UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM

Kristine and Leland W. Peterson, The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation, Inc., and Wells Fargo

MASTERWORK PATRONS:

Dino and Elizabeth Murfee DeConcini, Alice J. Dickey, Kathleen and John Graham, Dr. Marigold Linton and Dr. Robert Barnhill, Jean A. and James J. Meenaghan, Susan and James Navran, Christy Vezolles and Gilbert Waldman, Beauty Beholders, Sue and Judson Ball, Jeanie Harlan, and Merle and Steve Rosskam

CONSERVATION SPONSORS:

Frances and Mark Paper in honor of Carol Ann Mackay

PROGRAMMING AND EDUCATION SPONSORS:

Frances and Mark Paper in honor of Carol Ann Mackay

BLACK WHITE BLUE YELLOW (BWBY)

February 2, 2017–September 12, 2017

Black White Blue Yellow is an immersive, four-channel video and sound installation by artist Steven J. Yazzie (NavajoLaguna-French-Welsh-Hungarian) exploring four sacred mountains that border the Diné (Navajo) people:

• BLACK (North): Dib’e Nitsaa, Hesperus Mountain

Beauty Speaks For Us

February 11, 2017–April 2, 2017

The Heard Museum’s new Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery opens to the public on Saturday, February 11, 2017.

The inaugural exhibition Beauty Speaks for Us presents more than 200 rarely seen masterworks selected from private Phoenix collections and the Heard’s own collection of more than 40,000 works of art. This will be a true celebration of our community and a turning point for the museum, as it will usher in a new era of excellence. Visitors will see timeless works of art that span generations and cultures in a wide variety of media: pottery, textiles, jewelry, beadwork, functional art, paintings, basketry, and carvings.

The Heard Museum thanks the following sponsors for their generous support.

PRESENTING SPONSOR:

The Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation

MASTERWORK SIGNATURE SPONSORS:

Carol Ann and Harvey Mackay, Jill and Wick Pilcher, and Anonymous

MASTERWORK BENEFACTORS:

Joy and Howard Berlin, Lisa and Gregory Boyce

Carmen and Michael Duffek, Janis and Dennis H. Lyon, Mary Ellen and Robert McKee, Janet and John Melamed,

• WHITE (East): Sisnaajini, Blanca Peak

• BLUE (South): Tsoodzil, Mount Taylor

• YELLOW (West): Dook’o’oosłíí, San Francisco Peaks

BWBY is a journey and departure to sacred land and space, the source of cultural continuities: Indigenous knowledge, mystery, discovery, fear, connection, and exploitation by contemporary societies. BWBY is a culmination of video and sound documentation that will bring the viewer into the complexities of these geographies in a temporal, conceptual experience designed to touch on the mountain’s symbolic nature residing deep within our human memory.

Frida Kahlo And Diego Rivera

April 10–August 20, 2017

This exhibit offers a rare opportunity to see firsthand masterpieces by two of the most important and recognizable artists of the 20th century. Bank of America is the Presenting Sponsor for Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, making Phoenix its only North American stop on a world tour.

Thirty-three works by the famed Mexican artists from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection will be exhibited in the newly opened Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust Grand Gallery through August 20, 2017. The Gelmans were Mexican-based European émigrés who befriended the artists. On view will be Self Portrait with Monkeys and Diego on My Mind by Frida Kahlo (Purépecha descent, 1907–1954), and Calla Lily Vendor and Sunflowers by Diego Rivera (Mestizo, 1886-1957).

The exhibit includes more than 50 photographs taken by Edward Weston, Lola Álvarez Bravo, and Frida Kahlo’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, among others. The exhibit also will feature vintage clothing and jewelry from the Kahlo period.

PRESENTING SPONSOR: Bank of America

RICK BARTOW: THINGS YOU KNOW BUT CANNOT EXPLAIN

April 8, 2017–July 9, 2017

Jacobson and Freeman Galleries. This major retrospective of the work of contemporary Oregon artist Rick Bartow (Wiyot-Yurok, 1946–2016) features 115 drawings, paintings, mixed-media works, and sculptures. It spans several decades of the artist’s career, from the 1970s until just before his death in April 2016. Jill Hartz and Danielle Knapp, both of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (JSMA) at University of Oregon curated this traveling exhibit. Patron Support is provided by Howard Mekemson. Support for the exhibit is provided by the Ford Family Foundation of the Oregon Community Foundation, Arlene Schnitzer, the Coeta and Donald Barker Changing Exhibitions Endowment, the Harold and Arlene Schnitzer CARE Foundation, a grant from the Oregon Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency), the Ballinger Endowment, Philip and Sandra Piele, and JSMA members.

IT’S YOUR TURN: A ‘HOME’ STUDIO

Open now–March 19, 2017

Sandra Day O’Connor Gallery. Once visitors explore and learn about the Native people in the Southwest in the HOME exhibit, they can expand on their learning with several fun, hands-on activities based on diverse tribal cultures and designed to help deepen understanding of what was seen in HOME. Visitors are encouraged to return to the HOME exhibit after completing their activities in It’s Your Turn, so they can see which parts of the exhibit inspired their creativity.

IT’S YOUR TURN: FRIDA KAHLO AND DIEGO RIVERA KID’S ACTIVITIES

April 9, 2017–August 20, 2017

Sandra Day O’Connor Gallery. Major educational programming support provided by the Kemper and Ethel Marley Foundation, Virginia M. Ullman Foundation, Arizona Community Foundation, and PetSmart, Inc. ?