Special Events

April 1-7, 2019  |  New York City
Join the Center for the second annual Members only AIPAD New York experience from April 1 to April 7, 2019. The Photography Show presented by AIPAD will take place April 4-7, 2018. 

The trip will include a VIP pass for the Photography Show, a members’ welcome gathering, access to the Photography Show Vernissage, a privately hosted rooftop party, a private tour of the fair led by Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf, and exclusive access to events and tours around New York City with CCP Director Anne Breckenridge Barrett and Chief Curator Rebecca Senf. For those who have never attended the Photography Show, this is a fantastic way to experience it for the first time. Return attendees will have the opportunity to access new and exciting elements of the fair. 

The trip is $700/individual ($420 tax deductible) and $1300/pair ($740 tax deductible). Attendees will be responsible for their own airfare, accommodations, and meals. A block of rooms is available for attendees at the Kimpton Ink48 at a special rate.

The official trip dates are April 1-7. We suggest reserving the days before and after these dates for air travel and special arrangements.

Registration is now closed. 

In celebration of Women's History Month, join us for our second art + feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon!

This event is designed to improve coverage of gender, feminism and the arts on Wikipedia. The edit-a-thon will include tutorials for the beginner Wikipedian, ongoing editing support, reference materials, and refreshments. People of all gender identities and expressions are invited to participate, particularly transgender and cisgender women.

In a 2011 survey, the Wikimedia Foundation found that less than 10% of its contributors identify as women. This lack of inclusive participation has led to an alarming gap of content in the world’s most popular online research tool. Art+Feminism’s edit-a-thons and other initiatives make an impact on the gender gap through crucial improvements to gender, feminism and art related subjects on Wikipedia. Since 2014, Art+Feminism edit-a-thons have taken place across the world, creating and improving over 11,000 articles. 

CCP’s Art+Feminism edit-a-thon will focus on increasing the presence of female photographers on Wikipedia. Part of CCP’s mission is to promote creative inquiry, dialogue, and appreciation of photography’s enduring cultural influence, but people don’t always begin their searches for photographers on our website. Join us for CCP's Art+Feminism edit-a-thon and become a Wikipedia editor this March!

For more information, contact Emily Weirich, Associate Archivist for Digital Initiatives.

We are excited to support this special Frances Murray book signing at Antigone Books, located at 411 N 4th Ave, Tucson, AZ 85705.

Artist, writer, and scholar Joanna Frueh scrutinizes ideals of beauty and sensuality, often motivated by her experiences with breast cancer. Photographer Frances Murray documents Frueh’s journey of unapologetic beauty in a series of intimate, dazzlingly original photographs before and after her bilateral mastectomy and chemotherapy. Unapologetic Beauty arrives at a new, liberating view of beauty and of the sensual pleasure found in transformative self-acceptance.

Unapologetic Beauty is a downright necessary meditation on women’s wisdom and beauty in aging. Joanna Frueh and Frances Murray—in writing and image—call out the fact that our ‘hyperbeauty’ culture relies on stereotypical ‘taboos’ to make individuals unique or edgy, when we must rather recognize that ‘real flesh, real love: they are the taboos.’ And the world needs more of both. 

-Maria Elena Buszek, University of Colorado, Denver 

 

Members- Join us for a members-only reception celebrating Richard Avedon: Relationships on Friday, January 11, 2019 from 5:30-7:00 pm. Light refreshments will be served. All members who attend will leave with a special commemorative poster. Please RSVP here if you plan on attending.

Drawn from the Richard Avedon collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Richard Avedon: Relationships presents eighty portrait and fashion photographs – ranging from the 1950s to the early 2000s – including examples of Avedon’s large-scale prints. The exhibition will explore three kinds of “relationships” in Avedon’s life and work: the interactions between the figures within the frame, the partnerships Avedon formed with longstanding subjects, and importantly, the relationship between Richard Avedon and the Center for Creative Photography.

Avedon’s works, which he personally selected for donation to the Center, enrich the collection through the importance of the subjects he photographed, the widespread circulation of his images through publication, Avedon’s unique and influential photographic approach, and his blurring of the line between artistic and commercial production. The exhibition will feature film footage and related documents to tell the story of Avedon’s choice to invest in the Center as a recipient of his photographs, and will explore the range of photographs he gifted to the institution.

The Center for Creative Photography and The UA Fred Fox School Of Music are excited to co-present An Evening of Music with Ralph Gibson. His performances masterfully join his cinematic vision with his music; shaped by solo guitar and layered effects.
  The program begins promptly with opening act CrossTalk at 6:30pm in Crowder Hall (Fred Fox School Of Music, 1017 N Olive Rd). Admission is free. Members at the Supporter level and above provided with reserved seating. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes prior to the event start time to claim your seats.
  Ralph’s photographs are included in over one hundred and fifty museum collections around the world, and have appeared in hundreds of exhibitions. More about Ralph Gibson here.

