Tucson Weekly: Listings: Art (April 30

ART
Opening This Week
Listings CENTRAL ARTS COLLECTIVE. 188 E. Broadway. 623-5883. Opening May 2 and continuing through May 30: paintings and prints by Melinda Morey and Amanda Yopp. There's an artists' reception from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Nights.
OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Opening May 2 and continuing through June 5: It's All Apples and Oranges, pastels by Donna Helms. There's an artist's reception from 3 to
6 p.m. Saturday, May 2. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday and by appointment.
OLD TOWN ARTISANS. 201 N. Court Ave. Opening with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 5: Sea Dance: Seaweed Monoprints by Lynn Fleischman. Exhibit continues through May 31 in La Cocina Restaurant. Contact The Drawing Studio at 620-0947 for information.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union, first floor. 621-6124. Opening April 30 and continuing through May 28:
4 Play, an exhibition of collaborative paintings by Chris Carls, Jeffrey Levitch, Gregory Porcaro and Franzie Weldgen. There's an opening reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, April 30. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Continuing
APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave. 791-3505. Continuing through May 9: Clay & Mosaic, a group exhibition featuring the works of David Aguirre, Maurice Grossman, Ann Hoff, Robert Hoffman, Joy Holdread, James A. Jones, Anna Keefer, Jim Pollack, Sherrie Posternak and Dan Wilhelm. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
APPAREL GALLERY. 191 E. Toole Ave. 798-1952. Continuing: Traveling Abroad, a multi-media exhibit that combines art pieces and vintage clothing to evoke a thematically coherent exploration of travel. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, and by appointment.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. 621-7968. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. Continuing through May 24: Sea Change: The Seascape in Contemporary Photography, including works by 18 photographic artists. Hours are
11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
CITY HOME FURNISHINGS. 5460 Broadway Blvd. 747-1729. Continuing: functional art by industrial designer Max Gottschalk, glass artist Jason Matcalfe and furniture designers Tim Haskin and Anne Winkler. Call for business hours.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through May 16: bronzes by Julia Andres, paintings by Robert D. Cocke and Susan Conaway. Gallery hours are
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. Continuing through May 23: Woven Together, an exibition of tapestries by Ann Keuper. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
ENCHANTED EARTHWORKS GALLERY. 2980 N. Swan Road. 327-7007. Continuing through May 9: 2 Women, 2 Kilns, hand-built clay sculptures and mixed-media by Nancy Dimick; and fused dichloric glass by Margaret Shirer. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through July 15: The Arizona Tribes: Vintage Photographs and Native Crafts, a regional exhibition of collected photographs and native crafts from 1870 to 1930. Continuing through May 30: Theresa Smith: Paintings and Works on Paper. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Utterback Middle School. 617-6100. Continuing through May 13: Utterback Spring Student Show featuring the works of 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Friday. G.A.S.P. (Great Art by Students and Professionals) Gallery is a student-run gallery.
IT'S A BLAST GALLERY. 2631 E. Broadway. 327-7879. Continuing: hand-blown glassware by Phil Kindler and Marsha Jacquay; watercolors and prints by Jean Beck; industrial/deco metal furnishings by Damion Velasquez; and silver jewelry by Stephanie Boardly. Gallery hours are
10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing through May 16: recent paintings by Roberto Delgado. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, and 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Nights.
PCC ART GALLERY. Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. Continuing through May 13: the Pima College Student Art Exhibition. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesdays, and for weekend performances at the Center for the Arts.
PHANTOM GALLERY. Continuing at the Tucson Arts District Partnership, 4 E. Congress St.: paintings by Jennifer Sullivan Carney; and painted wood sculptures and Prismacolor drawings by Joan Sullivan Marum. Continuing at 45 N. Sixth Ave.: Aloha Shirts, a project by students at Flowing Wells Junior High School. Continuing at 221 N. Court Ave.: watercolors by Palmer Butler. Continuing at 110 S. Church Ave.: whimsical enamel-on-glass paintings by Janet Miller. Call 624-9977 for information on other Phantom Gallery locations.
PHANTOM MURALS AND SCULPTURE. The following outdoor murals are located in the Arts District: Ofrenda, by Martin Hernandez, 111 S. Sixth Ave; Homage To Tucson, by Lydia D'Amico, 400 N. Fourth Ave; Cats, by Monika Rossa, 36 E. Congress St.; Mythical Muscular Figures, by Gustavo Rocha, behind Johnny Gibson's in Arizona Alley; Drawn to the Light, by Luna Lee Ray, corner of Broadway and Stone Avenue; and The Thinkers, by Eleanor Kohloss, Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street. Ned Egan's Blue Steel Bouquet, the first in the Phantom Sculpture Spring Series, can be found next to the Julian Drew building on Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The newest addition to the Phantom Sculpture Series, 2B by Konried Muench, is in front of the Bank of America Plaza at 33 N. Stone Ave. Call the Tucson Arts District Partnership at 624-9977 for information.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through May 23: 2-B/3-D, recent drawings by Rhod Lauffer, Dustin Leavitt and Paul Mirocha; and recent sculpture by Curt Brill. Also on exhibit: TAG artists present Black and White, an exhibition of small works in the RAW windows. Regular gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Thursday evening Art Walk, and during Downtown Saturday Nights.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union, third floor. 621-5123. Continuing through May 14: drawings by Ken Morgan. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
ST. GREGORY ART GALLERY. 3231 N. Craycroft Road. Continuing through June 1: works by reverse glass painter Janet Miller. Call Barbara Rosenberg at 749-1162 for information.
