Sites Around the City: Art and Environment

Citywide Participants

Sites Around the City guides are available at each location.

EXHIBITION SPACES

* ArtLab 16 - group exhibitions and spoken word series.
Exhibitions: March 3-31, April 7-28
Spoken Word: Every Friday

* Artlink - temporary installations during ArtDetour.
ArtDetour: March 17-19

* ASU Art Museum - Sites Around the City: Art and Environment headquarters for the entire project. Exhibition of nine contemporary artists who consider the urban and suburban environment, artist lectures, youth programs.
Exhibition: March 4 - June 4 (opening reception March 3, 7-10pm)
Inside/Outside: Panel Discussion with Heather S. Lineberry, Su-Chen Hung, Laurie Lundquist: March 7, 7:30pm
Film Series: March 28, 7:30pm
Lecture by Ronald Jones: April 18, 7:30pm

* ASU Art Museum Experimental Gallery - Phacaeans, a desktop video/laptop installation by artist Sloane McFarland.
Exhibition: April 7 - May 20 (opening reception March 28, 7-9pm)

* ASU West Gallery - three sound artists from Mexico City, Gustavo Artigas, Ariel Guzik and Taniel Morales.
Exhibition: March 2-26 (opening reception March 2, 5-7pm)

* Barlow & Straker - collaborative project between Andy Guzzonatto and Mona Higuchi.
Exhibition: March 2-26

* Central Gallery: Burton Barr Central Library - a series of exhibitions focusing on art and environment.
Exhibitions: February 28 - March 24, March 1-30, April 1-30, April 3-29

* Desert Botanical Garden - exhibition Desert Plant Illustrations.
Exhibition: March 4 - April 15
Book signings: March 4, 18, 25 and April 1, 15

* East Side Art, Mesa - a series of juried shows focused on the unique environment of the east Valley at this historic artists' community founded in the 1930s in the far east Valley.
Exhibitions: March 12-20, March 21 - April 10, April 11-20, April 21 - May 10

* Galeria Mesa, Mesa Art Center - Environment 2000, a national exhibition juried by Lisa Sette.
Exhibition: April 18 - May 27

* Grand Canyon University, A.P. Tell Gallery - exhibition, Sprawl: Reflections on Urban Development, a group exhibition.
Exhibition: March 22 - April 13 (opening reception March 21, 5-8pm)

* Harry Wood Gallery at ASU -  will feature the MFA exhibition of Azdine Sedjal, who creates ice installations that slowly melt from the heat of the projections of the desert in Algeria.
Exhibition: February 28 - March 3 (closing reception March 3, 7-9pm)

* MARS Artspace - solo exhibition by Felicie Regnier and Mars on Earth, a group exhibition by MARS artists.
Exhibitions: March 3-31 (opening reception March 3, 7-10pm)

* Metropolitan Arts Institute - student exhibition inspired by workshop with Los Angeles artist Kim Abeles.
Exhibition: April 7-28 * Modified - exhibition with Matthew J. Plausible and Ian Van Coller.
Exhibition: March 3 - April 3 (opening reception March 3, 7-10pm)

* Northlight Gallery at ASU - Transport by Dean K. Terasaki.
Exhibition: March 3-22 (opening reception March 3, 7-9pm)

* Phoenix Art Museum - Images of Nature: Selections from the Museum Collection.
Exhibition: February 5 - May 14 * Phoenix Arts Commission - temporary installations with recycled materials at the 27th Avenue Solid Waste Treatment Facility.
Exhibition: Month of April

* Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Dreaming of Eden: Meditations on the Garden by Barbara Rogers.
Exhibition: February 26 - May 7

* Shemer Art Center - outdoor sculpture installation, artists' café program.
Exhibition: March - April

* Step Gallery at ASU - juried undergraduate exhibition dealing with themes of the environment.
Exhibition: February 28 - March 3 (closing reception March 3, 7-9pm)

* Stop 'n' Look - New Life New Century by Rose Johnson, followed by an installation by Denis Gillingwater.
Exhibitions: February 1 - March 31, April 4 - May 20

* Tempe Arts Commission - temporary installation, site tours on their electric art buses.
Exhibition: April

PERMANENT SITES

* 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility
Artists: Linnea Glatt and Michael Singer

* 7th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge / Grasshopper Bridge
Artist: Ed Carpenter

* Papago Park / City Boundary
Artists: Jody Pinto and Steve Martino

* Sunnyslope Canal Demonstration Project
Artists: M. Paul Friedberg, Jackie Ferrara, Douglas Hollis, Steve Martino and Martin R. Yoklic

* Sunnyslope Rock Garden
Artist: Grover Cleveland Thompson

* The Path Most Traveled
Artist: Carolyn Braaksma * Water to Water
Artists: Edwards Tanz Collaborative, Inc. 

* Sweet Acacia Project
Artist: Laurie Lundquist

* Hummingbird Sanctuary Garden
Artist: Kevin Berry

* Papago Arroyo
Artist: Laurie Lunquist

* Rio Salado Pathways
Artist: Laurie Lunquist

* Gardens for Humanity's Demonstration Healing Garden
Artists: Local Artists, ASU Architecture Students, School Children, Programs Sponsored by the Arizona Commission on the Arts

SPECIAL EVENTS

* Arizona State University Art Museum
Sites Around the City: Art and Environment FREE public opening reception for the project
temporary installations on the plaza; ephemeral films by Lewis Alquist and sculpture by Azdine Sejdal
March 3, 7-9pm

* Arizona State University Art Museum
Inside / Outside panel discussion with Heather S. Lineberry, curator of Sites Around the City, and exhibition artists Su-Chen Hung and Laurie Lundquist. Co-sponsored by the Phoenix Arts Commission.
March 7, 7:30pm

* Artlink Inc.
sponsors and organizers of Art Detour Weekend
March 17-19

* IceHouse Art Museum
The Rise and Fall of Elegance
March 17-19

* Arizona State University Art Museum
Film Series
March 28, 7:30pm

* Arizona State University Art Museum
Lecture by Ronald Jones
April 18, 7:30pm

* 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility / Phoenix
Arts Commission Event throughout the month of April

* Desert Botanical Garden
Events throughout the month of April
 
 

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