City Listings - Art (April 17

ART

Opening This Week

ART!!! GALLERY. 6328 E. Broadway. 745-8586. Opening with a reception from 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday, April 19, and continuing through July 15: Visions Alive, works by member artists in oil, acrylic, watercolor, etchings, ceramics and paper collage. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. UA campus, on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7968. Opening with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, April 18, and continuing through July 6: An Excess of Fact--Lee Friedlander/The Sonoran Desert. Regular gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Opening April 17 and continuing through May 3: Weaving Resistance: Textiles from Zapatista Communities. There are two receptions: 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 19, and Saturday, May 3. 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 and by appointment.
PCC ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 884-6942. Opening with a reception from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, and continuing through May 14: Pima Community College Student Art Exhibition. 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.

Continuing
ALAMO WOODWORKERS GALLERY. 101 W. Sixth St. 882-9490. Continuing through April 28: Interned Galaxies, mixed-media installations by Cate McCarthy. Call for gallery hours.
APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave. 791-3505. Continuing through May 31: sculpture, furniture, vessels, and jewelry by Kurt Niece. There is a reception for the artist from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday, April 19. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARTERY FINE ART GALLERY. 4609 N. Oracle Road. 887-1614. Continuing through April 30: Desert Mystique, paintings, prints and pottery by 40 local artists. Gallery hours are noon to 8 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Continuing through May 4: Earth Art, works by members of the Southern Arizona Clay Association. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday, and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday.
BARKSDALE GALLERY. 500 N. Fourth Ave. 884-7541. 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.
BECKER STAINED GLASS GALLERY. 1448 N. Stone Ave. 622-6955. Continuing through April 30: Cold Meets Hot, featuring the works of Louis Via, Daphne Ritzen and Sandra Buian-Becker. Regular gallery hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Continuing through May 10: glass and photographic assemblages by Camille Bonzani and Sharon Holnback, and glass and photographic works by Jon Eastman and Dennis Peabody. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
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.
EL CENTRO CULTURAL GALLERY. 40 W. Broadway. 629-9536. Continuing through April 26: barbed-wire designs by John Jacome and mixed-media works by Miguel Avalos. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and by appointment.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through April 30: art-glass by Alfredo Rivera. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
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.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. Continuing through April 26: North of the Border-- Contemporary Canadian Glass Art. Regular gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 7 p.m. Thursday.
ENCHANTED EARTHWORKS GALLERY. 2980 N. Swan Road. 327-7007. Continuing through April 26: Sonoran Reflections, glass works by Margaret Shirer, Nancy Weaver, Salvador Vargas, and others. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through May 29: Mano Volante, featuring works by masters of Italian glass. Continuing through May 31: Coated Walls--Photographs of Contemporary Chihuahua, 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.
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.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through May 1: Class Glass, the Glass Art Society Conference International Juried Student Exhibition. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
MANLEY GALLERY. 2425 E. Ft. Lowell Road. 321-9705. Continuing through April 30: Passages: Ghost Town Portraiture 1995-'96, an exhibition by John Christiansen. 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.
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.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. 4340 N. Campbell Ave. 577-3598. Continuing through May 17: New Mexico Glass, an invitational. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Continuing through April 30: Southwestern Impressions, watercolors by Lisa Vaupel. 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.
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.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. 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.
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.
TEMPLE GALLERY. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Continuing through May 31: monotypes and mixed-media works by Jan Olsson. There is a reception for the artist from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 18. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday, and prior to ATC performances. Call 624-7370 for information.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. 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. 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. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through June 8: ¡Calido!, a survey of current "warm glass" works in conjunction with the Glass Arts Society Annual Conference. 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.
WINGSPAN GALLERY. 422 N. Fourth Ave. 624-1779. Continuing through April 30: pencil drawings by Joaquin Mariscales. Call 624-1779 for gallery hours.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7567. Continuing through May 4: 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. Continuing through April 30: glass works by Catherine Rahn. Call for regular gallery hours.

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 TALK. Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Joanne Stuhr, curator of TMA's current exhibit ¡Cálido! Contemporary Warm Glass, presents a free lecture at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 19, entitled The History Of Contemporary Warm Glass. Call 624-2333 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Desert Artisans Cooperative Gallery is seeking applications for membership from all two- and three-dimensional artists. Application deadline is May 12. Send SASE for prospectus to: Membership Committee, Desert Artisans Gallery, 6536 Tanque Verde Road, Suite 120, Tucson, AZ 85715; or call 722-4412 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Professional artists, who've never shown in a gallery, are asked to submit two-dimensional artwork in all media for possible inclusion in an upcoming exhibit: Emerging Artists. Send SASE for prospectus to: Emerging Artists Exhibition, 6890 E. Sunrise Drive, Suites 120-168, Tucson, AZ 85750.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Applications are currently being accepted for the Phantom Gallery, which includes various downtown spaces of different sizes, oriented to pedestrian and street level viewing. The Tucson Convention Center may also be available for displaying large works, suitable for hanging on a wall; minimum size is four by five feet, with larger works encouraged. Deadline is April 25. Call 624-9977 for application information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Tucson/Pima Arts Council seeks artist proposals for two public art commissions for the new frontage and access roads along I-10 downtown. The Arizona Department of Transportation seeks artists to work with its landscape architects on projects at I-10/Congress Street and I-10/18th Street. Deadline for both projects is April 28. Call Beth Hancock at 624-0595, ext. 21, for information and application instructions.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Wingspan Gallery welcomes exhibition inquiries from local gay and lesbian artists in all media. Call Bob MacMahon at 571-8783 for information.
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. 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.
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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