Tucson Weekly: Listings: Art (July 2

ART
Opening This Week
Listings RAW GALLERY. 43 S. Sixth Ave. 882-6927. Continuing through Aug 29: Monotype: recent monotype prints by TAG artists. Also on exhibit: TAG artists present Hot Objects, an exhibition of small works in the RAW windows. There's an opening reception from 7 to 10 p.m. on Saturday, July 4. Summer gallery hours are 7 to 10 p.m. during Downtown Saturday Nights or by appointment.
WOMANKRAFT GALLERY. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Opening July 4 and continuing through August 29: Millennium Melting Pot, featuring the paintings of Perry McCauley. Other works in the exhibit include "Our Big Flat Selves," a series of life-sized paper dolls made by Womankraft artists. There's an opening reception from
7 to 10 p.m. held in conjunction with a benefit party for the gallery. Tickets to the party are $4. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday.
Continuing
ARIZONA GALLERY. UA Student Union, north side of the mall, east of Old Main. 621-5123. Continuing through August 5: Paintings, by Anthony Pessler. Gallery hours are
8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 949 E. Second St. 628-5774. Continuing through January 15: Lines Drawn in Sand and Water: Postcards of the Mexican-American Border, a presentation of photographic and illustrative postcards spanning the 20th century. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM. 2201 N. Kinney Road. 883-3077. Continuing through August 26: The Calendar Series: A Landscape Diary, paintings by John A. Louder. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
DAVIS DOMINGUEZ GALLERY. Casas Adobes Office Park. 6812 N. Oracle Road. 297-1427. Continuing through July 11: Tucson Collection '98, the sixth small-works invitational featuring art by 45 Tucson artists. 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. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. Continuing through August 16: Creative Impulses. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Sunday.
DINNERWARE GALLERY. 135 E. Congress St. 792-4503. Continuing through July 18: Drawing from the Figure, a juried exhibition of watercolors and monoprints by the
43 artist associates of The Drawing Studio. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to
7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
ELIZABETH CHERRY CONTEMPORARY ART. 437 E. Grant Road. 903-0577. Continuing through August 1: Artists of the Gallery, works by Sylvie Fleury, Valerie Galloway, Frank Kozik, Cecilia de Medeiros, Olivier Mosset, Alice Stepanek & Sten Maslin, and Peter Young. Gallery hours are noon to 4 p.m. Friday and 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. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 7 p.m. Thursday, and Downtown Saturday Nights.
IT'S A BLAST GALLERY. 2631 E. Broadway.
327-7879. Currently featuring serigraphs of Marilyse Goulet, as well as hand-made paper by Betsy Farmer; contemporary sterling silver jewelry by Tracey Hale; industrial/deco metal furnishings by Damion Velasquez; and functional porcelain bowls and stoneware by Matthew Payton. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY. UA Fine Arts Complex. South end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through August 12: Sculptors '98. Regular gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday. Closed Saturdays.
LIONEL ROMBACH GALLERY. UA Joseph Gross Gallery Building. UA Fine Arts Complex, south end of the pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue. 626-4215. Continuing through August 14: works by Kristin Decker, M. Kathryn Hoover and Zoë Schreiber. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
OBSIDIAN GALLERY. 4340 N. Campbell Ave.
577-3598. Continuing through August 29: Summer 1998 Exhibition, featuring hand-crafted furniture, accessories and sculpture for indoor and outdoor living. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
OLD PUEBLO FRAMEWORKS AND GALLERY. 6290 E. Grant Road. 885-0746. Continuing through July 31: Journey Through the Southwest, paintings by Cynthia Wearden. 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.
PHANTOM GALLERY. The following installations are sponsored by the Tucson Arts District Partnership: sculptural objects by Peter Korbel, 221 N. Court Ave.; pastel drawings by Deezie Manning-Catron, 4 E. Congress St.; abstract canvases by Mike Stack, 110 S. Church Ave.; and acrylic paintings by Robert Barber and Jenny Kilb,
260 S. Church Ave. 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; The Thinkers, by Eleanor Kohloss, Fourth Avenue and Sixth Street; and Building Community Mural, by multi-age classes from Miles Exploratory Learning Center, City Annex Building. Ned Egan's Blue Steel Bouquet is next to the Julian Drew building on Broadway between Fifth and Sixth avenues. The newest additions to the Phantom Sculpture Series are three sculptural pieces by Stephen G. Derks, in front of the Bank of America Plaza at 33 N. Stone Ave. Call the Tucson Arts District Partnership at 624-9977 for information.
