City Listings - Art (September 26

ART

Opening This Week

OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Opening with a reception from 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday, September 29, and continuing through October 31: Point of View, paintings by Cynthia Juliano. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday or by appointment.

Continuing

APPARATUS GALLERY. 299 S. Park Ave. 791-3505. Continuing through November 9: works by more than 24 artists in a variety of functional and fine art media, including steel, glass, ceramics, painting and photography. Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA campus Student Union, north side of the mall east of Old Main. 621-5123. Continuing through October 4: The Figure Reinvestigated, oil paintings by Jeff Bertoncino. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday.
ART!!! GALLERY. 6328 E. Broadway. 745-8586. Continuing through October 14: Mythical Beasts, an exhibit including literary and imaginary beasts by member artists. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.
ARTIST OF THE MONTH GALLERY. 4831 E. 22nd St. 748-1551. Continuing through October 7: Sonoran Desert Signatures, color photographs by Nile Root. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday. Call 885-5179 for information.
BERO GALLERY. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 792-0313. Continuing through October 12: a photo exhibition by local photographers Brion McCarthy and Ruth Marblestone. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY. UA campus, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 621-7968. Continuing through December 1: Crimes and Splendors: The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through October 26: paintings by Jennifer Sullivan Carney and Tim Murphy. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.
DESERT ARTISANS' GALLERY. 6536A E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Continuing through November 3: Tapestries of Techniques. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 795-4503. Continuing through October 5: paintings by Michael Chittock and Betina Fink, and mixed-media works by Margaret Louderback. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
THE DRAWING STUDIO. Continuing through October 30: Experiments in Visual Thinking, an exhibit of multi-media works by the Drawing Studio at the Main Library, 101 N. Stone Ave. Other works from The Drawing Studio will be open to the public from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesdays at the Stillwell-Twiggs House. Call 620-0947 for information.
THE ECLECTIC GALLERY. 69 E. Pennington St. 620-1668. Continuing: the Artiste du Jour series. This exhibition features 11 different artists' work in two- to three-week intervals. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, Thursday Night Art Walk and Downtown Saturday Night.
ETHERTON GALLERY. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Continuing through November 9: Kissing, a group photographic exhibition. Also continuing: Fragments Of A Former Life, a mixed-media exhibit by Mayme Kratz. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday and Downtown Saturday Night.
FLANDRAU SCIENCE CENTER. UA mall, corner of University Boulevard and Cherry Avenue. 621-STAR. Continuing through January of 1997: Shamanism, Magic and the Busy Spider, Abenaki Indian carvings. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 7 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday. Admission is $2 for adults, $1 for children ages 3 to 14, free with the purchase of a planetarium or laser-light show ticket.
IRONWOOD GALLERY. Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. Continuing through October 10: Plants and Their Pollinators, an invitational exhibition of natural science illustrations. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday. Free with museum admission.
JOSÉ GALVEZ GALLERY. 743 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6878. Continuing: Strange Harvest, paintings by Latino artist Frank Gutierrez. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through Friday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, 6 to 9 p.m. Downtown Saturday Night or by appointment.
KALEIDOSCOPE FINE ARTS GALLERY. 3601 W. Cromwell Drive in the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Northwest Tucson. 742-3815. Continuing through October 11: storm photographs by Norman R. Carlson. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to noon Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m. to noon Sunday and by appointment.
RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through October 12: recent works by Cliff Finity and Trent Edwards. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, Downtown Saturday Night and Thursday Night Art Walk or by appointment.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. 4340 N. Campbell Ave., Suite 90. 577-3598. Continuing through November 2: the annual Día De Los Muertos (Day of The Dead) exhibition featuring works in clay, mixed-media, shrines, paintings, glass, jewelry and more by various Tucson artists. Continuing through September 30: mixed-media figurative work by Elizabeth Frank. Summer gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday. Call 577-3598 for information.
PHANTOM GALLERY. Various downtown locations. Bright, large-scale acrylic paintings by Elizabeth Elequin are on display at 38 E. Congress St. Terra cotta sculpture by Martin Martinez is on display at 221 N. Court Ave. Wood assemblages by Kyle Johnston are on display at 110 S. Church Ave., in La Placita Village. Call the Tucson Arts District Partnership at 624-9977 for information on other Phantom Gallery locations.
PHILABAUM CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through November 9: Massiccio: A Tribute to Loredano Rosin. Call for regular gallery hours.
SHANE HOUSE GALLERY. 218 S. Fourth Ave. 623-2577. Continuing through October 28: Denise Grimes: An Exhibition of New Paintings. Hours are Downtown Saturday Night and by appointment only.
TOHONO CHUL PARK GALLERY. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Continuing through November 18: It's A Small World, miniatures of Tohono O'odham baskets, Kachina dolls, and more. Continuing through September 29: Navajo Code Talkers, a photographic exhibition by Kenji Kawano. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Continuing through November 3: Symbols of Life: Ceremonial Art of the Amazon People, including featherpieces, costumes, weapons and sculptures from some of the 64 tribes residing in the Amazon. Admission to the museum is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors and students, free for members and children under 12. Free for all on Tuesdays. Docent-led tours of the TMA Historic Block are offered at 11 a.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
T/PAC GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Continuing through November 1: Clear Visions, a multi-media showcasing of artists from Tubac's Otero Street Gallery artists cooperative. There will be a reception from 4 to 7 p.m. Saturday, September 28. Gallery hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. Located on the southeast corner of Park Avenue and Speedway. 621-7567. Continuing through October 20: the 1996 Art Faculty Exhibition. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
WOMANKRAFT GALLERY. 338 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Continuing through October 26: the Robin & Francesca Pearce Exhibit. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, and 7 to 10 p.m. the first Downtown Saturday Night of each month.

