All Past Events

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Oct. 10, 2018

Join the Center for Creative Photography and the Hanson Film TV Institute for a new film series featuring independent female directors!

7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 2018

8 a.m. Oct. 4, 2018 to 2 p.m. Jan. 3, 2019

The University of Arizona has announced the appointment of Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer and photojournalist David Hume Kennerly as a UA Presidential Scholar, based at the Center for Creative Photography.

10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 22, 2018

Join the Center for a fun-filled Family Day event celebrating the American road trip in the spirit of our summer exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photographs of the American Road. Join us for activities, kid-centered exhibition tours, photo booth, a scavenger hunt and a screening of Pixar’s "Cars." Curious about those beautifully-restored classic cars you’ve seen parked around town? Our Family Day sponsor Truly Nolen will be bringing vehicles from their Antique Fleet for the whole family to explore. Family Day is free and open to the public!

6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 19, 2018

Join us for a screening of Border Radio with a special appearance by director Allison Anders!

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 7, 2018

Noon to 4 p.m. Aug. 23, 2018

Join us for free snacks, activities, and a chance to learn about job and internship opportunities. All majors welcome!

6 p.m. to 7 p.m. July 27, 2018

6:30 p.m. June 28, 2018

CCP has teamed up with the brewers at 1702 Craft Beer & Pizza to create an exhibition-inspired beer! Longer Ways to Gose, a sour beer with herbal notes and a hint of saltiness, will be on tap at 1702 this summer. Join us on June 28 at 6:30 p.m. to drink beer, eat pizza, share road trip photos, and play a game of road-themed trivia.

5 p.m. June 8, 2018 to 5 p.m. Jan. 11, 2019

Inspired by the Center’s legacy, the Heritage Gallery features iconic treasures from the collection alongside more recent acquisitions. The story of the Center is told through pairings and groupings of images that explore the relationships between contemporary practice and the photographic foundations that inspired them. The gallery will be rotated twice a year, offering visitors a chance to make new discoveries, sparking inquiry and dialogue. 

5 p.m. June 8, 2018 to 5 p.m. Nov. 23, 2018

Longer Ways to Go: Photography of the American Road delves deep into the complex dialogue that photography can enter into with a subject dear to many. This exhibition explores the symbiotic relationship between photography and the folklore of the American highway, including the emblematic Route 66. Longer Ways juxtaposes photographs from different eras, exploring themes related to travel, ideals of small-town life, the national heritage of westward expansion, and personal freedom. This exhibition made its debut at the Phoenix Art Museum, and comes to the Center’s Gallery in an expanded form with new photographs and acquisitions.

5:30 p.m. April 26, 2018

Celebrate the closing of Courting Failure, Emracing Risk: Mark Klett and Collaboration with a presentation by Mark Klett. Klett is a photographer interested in making new works that respond to historic images; creating projects that explore relationships between time, change and perception; and exploring the language of photographic media through technology.

5:30 p.m. April 11, 2018

Join us for a discussion about the shift from analog to digital media across platforms, from music to photography.

6 p.m. April 3, 2018 to 6 p.m. April 6, 2018

Join the Center for the first annual Members' AIPAD New York experience. The price of tickets include an evening conversation and reception hosted by Christie’s Auction House, an exclusive tour with the Avedon Foundation, as well as a private tour of The Photography Show led by the Center's Chief Curator, Dr. Rebecca Senf, and so much more.

10 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 30, 2018

In celebration of Women's History Month, join us for an art + feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon! This event is designed to improve coverage of gender, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. At the CCP, the edit-a-thon will focus on increasing the presence of female photographers on Wikipedia.

5:30 p.m. March 22, 2018

Award-winning novelist and writer Geoff Dyer will share his most recent exploration into the world of photography. Succumbing to a long-term fascination, Dyer delved into the work of Garry Winogrand, one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, Dyer’s newest book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand features one hundred photographs from the Garry Winogrand Archive at the Center for Creative Photography.

1 p.m. Feb. 17, 2018

Join the Center for a special presentation by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Hume Kennerly. Kennerly will present on his friendship and collaboration with Ansel Adams, offering a more personal look at the Center's co-founder. This presentation is a part of the 2018 Ansel Adams Public Celebration.

Noon Feb. 17, 2018 to 4 p.m. May 20, 2018

Ansel Adams famously said that the photographic negative is like a composer’s score, and the print a performance. As home of the Ansel Adams Archive, the Center is uniquely positioned to illustrate Adams’s meaning. This exhibition of twenty-four photographs will feature sets of prints—grouped in twos and threes—that show how on different occasions Adams created varying interpretations from his own negatives. The exhibition will also feature a small selection of prints that span the master’s six-decade career to highlight Adams’s particular talent and sensitivity as a photographic printer.

Noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 17, 2018

Join us for the public celebration of Center co-founder Ansel Adams's birth!