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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
Cut It Out: Collage as Fashion Design
Oct 17 to Nov 8 | Step Gallery
Opening reception | Oct 17 | 6 to 9 p.m.
This creative research project by Yang Soon Ju (Assistant Teaching Professor, ASU FIDM) explores how traditional collage techniques spark innovative approaches to fashion design. Made entirely from recycled magazines, such as Vogue, National Geographic, and American Craft, each piece explores shape, texture and concept while embracing sustainability. By merging art elements, fashion illustration and sustainable practice, these works represent a hands-on process that challenges traditional methods.
“As an educator and designer, I use this process to inspire students to see that fashion art can emerge from everyday materials. The act of cutting and rearranging fosters not only design thinking and creativity but also an environmentally conscious mindset.”
“Cut It Out: Collage as Fashion Design” includes over 55 collages and sketches that bridge art and design, encouraging interdisciplinary conversations about materials, sustainability and the future of fashion communication.
Image courtesy the artist.
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
Unsuspected
Oct 17 to Nov 8 | Northlight Gallery, 605 E Grant Street Phoenix 85004
Opening reception | Oct 17 | 6 p.m.
Unsuspected proposes to focus on the overlooked, the insignificant, and the forgotten. Photography has a unique capacity to capture something unseen, through either a long or premeditated creative process, experimentation, chance occurrences, as documentation of performative acts, as a transdisciplinary form, a screen shot, etc. It may be raw, traditional, constructed, edited by AI, estranged, diluted, recognizable or not as belonging to the photographic realm.
This exhibition is inspired by the artist Sybil Brintrup (Chile, 1954-2020), a Chilean conceptual artist who worked in diverse media — including video, performance, photography, poetry, objects and games — and was often overlooked. Brintrup found intricate ways to celebrate “little” things, such as her love for lettuce from her series Romances or the act of ironing as a collective form of care. Her extraordinary gestures, intimate, performative, humble, unassuming, celebrated with “Zen humor” some of the most common aspects of our domestic existence, highlighting and elevating the daily in our human condition. Her photographs were often taken from stills of homemade videos and turned into games with instructions that were both humorous and philosophical. Her work was political in the most unexpected ways, due to the intimate and vulnerable nature of her gestures, which could expose her to ridicule or rejection, such as offering to iron the public’s clothing in the museum or ironing while singing at the edge of Laguna del Inca in Valparaíso, Chile. Overlooking Brintrup reflects our collective personal unnoticing, also in the art world.
Curated by: Cecilia Fajardo-Hill
Participating artists: Julie Anand, Sybil Brintrup, Stan Buglass, Amalia Caputo, Liz Cohen, Lenora de Barros, Cameron Gainer, Mehrdad Mirzaie, Elizabeth Pineda, Patricia Sannit and Liza Stout
Gallery Hours
Thursday – Saturday | 12 to 5 p.m.
First and third Fridays of the month | 6 to 9 p.m.
Closed Sunday – Wednesday and university holidays