 

Center For Creative Photography, UA School of Art, and UA Photography Department present a screening of Lynn Estomin’s Patrick Nagatani: Living In The Story. Living in the Story documents thirty-five years of art-making by photographer Patrick Nagatani. The film portrays an artist deeply concerned with world events, who uses imagery and storytelling to raise awareness about modern anxieties, with an emphasis on the threat of nuclear weapons. Despite the serious content of his subject matter, his innovative images are compelling and entertaining. An engaging raconteur and teacher, Nagatani talks in the film about his projects, his unorthodox photographic techniques, and his subtle weaving together of fiction and fact. Scott Nagatani’s hauntingly beautiful music score provides the film’s soundtrack.  Lynn Estomin, Andrew Smith; Owner of The Andrew Smith Gallery, and David Taylor; UA School Of Art Professor, will speak following the screening.  Seating in the CCP auditorium is first-come, first-served. CCP Members at Supporter level and above are provided with reserved seating. Please arrive no later than 10 minutes prior to the event start time to claim your seats.

Lynn Estomin is a videographer, photographer and interactive media artist who creates art that speaks to social issues. As an artist who deals with political subjects, she is interested in human stories and what they tell us about society. Her award-winning video documentaries have been exhibited at film festivals internationally and broadcast nationally on PBS. Her web art won awards from Adobe Corporation, The Webby Awards, the Canadian Web Association, the Golden Globe Awards and Cool Site of the Day. Her black/white and color photography and digital images have been exhibited nationally and internationally in solo shows and group exhibitions.

Estomin's work is part of 65 public and private collections. She has received grants and fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Art Matters Inc., Cincinnati Commission on the Arts, Kodak Corporation, Ilford Corporation, Sony Corporation, SIGGRAPH, the Luce Foundation, Lycoming College and the Women's Film Project. Lynn Estomin is a Professor of Art at Lycoming College in PA, where she teaches photography, digital art and design.

 

Join us for an afternoon of Ansel fun! Activities include the opening of Ansel Adams: Examples, self-guided archival object tours, cake, vintage camera display, and hands-on family activities, such as making sun prints, a chalk mural, photo booth and more. The Center is excited to welcome photographer Mark Burns as the speaker for the 2019 Ansel Adams Celebration. Burns worked In an official collaboration with the National Park Foundation to photograph all of the national parks, and will speak about his work and the legacy of Adams’ work in the Parks. He will be featured in conversation with UA President Dr. Robert C. Robbins and Center Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf promptly at 1:00pm. Space is limited in the auditorium - please plan to arrive early. This event is free and open to the public. 

Click here to learn about our VIP Evening Preview Experience on Friday, February 22. 

 

Thank you to our sponsors!

Event sponsors:

Tim Hagyard, Long Realty Company
Western Photographic Historical Society
The Marshall Foundation
Zócalo Magazine

 

 

Stop in to the CCP to learn about internship and job opportunities!

Representatives from Curatorial, Conservation, Registration and Preparation, Archives, Digital Imaging, Membership, and Marketing will be present to talk about opportunities in their departments. There will also be button making, a scavenger hunt, a selfie station, and fun demos. Even better? If you join us at the open house you'll have multiple opportunities to walk away with a Richard Avedon poster.  

Students from all majors are encouraged to attend.

Learn more about FREE Student Membership here.

In conjunction with our exhibition Longer Ways to Go: Photographs of the American Road, the Center is excited to welcome road food experts Jane and Michael Stern for an evening of conversation about eating along the road.

For hungry travelers and adventurous food lovers, Jane and Michael Stern have been trusted, trailblazing guides for over 40 years. After meeting at Yale, where they came to study art, they began a collaboration that has yielded over forty books, including the good-eats guide Roadfood, now in it’s 10th edition.  

The Sterns have won three James Beard journalism awards for their monthly column in Gourmet magazine, which took readers to the best restaurants in small towns and cities all around the country. As the creators of Roadfood, the award-winning authors have worked to both preserve and celebrate regional American dishes from coast-to-coast.

Jane currently lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut with her beloved dogs Ivy and Cecil. She is a frequent contributor to The Paris Review, Connecticut Post, The New Yorker, and other publications.  She writes the popular newsletter series Jane's Diary, as well as reviews for Roadfood.com. When she's not busy writing, you can find her volunteering as an EMT or reading tarot cards. Michael now lives in Aiken, South Carolina, where he enjoys shrimp & grits, whole-hog BBQ, fresh peaches, and buttermilk pie. He continues to manage the editorial content for Roadfood.com, write reviews, and travel the country looking for great places to eat.

Road Food Adventure with Jane and Michael Stern: October 27, 2018, 11:00am 
Join Jane and Michael Stern for a trip to one of their favorite spots in Tucson! This CCP Roadtrip will give you the opportunity to dive a little deeper into conversation with these food experts as well as offer you a chance to get to know what makes Tucson UNESCO's first City of Gastronomy in the U.S. This event is open to non-members with special pricing for CCP Members. Space is limited, please contact ccp-events@email.arizona.edu to learn more about ticket prices and other details.

 

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

The first film in the series is Border Radio, with a special appearance by director Allison Anders.

Before carving out a niche as one of the most distinct voices in nineties American cinema, Allison Anders made her debut, alongside co-directors and fellow UCLA film school students Kurt Voss and Dean Lent, with 1987’s Border Radio. A low-key, semi-improvised postpunk diary that took four years to complete, Border Radio features legendary rocker Chris D., of the Flesh Eaters, as a singer/songwriter who has stolen loot from a club and gone missing, leaving his wife (Luanna Anders), a no-nonsense rock journalist, to track him down with the help of his friends (John Doe of the band X; Chris Shearer). With its sprawling Southern Californian and Mexican landscapes, captured in evocative 16mm black and white, Border Radio is a singular, DIY memento of the indie film explosion in America. Janus Films