Forgotten Cello Sonatas of the Late Romantic Era

Violist Molly Gebrian is featured in recital in the ongoing Faculty Artist Series. She will be performing the music of Dora Pejačević, Ethel Smyth, and Henriëtte Bosmans in Forgotten Cello Sonatas of the Late Romantic Era in new versions for viola and piano, featuring guest artist Danny Holt on piano, March 22, at Holsclaw Hall […]

Trester Festival for Latin American Music

The second annual Trester Festival for Latin American Music will include master classes, lecture recitals, and Q&A sessions centered around Latin American piano music by guest artists Dr. Andrés Jaramillo from the California Baptist University and Dr. Luis Sanchez from the Texas A&M University-Commerce. The 2022 festival will highlight works by Carlos Guastavino, Luis Gianneo, […]

ASHURBANIPAL, P.T. BARNUM, ROYAL EUNUCHS, AND FAT-TAILED SHEEP

The Arizona State Museum, devoted to the archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest and northern Mexico, seems a very unlikely home for a fragment of a Neo-Assyrian relief panel from King Ashurbanipal’s 7th century B.C.E. North Palace at Nineveh in ancient Mesopotamia. Intrigued? Delve in with Dr. Irene Bald Romano, curator of Mediterranean archaeology, professor of […]

Spring Community Day

In honor of the final month of The Art of Food: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation – and to celebrate the Our Stories exhibitions Tucson Stories: Food, Health, Community, Justice and VOICES: Real Stories of Hunger and Hope from Tucson and Southern Arizona – UAMA invites the community to a special afternoon of art and food. Visitors […]

CCP Front Porch Book Sale

Stop by CCP’s front porch book sale while you’re visiting the Tucson Festival of Books! The Center has reorganized our spaces over the last year to prepare for exciting renovations to our collection storage and upgrades to our Volkerding Study Center, and that means lots of new and used books need new homes. We will have […]

Moving Beyond the Box

Exploring our reliance on digital media through this unprecedented era, Moving Beyond the Box tells the story of the stages of the pandemic through dance. In March 2020, when we were all quarantined at home, director/choreographer and TFTV faculty member Christie Kerr looked for new ways to connect and continue to make art. She reached […]

Photograph Conservation in the Trees

Join conservators at CCP in “trees stir in their leaves” to talk about different technologies used to make the photographs displayed in this exhibition. Look at study collection examples and other discovery materials which illustrate common materials and techniques of photography. Conservators will also be on hand to discuss concerns relating to condition and the […]

[POSTPONED] Embodying Self as Subject

The question of the photographed subject presents a central ethical and political challenge today that is invariably bound up with centuries of image production, with the lenses through which we have constructed ourselves and another’s self. [Due to unforeseen circumstances, we regret to inform you that the Thursday, Oct. 27, event at the Center for […]

Zig Jackson Artist Talk

Zig Jackson will speak on The Photographic Journey of Rising Buffalo, a program collaboratively presented by the Andrew Smith Gallery and the Center for Creative Photography. A longtime gallery artist Zig Jackson, also named Rising Buffalo, is an enrolled member of the Three Affiliated Tribes (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) and the first Native American photographer to be awarded […]

Thinking Outside the Box

Watch master musicians from Imani Winds work directly with the students of Fred Fox Graduate Wind Quintet, exploring the music of Paquito D’Rivera on Jan. 20. Presented by the Fred Fox School of Music and Arizona Arts’ Racial Justice Studio at the Center for Creative Photography Auditorium. An open conversation about curating a meaningful artistic career in […]