PHILABAUM CONTEMPORARY ART GLASS.
711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Continuing through August 15: Esprit de Corps, featuring new works by Tucson glass artists. Summer gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. The gallery will be closed on Saturday, July 4.
ROTUNDA GALLERY. UA Student Union, third floor. 621-5123. Continuing through August 13: Variations on a Theme, recent paintings by Grace Ramirez Ciotti. Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Sunday.
TOHONO CHUL PARK. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. Continuing through August 20: new acquisitions of baskets, rugs and pottery from the Agnes T. and Don Leigh Smith Collection. Continuing through July 16: Creative Visions I: Art Work by School Children of the Catalina Foothills District. Gallery hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2. Call 742-6455 daily events schedule.
TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART. 140 N. Main Ave.
624-2333. 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. Museum hours are 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4 p.m. Sunday, and closed Mondays.
UA MUSEUM OF ART. UA Fine Arts Complex, pedestrian underpass on Speedway east of Park Avenue.
621-7567. Continuing through August 9: Immersions, paintings by David Andres and photographs by Ann Simmons-Myers. Summer gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.
UNION GALLERY. UA Student Union, first floor.
621-5123. Continuing through August 17: Specimens/Artifacts, work by Mary Bates. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday.
VENTURE FINE ARTS. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-2258. Continuing through August 31: a group exhibition featuring the work of Caroline Norton, Keith Christie, Richard Fillhouer, Alfred Vetromile, Dan Bates, Gary Price Richard Brunson, Michael Norton and Katie Hazen. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday, and by appointment.
Last Chance
T/PAC COMMUNITY GALLERY. 240 N. Stone Ave. 624-0595. Continuing through July 3: Raices Nuevas: Spaces Revisited, a group exhibition. Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Out of Town
OTERO STREET GALLERY. 5 Camino Otero. Tubac, Arizona. (520) 398-8014. Continuing through September 28: Long, Hot Summer Art Show, a collection of works by
25 of the gallery's artists and craftsmen. Summer gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday through Sunday.
Announcements
ART SALE. Mount Lemmon Alpine Lodge. Summerhaven. The Alpine Lodge presents a one day art show and sale featuring the artwork of Tucson artist Landy Brighton at
9 a.m. to sundown Saturday, July 4. The Mt. Lemmon Highway user fee does not apply for non-stop travel to Summerhaven. Call 296-7591 for information.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. The Equipoise Gallery seeks submissions for a juried exhibit titled Portrait: Tucson & Pima County, to be held at the Stillwell-Twiggs House, 134 S. Fifth Ave. Participants must submit three slides of work representative of impressions of Tucson/Pima County. Fees are $21 for the first three slides, and $5 for each addition slide. Send entries to Equipoise Gallery, Inc., P.O. Box 26445, Tucson, AZ 85726-6445. Deadline is August 14. Send SASE to the above address for a prospectus.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Upstairs Film is accepting short film submissions for its Multimedia Mondays series at the Club Congress. Acceptable formats are 8mm, 16mm and VHS tape. Films should be 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.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. Central Arts Collective is accepting submissions for Encroachment: Nowhere to Hide, a national juried exhibition on urban sprawl in the Sonoran Desert. Work in all media, by artists 18 and older, will be considered. Application fee for up to three slides is $20. Deadline for entries is July 20. Send SASE to: Encroachment, Central Arts Collective, 188 E. Broadway, Tucson, AZ 85701.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. T/PAC Community Gallery is accepting entries for the upcoming exhibition Rural Artists of Pima County, for display at the T/PAC Community Gallery, 240 N. Stone Ave. Artists must be
18 years or older and reside outside of the Tucson city limits, but within Pima County. Submissions deadline is July 31. Call Maryjane Dorofachuk 624-0595, ext. 19, for applications and information.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS. La Phoeniquiera, an annual juried exhibit celebrating the diversity of Arizona artists, seeks submissions for an exhibit July 10 through 31 at the MARS Artspace, 126 S. Central, in Phoenix. Resident Arizona artists over 18 years of age may submit entries of original design in any media. Call (602) 253-3541 for details and a copy of the prospectus, or visit the website www.mars-artspace.org/.
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.
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 [email protected].
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.
SUMMER WORKSHOP SERIES. Pink Adobe Gallery. 6538 E. Tanque Verde Road. Pink Adobe owner Jean Thomasson announces a series of summer art workshops at the gallery, including furniture and glass painting, ceramic sculpture, drawing faces, doll making and wheel-thrown pottery. Fees vary. Call 298-5995 for specific information on dates, times and costs of individual workshops.