First Friday
5-8 pm
TICKETS: Voluntary Donations, begins at 5pm
Separate tickets are required to view special exhibition Eric Fischl: Stories Told at an additional cost. Click HERE to purchase special exhibition tickets.
Join us for First Friday, featuring in-gallery sketching led by Sketchclub Café (@sketchclubcafe), music by resident DJ Jaime Lee (@jmelee), delicious drinks by ARTenders, and Docent-led tours at 5:30pm and 6:30pm.
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First Fridays are made possible through the generosity of APS and Lexus, with additional support from Arizona Community Foundation.
Lenhardt Lecture:
| 6:30pm
Whiteman Hall
TICKETS: Free for Members | $5 for the general public
General Admission tickets include all exhibitions and installations, including Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection.
TICKETS: $28 Adults | $25 Seniors | $23 Students (with valid ID) | $18 Youth (6-17) | Free for Museum Members, and youth 5 and under.
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Please follow our exhibitions page to view the current special exhibitions.
Wednesday Exhibition Tickets (after 3pm)
TICKETS: $10 Adults | $5 Youth 17 and younger | FREE for Museum Members
Tickets are required to view special exhibitions during Pay What You Wish Wednesdays. Please follow our exhibitions page to view the current special exhibitions. All other exhibitions are included with general admission.
From 3pm-8pm every Wednesday, Phoenix Art Museum offers voluntary-donation hours for general admission and reduced rates to view special-engagement exhibitions. Consider making a donation to support your Museum and these free-access times for our community.
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*If you have not registered on the site yet, please do so here in order to reserve your Member ticket online.
An active PhxArt Membership is required for this event. To renew your Membership, click here.
Questions? Call 602-257-2124 or email membership@phxart.org
Lemon Library Book Club:
| 6:30 pm
Location: The Amphitheater inside Phoenix Art Museum
TICKETS: Free event. Please reserve your ticket and check in at the Visitor Services Desk.
This program is intended for audiences 18 years and older.
Special Exhibition Tickets (after 5pm)
TICKETS: $10 Adults | $5 Youth 17 and younger | FREE for Museum Members
Tickets are required to view special exhibition Eric Fischl: Stories Told and Florentine Baroque: The Haukohl Collection during First Fridays.
Storytime
10:30am - 11am
TICKETS: Free for Members | Included in general admission for the general public
Advance registration recommended
Designed for our youngest PhxArt visitors (ages 0-5) and their parents or caregivers, Storytime is a wonderful opportunity to share the joy of early literacy, art-inspired play, and hands-on learning with family and friends. The Storytime series is offered on the first Thursday of each month inside the Museum.
Storytime is made possible by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for the Performing Arts, The Discount Tire Endowment for Children’s Art Programs, the William Randolph Hearst Endowed Fund for Education Programs, and Traditional Legacy Schools.
HOURS
Monday | Closed
Tuesday | Closed
Wednesday | 10am - 7pm
Thursday – Sunday | 10 am – 5 pm
HOLIDAY HOURS
Closed on New Year’s Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
View calendar for special events, extended hours or other closures.
HORARIO
lunes | cerrado
martes | cerrado
miércoles | 10 am – 7 pm
jueves - domingo | 10 am - 5 pm
HORARIO FESTIVO
PhxArt está cerrado el Día del Año Nuevo, el Día del Trabajo, el Día de Dar Gracias (Thanksgiving), y la Navidad.
Vea el calendario de eventos especiales, horarios extendidos u otros cierres.
Pay What You Wish Wednesday (after 3pm)
TICKETS: Voluntary Donations, begins at 3pm
From 3pm-8pm every Wednesday the Museum offers voluntary donation times for general admission and reduced rates to view special engagement exhibitions. Consider making a donation to support your Museum.
Not a member yet? Visit the Museum for free all year long. Click here to join.
Pay-What-You-Wish Wednesdays are made possible through the generosity of SRP and City of Phoenix.
Curator Tour: Breaking the Mold
Thursday, March 26, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 pm
Asian Wing
TICKETS: Free with General Admission*
*Ticket price includes Museum General Admission
Join Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Arts, for an intimate in-gallery tour of the exhibition Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan.
This exhibition celebrates the originality and virtuosity of 36 women artists who have redefined the traditionally male-dominated field of Japanese studio ceramics. Organized by the Art Institute of Chicago and the Carol and Jeffrey Horvitz Collection, Radical Clay highlights avant-garde sculptures that reject convention and expand the possibilities of the medium.
