A chicken with the outline of a bikini browned onto its crispy skin sticks its legs into the air. A woman’s naked body is labeled with the names for meat cuts. A plump pig with lipstick and an apron is serving BBQ. “Sexy Salad and Manly Meat” is part of our “At the Table” Speaker […]
read moreBeginning in 2019, Oregon-based multidisciplinary artist, Malia Jensen, installed six carved salt-lick sculptures and eighteen motion-activated cameras across Oregon, monitoring the wildlife interactions and surrounding landscape for one year. Jensen will discuss the Nearer Nature Project and resulting in six hour surveillance video, Worth Your Salt, and share related work and ideas. Malia Jensen (b.1966, Honolulu, Hawaii) is a Portland-based artist known […]
read moreThe local food movement aspires to create close associations between consumers, communities, and the peoples and lands that produce the foods they eat. Drawing on over five years of ethnographic research, the speakers will consider how the value propositions underlying local food are and are not being conveyed through visual narratives. Pieces from the collection […]
read moreBe sure to bring an appetite for this month’s round of Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour. In honor of the exhibition The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, all of the works featured will be food-themed. As usual, the multiple-choice questions will be fun for all art lovers […]
read moreFitting for the first UNESCO City of Gastronomy in the United States, The Art of Food, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation offers something for every palette. Join us on the exhibition’s opening day for food-inspired art and festivities. ‘The Art of Food’ Community Day from the University of Arizona Museum of Art on […]
read moreFeaturing more than 100 works in a variety of media from the renowned collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, The Art of Food showcases how some of the most prominent artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have considered this universal subject. Organized thematically, this exhibition at the University of Arizona Museum of Art […]
read moreA presentation featuring the School of Art’s Carissa DiCindio and Yumi Shirai, Director of ArtWorks on how community museums can promote multi-group interactions and creative projects focused on care and connection. As an example, the presenters share the process and outcome of developing the collaborative exhibition Acts of Love and Community: Sharing Experiences with Food and […]
read moreE.M. Forster’s 1909 dystopic short story The Machine Stops depicts a civilization forced to live underground and in isolation, having plundered and exploited the Earth’s natural resources. Technology, or “the Machine” as it is known in the story, becomes the lifeline for this civilization, fulfilling people’s physical and spiritual needs. Ultimately, the Machine becomes so powerful that […]
read moreThe works highlighted in this month’s round of Virtual Art Trivia Happy Hour come courtesy of UAMA staff! As usual, the multiple choice questions will be fun for all art lovers and answers will be anonymous. So pour your favorite beverage and prepare your favorite snack, then join us on Zoom!
read moreWhether in the classroom or at home, high school artists and art teachers are facing challenges in teaching, learning and creating that no one could have imagined. This annual exhibition—now online due to COVID-19—showcases the creativity and resourcefulness of emerging high school artists from across Tucson and Pima County. Artworks were created during the 2020-2021 […]
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