Women Artists and the West Show and Sale, focusing on Western and traditional realist themes. All works are for sale. 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. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

Continuing

Arizona Historical Society. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Continuing through December 31: 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; and A Memento for My Descendants: The Buehman Studio Perspective, 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.
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, works by 12 contemporary American artists exploring themes central to the definition of multi-culturalism in the 1990s. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 795-4503. Continuing through March 23: mixed media paintings on paper by Monica Jost. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
ECLECTIC GALLERY. 69 E. Pennington St. 620-1668. Continuing through March 15: realist works by Tucson artists. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, Thursday Night Art Walk, Downtown Saturday Night and by appointment.
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. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Downtown Saturday Night.
HUNTER GALLERY. 7000 E. Tanque Verde Road, Suite 15. 298-8270. Continuing through March 30: drawings by American fashion illustrator Gregory Weir-Quiton, works by nine contemporary artists, and early California "plein air" artists. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and Monday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday. Closed Tuesday.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through March 8: Shanghai Ink, works by contemporary Shanghai artists Li Hou, Chen Xing, Wang Tiande, Zhi-pin Lu and Wang Jieyin. Regular 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 March 23: paintings by Beata Wehr, sculpture by Timothy Cleary and photography by Angus Chassels, Jr. There will be an artists' reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, March 2. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.
MELIORA GALLERY. 178 E. Broadway. 792-9544. Continuing through March 31: Line and Space: Projects and Process, architectural drawing and models by Les Wallach and his firm. Regular gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
PHILABAUM GALLERY. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through April 27: Southwest Invitational IX: Homo Vitreus, featuring 20 artists' interpretations of the human form in glass. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Call for glass-blowing hours.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through March 13: recent paintings by Joe Forkan and Heather Green. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night and Thursday Art Walk.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. 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. Regular gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. A $2 donation is requested.
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, eight large-scale paintings detailing the 2.3 seconds of a house's destruction during the 1953 nuclear bomb test in Nevada. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed on Saturdays and UA holidays. Admission is free.

Last Chance

ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Continuing through March 1: an exhibition by the UA art community, featuring works by Josh Goldberg, Bart Morse, Andrew Rush and Richard Schaffer. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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 and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
DE GRAZIA GALLERY. Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. Continuing through March 1: Visions of the Southwest, an exhibit of oil and watercolor paintings by Grace Calterone. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. Utterback Middle School. 3233 S. Pinal Vista. 617-6100. Continuing through March 5: Eleven From ABC Multi-Media Art, painting, printmaking and ceramics by 11 members of the Artists' Black Community (ABC). G.A.S.P Gallery is Tucson's only student-run gallery, and is supervised by art instructor Linda Poverman and UA Museum of Art Curator of Education, Josh Goldberg. Regular gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through March 2: The MEChA Scholarship Fundraiser Exhibit, featuring 38 serigraphs from the Rick Meyer collection of East Los Angeles based Self-Help Graphics. Proceeds benefit scholarship funds for freshmen and graduate art students. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Night or by appointment.

Announcements

UA ART LECTURE. Provocative Texas painter Melissa Miller presents a slide lecture of her work at 7 p.m. Thursday, February 29, at the UA College of Architecture auditorium, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. Miller's paintings use animals as metaphors for human observation and dilemmas. Admission is free. Call 621-1251 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: February 29, Matisse: Genius of Line and Color by Nancy Williams; March 4, The Problems of the Portrait by Laurie Dryden; and March 7, Thomas Hart Benton by Glen Hamilton. Call 624-2333 for information.
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. Guided tours end at 7 p.m. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Tohono Chul Park is accepting submissions in all media for Just Traveling Through, an exhibit dealing with travel and vacationing in Arizona, scheduled to run May 23 through August 25. Send slides or photographs of work, resume, clippings or artist's statement and SASE to: Peggy Hazard, Asst. Exhibit Curator, Tohono Chul Park, Inc., 7366 N. Paseo del Norte, Tucson, AZ 85704. Deadline is March 22. Call Peggy Hazard at 742-6455 for information.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. The Arizona Media Arts Center is accepting entries for the 1996 Arizona International Film Festival, scheduled for April 18 through 28 in Tucson. Work submitted must be Arizona premieres. Narrative, documentary, animation and experimental work of any length produced between January 1995 and March 1996 in the formats of 35mm and 16mm in film and 3/4" and 1/2" in video is eligible for consideration. Deadline for submission is March 11. For an application write: Arizona International Film Festival, P.O. Box 40638, Tucson, AZ 85717; or fax 628-1737. Call 628-1737 for information.
PERFORMANCE ARTISTRY CONFERENCE. Arizona-based performing artists and companies committed to continuing or expanding their touring activities in the Western U.S. may apply for Commission sponsorship to attend and exhibit at the Western Alliance of Arts Administrators (W.A.A.A.) annual conference, September 2 through 7, in Portland, Oregon. This is the Western-region booking conference, bringing artists and presenters together for professional development and booking. Call Mollie Lakin-Hayes, Presenting and Touring Director, at (602) 229-8221 for guidelines and application form.
CALL FOR PROPOSALS. The Tucson Arts District Partnership seeks proposals for Brown Bag Concerts and Downtown SaturDay/Nights programming for the 1996-97 season. There is an orientation/informational meeting at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 12, at the Olmec Room at Park Inn Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Call 624-9977 for information.
SOUTHWEST ARTS CONFERENCE. The Arizona Commission on the Arts hosts the Southwest Arts Conference March 7 through 10 at Arizona State University. Registration is $45. Send checks to: Arizona Commission on the Arts, 417 W. Roosevelt St., Phoenix, AZ 85003. Call (602) 229-8225 for registration and information.
AIDS COMMEMORATION. The Tucson Committee for a Better Tomorrow requests NAMES Project participants and all those who wish to remember a life taken by AIDS to be a part of the Southern Arizona display. The NAMES Foundation allows for special requests for quilts, but it does take time. Write the Tucson Committee for a Better Tomorrow at 7409 E. Tanque Verde Road, No. 316, Tucson, AZ 85715; or call 886-8724 for information.
CALL FOR ENTRIES. The Ironwood Gallery at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is reviewing submissions for The Great Saguaro, an exhibition featuring saguaros in their various stages of life, scheduled for May 5 through July 31. All media will be considered. Submit five to 10 slides, artist's statement and SASE to: Tina McNearney, Ironwood Gallery, ASDM, 2021 N. Kinney Road, Tucson, AZ 85743. Deadline is March 5.

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