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The Arizona Republic writes about our latest exhibition, "Stocked". Read all about it here. 

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http://www.azcentral.com/thingstodo/events/articles/20130512smoca-lit-lounge-scottsdale-katan.html

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SUMMER 2013 OPENING CELEBRATION

You're invited to SMoCA's 2013 Summer Opening on Friday, May 31 from 7:00-9:00 p.m. Our free, public Openings only happen three times per year so it's cause for a celebration! We're ushering in three new exhibitions, including: 

Learning to See: Josef Albers and the Interaction of Color

Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles

David Maisel/Black Maps: American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime

The Summer Opening includes live DJ sets in SMoCA Lounge by Djentrification. Guests can also enjoy a cash bar and the chance to meet visiting artists and SMoCA's curators. 

    Sonny Assu, Salmon Loops, from the Breakfast Series, 2006. Digital print, Fome-cor, 12 x 7 x 3 in. Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Rebecca and Alexander Stewart © Sonny Assu, photograph by Chris Meier. 

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VISIONS: HERE & NOW AT THE YOUNG@ART GALLERY

Visions is SMoCA’s teen group of 40+ art students and their teachers. Students meet monthly with artists for workshops, gallery talks and studio visits. The resulting artwork is shown in an annual summer Visions exhibition in the young@art gallery. "Here & Now" explores teens’ insights and reflections about contemporary society.

  Visions is sponsored by Scottsdale Insurance Company/Nationwide Foundation, City of Tempe, Scottsdale Unified School District, Paradise Valley Unified School District and Phoenix Union High School District. More info HERE. 

  Image: Visions students enjoying themselves in an inflatable structure that they created. Photo: Laura Hales.

    MAY 9 - SEPTEMBER 8, 2013 

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NEW SCREENINGS: "PAOLO SOLERI, BEYOND FORM,"

APRIL 28th-This new documentary "Paolo Soleri, Beyond Form" by filmmaker Aimee Madsen takes a fresh look at the legendary Paolo Soleri, known as artist, craftsman, architect, urban theorist and philosopher. 

On Sunday, April 28th, to mark the last day of the exhibition Paolo Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti, SMoCA will host these two special film screenings at 1:30 & 3:30 p.m.presented by No Festival Required.  Tickets $7.00.* Call the Box Office at 480-499-TKTS (8587) or online:  http://www.scottsdaleperformingarts.org/smoca-events.php

*Film ticket fees and restrictions apply. To honor Soleri and his legacy, Museum admission to SMoCA will be free all day on Sunday the 28th (12:00 noon - 5:30p) .  Assistant Curator Claire C. Carter will also provide a complimentary exhibition tour at 3:00 p.m. 

No Festival Required film screenings of Paolo Soleri, Beyond Form are sponsored bySechler CPA PC and SMoCA. 

Purchase Tickets HERE. 

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Last night I enjoyed a much needed fabulous girls night with shopping, yummy food, and a night with the arts! We attended the 2013 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Arts Spring 2013 Opening Celebration. They even had a preview of the upcoming Night Circus Gala performers! It was a beautiful performance of light and funny expression and technical strength that just amazes. The entire space was full to the brim and I have to say it seems like I just stumbled upon a hidden gem of arts and expression that I cannot wait to explore further! If this is just a taste of what to expect at Night Circus Gala on May 11th, I wouldn’t be surprised to dive into Alice in Wonderlands world herself that evening! What I would give to attend the gala! A spectacular night awaits any girl lucky enough to go <3 

See the full post on my blog! 

http://www.myclassyassets.com/52/post/2013/02/spring-2013-smoca-opening-celebration.html

  For more info on SMoCA: 

http://www.smoca.org/calendar/night-circus-at-smoca-may-11-2013

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Writer/Performer Scout Durwood rocks the Lit Lounge!

Get your tickets NOW for THRS, MAY 30th “Most Of” Lit Lounge  

Lit Lounge already has the BEST Writer/Performers, we’re just giving you MORE!  

