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All Exhibitions 2015 SNAP! GEOLogic Crossing Between Worlds Women Artists of the West Bittersweet Harvest 2016 The Dirty Thirties Desert Relations Art of Circumstance Behind Barbed Wire Paul Kitagaki's Gambatte! 2017 The Dazzled Eye The Wayfinder's Perspective The Wayfinder's Dilemma Under A Vast Sky Vaquero & Charro 2018 Colors to Dye For The Sawmill Fire 2019 Effie! Plein Air Pioneer SNAP 2! Snapshots of History through Vintage Advertising 2020 The REDress Project Art is the Seed Buffalo Soldiers 2021 All The Single Ladies Sacred Dancers 2022 Citizen/Enemy 2023 ¡Pleibol! In the Barrios and the Big Leagues 2024 Gold Fever September 27, 2023 Circa 1930s: Memories of the General Store, Feed Sacks, Quilting and More Repair, reuse, make-do and don't throw anything away in this 1930s based exhibit that includes an era-inspired General Store. Read More May 1, 2019 SNAP! Visualize History Through the Art of Vintage Ads! Read More November 1, 2015 GEOLogic: Michael Holcomb Read More November 1, 2015 Crossing Between Worlds: Life, Land and Culture of Canyon de Chelly Read More November 3, 2015 Women Artists of the West 45th Annual National Exhibition: WAOWing the Grand Canyon State Read More December 5, 2015 Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942 - 1964 Read More December 5, 2015 The Dirty Thirties: New Deal Photography Frames the Migrants’ Stories Read More March 11, 2016 Wayne Norton: Desert Relations Read More November 5, 2016 Art of Circumstance: Art and Artifacts Created by Japanese Americans Incarcerated During WWII Read More November 5, 2016 Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese American Incarceration in Arizona Read More

Previous February 5, 2020 Next Buffalo Soldiers: The 10th Cavalry Regiment Told Through the Art of David Laughlin February 5, 2020 December 27, 2020 Buffalo Soldiers: The 10th Cavalry Regiment Told Through the Art of David Laughlin paints a picture of daily life for African American soldiers serving in the post-Civil War American West. Through his paintings, drawings, and block prints, artist David Laughlin depicts the 10th Cavalry Regiment’s daily activities while stationed in AZ from 1885 - 1896. With the US Government pushing for western expansion, the Buffalo Soldiers’ tasks ranged from building outposts and laying telegraph lines to protecting settlers, stagecoaches and railroad crews and fighting Native Americans, outlaws and rustlers. Their days were full and difficult, however their military service offered them a chance to obtain better rights as citizens in the recently liberated United States. For this exhibition we are partnering with GSAAC ; a local Buffalo Soldiers Educational group that is working to erect a Buffalo Soldiers Memorial Plaza here in Tucson. Help support GSAAC's memorial project mission by donating.

Previous May 3, 2017 Next The Wayfinder's Perspective: Landscape Paintings from the Permanent Collection May 3, 2017 October 1, 2017 This exhibition features contemporary landscape paintings culled from the Museum’s permanent collection. Guest curated by exhibiting artist Camden Hardy, the selection of paintings highlight the Southwest desert as a rich and varied subject matter for a diverse group of artists.

Previous October 13, 2017 Next Under A Vast Sky: American Women Artists October 13, 2017 December 3, 2017 American Women Artists (AWA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to the inspiration, celebration, and encouragement of women in the visual fine arts. The Tucson Desert Art mUseum is proud to host the AWA national juried art show and sale. The exhibition features close to 150 painting and sculpture works by outstanding women artists from the United States, Canada and Mexico.

