All Past Events

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 13, 2020

Members and VIP Guests, join us in welcoming David Hume Kennerly, former White House photographer and current University of Arizona Presidential Scholar, for a special discussion on the stories behind some of his most beloved images throughout his career as a photojournalist.

5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 29, 2020

4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Sept. 28, 2020

Photographer and educator Cheriss May shares her experiences covering the intersectionality of race, politics, and protest, in the wake of the national reckoning on racial injustice. May will then be joined by CCP Director, Anne Breckenridge Barrett, for conversation and virtual Q&A with the audience.

5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15, 2020

4 p.m. to 5 p.m. Aug. 5, 2020

Our focus on preserving family photographs continues in a livestream conversation with Tricia Patterson, Digital Preservation Analyst at Harvard Library, who will discuss why personal digital archiving is important for everyone, how digital materials can be more at risk than physical ones, and offer guidance on formats, storage, and organization. Patterson will introduce basic practices you can employ at home to ensure your dearest digital memories endure for generations to come.

4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. July 25, 2020

Our month-long look into family photographs includes a livestream conversation with CCP’s senior photograph conservator Dana Hemmenway. 

4 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. July 25, 2020

Our month-long look into family photographs includes a livestream conversation with CCP’s senior photograph conservator Dana Hemmenway.

5 p.m. July 8, 2020 to 6 p.m. July 29, 2020

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 30, 2020

7 p.m. to 8 p.m. June 30, 2020

5 p.m. June 26, 2020 to 5 p.m. Nov. 6, 2020

Photographs as Letters explores the exchange of photographic materials sent through postal mail among twentieth-century American photographic communities. 

11 a.m. to Noon May 27, 2020

Rebecca Senf will speak about and read short excerpts from her new book Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, which reveals details about how the photographer’s early decades changed the course of his successful career. Bring questions for a lively discussion with this Ansel Adams scholar.

11 a.m. to Noon May 27, 2020

5 p.m. May 15, 2020 to 11:30 p.m. May 22, 2020

ANTI/body is a site specific installation event in multiple locations around Tucson and an emergent collaboration between the Tucson Art+Feminism Collective and local artist Natalie Brewster Nguyen.

5 p.m. May 15, 2020 to 11:30 p.m. May 22, 2020

Noon to 1 p.m. May 14, 2020

This Thursday at 12 o’clock noon PT, we are thrilled to host a "Virtual Brown Bag" with talks by Morgan Byrd and Taylor Kowgios, both graduate students in UArizona's Art History division. Byrd and Kowgios will present their final research projects for Dr. Jeehey Kim's graduate seminar "Vernacular Photographies," an expansive conversation about photography made for purposes other than fine art. This event is free and open to the public via Zoom.

Noon to 1 p.m. May 14, 2020

This Thursday at 12 o’clock noon PT, we are thrilled to host a "Virtual Brown Bag" with talks by Morgan Byrd and Taylor Kowgios, both graduate students in UArizona's Art History division. Byrd and Kowgios will present their final research projects for Dr. Jeehey Kim's graduate seminar "Vernacular Photographies," an expansive conversation about photography made for purposes other than fine art. This event is free and open to the public via Zoom.

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 29, 2020

"To Die Alive," a lecture conceived specifically for the context of the Center for Creative Photography, is a retrospective of Leifheit’s collaborative efforts to date, comprising a “manic and varied outpouring against time, in anticipation of eventually becoming archival material ourselves.”

11 a.m. to 1 p.m. April 29, 2020

"To Die Alive," a lecture conceived specifically for the context of the Center for Creative Photography, is a retrospective of Leifheit’s collaborative efforts to date, comprising a “manic and varied outpouring against time, in anticipation of eventually becoming archival material ourselves.” 

6 p.m. April 17, 2020

This multi-part series runs on the following dates: March 19, March 26, April 9 and April 17.