Pearson will guide visitors through the gallery, offering insight into how these innovative artists are reshaping the history of clay through technical mastery and bold abstraction.
About Curator Tours
Curator Tours offer a dynamic opportunity to engage directly with Museum curators in the galleries. These sessions provide visitors with exclusive insights into current exhibitions and artworks on view, along with time for Q&A.
Curator Tour: Ancestral Futures
Thursday, March 5, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 pm
TICKETS: Free with General Admission*
*Ticket price includes Museum General Admission
Join Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, for an intimate, in-gallery conversation exploring Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light).
Mickevicius will discuss how Romero’s visceral photography blends fine art and editorial styles to explore the intersections of Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory. Drawing deeply from her own identity, Romero creates compelling images that navigate collective history and lived experience.
About Curator Tours
Curator Tours offer a dynamic opportunity to engage with Museum curators in the galleries. These sessions provide visitors with exclusive insights into current exhibitions and artworks on view, along with time for Q&A.
WORKSHOP | Radical Mugs with PIP Coffee + Clay
Saturday, March 28, 2026
10 am–12:30 pm
TICKETS: PhxArt Members $50 | Non-Members $60
Join us for a hands-on workshop with PIP Coffee & Clay that invites you to slow down, get your hands messy, and create something uniquely yours. Guided by the PIP team, participants will build a custom ceramic mug from start to finish—forming the body, crafting a handle, and personalizing the piece with paint and embellishments.
After the workshop, PIP will transport the mugs back to their studio for glazing and firing. You may select from a range of food-safe glazes or opt for a clear glaze to highlight your painted designs. Approximately three weeks later, your finished, functional work of art will be ready for pickup at either PIP’s 24th Street studio or the Museum.
Space is limited. Reservation is required.
Recommended for ages 10+. Participants under 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Eric Fischl Lecture Series: Marilyn Minter
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Reception and Award Ceremony | 5–6:30 pm
Lecture | 6:30 pm
TICKETS: Free for Museum Members + MCCCD students | $5 for the General Public
Celebrating 21 years of the Eric Fischl Lecture Series, the 2026 lecture features Eric Fischl in conversation with contemporary artist Marilyn Minter. Known for her distinguished hyper-realistic style, Minter explores themes of beauty and desire through compositions that offer a close-up, visceral view of the body. Join us for a dynamic conversation between the two artists as they discuss Minter’s studio practice, her evolution as an artist, and the boundaries of contemporary art.
About the Artist
Marilyn Minter (b. 1948, USA) is one of the most provocative and influential contemporary artists of our time, known for her raw, hyperreal explorations of beauty, power, and desire. Working across painting, photography, and video, she challenges conventional aesthetics by fusing glamour with grit and seduction with subversion.
Drawing from fashion, advertising, pornography, and art history, Minter’s work examines how pleasure, femininity, and consumer culture collide. Her signature style—lush, high-gloss surfaces drenched in sweat, glitter, and condensation—blurs the boundaries between attraction and repulsion, reality and fantasy.
Since the 1970s, Minter has been a fearless disruptor, using her art to critique the idealized images sold by mass media. Whether through her infamous "bush paintings," billboard interventions, or sultry video works, she continuously pushes against cultural taboos surrounding sexuality and feminism. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim, and the Brooklyn Museum. Her 2016 retrospective, Pretty/Dirty, cemented her legacy as a pioneer who amplifies what others shy away from.
About the Eric Fischl Lecture Series
In 2005, contemporary painter, sculptor, and author Eric Fischl returned to Phoenix College to give back to his alma mater and support aspiring artists. Honoring the college’s influence on his life, Fischl brings world-renowned artists to Phoenix annually to present the Eric Fischl Series.
Curator Tour: Artistry Across Asia
Thursday, April 2, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 pm
Asian Wing
TICKETS: Free for Members | Included with General Admission
Join Colin Pearson, Curator of Asian Arts, for an intimate in-gallery tour exploring the exhibitions Flowers of Punjab and Splendors of East Asian Cloisonné.
The tour begins with Flowers of Punjab, an exploration of the region's rich material traditions with a focus on phulkari—a vibrant form of embroidery historically crafted by women across generations. Drawn from the Khanuja Family Collection, these works highlight the artistry, symbolism, and communal practices that shaped Punjab’s textile heritage.
