News
spring 2008
Collector's Series Seminars in
February, March, & April
Sponsored by UBS Financial Services
This three-part series of afternoon seminars demystifies the world of art collecting and encourages you to extend your collecting habits to include living artists. Whether you are a seasoned collector or a neophyte, these seminars will help you learn to collect and to develop your skills as a collector. MOCA's Collector's Series offers insider information on the workings of the global art world in amusing and enlightening ways, allowing you to learn and share in a comfortable, supportive and stimulating setting.
Saturday 16 February 4-6pm
Darrel Sewell Describes the Field
Sewell, Curator Emeritus of American Art at The Philadelphia Museum of American Art, will share stories from the front lines of the art world accumulated during 30 years of curating at one of the country's most prestigious museums. With characteristic wit, charm and intelligence, Sewell will enlighten and amuse with insider tales of the often mysterious art system.
Saturday 15 March 4-6pm
Conservator-in-Residence Chris White
White, whose conservation work ranges from the use of paper on furniture to ancient Roman archaeological excavations and Native American ceramic collections, holds an M.A. in Art Conservation from Queen's University in Ontario, Canada. He will present a lecture entitled "Off-gassing Plastic, Melting Vinyl & Chocolate Ants: The Challenges of Conserving New Materials" which looks at the conservation and preservation issues unique to the sometimes unusual materials used in contemporary art pieces.
Saturday 12 April 4-6pm
Permanent Revolution/The MOCA Collection
What are the strategies and goals of MOCA's collecting practices? What makes a museum's permanent collection both timeless and timely? How and why does a museum work with a living artist to acquire a piece and how do acquisitions made by a museum affect the value of an artist's work in the art market? These questions and more will be addressed a panel of experts including Dr. Paul Ivey (Associate Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Art History), Dr. Larry Busbea (Assistant Professor, University of Arizona, Department of Art History), and MOCA's chief curator Anne-Marie Russell as they discuss the scope and goals of MOCA's growing permanent collection.
$25 MOCA member single seminar; $60 MOCA member full series
$35 non-member single seminar; $75 non-member full series
FREE to Art Circle and Director’s Circle MOCA Members
Space limited to 25. Advance reservations required: 624-6873
27 March 7:30pm
corner of Toole and South 6th Avenues
Made in Tucson/Born in Tucson
David Sherman's
Wasteland Utopias
Presented in conjunction with Arid Zones/Zones Arides
Arid Zones/Zones Arides will be open late until 7pm on 27 March
Wasteland Utopias is David Sherman's live multi-screen outdoor film and sound performance about the social and environmental consequences of the urbanization of Arizona's Sonoran Desert.
This site specific staging of Wasteland Utopias is part of Sherman's ongoing cinematic investigation that explores the magic conceptualist intersection of two radically different utopian thinkers: mega-developer Del Webb and outsider psychiatrist/scientist Wilhelm Reich. Both operated in Southern Arizona's Sonoran Desert in the late 1950s – Webb building his colossal panoptic planned retirement community- Sun City and Reich conducting weather manipulation experiments using Orgone energy. Their unlikely meeting provokes a hallucinatory examination of the disintegrating fabric that connects man with nature and questions issues of ecological and social sustainability.
Experimental filmmaker, sound artist, and co-founder of the world's first microcinema, Sherman is a Tucson native now based in Bisbee. His work has been exhibited extensively at film festivals, museums, and alternative venues throughout the world including The Whitney Biennial, The New York Film Festival, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archive, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris.
5 April 3pm
ShopTalk with Cabinetmaker Peter Baer
What do artists do when they get together? Do you think they talk about the role of the artist in society? The philosophy of art? No, they do what all practitioners do when they rendez-vous, they "talk shop." ShopTalk is a series at MOCA where artists and thinkers share the "nuts and bolts" of their practice. Join MOCA for the inaugural ShopTalk with cabinetmaker Peter Baer, who will share the magical secrets of joinery. From esoteric Japanese techniques to the more prosaic dovetail, learn about "how things come together" during this illustrated, object-oriented talk.
FREE to MOCA members
$5 non-members
Past Events
7 February 2008 Arid Zones/Zones Arides Talk
13 December 2007 Marguerite Karhl Artist Talk
17 November 2007 Born in Tucson/Made in Tucson
Andy Warhol's Lonsesome Cowboys
Co-Presented with Wingspan at The Screening Room
Writer Charlotte Lowe-Bailey and Artist Steve Romaniello in person
25 October 2007 Paco Velez in Conversation with Alfred Quiroz
MoCA Mixers
14 February 2006 Artist Talk: Jessica James Lansdon
02 February 2006 Collector's Series Talk
MoCA's Permanent Collection:
Document and Legacy"
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