City Listings - Art (April 3

ART

Opening This Week

BARKSDALE GALLERY. 500 N. Fourth Ave. 884-7541. Opening with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, and continuing through May 11: Visionary Landscapes, paintings and photographs by Cyrus Mejia and Raphael de Peyer. Gallery hours are 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Opening April 3 and continuing through April 13: Going Forth By Day, recent glass works by Jerry Flanary in collaboration with Amy Andrews, Dan Enwright, Steve Hansen and Rob Jenkins. Glass techniques employed include lampworked glass, core-formed vessels, blown vessels, massiccio, sand casting, mixed-media and flat glass. The Ancient Egyptian consciousness of the continuity beyond physical existence is the main meditative focus of this small body of work. There will be an artist's reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, April 11, with Middle Eastern dancers and food. Continuing through April 30: Love to Hate--Hate to Love, a collection of miniature works by the Tucson Art Group (T.A.G.). Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Nights, Thursday Art Walks and by appointment.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Opening with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 3 and continuing through June 8: William Holzman's Fantastic Folk Art: Whirligigs, Furnishings and Whimsies. Continuing through April 28: Clearly Elegant--Functional Glass by Arizona Artists. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
T/PAC COMMUNITY GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Opening April 7 and continuing through May 19: International Glass Art Exchange--Mexico/U.S. Including works by Tom Philabaum, Leah Camille Wingfield, Elvira Hickert, Ana Thiel, Milos Floresiller and others. There is a reception for the artists from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 11. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7567. Opening April 9 and continuing through April 30: 1997 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition. Continuing through May 12: Penetrating Image, photography and glass works presented in conjunction with the International Glass Conference. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
WOLFE GALLERIES. 9600 N. Oracle Road. 742-4222. Opening April 3 and continuing through April 30: glass works by Catherine Rahn. There is a reception for the artist from 3 to 6 p.m. April 9 and 10. Call for regular gallery hours.

Continuing

ALAMO WOODWORKERS GALLERY. 101 W. Sixth St. 882-9490. Continuing through April 21: Interned Galaxies, mixed-media installations by Cate McCarthy. There is a reception for the artist from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, April 11. Call for gallery hours.
ARTERY FINE ART GALLERY. 4609 N. Oracle Road. 887-1614. Continuing through April 30: Desert Mystique, paintings, prints and pottery by 40 local artists. Meet the artists at a reception on April 12 and 13. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. UA campus, on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7968. Continuing through April 13: The Waving of Foliage and the Coming and Going of Ships, live projections by Richard Torchia. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Continuing< through April 26: Transcendent Places, works by Amanda Yopp, Ron Mayo, Renee Koehler, Mark Roddy and Jo Andersen. Regular gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
DESERT ARTISANS' GALLERY. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Continuing through May 3: Reflections, a mixed-media exhibit featuring watercolor and oil paintings, pottery and sculpture. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through May 29: Mano Volante, featuring works by masters of Italian glass. Also on display are photographs by Virgil Hancock. 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 Nights.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through April 13: the Galvez gallery hosts the second annual fundraising exhibition benefiting the UA Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan. This exhibition features more than 40 serigraph prints from the collection of Rick Meyer. There is a reception from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 5. Regular 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 Nights.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Utterback Middle School. 617-6100. Continuing through April 11: works by Veronica Escudero and Linda Shearer Whiting. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. G.A.S.P. (Great Art by Students and Professionals) Gallery is the only student-run gallery in Tucson.
IRONWOOD GALLERY. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Continuing through June 2: Desert Reflections, a juried exhibition of Southern Arizona clay artists, in conjunction with an invitational glass arts installation. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily, free with museum admission.
LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY. Gross Gallery Building. UA Fine Arts Complex, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through April 17: 21st Annual Visual Communications Student Exhibition. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed Saturdays.
MANLEY GALLERY. 2425 E. Ft. Lowell Road. 321-9705. Continuing through April 30: Passages: Ghost Town Portraiture 1995-96, an exhibition by John Christiansen. There is a reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday, April 5. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays and by appointment.
MURPHEY GALLERY. St. Philip's In The Hills. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-1816. Continuing through April 24: Personal Perceptions, featuring watercolors and mixed-media works by Charlotte Jones and Mary Argueta. There is a reception for the artists from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 6. Gallery hours are 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday.
MARK ROSSI GALLERY. 2451 N. Fontana Ave. 623-7136. Continuing through April 31: Vitreus Novus, new glass works by Jason L. Metcalf. Call for gallery hours.
OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Continuing through April 30: Southwestern Impressions, watercolors by Lisa Vaupel. There is reception for the artist from 3 to 6 p.m. Saturday, April 5. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and by appointment.
PCC ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 884-6942. Continuing through April 14: From A Glass Seed, works by Tucson artists Aurore Chabot, Darla Masterson, Michael Joplin, Roy Pearson and Alfredo Rivera. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and during weekend performances at the Center for the Arts.
PHILABAUM CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through April 26: Southwest Invitational X: Regions of the Flame, works by more than 40 glass artists. Call for regular gallery hours.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union, second floor. 621-5123. Continuing through April 24: No Rhyme or Reason, a juried, multi-media student art exhibition. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
SHANE HOUSE GALLERY. 218 S. Fourth Ave. 623-2577. Continuing through April 12: Alternate Turnings, or Stuff From Over The Fence, mixed-media sculptures by John Poole. Gallery hours are during Downtown Saturday Night and by appointment.
STARSINGER STUDIO GALLERY. 209 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 721-0649. Continuing through April 30: Fiber Alchemy, fiber wall-art by Jewell Peterson. Gallery hours are from noon to 5 p.m. Sundays.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through May 18: Tucson 7: Brown, Bryers, Crowley, Hill, Kuhn, Terpning, and Riley, works by seven of Tucson's most prominent contemporary cowboy artists. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, and free for children under age 12. Admission is free for all on Tuesdays.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union, first floor. 621-5123. Continuing through April 17: the second annual International Self-Illuminative Glass Exhibition, featuring works by students from the UA Neon Workshop and invited professional artists/members of the Glass Art Society. There is a reception from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, April 13. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Last Chance

ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Continuing through April 6: Eighth Annual Multicultural Exhibit. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Continuing through April 5: new photographic works by Gordon Stettinius. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through April 5: new paintings by Josh Goldberg and Pamela Marks. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
EL CENTRO CULTURAL GALLERY. 40 W. Broadway. 629-9536. Continuing through April 5: works by Marta De Leon, Teresa Soltero and Helen Villanueva. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.
ELIZABETH CHERRY CONTEMPORARY ART. 1421 E. Broadway. 903-0577. Continuing through April 10: works by Cecilia de Medeiros. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and by appointment.
HACIENDA DEL SOL GALLERY. 5601 N. Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. Continuing through April 8: Latitudes, mixed-media monoprints by Acacia Alder, Chris Bondante and Sheila Chambers. Call 529-6919 for gallery hours.
JCC GALLERY. Corner of Dodge Boulevard and River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through April 9: acrylic and oil paintings by Robert Goldman and wood with acrylic paint works by Jonathan Howe. Regular gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through April 5: Animal Writes, paintings and drawings by William T. Wiley. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
TEMPLE GALLERY. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through April 9: watercolors by Barbara Smith. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances.

Out Of Town

RANCHO LINDA VISTA GALLERY. 1955 W. Linda Vista Road, Oracle. 1-520-896-9201. Opening April 4 and continuing through April 30: Old World, New World/Basically Paper, an exhibit featuring the works of Margo Burwell and Tom Freund. There is a reception for the artists from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 6. Call for gallery hours.
TUBAC CENTER OF THE ARTS. 9 Plaza Road, Tubac. Continuing through April 20: Arizona Glass Artists exhibit, featuring works by Arizona "hot glass" artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Call 398-2371 for a gallery schedule.

Announcements

ARTS BRIGADE. Help paint a mural on Fourth Avenue, work on a Quilt of Solidarity, participate in the street chalk mural and more with the Arts Brigade, an intergenerational collective of politically minded cultural workers. To get the scoop, join them any Tuesday at 7 p.m. for an orientation meeting at the International Arts Center, 516 N. Fifth Ave. Call 791-9359 for information.
ART APPRAISALS. Covington Fine Arts Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7878. Before you sell that old painting in the garage for a measly $2, find out what it's really worth between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. April 3 through 5. Professional Wayne Kielsmeier will appraise your treasures free of charge. Call 298-7878 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. St. Philip's Art Gallery Committee is now accepting applications for the fifth annual Outdoor Art and Fine Craft Show. Submission deadline is April 15. Call Phyllis Jachowski at 298-8043 or Phyllis Wenger at 299-1091.
CALL TO ARTISTS. All media are welcome and cash awards available to visual artists submitting work for possible inclusion in Free At Last: Expressions of Emancipation in Honor of Juneteenth. Juneteenth marks the event when, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, Texas slaves learned of their freedom. Entry deadline is April 30. For prospectus, send SASE to: Free At Last, Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85701; or call 623-5883.
CALL TO ARTISTS. ART!! Gallery is currently accepting members for their cooperative. Call 881-0129 for information.
CALL TO TEEN ARTISTS. The Tucson Children's Museum seeks a logo for TNT (Teens 'n' Tots), a newly launched storytelling program. The artist submitting the winning design will receive recognition and a $75 honorarium. Submissions must be clearly marked with name, address, age and phone number of artist. Entries may be mailed or hand-delivered to: TNT Program, Tucson Children's Museum, 200 S. Sixth Ave., Tucson AZ 85701. Entry deadline is 4 p.m. Friday, April 4. Call Glenda Bonin at 629-0270 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Dinnerware Artists' Cooperative Gallery is currently accepting slides for the artist roster, which confers eligibility for exhibitions and responsible membership in the gallery's cooperative efforts. To receive information and an application, send SASE to Dinnerware Roster, 135 E. Congress St., Tucson, AZ 85701. Application deadline is May 2.
ART WALK. Take advantage of the wealth of fine artists and galleries in Tucson with a stroll through the Downtown Arts District between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Set your own pace, or take advantage of free, docent-led tours of public art displays and participating galleries, 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.
DOWNTOWN FORUM. Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. Bring a lunch and stop by the lower-level meeting room from noon to 12:50 p.m. Thursday, April 10, for a free discussion of Summer Youth Activities in the downtown area. There will be a panel of youth-service providers to give an overview of activities including art education and employment opportunities. Beverages will be provided. Call Beth Hancock at the Tucson/Pima Arts Council at 624-0595, ext. 21, for information.
GLASSBLOWING DEMONSTRATION. Watch glassblowers practice their craft at the downtown studio of Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Call 884-7404 to confirm the day's schedule or if there are more than six people in your party.

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