The conversation then moves to Splendors of East Asian Cloisonné, showcasing the brilliance and technical mastery of enamel craftsmanship across China and Japan. Featuring a distinctive group of vessels from the Museum's collection, this exhibition traces the art form's evolution from its Chinese roots to its expansion in Japan, where artisans introduced new color palettes, optical effects, and innovative textures.
Pearson will guide visitors through the galleries, illuminating the cultural histories, material techniques, and aesthetic evolutions that define these remarkable artistic traditions.
About Curator Tours
Curator Tours offer a dynamic opportunity to engage directly with Museum curators in the galleries. These sessions provide visitors with exclusive insights into current exhibitions and artworks on view, along with time for Q&A.
Curator Tour: Oceans of Influence in Viceregal Art
Thursday, April 9, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 pm
Location: North Wing
TICKETS: Free with General Admission. Space is Limited.
Join JoAnna Reyes, Adjunct Curator, Art of the Americas, for an intimate look at Art of Viceregal Latin America gallery. Discover the artistic traditions and innovations of the viceregal period, an era when global exchange transformed visual culture across the Americas.
Reyes will explore works from the 16th to the 19th centuries, a time when Spanish-ruled viceroyalties served as vital trade hubs linking Europe, Asia, and the New World. As ideas and materials circulated across the Atlantic and Pacific, local artists responded with creativity by blending Indigenous techniques with influences from as far away as China and Japan to reinterpret forms like lacquerware and ceramics.
About Curator Tours
Curator Tours offer a dynamic opportunity to engage directly with Museum curators in the galleries. These sessions provide visitors with exclusive insights into current exhibitions and artworks on view, along with time for Q&A.
Ed Mell: A Closer Look with Dr. Mark Sublette
Wednesday, April 15, 2026 | 6:30–7:30 pm
Great Hall South
TICKETS: Free for Members | Included with General Admission
Join Dr. Mark Sublette for an in-depth exploration of the work of American artist Ed Mell (1942–2024). Beloved for his vibrant color palette and angular compositions, Mell captured the monumental cloud formations, geologic strata, and desert life of the Colorado Plateau and Sonoran Desert. Dr. Sublette’s talk examines Mell’s artistic practice and distinctive approach to interpreting dynamic landscapes, with a special focus on works currently on view in the Museum’s newly renovated North Wing.
Born in Phoenix, Mell was deeply connected to Arizona’s arts community for more than 50 years, maintaining a studio just blocks from Phoenix Art Museum. Ed Mell: In the Studio presents, for the first time, a selection of oil studies and works on paper created between 1974 and 2023. Never before publicly exhibited, these works offer rare insight into Mell’s creative process and the evolution of his final paintings.
Dr. Mark Sublette Bio
Dr. Mark Sublette is the founder of Medicine Man Gallery, an authority on the artwork of Maynard Dixon, and the author of numerous catalogs on Native American art. A former physician, Dr. Sublette is a dedicated educator who shares his extensive knowledge of the American West through lectures, publications, and social media.
Sublette co-curated the Maynard Dixon’s American West exhibition at the Scottsdale Museum of the West (2019-2020), a major retrospective showcasing over 250 works by the iconic artist. In 2021, he was awarded the Ambassador Circle Lifetime Achievement Award from the Tucson Museum of Art, followed by the 2022 C.M. Russell Heritage Award for his biography, Maynard Dixon’s American West, Along the Distant Mesa.
Sublette is the host of the long-running Art Dealer Diaries Podcast, featuring interviews with collectors, dealers, and art enthusiasts. He is also the Charles Bloom Murder Mystery series and the Westin Blackwood Art Detective series. In 2024, he opened the Maynard Dixon and Native American Art Museum in Tucson, Arizona which also features work by Arizona icon Ed Mell.
Book Box Workshop
April 3, 2026 | 5PM - 6PM
Gene and Cathie Lemon Art Research Library
TICKETS: FREE
Discover how to protect books from dust, light, and deterioration. Learn important preservation and conservation processes on late-1800s volumes from the Astaire Fashion collection of the Gene & Cathie Lemon Art Research Library, then take home supplies to construct a box for your own treasured books. This activity is intended for ages 16 and above.
This workshop is provided with the support of the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation.
SOUNDCHECK
SOUNDCHECK at Phoenix Art Museum is a new live music series. Every third Thursday from 5-8 pm, we're bringing popular local and regional acts to the Museum for raw, unmissable performances.
Tickets are included with general admission. You can also pre-purchase a discounted $10 drink ticket toward your choice of spirit or wine at the bar. This option is available only for individuals 21+. IDs will be checked on-site.
