The Gallery @ City Hall

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The Gallery @ City Hall is dedicated to displaying rotating art exhibitions from the City's historic municipal Art Collection, which includes approximately 1,000 portable works. It also highlights exemplary projects sponsored or presented by the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.

Current Exhibition

The Artist + Researcher Exhibition is a partnership between the Phoenix Bioscience Core Art Program and Phoenix Arts and Culture. The Artist + Researcher program (ARx)pairs local Phoenix artists with researchers and scientists from Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, The University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix, the Translational Genomics Research Institute and PBC biotech companies. Artists and researchers were paired into teams through a speed-dating style event in November 2023, where they ranked their preferences of who they would like to work with. The PBC Arts Committee then used those rankings to finalize the teams. The ARx teams worked together over nine months to transform the groundbreaking life science research on the PBC campus into various art mediums, including sculpture, painting, and digital. What emerged at the end are eight incredibly unique pieces of art.

Learn More about the ARx Program and the Artists and Researchers

Examples of Artwork in the Exhibition

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Previous Exhibits

"Place: Images of the West" - March 2, 2012 to September 14, 2012
"Phoenix Icons: The Art of Our Historic Landmarks" - October 5, 2012 to May 21, 2013
"Feel the Heat: Desert Prints" - June 7, 2013 to February 4, 2014
“Art Under Foot: Handmade Floors at the PHX Sky Train,” - February 18, 2014 to February 27, 2015
"Landscape and Lens: The West Photographed," - March 2, 2015 to September 30, 2015
"Wear and Care: Conserving the Public's Art," - October 12, 2015 to November 3, 2016
"Back and Forth: Observacciones de la Vida," - November 14, 2016 to February 2, 2017
"Reimagined Trash," - February 21, 2017 to August 25, 2017
"Gems from the Burton Barr Library Art Collection" - September 11, 2017 to May 25, 2018
"From Tap to Source: The Art of Water" - June 10, 2018 to September 23, 2019
"The Story Continues - Pueblo Grande at 90" - October 17, 2019 to April 30, 2021
"From Mine to Medallion" - March 1, 2022 to December 1, 2023 (now on display at the South Mountain Environmental and Education Center)

Visit the Gallery @ City Hall!

The gallery is located on the ground floor of City Hall, 200 W. Washington St., in Phoenix.

Since March 2020, all visitors to Phoenix City Hall are required to have an appointment for service. Gallery access is limited to individuals who are visiting Phoenix City Hall as a part of an approved appointment. However, on Fridays from 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., visitors can make an appointment with gallery attendants to tour the exhibition.

Street parking and the City parking garage at 305 W. Washington St., at the southwest corner of Washington and Third Avenue, are available. Please call 602-262-4637 for more information.

Volunteer with Us

Volunteers play the part of hosts and are the most visible reflection of service in the Gallery.

If you're interested in being an ambassador for the Gallery @ City Hall, or in learning more about the program, please contact Patty Dunlap, Operations Coordinator at 602-495-0185 or patty.dunlap@phoenix.gov.

The Friends of Phoenix Public Art founded the Gallery @ City Hall in 2012. It was supported by private contributions, including individuals like Billie Jo Herberger and businesses, including Freeport McMoran.

‭(Hidden)‬ Current Exhibit

The exhibition celebrates one of the first Public Art projects, the Central Avenue Medallions. By highlighting the processes that turned raw copper from Arizona mines into the artist-designed medallions along Phoenix’s Central Avenue, the exhibition shows viewers how copper mining and production merged with art and design to create this landmark city project. Major exhibition components include displays showing where and how copper is mined in Arizona, and interpretive material describing the state’s rich history of mining. Also, in collaboration with the Arizona Mining Museum and the Cave Creek mineral Museum, several mineral examples, tools and other items related to copper mining are on view. The exhibition has been developed by Friends of Phoenix Public Art, in cooperation with the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, with support from FreePortMcMoran.

Can't Make it to the Gallery? Learn More about 'From Mine to Medallion'

‭(Hidden)‬ About the City Art Collection

The City's Municipal Art Collection dates back to the 1920s and is continuously expanding. The collection includes original oil paintings and watercolors, limited-edition lithographs and etchings, sculptures, folk art and photographs.