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Previous May 1, 2015 Next Sacred Dancers: Ceremonial Navajo Weaving May 1, 2015 October 31, 2015 In the early 1900s, many Anglo tourists were fascinated by Native American religion. Encouraged by traders capitalizing on this trend, Navajo weavers developed a new genre: ceremonial weaving. Traditionally, depicting the Yeis, or the Navajo Holy People, in permanent form was considered downright dangerous. Oftentimes, weavers faced intense pressure from their communities to not depict holy beings in their textiles. Reconciling their reverence for their own religion with market demands, weavers wove creative rugs that were most often artistic interpretations of the sacred, rather than accurate replicas of religious imagery. Featuring Yei, Yeibichai, and sandpainting textiles, Sacred Dancers tells the history of weavers, including medicine man Hosteen Klah, who boldly portrayed ceremonial imagery in their weavings. From the Collection of Steve and Gail Getzwiller, Nizhoni Ranch Gallery

Previous December 5, 2015 Next The Dirty Thirties: New Deal Photography Frames the Migrants’ Stories December 5, 2015 April 30, 2016 "The Dirty Thirties" explores the journeys of rural migrants fleeing the Dust Bowl, drought, and economic difficulties during the 1930s. In desperate search for jobs and new opportunities, thousands of former farm owners and ex-tenant farmers left their homes in the Southern Plains states and set off to the cotton fields of Arizona and the “Promised Land” of California, where supposedly work could be found. This exhibit explores why the migrants left, their journey westward, their experiences living and working in Arizona, and what life could be like for those who traveled onto California. Told primarily through the compelling documentary photography taken under the auspices of the New Deal programs of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, some images from this exhibit will likely stay with you throughout your lifetime.

Previous December 5, 2015 Next Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program, 1942 - 1964 December 5, 2015 February 14, 2016 “Bittersweet Harvest”, a bilingual (English/Spanish) exhibition from the Smithsonian, explores the little-known story of the Bracero program; the largest guest worker program in U.S history. Between 1942 and 1964, millions of Mexican men came to the United States on short-term labor contracts. Both bitter and sweet, the Bracero experience tells a story of exploitation but also of opportunity. This exhibition is organized into three main sections that explore the Braceros’ motivations and expectations for the journey north, the work they did and the effects the Bracero program had on family and communities in Mexico and the United States. “Bittersweet Harvest” features the work of famed photojournalist Leonard Nadel as well as oral histories collected by the Bracero Oral History Project. This exhibition is organized by the National Museum of American History and organized for travel by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Funding is made possible through the Smithsonian’s Latino Center, which celebrates Latino culture, spirit and achievement in America by facilitating the development of exhibitions, research, collections and education programs. Please visit, www.sites.si.edu, for more information about the Smithsonian Institutions Traveling Exhibitions. The exhibit also included art generously loaned from CALACA artist members. The CALACA Cultural Center's mission is to preserve and promote Latino and Indigenous cultural arts. CALACA artists included Gabriela Muñoz, Martin Moreno, Jose Benavides, Norma Garcia-Torres, Joe Ray, Tavo Barrios, Roberto Martinez, and Marco Albarrán.

Previous May 1, 2019 Next SNAP! Visualize History Through the Art of Vintage Ads! May 1, 2019 November 30, 2019 The art of print media is a direct “snapshot” of the practices of society. The good, the bad and the ugly. Walk down memory lane through vintage American ads spanning fifty years. Warning! Some images may depict graphic stereotypes that history would like to forget!

Previous November 5, 2016 Next Paul Kitagaki's Gambatte! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit: Triumphing over Adversity November 5, 2016 April 30, 2017 GAMBATTE! Legacy of an Enduring Spirit is the first body of work devoted to capturing the past and the present of Executive Order 9066 through photographs and oral histories. Through the juxtaposition of historic images and contemporary portraits of the same individuals or their descendants, Paul Kitagaki takes us on a visual exploration of the Japanese concept of Gambatte, or triumph over adversity.

Previous November 1, 2015 Next GEOLogic: Michael Holcomb November 1, 2015 March 22, 2016 Michael Holcomb describes himself as a “formalist”, to the extent that his art is primarily concerned with form as an abstract expression of the unspeakable forces at work in the universe. His images interpret the canyons, mesas, caves, cliffs, the effects of weathering and erosion: the vast spaces and horizons, skies filled with light and color and extraordinary cloud formations that symbolize the magnificent and rich visual work to the Desert Southwest. His work is created using three-dimensional vertex modeling software and original algorithms, edited for characteristics of color, transparency and texture. In 2010, Michael retired as Dean for Technology in the Arts and Director of the Treistman Center for New Media in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Arizona. His work has been exhibited and published internationally and is included in both public and private collections.