Events and exhibitions
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An education in art goes beyond building knowledge and technical skills, it’s about finding one’s voice, igniting curiosity, connecting with others, making meaning of the present and discovering a place in the world. It is important to celebrate successes together because the experiences and relationships one creates here will inform the rest of their life.
ASU Events
Exhibitions
Within the Walls We Inhabit
Within the Walls We Inhabit
Nov 21 to Dec 12 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Nov 21 | 6 to 9 p.m.
Looking for something a bit different?
“Within the Walls We Inhabit,” the MFA Thesis Exhibition by Brittney Wegener, is not quite a performance, not quite an art show, not quite a seminar, but slightly all of these things. It's a combination of all these elements to create an immersive art installation with two corresponding workshops.
The work invites viewers to look within the walls and notice the unseen: the silent systems and architectures that sustain us. It reflects on how rivers mirror blood vessels, how lightning echoes neurons, and how seashells spiral like galaxies. Through these parallels, the exhibition becomes a meditation on chaos and order, and on how the invisible sustains us even as it escapes our sight.
This immersive show will have sculptural installation, refracted light, engineered audio, interpretive movement, perspective shifting, an artist talk with a science meets spirit component, color theory and metaphysical symbolism.
Come to this exhibition and ponder with us.
Free entry. Please register for a ticket to help the artist prepare nourishments for attendees.
Special Events — Saturday, November 22
- 1 to 6 p.m.: Live performances and immersive sound throughout the day
- 3 to 4 p.m.: Perspective Workshop with Mike Kelley, Mindset Coach and owner of Reworking Mindsets
- 4 to 5 p.m.: Astrology Update & Artist Talk with Brittney Wegener, exhibiting artist and owner of Bringer of Light Designs
Collaborators
Performers
Patricia Sannit – @patriciasannitstudio
Allie Lovell – @allie_hey
Frankie – @__.tripendicular.__
Megan Keen – @keensmegan
Em Yates – @emshealingcello
Audio Engineer
John Del - Sounds From The Source Productions
Workshop Host
Mike Kelley - Reworking Mindsets
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Reflections
Nov 25 to Dec 4 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | Nov 25 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery 100 is pleased to present “Reflections,” a BFA group exhibition.
This exhibition brings together eight artists: Amelia Colon, Juliet Farr, John Fasolino, Allen Nguyen, Lea Ruiz, Taylor Senior, Sara Simon and Anwar Varnado-Wixx. With a diverse range of mediums, subjects and styles, artists are united by the concept that their artwork reflects not only a unique perspective but also themselves. “Reflections” considers how art can capture personal or collective experiences and reveal something of who we truly are.
Image courtesy of artists.
Monday – Thursday | 12 to 5 p.m.
Friday | 12 to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
UnCONventional
Nov 13 to 20 | Gallery 100
Opening reception | Nov 13 | 5 to 7 p.m.
Gallery 100 is pleased to present “UnCONventional,” a BFA group exhibition unconfined to medium and with a passion for storytelling. “UnCONventional” consists of eight artists: Amari Espinoza, Keirya Fales, Ashlee Kaye, Jesus Lizzaraga, Maria Lugo, Gabriela Salazar, Stell Shiverts and Kathy Vo, all exploring themes of storytelling and narrative within each artist's own “subject-focused” characters. Each artist's unique stories and ideas are based on their experiences, hence the importance of sharing their story in this show. The exhibition allows the conveyance and display that each artist possesses different approaches and narrative styles, but is bonded together by the shared storytelling themes in their art.
“UnCONventional” is a group open to experimentation, fueled by pop culture and driven to create community within fandom spaces and the general public, just like a convention. These artists plan to create an interactive space with participation from the community through a well-known con activity: a stamp collection rally. UnCONventional’s artists, during the duration of the exhibition, will recreate the ambiance characteristic of these spaces, capturing the sense of community with both fellow artists and the audience.
Monday – Thursday | 12 to 5 p.m.
Friday | 12 to 3 p.m.
Closed on weekends and university holidays
Image courtesy of artists.
MAMAS, DON'T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS
Nov 10 to 21 | Harry Wood Gallery
Closing reception | Nov 21 | 5 to 8 p.m.
“MAMAS, DON’T LET YOUR BABIES GROW UP TO BE COWBOYS”, a solo exhibition by Bailey Anderson, utilizes tropes from “spaghetti western” films to mount a cultural critique. The Spaghetti Western was a genre of film from the 1950s-70s that used artmaking as activism, critiquing Italian and Spanish fascism through the imagery and history of 19th 19th-century United States during the Civil War. Based on a 1978 song by Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson, this exhibition warns mothers of a terrible fate: their sons would become cold and distant, like the cowboys in the films. Life shaped by the Cold War and the film genre, romanticized violence in the West, and mourns the valiant heroism found in the mirage of the fabricated cowboy.
Through the imagery of Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner, and inspired by Sergio Leone's approaches, the sculptural work offers an alternative perspective on masculinity, colonialism, violence and censorship. The genre erases indigeneity, experiences of people of color, and the gaze of anyone in the West during the 18th and 19th centuries. Additionally, it does not account for true attitudes of US colonialism and how this nation shapes its foreign policy. This exhibition considers challenges in a society yearning for traditionalism while moving forward at an impossibly fast speed.
Built in a system of cyclical violence, consumerism and gendered tension, the identity of a man — as reflected in the impossible ideal of the American cowboy — is expected to be constantly under construction.
Image: "THE CHAPEL" Budweiser bottles, solder. Image courtesy of the artist.
