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Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum’s Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality. Representative of traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass and jewelry.

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is open Tue-Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sun 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Guest Juror for the 46th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition was Carol Eckert. She is a fiber artist, curator and writer. Eckert uses a coiled fiber technique, producing works inspired by stories, mythology and animal symbols.

Image credit: “45th Annual Contemporary Crafts” exhibition. Photo by Angela Mason Photography.

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is open Tue-Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sun 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Phoenix

United States

Arizona

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum

46th Annual Contemporary Crafts

In 2024, the Heard Museum received a landmark gift of the Jerry Jacka archive, which makes us stewards of one of the largest and most consequential collections of documentary photography of Native American artists in the Nation. The Heard presents Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka, an original exhibition that features Jacka’s portraits of iconic American Indian artists paired with examples of their artwork from the museum’s collection.
Experience images of artists, primarily from the American Southwest, engaged in a range of activities related to traditional cultural practices including weaving, pottery, kachina-carving, and jewelry making. The exhibition also features images from his award-winning contributions to Arizona Highways Magazine. Jerry Jacka’s award-winning photography has profoundly influenced how generations of people think and feel about the people and landscapes of the American Southwest.



Heard Museum

Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka

FREE EXHIBITION!

“Posthistoric Evolution” is an installation that invites the public to walk amongst the solid yet ephemeral objects in a scene seemingly outside of time. Sivilli’s ceramic objects recall natural and biological origins, though they are stripped of their purpose and have become static forms, an echo of their indeterminate past.

Joseph Sivilli is the 45th Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition Juror’s Choice winner.

Image credit: Joseph Sivilli, “Hanbok,” 2020, Clay, slip, glaze, various plant matter, 24 x 64 x 2 1/2 inches.

Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is open Tue-Sat 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM and Sun 12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Posthistoric Evolution By Joseph Sivilli

Mark your calendars for April 15, 2025, and get ready for the 11th annual Concours in the Hills event! Join 'The Greatest Car Show on Grass' for a day of stunning vehicles, great food, and music in the spectacular setting of Fountain Park. Attendance is free, but donations are welcome. '

Funds raised during Concours in the Hills finance innovative research, cutting-edge technology, recruitment of leading physicians, and child-friendly programs that make the hospital environment more comfortable for young patients. Attendees will enjoy a massive display of vehicles, showcasing everything from contemporary and classic race cars to exotic high-performance cars, muscle cars, sports cars, hot rods, military vehicles, helicopters, and motorcycles.

Fountain Park

11th Annual Concours in the Hills

Turn Phoenix into a giant game board with this fun scavenger hunt adventure. Combine the excitement of the Amazing Race with a three-hour city tour. Guided from any smart phone, teams make their way among well known and overlooked gems of the city, solving clues and completing challenges while learning local history.  Available 365 days a year, sunrise to sunset. Start when you want and play at your pace. Save 25%- Only $36.75 for a team of 2-5 people after Promotion Code: PHXEVENT. Sign up online at www.UrbanAdventureQuest.com [http://www.UrbanAdventureQuest.com].

333 N. Central Ave.

Amazing Scavenger Hunt Adventure-Phoenix

Spring Scavenger Hunt Adventure

It is not just a SHOW, it is an EXPERIENCE!


For almost a decade, we have been the #1 show for brunch in Texas (some say the U.S except the Miami show is crazier). Loud, proud, sometime lewd, but always over the top fun. For those who need a small break from their spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, children, boss, or the every day monotony of life, there is no other place. Each show is different. So as we say here in Texas, "LIVE LIFE LIKE SOMEBODY LEFT THE GATE OPEN!"


Expertise in bachelorette parties, divorce celebrations, just turned 50, and girls just want to have fun parties or anything else that requires no picture taking.


Seating starts at 10:00 am. Seating is first-come first-serve. We do not sit incomplete parties. Seating is determined by party size and tables available when your party arrives.


No outside food, drink or cakes are allowed in the establishment.


Guest must present a physical form of ID, drivers license, or passport (All guest must be 21+) and valid mobile ticket before entrance is permitted.


Paramour is a non-cash establishment.


Show is for a mature audience.

San Antonio

Texas

Paramour Bar & Colette at the Phipps

The Show at Paramour

Join the Turtle Rescue Team in this limited-time event at SEA LIFE San Antonio! Discover how to find them, feed them, track them, help them through splash-tastic activities from 2/13/25 to 4/13/2025.