Featuring Comedy Central Stage performer Shaz Bennett, The Moth Storytelling Slam (N.Y.) Winner Molly McCloy, award-winning author Hillary Carlip, Stephen Colbert guest Joe Smith + More.  All in the BIG Scottsdale Center for Performing Arts Theater! 

  Musical Guests: Where Are All the Buffalo, Doug Bale + More! 

Tickets are on sale NOW, get ‘em HERE or 480.499.TKTS (8587)

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Things To Do: April 1st, 2013

This week we have two great events. Just RSVP to 480-874-4641. 1). a free art tour just for Seniors on Wednesday, April 3rd at 1:30p! 2). Free music by DJ Chris Slim-Cre, Dancers from Ballet Arizona and free-form Sketching in the Galleries on Thursday, April 4 at 7:00 pm - just bring a sketchpad & pencils! For further information... 

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From our current exhibit, ‘The Human Toch’. 

Kehinde Wiley, Passing/Posing #15, 2002. Oil and enamel on canvas, 56 x 48 inches. Collection of RBC Wealth Management. Image courtesy of the artist and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago © Kehinde Wiley

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PAOLO SOLERI: MESA CITY TO ARCOSANTI

In 2010, SMoCA initiated a series of three exhibitions exploring the trajectory of Paolo Soleri's art, architecture and philosophy. Paolo Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti is the second in the series. This exhibition will begin in the early 1960s when Soleri shifted his focus from bridges and residences to large-scale urban planning based on environmental accountability. Soleri's first comprehensive vision of a community is Mesa City, an example of what he calls an “arcology,” or an architectural project based on the synthesis of architecture + ecology. In Mesa City, Soleri combines the goals of high-density living, a vibrant urban space, environmental sustainability, respect for natural resources and a commercial sector based upon creativity. The exhibition will end with Arcosanti (arcology + Cosanti), a project primarily built in the 1970s and ’80s near Mayer, Arizona....

For additional information, please visit smoca.org

Sponsored by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; Paul Giancola and Carrie Lynn Richardson; and Thomas J Morgan 

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Getting ready for rehearsal and a photo shoot to prepare for the Night Circus Feb 8th preview at SMoCA's Opening. Join us that evening from 7-9p. As you can see, it's going to be spectacular!

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SMoCA's board member Oscar De Las Salas and Associate Curator Emily Stamey talk about artist John Sonsini's artwork and upcoming visit on 1/31 this a.m. on Radio Onda!

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THE HUMAN TOUCH January 19- April 28, 2013 

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Ready, Set, Visit: "The Human Touch"- Exhibit Now Open

THE HUMAN TOUCH SELECTIONS FROM THE RBC WEALTH MANAGEMENT ART COLLECTION

Stimulating. Challenging. Engaging.  These are just a few adjectives that aptly describe RBC Wealth Management’s art collection.

With the human figure as its focus, the collection reflects the rich cultural diversity and complexity of contemporary society. From realistic to abstract, serious to whimsical, its works of art offer a breadth of approaches and subjects. Appropriation, performance, and digital manipulation are but a handful of the strategies deployed in the creation of these artworks; and hybrid racial identities, family dynamics, and ethnic heritage but a few of the complicated topics they tackle.

Made by both established artists—John Baldessari, Kerry James Marshall, and Ann Hamilton—and those rising in their careers—Luis Gispert, Chen Qiulin, and Michael Vasquez—the selections in this exhibition present a cross-section of identity that mirrors who we are and how we live today.

Organized by RBC Wealth Management. Curated by Donald McNeil.

For more information, please click here. 

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#smoca has a lounge area! (Taken with Instagram at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)

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Its title alone makes a wry play on Aristotle’s nascent idea about denial yielding absurdity, as does a preface to the exhibition, inscribed over a sagging floor: BURIED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF ITS OWN DISINTEGRATION.

-James Eischen of ArtForum.com on Héctor Zamora's exhibit at SMoCA