The Center for Creative Photography (CCP) and the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) will stage installations together that follow historical, cultural, and scientific narratives inspired by trees. “To find the wealth of information trees have to share,” writes paleoclimatologist Dr. Valerie Trouet in Tree Story, “we must simply learn how to look.” Trees Stir in their Leaves With […]
read more“From the Front Page to the Archive: How Photojournalism Helps Shape Civic Life” is a five-week, live, online course, offered by the Center for Creative Photography in partnership with Arizona Arts and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences as part of the SBS’ Community Classroom program. The course meets Wednesdays from 4-6p, beginning Oct. […]
read moreArizona Arts launches ‘Signature Series,’ a new series showcases the division’s most compelling, engaging arts events on and off campus.
read moreThe Center for Creative Photography is hosting the CCP Open House on Sept. 23 with extended, evening hours from noon to 7p. Free to the public. Explore CCP and enjoy pop-up installations, music, grab and go food and art activities, and more! Check out our newly designed Alice Chaiten Baker Interdisciplinary Gallery, front patio, and first-floor library nook. On-View: Photojournalism […]
read moreThe first activation of the Center for Creative Photography’s Interdisciplinary Gallery was planned to be a close study of photojournalism, of how we can raise thoughtful, critical questions about the images in our news. Then 2020 swerved. Nearly overnight, photographs, together with videos and teleconferences, operated with renewed urgency. It was as though “lens-based culture” […]
read moreFreedom Must Be Lived: Marion Palfi’s America is a retrospective exhibition surveys the career of Marion Palfi (1907–1978), who produced one of the most important visual documents of American injustice of the 20th century. The exhibition features over 100 prints and numerous archival materials drawn exclusively from the Center for Creative Photography’s vast Marion Palfi Archive, […]
read moreCenter for Creative Photography receives a $255,000 Luce Foundation grant to fund an exhibition featuring the work of Louis Carlos Bernal.
read moreDid you know that there are photographers everywhere you look in the College of Fine Arts? From theatre and music majors and photography majors themselves, many students find photography to be a fantastic creative outlet. Maryan Hassan, a junior at Arizona, decided to find a way to allow students of any major or discipline an […]
read moreIn the spring of 2020, a talented group of MFA graduates lost the opportunity to display their thesis artworks in exhibition in a physical gallery setting due to the pandemic. This spring we are going to run it back with the 2020 MFA Thesis Alumni Exhibition. The School of Art, University of Arizona Museum of Art […]
read morePhotography, Maps, Big Data, and Visualization Join us on April 29, 2021 at 6:00 PM (AZ), presented in collaboration with the Center for Digital Society and Data Studies and the School of Information. This free virtual with Dr. Lev Manovich event will stream live on the Center’s YouTube and Facebook pages. There is no registration required. Printers, photographers, filmmakers, and geographers […]
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