Special Events

Saturday, February 17

12:00-4:00 pm

Join us for an afternoon of Ansel fun! Activities include the opening of Ansel Adams: Performing the Print, self-guided archival object tours, cake, vintage camera display, and hands-on family activity. The afternoon also features a presentation by Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist, David Hume Kennerly, a friend of Ansel Adams. 

This event is free and open to the public. 

Click here to learn about our special Evening Event on Friday, February 16. 

Thank you to our sponsors!

Media sponsor:

Zocalo Magazine

Event sponsors:

Tim Hagyard, Long Realty Company

Western Photographic Historical Society

Thank you to the 600+ attendees that helped us wish Ansel Adams a very happy 115th birthday! The day included a print viewing, a packed lecture by Chief Curator Dr. Rebecca Senf (and an encore presentation!), tours of the Adams flat files with Leslie Squyres, Head of the Volkerding Study Center, vintage cameras provided by Western Photographic Historical Society, and more. To see event images click here. 

Join us for a members print viewing showcasing works from across Miyoshi’s career. The viewing brings together photographs made during Miyoshi’s time as CCP artist-in-residence—depicting Tucson streets, homes, and residents, pueblo-style churches, and cowboys—as well as photographs of Miyoshi’s native Japan—street portraits, images of botanical gardens, and works from a series documenting the aftermath of the 2011 quake and tsunami that led to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Miyoshi will lead a conversation about his work, his time at the Center, and his unique relationship to the desert Southwest as an artist living and working in Japan. After the print viewing, stay for a reception with the artist in the Center’s lobby.

RSVP is required for this event. Please contact Brit Palomarez at 520-621-2625 or bap@email.arizona.edu 

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After the reception there will be a public lecture given by Kōzō Miyoshi in our Auditorium from 4 to 5:30 pm. 

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Kōzō Miyoshi is a Japanese photographer whose work is in the collections of The Art Museum, Princeton University; The Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona; The George Eastman Museum; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Hallmark Collection, Kansas City, Missouri; Nihon University, Tokyo; and Tokyo Photographic Art Museum. The Center for Creative Photography published Far East and Southwest: The Photography of Kōzō Miyoshi in 1994. In the Road, a collection of Miyoshi’s photographs of Route 66, was published by Nazraeli Press in 1999. In 2011, Miyoshi released Northeast Earthquake Disaster Tsunami 2011, a portfolio of photographs of the aftermath of the 2011 quake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast and caused the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. A selection of photographs from the portfolio was included in In the Wake: Japanese Photographers Respond to 3/11, a 2015 exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Please join the Center for Creative Photography for the inaugural Portraits of CCP. This event honors individuals who have made significant contributions to the Center throughout its history and whose impact will be felt for years to come.

This year’s honorees are Dr. John P. Schaefer, President Emeritus of the University of Arizona and founder of the Center, and Tony Celentano, a volunteer with and supporter of the Center. The two were chosen for their commitment to the CCP since its beginnings and their continuing support. 

Free parking behind the CCP in lot 3039.

10:00 am - 11:00 am
Catered Brunch

11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Program

12:30 pm
Refreshments

ONLINE TICKET SALES HAVE CLOSED
*To purchase a ticket please email ccp-events@email.arizona.edu or call the event coordinator at 520-621-0407.*

The University of Arizona’s Center for Creative Photography (CCP) is pleased to announce the finalists for the position of Director and invites you to attend their public presentations:

Michelle Dunn Marsh
Monday, July 24, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium

James Leventhal
Thursday, July 27, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium

Anne Breckenridge Barrett
Monday, July 31, 4:00 – 5:30pm, CCP Auditorium

The Center for Creative Photography is the premier research collection of American photographic fine art and archives, promoting creative inquiry, dialogue, and appreciation of photography’s enduring cultural influence.  Established in 1975, CCP’s collections include some of the most recognizable names in 20th century North American photography: Ansel Adams, Lola Alvarez Bravo, Richard Avedon, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand. 

The Center for Creative Photography is one of three University cultural institutions that report to the office of Research, Discovery & Innovation (RDI) as part of the University of Arizona interdisciplinary arts, culture and society academic enterprise.  For more information on the CCP, visit ccp.arizona.edu.

We entered Museum Dance Off 4 and need your help to win- VOTE TODAY!

