MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
In 1989, the Phoenix Aviation Department began providing spaces for exhibitions to promote Arizona through its arts, culture, sciences, natural and historical attractions. Currently, the airport system has more than 25 display areas that include a gallery, built-in cases, and portable walls and pedestals. Display areas are added and changed as the airport grows. For images or additional information, call (602) 273-2105.
Terminal 4, International Concourse Hallway
Through Aug. 17, 2008
Western Visions
Featured works from the Phoenix Airport Museum permanent collection. The artists are: Kay Beaubien, Anne Coe, Robert Daughters, Betty Hahn, Adriel Heisey, Sheila Kollasch, William Lesch, Ed Mell, Stephen Morath and Brenda Semanick.
Terminal 4, International Concourse art cases (2)
Through July 1, 2008
Prints, a.k.a. Art
Fine art prints are original works, not copies of paintings or drawings. Artists use various printmaking techniques, alone or in collaboration with a master printer, to transfer their designs onto paper. They may create one or many original works of art. Each original is hand-produced and the artist is actively involved in the creative process. These prints are all from the airport’s art collection of more than 500 works in a variety of media.
Terminal 4, Level 1, east and west ends
Through May 1, Onging
Faces
Faces
includes twenty-four panels by students at the New School for the Arts & Academics, Tempe, Arizona. Art Instructor Hector Ruiz gave each beginning to advanced drawing student a black and white copy of a group of women. Each student was asked to choose a section to draw faces from. Using bamboo pens and brushes with ink and ink wash, each student created a series of 15 portraits. Through repetition, the students increased their skills at portraiture and learned the subtleties of drawing with ink and ink wash.
Terminal 4, Level 1 north wall
Through June 8, 2008
Symbol of Freedom
The Symbol of Freedom Art & Essay Contest, sponsored by Southwest Airlines and the Phoenix Suns, awards ten talented Maricopa County seventh-graders the trip of a lifetime! Students are asked to depict what freedom means to them through art and a brief essay.
In March 2008, winning children from various schools traveled on Southwest Airlines to Manchester, New Hampshire, on a four-day/three-night trip to tour Boston’s symbols of freedom. While there, the kids enjoyed a special treat by supporting their hometown Phoenix Suns when they take on the Boston Celtics.
Terminal 4, Level 2, two cases
Through May 4, 2008
Teatro Massimo Bellini Opera Costumes
The Teatro Massimo Bellini is an opera house in Catania, Sicily, named for the local-born composer, Vincenzo Bellini. Catania, on the east coast of Sicily (Italy), is a Phoenix Sister City. The Phoenix Sister Cities Catania Committee organized an event to feature performers from the opera house October 2-5, 2007, at The Orpheum Theater in downtown Phoenix.
To complement the event, costumes from the opera house are being featured at the Phoenix airport. Three costumes are from Vincenzo Bellini’s opera, Norma. Two costumes are from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, La Traviata and one costume is from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera, Un ballo in maschera.
Terminal 4, Level 3 Gallery
Through Oct. 5, 2008
Flying the Skies: Artwork by Robert T. McCall
Robert T. McCall, who lives in Paradise Valley, Ariz., flew as a bombardier for the Army Air Force in World War II. When he had time, he painted the scenes he saw and experienced. After the war, aircraft became McCall’s specialty.
“When the space program started going in the 1950s, it was a natural extension of my interest in flight and flying to go from airplanes to spacecraft.” McCall has played a vital role in documenting the United States space program for more than 50 years, giving a unique insight into history-making advances in space.
In 2007, McCall was commissioned by the city of Phoenix to paint five portraits of Arizona aviation notables for inclusion in the Phoenix Airport Museum’s collection. This is the debut of those portraits.
Terminal 4, Level 3 Center Court, south wall
Through Aug. 10, 2008
A Desert Romance
Paintings by Carol Ann Schrader
“Beautiful blue skies, relentless sunshine and a diversity and abundance of incredibly adaptive wildlife and plant life make the Sonoran Desert hard for anyone to ignore. This is particularly true for a painter living in the middle of it. Although my painting usually focuses on figure and still-life work of non-desert subjects, I thoroughly enjoyed painting only desert-related work during this past year. Now, I find that as I pursue my figure work, the desert seems to pursue me exerting a remarkable pull to explore, to imagine, and to paint.” — Carol Ann Schrader
Terminal 4, Level 3, east end, 4 cases – west end, 4 cases
Through Sept. 14, 2008
Eighty Years of Collecting Ideas and Objects: Museum of Northern Arizona
Founded in 1928, the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff is dedicated to the study and interpretation of both science and art. It has extensive ethnographic and art collections documenting the natural and cultural history of the Colorado Plateau (northern Arizona, northwestern New Mexico, western Colorado, southeastern Utah).
On display at the Phoenix airport are ceramic objects, jewelry, katsina carvings and textiles made by the Diné (Navajo), Hopi and Zuni tribes. Artistic interpretations of the landscapes and its people (prints, paintings) and historical photographs also are exhibited.