Last Chance

ACCESS TUCSON GALLERY. 124 E. Broadway. 624-9833. Continuing through September 30: Mexican Indian Altars, photographs by Dana Salvo. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 to 10 p.m. Sunday.
BERTA WRIGHT GALLERY. 260 E. Congress St. 882-7043. Foothills Mall. 742-4134. Continuing through September 28: Celebration of Stitchery, featuring Peruvian apilleras, an appliqué form traditionally drawing from village life, festivals, bullfights and farming. Downtown gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, and Thursday Art Walk. Foothills gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.
G.A.S.P. GALLERY. 3233 S. Pinal Vista, Utterback Middle School. 617-6100. Continuing through October 3: Re-Framing The Border, a photographic exhibition of work by Jose Galvez, Miguel Gandert, Oscar Monroy Avila and Jeffery Scott. 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 unique student-run gallery housed in a public magnet school for the fine arts.
JCC FINE ART GALLERY. 3800 E. River Road. 299-3000. Continuing through September 30: a new exhibit featuring the works of 11 Jewish artists. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and Sunday.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA campus, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through September 27: Warriors And Dreamers, collaborative paintings by Suzanne Kloz and Gonzalo Espinosa, with interpretive poetry by Bridget Carroll and documentary photography by Fred Gonzales. Also continuing through September 27: Picture This Too, photographic works by William Wegman and various Arizona photographers. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
WINGSPAN GALLERY. 422 N. Fourth Ave. 624-1779. Continuing through September: watercolor paintings by Suzy Forevermore. Call for gallery hours.
PCC ART GALLERY. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 884-6942. Continuing through October 1: drawings of the human experience by Susan Beck Conaway; sculptor Barbara Jo McLaughlin's current work, Landforms/Lifeforms; and large scale acrylic paintings by Kevin McLaughlin. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday and during weekend performances at the Center for the Arts.
PINK ADOBE GALLERY. 222 E. Congress St. 623-2828. Continuing through September 30: new acrylic paintings by John Francis Green, colorful ceramics by Janice Cook and silver and gemstone jewelry by Pat Carey. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and Downtown Saturday Nights.
PINK ADOBE GALLERY EAST. 6538 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-5995. Continuing through September 30: wooden story-people sculptures by Brian Andreas; and mixed-media sculpture by Elden Mathews. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
UNION GALLERY. UA campus, north side of the UA mall, east of Old Main. 621-5123. Continuing through September 26: Impression, works by Phoenix artist Dorothy Rissman, focusing on the imagery of clothing as a historical reference to time and place. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Announcements

