Exhibitions
Jul 21, 2023 - Apr 29, 2024
Coming to Terms
I like it. It’s interesting. It’s beautiful. These are three common responses people have about visual art. However, there are many different potential impacts art can have on us if we ask specifically: how does the artwork make you feel, and how does the artwork make you think?
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Feb 3 - Oct 1, 2023
con·text
Visions students create their first collaborative installation in the ArtReach Space by including text in their artistic practice to communicate their stance on finding unity.
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Oct 11, 2023 - Apr 15, 2024
Breaking the Binary
Art is a valuable method for exploring fluidity and self-identity as binary thinking does not fully encompass or express our constantly evolving emotions, ideas, and lived experiences.
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May 12 - Aug 6, 2023
Visions ’23
Visions is a year-long invitational visual arts program that has been provided to Valley teens for 24 years. In collaboration with six high schools, students attended monthly workshops conducted by professional artists, toured universities, and connected with exhibitions offered by SMoCA.
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Feb 17 - Jul 9, 2023
Unintended Consequences
Artists Carolyn Lavender, Monica Aissa Martinez, and Mary Shindell have worked closely together for more than a decade, forming their own artists’ collaborative (#CreatureManNature), and partnering on multiple exhibitions and a blog that has documented their creative processes. However, they have never created a true collaboration where each plays an equal role in the ideation, design, and execution of a single artwork—until now.
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Oct 21, 2022 - Jan 20, 2023
Hold on to Hope
Inspired by Holocaust survivor Oskar Knoblauch, Hold on to Hope shines light on the concept of living life, not as a bystander but an “upstander.”
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Sep 23, 2022 - Jan 22, 2023
Uniquely Arizona: Youth Photography Competition
For its premier iteration, the National Society of Arts & Letters (NSAL) Arizona presents its Youth Photography Competition.
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May 13 - Sep 11, 2022
Personal Effects
In this exhibition of mixed media painting, photography, and sculpture, Chaparral High School photography students taught by Desiree Devirgilio and Pinnacle High School visual art students taught by Kelsey Greenland use meaningful objects, imagery, and colors to express their authentic selves.
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May 13 - Oct 2, 2022
Visions ’22
Visions ’22 showcases skills and inspiration exchanged between students and SMoCA artists during art workshops throughout the school year. Local teaching artists lectured on their professional backgrounds, successes, and barriers while also teaching new art-making techniques and conceptual approaches.
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Jan 21 - May 2, 2022
What Makes Me Me
What Makes Me Me showcases self-portraits created by 35 adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities. The artists are members of The Opportunity Tree and STARS.
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Sep 24, 2021 - Jan 9, 2022
Socially Distanced
Socially Distanced highlights work created by 17 artists during the pandemic. These works correlate findings by The Cooperation in the Apocalypse research team at Arizona State University that describes social behaviors during isolation.
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Sep 24, 2021 - May 2, 2022
Spanish Legacies: 75 Years of Spanish Dance in Arizona
Spanish Legacies is a historical exhibition of photographs, videos, and artifacts showcasing how Spanish dance came to existence in Arizona, as told through the stories of four influential dancers.
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Jun 25 - Sep 5, 2021
A Stitch in Time
A Stitch in Time is a youth exhibition featuring artworks inspired by Diedrick Brackens: ark of bulrushes, currently on view at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA).
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May 7 - Sep 13, 2021
Visions ’21
The exhibition Visions ’21 showcases skills and inspiration exchanged between students and artists in art workshops throughout the school year. National and international artists lectured on their professional backgrounds, successes, and barriers while also teaching new art-making techniques and themes.
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Apr 16 - Jun 20, 2021
Unity in Hope | Scottsdale Sister Cities Association – Young Artists and Authors Showcase
Art and writing from local high school students and students from Scottsdale sister cities around the world.
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Oct 29, 2020 - Apr 25, 2021
Viewpoints: How We Understand Art
This exhibition invites you to explore the Viewpoints you tend to use to learn about yourself, to consider other Viewpoints, and, perhaps, to open a conversation with another person about the art they enjoy and value.
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Oct 29, 2020 - Apr 11, 2021
ImageMakers
Photography from the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale
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Jul 17 - Oct 18, 2020
Visions ’20
Visions is a teen program in which students and teachers from five Valley high schools meet monthly at SMoCA for artist-led workshops, studio visits, and gallery discussions.
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Apr 3 - Jul 31, 2020
Scottsdale Sister Cities Association: Young Artists and Authors Showcase
Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation's FIRST online exhibition!
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Feb 28 - Aug 2, 2020
Fifty Years of Festivities
As Scottsdale Arts Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary, explore half a century of music, art, and merchandise from the event.
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Jan 17, 2020 - May 6, 2021
i hear what you’re seeing
Experience what a painting might sound like or what sounds could look like.
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Nov 27, 2019 - Feb 16, 2020
After Hours
After Hours highlights the diverse perspectives that inform and drive the daily work of Scottsdale Arts.
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Sep 28, 2019 - Jan 5, 2020
The Close Observation of Inanimate Objects
In the gallery, visitors will have the opportunity to closely observe objects and artworks and draw what they see.
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Aug 16 - Nov 17, 2019
Memory Lounge
Memory Lounge is a program for people living with mild to moderate stages of dementia-related illness and their care partners.
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Apr 4 - Aug 7, 2019
Double Agents of Change
Inspired by a visit to the Double Agents exhibition at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, North Canyon High School visual art students reflected upon issues important to them and created their own statement pieces by customizing white, cotton T-shirts.
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