Phoenix Art Museum

If you are like me, than you can sit down at your computer to look up topic A and before you know it you are completely absorbed in sub-topic J.  That’s how I came to find the Phoenix Art Museum online.  I began my net search by looking for a particular Ansel Adams photograph, and I discovered that he and several other phenomenal photographers are being celebrated at the Phoenix art museum.

The exhibit is open and will remain through November 28th, 2010.  Titled the Creative Continuum, the exhibit charts the history of The Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. The center was founded in 1975 by Ansel Adams and UA president, John P. Schaefer. The arts featured in this 35th anniversary retrospective include works by Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind and Frederick Sommer, the artists featured at the Center’s opening and continue to include works by Richard Avedon, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Louis Carlos Bernal, Tseng Kwong Chi, Imogen Cunningham, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Roy DeCarava, Andy Warhol and Edward Weston. There is no larger collection of 2oth century American photographers in the world.

And that’s just the beginning of what is in store for a visitor to the Phoenix Art Museum.   There are writing workshops, photography workshops, special art classes for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers, movie screenings and much, much more.  I want to go!