ART FEST. Bring the entire family for a festival of music, art and more from 3 to 10 p.m. Saturday, September 28, at the northwest corner of Stone Avenue and Fort Lowell Road. Musical groups One Blood, Milkseed and Desert Wings, among others, perform alongside dance troupes, carnival games and a funhouse for kids. This fun-for-all affair benefits the Arts For Me Studio and Gallery, a non profit meeting ground open to youths and adults of all abilities. Call 293-4919 for information.
ART AUCTION. Central Arts Collective. 188 E. Broadway. 798-1844. The Coastal Conservation Foundation invites the public to an evening of nature art and information on CCF and the Gulf of California at the second annual Planet Water Art Auction, beginning at 7 p.m. Friday, September 27. Call 798-1844 for information.
BIG KNIGHT OUT. Chivalry Sports. 7718 E. Wrightstown Road. Spend the evening with shield-maker Sir Jakob von Groningen and learn the art of shield making for use in battle, or as a decorative object. You'll learn what materials are needed, how the different shapes are constructed and more. Workshop begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 2, at Chivalry Sports. Cost is $7. Call Laura Walls at 722-1255 for information.
ART FOR ALL. WomanKraft at the Castle. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. WomanKraft presents its Neighborhood Arts Empowerment Project, a series of workshops covering everything from creating art to marketing and developing a portfolio. All workshops are at the castle, and are from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. On Saturday, September 28 Gerrie Young and Madeline Travis teach the ancient art of tile making. Classes are $10, free to those who are homeless, carless, or who make less than $15,000 a year. Call 629-9976 for information.
ART WALK. Visit the Downtown Arts District between 5 and 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, with free docent-led tours of public art displays and participating galleries beginning 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.
ATTENTION FILMMAKERS. The Screening Room. 127 E. Congress St. Join the Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers' for their next salon at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, September 28. Guest speakers are Tim Hilderbrand of the Tucson Film Office and Colleen Mahoney-Greer of the Tucson/Pima Arts Council and the Arts Channel. All independent, local media-makers and enthusiasts are invited to attend. Call Beverly Seekinger at 621-1239 for information.
CALL FOR ENTRIES. Phantom Gallery is accepting applications for the upcoming exhibition season. Tucson-area visual artists working in diverse media are encouraged to apply. Phantom spaces currently include 38 E. Congress St., 221 N. Court Ave., 110 S. Church Ave., and 32 N. Stone Ave. Due to the large surface area directly exposed to sunlight, work selected for these sites must be "throw away" art. Size limitation for two dimensional works is no larger than 3-by-4 feet. Galleries in the Tucson Convention Center may be available for large works suitable for hanging on a wall. Minimum size is 4-by-5 feet, with larger works encouraged. Call 624-9977 for specific application procedures. Deadline is September 30.
CALL FOR ENTRIES. The Eclectic Gallery is accepting entries for its second annual Small Works Juried Exhibition, scheduled for December 7 through January 16. Dimensions should not exceed 12 inches. Entry fee is $15. Send SASE for prospectus to P.O. Box 2066, Tucson AZ, 85702; or call 620-1668 for information. Deadline is November 8.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Ironwood Gallery at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is seeking submissions for a glass exhibition to correspond with the April 1997 Glass Art Society Conference in Tucson. Works must pertain to the Sonoran Desert or its wildlife. Call 883-3077 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Wingspan Gallery is seeking gay artists interested in participating in the second annual OUTober Fest Art Show. Call Bob Mac Mahon at 571-8783 for information.
CALL TO ARTISTS. The Central Arts Collective, a member directed gallery, is accepting new members. For an application form and further information send SASE to: Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85701; or call 623-5883.
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.

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