All Past Events

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. April 23, 2015

Leading astrophotographer and founder of the UA Science Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter stargazing programs, Adam Block, will speak about how modern images of the cosmos are made, how they influence the field of photography, and just what makes them so compelling.

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 9, 2015

The Center will screen "Desert Moon," a film that chronicles the UA’s role in putting the first astronauts on the Moon. After the screening director Jason Davis will lead a conversation with four UA planetary scientists: Ewen Whitaker and Robert Strom, both of whom were involved in NASA’s lunar program of the 1960s; and Alfred McEwen and Kristin Block, respectively the Principal Investigator and Targeting Specialist for the UA-led Mars HiRISE project.

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. March 26, 2015

Stephen Strom, Arizona-based photographer and former Associate Director of the National Optical Astronomy Organization, hosts a tour of "Astronomical: Photographs of Our Solar System and Beyond." Strom, one of the exhibition's co-organizers, will discuss the photographs on view from his unique perspective as an artist and astronomer.

5:30 p.m. Feb. 26, 2015

Xavier Debeerst is a noted specialist in the field of historical astrophotography. Join us for this keynote lecture, immediately followed by the opening reception for "Astronomical" from 6:30-7:30PM.

5 p.m. Jan. 30, 2015 to 5 p.m. May 16, 2015

The evolution of photography has been inextricably bound up with the field of astronomy. Since photography’s earliest days, it has been used as a tool to advance astronomical observation and thought, yielding some of the most curious and compelling images in the medium’s history. Featuring works by a diversity of makers ranging from pioneering scientists to artists and amateurs, this exhibition surveys mankind’s ongoing efforts to chart and understand an expanding universe.

5 p.m. Jan. 9, 2015 to 5 p.m. April 4, 2015

Although many photographers experiment with the platinum process, few have explored the medium as extensively as Lois Conner, Scott Davis, Kenro Izu and Andrea Modica. Each of these four photographers have produced extensive bodies of work in platinum, exploiting the particular characteristics of the materials to produce innovative and compelling prints.

5 p.m. Oct. 31, 2014 to 5 p.m. March 28, 2015

Presenting platinum photographs from the collection of the Center for Creative Photography spanning from 1873 to the present, including works by Edward Weston, Margrethe Mather, William E. Macnaughtan, Peter Henry Emerson, Dick Arentz and more. 

5:30 p.m. Oct. 21, 2014

On Tuesday, October 21 photographer Richard Renaldi, internationally exhibited and most recently acclaimed for his series "Touching Strangers" (monograph released by Aperture Foundation, spring 2014), will present and discuss his work.

5:30 p.m. Oct. 9, 2014

Brian Paul Clamp—curator, collector, and owner/director of ClampArt—will speak with collector and choreographer Douglas Nielsen.

11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 3, 2014

Held on the first Friday of every month from September to May, Photo Fridays offer visitors a unique opportunity to view curated selections of unframed photographs pulled from the Center's collections. Free and open to the public.

6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 2014

Join us to celebrate our current exhibition immediately following Jo Ann Callis's lecture. Promising to be a truly unique event for the Center with food, drink, and a few surprises throughout the night! Free and open to the public.

5:30 p.m. Sept. 18, 2014

Join artist Jo Ann Callis as she presents her work followed by a conversation with collector Douglas Nielsen and Joshua Chuang, Chief Curator at the Center for Creative Photography.

5:30 p.m. Sept. 12, 2014

Part of The Etherton Gallery Distinguished Lecture Series, acclaimed photographers Keith Carter and Kate Breakey will discuss their current work, longstanding friendship, and ongoing belief in the medium of photography in a conversation moderated by Chief Curator Joshua Chuang.

11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 5, 2014

Photo Fridays return with a selection of photographs curated by Becky Senf revolving around the theme of family, presented in conjunction with the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art's 'Bill Owens: Suburbia.'

5 p.m. Aug. 22, 2014 to 5 p.m. Sept. 27, 2014

Earlier this year, Phoenix Art Museum called on photographers to send examples of their self-published photobooks. The jury, made up of seven industry professionals, reviewed the hundreds of submissions that came in.  This exhibition represents the books they chose as the best examples of the wide range of photobooks being produced today. The books are presented in the gallery on tables for easy viewing. We encourage you to handle them gently and leave them in good condition for other visitors.

5 p.m. Aug. 8, 2014 to 5 p.m. Jan. 3, 2015

Our current exhibition presents more than 100 works from the private collection of Douglas Nielsen, choreographer and professor at the University of Arizona School of Dance. Featuring photographs and photo-based prints by artists as diverse as Diane Arbus, John Baldessari, Jo Ann Callis, Jimmy DeSana, Elliott Erwitt, Bruce Nauman, and Cindy Sherman, the exhibition’s unique installation highlights the dramatic and physical tension that can result when a figure stands before the camera’s lens. 

11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. May 2, 2014

The focus of the May Photo Friday will be on the work of New York City-based artist Rosalind Fox Solomon. Across diverse societies and circumstances, she examines relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. The selection of photographs references flowers, as in “April showers bring May flowers” which allows for a fine cross-section of her amazing images to be highlighted. The Rosalind Solomon Archive at the Center contains over 1000 fine prints, unique books and other art works which, together with her original negatives, transparencies, personal papers and other documentation, chronicle her long and productive career. Ms. Solomon’s images continue to be widely published and exhibited around the world.

5:30 p.m. May 1, 2014

On Thursday May 1st artist Rosalind Fox Solomon will speak about how her life experience animates her work. Solomon will discuss sources of the internal, visual language that puts her in touch with her subjects. She will speak of about her personal history and why at age 38, she began her life as an artist and photographer, revealing what led her to examine relationships and ritual; survival and struggle. Throughout her lecture, Solomon will share images, beginning with her earliest pictures in the American South and ending with a preview of her recent photographs from Israel and the West Bank which will be exhibited in Prague in September.

5:30 p.m. April 25, 2014

Anne Noble is a photographer and curator whose work spans still and moving image, installation and international curatorial commissions. On Friday April 25th, Noble will discuss the development of her series of Antarctic photographic projects that critically engage with heroic age histories and narratives of land, place, and environment. Noble will also discuss her recent work that explores the relationship between people and bees, in which she collaborates with scientists to create projects that incorporate the perspectives of both art and science within an aesthetic framework. *Co-sponsored by the CCP in collaboration with the School of Art and the Institute of the Environment.

5:30 p.m. April 22, 2014

On Tuesday, April 22nd multi-media artist and University of Arizona Associate Professor Sama Alshaibi will discuss her evolution as an artist concerned with the body’s complicated relationship to land through a compromised nationalistic lens, having now moved towards universal spaces of conflict. Connecting borders, bodies and site through allegorical devices and a variety of media (video, installation, sculpture, photography and social media platforms), Alshaibi’s work suggests the repeated and recycled history of domination, power and control.