We've partnered with our friends at The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Arizona State Museum to create a sure-to-please video dancing extravaganza. Voting is done in rounds, with the winner in each round being the museum that gets the most votes. You can help support your University of Arizona museums by casting your vote at www.whenyouworkatamuseum.com through 5 am Tucson time on April 25. Even better? You can vote as often as you want!

Help us win our round and win glory for Tucson and Arizona!

What’s Museum Dance Off? It’s an international competition that brings together museums from all over the world! Learn more here.

Join us for a screening of Infiltrators, a visceral “road movie” that chronicles the daily travails of Palestinians of all backgrounds as they seek routes through, under, round, and over a bewildering matrix of barriers. Khaled Jarrar’s debut documentary was the standout success at the 2012 Dubai International Film Festival, winning the Muhr Arab Documentary Prize, the Special Jury Prize, the International Critics Prize, and the Gold Hugo for the best Documentary at Chicago International Film Festival.

This film is in partnership with the University of Arizona School of Art and is free to the public. 
Film Details: Arabic dialogue with English subtitles. Length: 70 minutes.

About the Artist:
Born in the occupied West Bank in 1976, Khaled Jarrar currently lives and works in Tucson, Arizona, where he is researching the potential fallout of the proposed U.S.-Mexico border wall. Jarrar is also working on a film and multimedia series that documents his month-long journey with a group of migrants who traveled to Europe last year in order to draw attention to the plight of Syrian refugees. To learn more about Jarrar, please visit http://www.ayyamgallery.com/artists/khaled-jarrar

The Center for Creative Photography is pleased to partner with the Tucson Museum of Art League to present “An Afternoon with Georgia.” Join us at the Center for a reading and discussion by:
Dawn Tripp
The author of the acclaimed historical novel based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe, Georgia.

Olivia Miller
Curator of Exhibitions and Education at The University of Arizona Museum of Art. Unveiling The University of Arizona Museum of Art’s own Georgia O’Keeffe painting, Red Canna.

Following the reading, from 2:00 to 3:30, visit the Center’s print study room for a special print viewing showcasing Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs and personal papers; portraits of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz from the Center for Creative Photography’s collections by contemporaries including Paul Strand, Ansel Adams, Yousuf Karsh, and more.

Refreshments provided by Café a la C’Art.

To purchase tickets please register with the Tucson Museum of Art at: https://tucsonmuseumofart.org/event/an-afternoon-with-georgia/

Saturday, February 18, 1:00-4:00 pm
2:00 pm - Presentation by Chief Curator Becky Senf

Join us to wish Ansel Adams a very happy 115th birthday with a print viewing, lecture, cake, and more! Chief Curator Becky Senf will present a look at Adams’ life through her favorite pieces in the Center’s archives at 2 p.m. For those looking to dive deeper into the archives, Leslie Squyres, Head of Volkerding Study Center, will offer small-group tours of the Adams drawers in the From the Vault exhibition (space is limited, please sign up at the check-in table the day of the event to reserve your spot). Guests can also enjoy a very special Adams print viewing and experience the artist’s work up close and unframed. There will also be vintage cameras on display, Adams books to peruse, and cake! 

In honor of his birthday, we’re inviting you to share your best #inspiredbyansel photos with us on Instagram. Tag us @cntrforcreativephoto and use #inspiredbyansel to show off your images. 

This event is graciously underwritten by the Western Photographic Historical Society

We are excited to present a special print viewing of the work of Louis Carlos Bernal, the Arizona-born photographer who founded and directed the photography program at Pima Community College. Following a tradition of Latin American documentary street photography, Bernal photographed in the barrio, making images that captured the unique character of Chicano life. When making portraits, he was drawn to spaces used for gathering and communion, spaces that reflected his subjects’ relationships to their communities. Bernal wrote of his work, “My images speak of the religious and family ties I have experienced as a Chicano. I have concerned myself with the mysticism of the Southwest and the strength of the spiritual and cultural values of the barrio.”

The Center for Creative Photography is home to the Louis Carlos Bernal archive, which currently comprises over a hundred fine prints, with a major new acquisition planned for 2017. The archive also includes the artist’s contact sheets, work prints, and materials relating to Bernal’s participation in the landmark Espejo project, an effort by five photographers to document the Mexican American experience, funded by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF). 

The print viewing is presented in conjunction with an exhibition of previously unseen works by Bernal at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima Community College, on view through December 9, 2016. Learn more about their exhibition at: https://www.pima.edu/community/the-arts/louis-carlos-bernal-gallery/current-exhibit.html