VISUAL ARTS SEASON PREVIEW

TUCSON VISUAL ARTS:

A feast for the senses

Photography, painting, glass sculpture and augmented reality technology are among the forms of visual art works on exhibit at Tucson’s museums and educational settings indoors and out. The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona will celebrate its reopening with an open house on Sept. 23, featuring pop-up installations, art-making, food and music. Photojournalism 20/20: A Think Tank for an Unimaginable Present is on exhibit through the end of the year. It turns the lens on the explosive events of 2020, a time of pandemicinduced physical confinement and suffering, worldwide protests for racial justice and tumultuous national politics. Not far away, the University of Arizona Museum of Art exhibition The Art of Food explores food as a powerful subject in contemporary art. It opens Oct. 24, a free Community Day. Artists include Andy Warhol, Enrique Chagoya and Lorna Simpson, curated from collections of Jordan D. Schnitzel and His Family Foundation. The Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block will feature three major exhibitions this season: Olivier Mosset; Patrick Martinez: Look What You Created, and Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson. Tucson Botanical Garden is stretching the boundaries with Seeing the Invisible, featuring works by international artists utilizing augmented reality technology. The September premiere forges links between gardens around the world. The mid-century modern era is on display at Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures, showcasing Atomic Miniatures: Michael Yurkovic’s Modern Musings. Also on exhibit is Addams Family Mini Mansion, based on the spooky and fun 1960s TV series. Creative DIY folks can head to Sonoran Glass School to mold glowing glass into their own works of art. The glass arts education facility offers classes and experiences for all ages under the guidance of the school’s artists.