Here at SEA LIFE, we spend lots of our time rescuing and keeping sea turtles safe, but we need your help in this exciting experience included with your admission

SEA LIFE Aquarium San Antonio

Turtle Rescue Team Event

We've partnered with local poets and other art institutions to invite you to draw inspiration from artworks. Submit a poem written in response to Man Playing Trumpet from our collection. If you win, your poem will be shared in April to celebrate National Poetry Month.

What is an Ekphrastic Poem? An ekphrastic poem is based on a piece of art. These poems take an existing piece of visual art, and use written words to describe and expand on the theme of that work of art. Many of these poems explore hidden meanings or an underlying story.

San Antonio Museum of Art

2025 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Montréal

Canada

Québec

Bell Centre

Visites Guidées Centre Bell - Bell Centre

Stubhub

“Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection, 1980–2010” showcases a partnership between ASU’s Hispanic Research Center (HRC) and ASU Art Museum and brings together works from the 1980s into the 2010s drawn from the HRC’s dynamic collection. Featuring over 30 artists who each offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives on the Mexican American experience, this year-long exhibition pays homage to the ideals of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 70s and expands upon them through the widely disseminated medium of prints. Presented in two parts, this unique exhibition underscores how Chicano/a/x artists have employed prints and graphics to build community, engage with social concerns, and interrogate shifting notions of political and cultural identity over time.


Artists in the first rotation include: Celia Alvarez Muñoz (United States, b. 1937), Alfredo Arreguín (United States, 1935–2023), Samuel Baray (United States, b. 1938), Candace Briceño (United States, b. 1971), Rolando Briseño (United States, b.1952), Vibiana Chamberlin (United States, b. 1942), Sam Coronado (United States, 1946–2013), Margarita “Mita” Cuarón (United States, b. 1952), Gaspar Enriquez (United States, b. 1942), Dolores Guerrero-Cruz (United States, b. 1948), Ester Hernández (United States, b. 1944), Yolanda Lopez (United States, 1942–2021), César Martinez (United States, b. 1944), Salvador Roberto Torres (United States, b. 1936), D. Rose, Annette Maria Sexton-Ruiz (United States, b. 1958), Patssi Valdez (United States, b. 1951) and Larry Yáñez (United States, b. 1949).


“Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection, 1980–2010” is organized by ASUAM Senior Curator Alana Hernandez and ASUAM Curator Brittany Corrales and is made possible by funding provided by the Evelyn Smith Exhibition Fund. Additional funding is provided by ASU’s Hispanic Research Center and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with a Community of Practice composed of Carla Chavarria, Community Building Director, Iconico, and Carla León Celaya, PhD candidate in the Spanish Department at the School of International Letters and Cultures, ASU.

51 E. 10th St.

ASU Art Museum

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Enjoy live music, an iced coffee or mimosa flight, or one of our delicious breakfast/brunch items at JOJO Coffeehouse.

Live music every weekend from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

JOJO Coffeehouse

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Verde Canyon Railroad is proud to be a sponsor of the Phoenix-based wildlife rescue, Liberty Wildlife. All are welcome to visit Verde Canyon Railroad depot for Raptors at the Rails, an educational presentation on the patio on select dates 11:00am-12:45pm. This free event prior to the train’s 1:00 pm departure features close-up glimpses of Arizona raptors such as eagles, hawks, owls, vultures, falcons and kestrels, amazing residents of Liberty Wildlife’s educational program. During the summer months, Liberty shares cold-blooded creatures such as tortoises, lizards and snakes during "Reptiles at the Rails".

300 N. Broadway

Verde Canyon Railroad

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

August is in the books and we thank you all for a great turn out! Let's do it again in September and this time we will be cutting the ribbon and having a proper grand opening of our new building The Archwood at Eastlake. Don't miss out!

The Archwood at Eastlake

The Buy Black Marketplace by Archwood Exchange

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys centres on a display of sixteen extraordinarily diverse traditional West African masks. These masks, part of the Agnes’ Justin and Elisabeth Lang Collection, appear in chorus with the contemporary work of five Canadian artists from the African and Asian diasporas: Anthony Gebrehiwot, Jill Glatt, Jessica Karuhanga, Camille Turner, and Winsom Winsom.

