Genocide Awareness Week
Scottsdale Community College is presenting a series of virtual events for its Genocide Awareness Week from April 12 to 17. The free event includes workshops, artwork, storytelling, lectures, and other offerings exploring topics such as the Holocaust and human rights along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Work by Ellen Blalock, who is curating a new quilt exhibit in Chandler.
Vision Gallery
Call for Quilt Art
Vision Gallery has issued a call for art for an upcoming exhibit titled “Art Quilts XXVI: Stitching Stories,” which will open on November 20 inside Vision Gallery and the gallery at Chandler Center for the Arts. Artists can submit work for considerations through September 13.
Desert Botanical Garden
New Outdoor Art
Several new outdoor artworks are being installed around metro Phoenix this month. Tempe Public Art commissioned Roy Wasson Valle to create a piece on a clear wall at the Tempe Center for the Arts sculpture garden, which will be visible from The Gallery at TCA and the path running along Tempe Town Lake. An installation titled
Water will be on view at Desert Botanical Garden starting on February 23. Created by Natasha Lisitsa and Daniel Schultz of Waterlily Pond Studio, the piece spans 100 feet and was made with materials that include 8,000 colored wooden dowels and 2,000 red flowering blooms.