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Mesa Arts Center features contemporary art exhibits Hammered metal, selected prints, a showcase of crafts from around the country and more are on display now at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, located at the Mesa Arts Center, One E. Main St., Mesa.
First Impressions The exhibit First Impressions, running through March 23, displays prints featured in the Mesa Contemporary Arts annual print calendar in the last five years. Pieces include prints from relief, screen, etchings and lithographs. The 2014 calendar is available for purchase at Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum in limited quantities. Each month on the calendar features a different print, adhered to the calendar with photo corners for easy removal for framing, and no two calendars are alike. The juror for this year’s calendar was master printer David Manje, who supervises 2-D classes at Mesa Arts Center.
35th annual Contemporary Crafts Mesa’s 35th annual Contemporary Arts’ annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition, continuing through April 13, displays works from around the country. The craft showcase includes traditional crafts like jewelry, basketry, fibers, metals, papermaking, book arts and metals. Forty-six works of art will be featured by 35 artists from 14 states. The guest juror for the 35th annual
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Contemporary Craft was independent curator Julie Muñiz.
Hammered Steve Shelby, recipient of the 34th annual Contemporary Crafts Juror’s Choice Award, is showing his work in a solo exhibition in the Dr. Ruth Tan Lim Project Room. The exhibit, Hammered, will be on display through April 13. Shelby creates handcrafted metal pieces, using hammers and stakes to shape flat sheets of metal into 3-D forms. The results are playful and humorous at times, and often inspired by shapes in nature. The exhibition is a retrospective look at Shelby’s work from the last 11 years.
M8K Marks Faculty and resident artists from the past 30 years share their art at M8K Marks, a showcase for the prominent artists. Artists Lisa Albinger, Michael Healy, Susan Manje, David Manje, Helen Norsigian, Rowles, Augie Tantalo, Janet Towbin, Agustin Vargas and Jeremy Yocum are featured. Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum is at the Mesa Arts Center campus at One E. Main St., downtown Mesa. Admission is free and visiting hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday, and 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. Call (480) 644-6567 to learn more.
Corona Del Sol High School freshman and violinist Tiffany Chang will take center stage at the Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, on Sunday, March 23, to perform Tchaikovsky’s “Violin Concerto in D Major” with the Chandler Symphony Orchestra. Chang recently won the CSO’s sixth annual Youth Competition, and is one of the youngest Youth Competition winners in the contest’s history. Her win gives her the chance to perform with the orchestra March 23, when the second- and third-place winners will also be honored. “I am so honored to win this competition,” Chang says. “It really gives me an opportunity to understand what it’s like to be a concert soloist and to play with actual orchestras.” Chang is a member of the Corona Del Sol chamber orchestra, and has been playing the violin for most of her life. She began playing at the age of 3, and became a member of the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Mesa at 6, eventually rising to concertmaster in Division I by the time she was 10. At 15 she is no stranger to awards and recognitions, most recently as grand prize winner of the Phoenix Youth Symphony Young Musicians Competition 2014. She is a student of Phoenix Symphony
violinist Jing Zeng. The piece that Chang will perform on stage with the orchestra–Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35–is one of Tchaikovsky’s most renowned and most often played works. The concert will also include performances of Richard Wagner’s “Rienzi Overture” as well as Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 5, the “Reformation Symphony.” The Chandler Symphony Orchestra 2014 Youth Competition was open to string, woodwind, brass, harp and percussion students in grades seven to 12. Cash awards are granted to the top three competitors. This year’s second-prize winner is Dobson High School 12th grade clarinetist Alex Dergal, who performed Claude Debussy’s “Premiere Rhapsodie” for clarinet at the CSO Chamber Music concert Saturday, March 1. Awarded third prize is seventh grade violinist Hannah Goldstick. The awards will be presented to all three winners at the March 23 concert. The March 23 concert will be at 3 p.m. Doors open at 2:30 p.m. Admission is free, but donations are encouraged to defray operating expenses for the all-volunteer organization. For more information visit www. chandlersymphony.net.
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