2025 Arizona Artist Awards Exhibition Opening
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
5 pm | Artist Reception
6:30 pm | Artist Talk with 2025 Scult Family Artist Award Recipient Alice Leora Briggs
Free for Members | $5 for the General Public
Join Phoenix Art Museum to celebrate the opening of the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards exhibitions, honoring the latest recipients of the Scult Family Artist Award, the Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards, and the Sette/Cohn Artist Award.
The evening begins with a community reception in Great Hall South, followed by an intimate artist talk in Whiteman Hall featuring 2025 Scult Award recipient Alice Leora Briggs, who will discuss her technical process, recent work, and creative practice.
2025 Arizona Artist Awards Recipients
• Alice Leora Briggs | Scult Family Artist Award
• Jan Talmadge Davids | Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Award
• Christopher Ignacio | Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Award
• Shaunté Glover | Sette/Cohn Artist Award
About the Artists
Alice Leora Briggs (Tucson, AZ) explores narratives of life on la frontera—the U.S.–Mexico borderlands—through meticulously rendered artworks. Featured in more than 50 solo exhibitions, her work is housed in over 35 public collections, including Phoenix Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Library of Congress. Her notable publications include Dreamland: The Way Out of Juárez (2010), an illuminated manuscript created with writer Charles Bowden, and Abecedario de Juárez: An Illustrated Lexicon (2022) with photojournalist Julián Cardona.
Jan Talmadge Davids (Tucson, AZ) works in clay and mixed media to explore the landscapes of her childhood, local ecologies, and ideas of place-making. Through thoughtful installation and material sensitivity, she invites viewers to engage with themes of fragility and vulnerability. Davids earned her MFA from the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum (Long Beach, CA), Tempe Center for the Arts, eye lounge, and the Tucson Museum of Art.
Christopher Ignacio (Phoenix, AZ) is a Filipino-American puppeteer, producer, educator, and interdisciplinary artist whose work explores the intersection of voice, technology, and identity. He holds an MFA in Theatre/Interdisciplinary Digital Media from Arizona State University, where he teaches motion capture and 3D animation, and serves as Creative Producer for the T. Denny Sanford Harmony Institute. Ignacio is a recipient of grants and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts, and Culture Push, and is dedicated to creating works that invite participation outside traditional arts spaces.
Shaunté Glover (Phoenix, AZ) is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice spans photography, film, printmaking, and sculpture. A graduate of Arizona State University, Glover is recognized for her compelling exploration of identity and representation. At the heart of her practice lies a deep commitment to amplifying marginalized voices, particularly those of Black women, using contemporary art as a catalyst for visibility, dialogue, and community empowerment.
The Arizona Artist Awards are made possible by the Scult Family; Sally and Richard Lehmann; and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Phoenix Art Museum Education and Engagement Excellence Fund.