T/PAC COMMUNITY GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Continuing through May 22: Metamortified: A Commentary on the State of Art in Tucson, a group exhibition. Gallery Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through May 24: Directions: Point of Fracture, an installation by Amy Zuckerman combining photographs and tape recordings of the families of murder victims. Continuing through August 2: El Alma Del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and its Transformation in the Americas, a folk-art exhibition of more than 300 objects depicting the enduring Spanish influence on Latino communities in the Americas. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, and free for children under age 12. Admission is free for all on Tuesdays.
Last Chance
DESERT ARTISANS' GALLERY. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412 Continuing through May 17: Harmony and Contrast, works by local artists in various media. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
DE GRAZIA GALLERY. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9192. Continuing through May 1: Welcome to My World, paintings by the Trisha Steiner. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily.
EL CENTRO CULTURAL DE LAS AMERICAS GALLERY. 40 W. Broadway Blvd. 743-9741. Continuing through May 1: painting and exotic pottery exhibits by Marta del Leon and Vicente Zepeda. Call for gallery hours.
ELIZABETH CHERRY CONTEMPORARY ART. 437 E. Grant Road. 903-0577. Continuing through May 2: Works by Alice Stepanek and Steven Maslin. The show features highly detailed landscape paintings combining formal and conceptual theory. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
HACIENDA DEL SOL GALLERY. 5601 Hacienda del Sol Road. 299-1501. Continuing through May 2: platinum photographs by Gary Auerbach. Continuing through May: the paintings of T.J. Gress June. Gallery hours are 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA Fine Arts Complex. South end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through May 7: UA MFA Thesis Exhibition, including sculpture by Michael Campbell and Ted Springer, and paintings by Kristen Engles. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed Saturdays.
OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 326-4177. Continuing through May 1: Layered Elements, a group exhibit by the Collage Association of Southern Arizona. Call for gallery hours.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7567. Continuing through May 5: 1998 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition, featuring works by Janet Bardwell, Christopher Carl, Jayoug Choi, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Jeffrey Levitch, James Luket, Kelvin Maso, Catherine Sohn, Kelly Wilbur. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Out of Town
TUBAC CENTER FOR THE ARTS. 9 Plaza Road, Tubac. 398-2371. Opening with a reception from 2:30 to
4 p.m. Saturday, May 2, and continuing through May 31: Hi-Art, the annual exhibit of art from students of Sahuarita, Rio Rico, Nogales, Our Lady of Lourdes Academy and Patagonia high schools. Continuing through May 31 in the Members Gallery: jewelry, paintings and collage by Barbara Dexter, Barbara Lewis, Maureen Garrison, Connie Cook and Nancy Wilkoff. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Announcements
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Upstairs Film is currently accepting submissions for the new short film screening series, Mixed Media Mondays, at the Club Congress. Acceptable formats are 8mm, 16mm and VHS tape. Films should 40 minutes or less, and independently produced. Send submissions to: Upstairs Film, P.O. Box 43098, Tucson, AZ 85733. Include SASE if you want materials returned. Call 622-1751 for information.
ARTS BRIGADE. Calling community and neighborhood artists: Want to have some fun and help your community? The Tucson Arts Brigade is a multi-cultural, inter-generational collective of community-based cultural workers. For participation information, weekly events, donations of art supplies, or to commission the Arts Brigade for a project or program, call 791-9359; or email ArtBrigade@aol.com.
ART WALK. Fine artists and galleries await on the weekly Art Walk, a self- or docent-guided stroll through the Downtown Arts District between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Free tours of public art displays and participating galleries begin at 5:30 p.m. at the Park Inn Suite Santa Rita Hotel, 88 E. Broadway. Call 624-9977 for information and a listing of participating galleries.
ARTIST IN RESIDENCE. The International Arts Center is accepting applications for Artists-in-Residence from all disciplines, beginning in fall 1998. Applications are available between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday at the Center, 516 N. Fifth Ave. Call 903-0918 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. Dinnerware Gallery. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. The Dinnerware Gallery is accepting applications for it Member-Artist Roster. Applications are available by sending a business-sized SASE to Dinnerware Gallery, 135 E. Congress St., Tucson, AZ 85701. Completed applications, including 10 slides of recent work and a résumé, are due by May 16. Call 792-4503 for information.
EMPOWERMENT WORKSHOPS. WomanKraft Castle Art Center. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. WomanKraft continues its Neighborhood Arts Empowerment Workshop Series from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Workshops are $10, free to anyone making less than $15,000 a year, careless or homeless. Children who are capable of working independently are welcome; others must have adult supervision. Pre-registration is required. Call 629-9976 for registration or for a schedule of upcoming workshops.
GLASSBLOWING DEMONSTRATION. Watch glassblowers practice their craft at the downtown studio of Philabaum Contemporary Art Glass, 711 S. Sixth Ave. Call 884-7404 to confirm the day's schedule, or if there are more than six people in your party.
WAREHOUSE WALKS. Take a tour of Tucson's Historic Warehouse District with The Tucson Arts District Partnership. Tours run the second Saturday of each month, and meet at 8:50 a.m. in the lobby of the Hotel Congress, 311 E. Congress St. Group size is limited, with RSVPs requested by 5 p.m. the Thursday prior to the tour. Participants should dress comfortably, and plan on being outdoors. Call 624-9977 for reservations and information.