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Shortly after Arizona became the 48th state in 1912, the Phoenix Women's Club was formed and worked with the Arizona State Fair Committee to develop a fine arts program. In 1915, the club purchased Carl Oscar Borg's painting Egyptian Evening for US$125 and presented it to the city of Phoenix to begin a community art collection. In 1925, the ...
The Shemer Art Center and Museum is an art education facility and gallery in Phoenix, Arizona. The center was founded in 1984 by Martha Shemer, who purchased a mission-style house and three acres not only to preserve the property but to donate it to the City of Phoenix to be used for art education. Budget constraints nearly closed the center in ...
Deer Valley Rock Art Center Museum. This list of museums in Arizona encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The i.d.e.a. Museum (formerly the Arizona Museum for Youth) is a museum designed for exhibiting, teaching, and interacting with the fine arts. [1] It changed its name on February 6, 2014, to i.d.e.a., which stands for "imagination, design, experience, art."
The Arizona State University Art Museum is an art museum operated by Arizona State University, located on its main campus in Tempe, Arizona.The Art Museum has some 12,000 objects in its permanent collection and describes its primary focuses as contemporary art, including new media and "innovative methods of presentation"; crafts, with an emphasis on American ceramics; historic and contemporary ...
Herberger Theater Center is an indoor performing arts venue featuring three stages in downtown Phoenix, Arizona, whose mission is to support and foster the growth of performing arts in Phoenix as the premier performance venue, arts incubator and advocate. [1]
Kwang-Wu Kim, dean, Herberger College of Fine Arts, 2006–2009; Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts 2009–2013; Michael Underhill, interim dean, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, 2013–2014; Steven J. Tepper, dean and director, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, 2014–2024
He did 15 paintings for the newly built Arizona State Capitol in 1913-1914, and three more in 1934. [2] He designed advertisements for the A-1 Brewing Company in 1948-1951. [3] He exhibited his paintings at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York City in 1956. [3] Megargee was called "Arizona’s first cowboy artist" by True West Magazine. [1]