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JUNE 2013 NEWSLETTER

Exhibitions Zoomorphic / May 17-Aug. 9 Zoomorphic art is a clever blend of animal forms and human ideas. Animals provoke many feelings in people, from affection and tenderness to outright fear. In this exhibition, artists combine human feelings with animal images to create curious portraits of both -- in print, painting and ceramics.   Support for Zoomorphic is provided by the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund, Friends of the ASU Art Museum and the Stulgaitis Family Scholastic Award in honor of Helen Flecha Polina. Community partners include KAET PBS/8, Changing Hands Bookstore, Papa Murphy and Valley Metro. Learn more... William Wegman, "Cub Scouts," 1986. Lithograph, color, 13 3/4 x 20 in. Gift of Bill & Denise Fielder. Plate • Silk • Stone / June 22-Dec. 8 In these figurative prints selected from the permanent collection, women artists take on social and domestic issues, as well as themes of history, culture and identity, each with a distinctive approach to her work that reflects her individual interests, training, personality and experiences. Curated by Emma Ringness, research intern, with Jean Makin, print collection manager. Learn more... Hung Liu, "Miss Fortune" (from 10x10: Ten Women/Ten Prints portfolio), 1995 Screenprint, 16 x 16 in. Gift of the Arizona Print Forum, ASU. Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby / ends July 20 If you haven't seen it yet, don't miss Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby, a landmark exhibition featuring the work of contemporary ceramist Wayne Higby. The 60–piece exhibition, organized by CRC Curator of Ceramics Peter Held, is the first major retrospective to provide an in-depth critical analysis of Higby’s work from the 1960s to the present, offering a full view of his stylistic development. The exhibition highlights Higby’s earlier raku-fired ceramics and later groundbreaking large-scale architectural wall installations, as well as his study drawings.   Infinite Place: The Ceramic Art of Wayne Higby is funded by an Artist’s Exhibition Series grant from the Windgate Charitable Foundation, with additional funds provided by Marlin and Regina Miller, The Robert C. Turner Chair endowment fund, Alfred University, Friends of Contemporary Ceramics and the ASU School of Art Ceramics Program. Learn more... Installation shot of Infinite Place at the ASU Art Museum. Photo by Daniel Swadener. Events Family Fun Day / Saturday, July 13 / 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The ASU Art Museum is throwing a giant art party to celebrate our summer show, Zoomorphic.  Visitors can explore animal images in the hands-on stations in the exhibition spaces, and we'll have art activities for children and their families, performances, balloon artists, pizza, some surprise visitors and more!    Community partners for Family Fun Day include KAET PBS/8, Changing Hands Bookstore, Papa Murphy's and Valley Metro. Learn more... Family Fun Day 2012. Photo by Daniel Swadener. In the Store New jewelry from Victoria Altepeter The ASU Art Museum Store is now carrying jewelry by Victoria Altepeter, a Tempe-based metalsmith and educator with an MFA from Arizona State University. Altepeter's work revolves around her interest in the night sky. Inspired by views of deep space from the Hubble telescope, she makes each piece one at a time, by hand, often employing special alloys she creates. Jewelry by Victoria Altepeter. Photo by Juno Schaser. On our Blog Let there be light — and dark Each piece in the exhibition Turn off the Sun, on view at the ASU Art Museum through Sept. 7, packs tremendous heat, power and impact. Drawn from La Colección Jumex in Mexico City, an incredible private contemporary art collection of about 2,600 works, Turn off the Sun displays two dozen of these searingly honest and beautiful pieces. This is only the second time that any of the Jumex collection has been shown in the United States. Read more... Installation shot of "Overpass" (2001), by Jeff Wall. Photo by Craig Smith.

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