Employing photography, new media and video, textile installation and more, the artists of Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys reflect on diasporic roots by exploring themes of identity, transformation, the body, belonging, place and regional histories. The exhibition collectively invites us to explore the relationship between the past and present, and how our physical and spiritual journeys shape who we are.

London

Ontario

421 Ridout Street North

Museum London - Ivey Galleries

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

As we move around London, signs are all around us, announcing the names of businesses and alerting us to services offered and goods available. In our everyday lives, signs can become part of the landscape, standing out when needed and fading into the background when not. 

As museum objects, however, signs are the physical traces of a past London that only some may remember well. Many recall with affection, for example, Johnny and Dorothy Downs’ banquet facility, the Latin Quarter Place. As we move further into the past, though, London becomes an unfamiliar place. Where was Balkwill’s Hotel, for instance, and who ran it? This exhibition featuring signs from Museum London’s extensive artifact collection recalls and revives this fascinating forest city of yesteryear. It will also introduce some equally compelling Londoners. The signs in _London Recalling_ are mounted high on one of Museum London’s barrel vault walls.  This not only makes the most of the Museum’s architecture but also displays the signs as they would have been seen when first used.

\-Tuesday to Sunday: 11 AM to 5 PM  
\-Thursdays until 8 PM

421 Ridout St. N.

Museum London - Community Gallery, second level

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Free snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds, weather permitting, every Saturday (11 AM -1 PM) and Sunday (1 PM - 3 PM). Snowshoes provided and self-guided trails. Please check their [social media](https://www.instagram.com/westminsterldn/) for more updates.

944 Western Counties Rd

Westminster Ponds

Snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds

The shapes of feathers, wings, flowers and leaves combine in a constellation of ceramic and bronze to comprise Forever (Bird-Botanicals), a site-specific installation by Ecuadorian-Canadian sculptor David Constantino Salazar. The work combines recognizable bird anatomy with plant forms to probe the theme of transformation in contemporary culture.

Often representative of freedom, love, peace, and divinity, the symbol of the bird is ripe with meaning. In South American folklore, for example, birds and other animals are evocative of transformation, often shapeshifting between forms in fables. In Museum London’s Atrium, Salazar’s birds are in a state of transition, too, as if between life and death. Here, botanicals grow around misshapen appendages.

To create each element of the work, the artist meticulously hand crafts birds out of clay and throws them against his studio wall. Radically altering their appearance, this act transforms each sculpture into something new entirely. Each component evokes the natural evolution of all living things, as we journey between one state of being to another.

Museum London - Atrium

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Supersampler is an exhibition featuring a decade’s worth of work by London-based painter, Mark Stebbins. Inspired by the history of image making, digital media and textiles, Stebbins’ paintings explore the potential of the grid form through realism and abstraction alike.

Often containing thousands of tiny squares hand-painted with hundreds of different tones and hues, Stebbins’ paintings translate source imagery to pose what he calls “visual questions.” By building up and breaking down these images, the artist plays with colour, detail, texture, and contrast to impact what the viewer sees. Here, paint strokes act as stitches and pixels, often distorted.

 A new series employs symbols from historic embroideries found in Museum London’s artifact collection, while other pieces feature vibrant, kaleidoscopic effects that nod to key moments in art history—like 19th-century pointillism and the hard-edge abstraction of the 1950s and 60s. Throughout these diverse influences, Stebbins’ work invites us to reflect on themes of originality, labour, and the evolving role of painting in our increasingly virtual world.

Events

46th Annual Contemporary Crafts

Storyteller: The Photography of Jerry Jacka

Posthistoric Evolution By Joseph Sivilli

11th Annual Concours in the Hills

46th Annual Contemporary Crafts

Spring Scavenger Hunt Adventure

The Show at Paramour

Turtle Rescue Team Event

2025 National Poetry Month Ekphrastic Poetry Contest

Turtle Rescue Team Event

The Show at Paramour

Visites Guidées Centre Bell - Bell Centre

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

The Buy Black Marketplace by Archwood Exchange

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

Live Music at JOJO Coffeehouse

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails

Snowshoeing in the Westminster Ponds

Ukutula: Our Timeless Journeys

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

London Recalling: Traces of Places from the City's Past

Mark Stebbins: Supersampler

Chicano/a/x Prints and Graphics: Selections from the Hispanic Research Center’s Collection

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Mark Stebbins: Supersampler

David Constantino Salazar: Forever (Bird-Botanicals)

Raptors (or Reptiles) at the Rails