March 19th
Dorrance Sculpture Garden
The Hourglass Cats
ABOUT THE HOURGLASS CATS
Sonoran outfit The Hourglass Cats are a desert rock-n-roll, reggae, and hip-hop collective based out of Phoenix, Arizona. Known for their high-energy live shows, relentless gigging schedule, and for recording and performing all their music in 432 Hz, The Hourglass Cats find their true uniqueness in their ability to effortlessly blend multiple genres to create a sound smoothie that is very unique to the Sonoran desert they call home.
SOUNDCHECK is made possible through the generosity of Presenting Sponsor Men’s Arts Council, with additional support from Desert Financial Credit Union.
You can pre-purchase a discounted $10 drink ticket toward your choice of spirit or wine at the bar. This option is available only for individuals 21+. IDs will be checked on-site.
National Theatre Live: The Fifth Step
March 15, 2026 | 1PM
TICKETS: $15 for Members | $20 for general public
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
After years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James becomes a sponsor to newcomer Luka. The pair bond over black coffee, trade stories and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. But as Luka approaches step five – the moment of confession – dangerous truths emerge, threatening the trust on which both of their recoveries depend.
Finn den Hertog directs the provocative and entertaining production filmed live from @sohoplace on London’s West End.
National Theatre Live is a telecast and not a live performance at the Museum.
Estimated runtime: 100 min.
National Theatre Live screenings are made possible in part by the Angela and Leonard Singer Endowment for Performing Arts.
Films at PhxArt: Fruitvale Station
February 25, 2026 | 6:00pm
Presented in Whiteman Hall
TICKETS: FREE for Members | $8 for non-Members
2025 Oscar® nominated filmmaker, Ryan Coogler, made his feature directorial debut in 2013 with this drama centered on the tragic shooting of Oscar Grant (Michael B. Jordan), a vibrant 22-year-old Bay Area father, who was senselessly gunned down by transit police officers on New Year’s Day in 2009. A murder that sent shockwaves through the nation after being captured on camera by his fellow passengers.
Fruitvale Station premiered at the Sundance Film Festival where it won both the Grand Jury and Audience Prize. It appeared on numerous best-of lists including the National Board of Review and won many awards including awards for Coogler, Jordan and Spencer. It was hailed as a triumphant debut film with the consensus being that it’s "passionate and powerfully acted, [and] serves as a celebration of life, a condemnation of death, and a triumph for star Michael B. Jordan."
Films@PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films.
Films at PhxArt: Boogie Nights
March 11, 2026 | 6:00pm
Presented in Whiteman Hall
TICKETS: FREE for Members | $8 for non-Members
In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams (Mark Wahlberg) gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner (Burt Reynolds), who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves (Julianne Moore), Rollergirl (Heather Graham) and Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly), Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.
"A genuine American epic." — The New York Times
"A funny, deeply moving, and often astonishing movie." — Rolling Stone
"The last great movie of the 20th century." — The Chicago Tribune
"An exhilarating, sprawling, tragicomic, beautifully controlled vision of the world." — Variety
"A powerful and moving story of a family, however fractured, built on the shifting sands of Hollywood dreams." — Roger Ebert
Films@PhxArt is made possible by Fit Via Vi Films.
In Conversation: Cara Romero and Jami Powell, PhD
February 26, 2026 | 6:30–7:30pm
Whiteman Hall
TICKETS: Free for Members | Included with General Admission
In celebration of the exhibition opening, Phoenix Art Museum welcomes artist Cara Romero in conversation with Jami Powell, PhD, Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art. Together, they will discuss Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light), a presentation that radiates the brilliance, diversity, and sovereignty of Native American and Indigenous peoples.
About the Artist:
Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is known for dramatic fine art photography that examines Indigenous life in contemporary contexts. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in the Mojave Desert, California, and the urban sprawl of Houston, Texas. Informed by her identity, Romero’s visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences results in a blending of fine art and editorial styles. Maintaining a studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Romero regularly participates in Native American art fairs and panel discussions. In 2019, she was featured on PBS’s Craft in America. Her award-winning work is included in numerous public and private collections both domestically and internationally, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Amon Carter Museum, the Peabody Essex Museum, and Forge Project. Romero travels between Santa Fe and the Chemehuevi Valley Indian Reservation, where she maintains close ties to her tribal community and ancestral homelands.
About Jami Powell, PhD:
Jami Powell, PhD is based at Dartmouth College, where she is Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs and Curator of Indigenous Art at the Hood Museum of Art and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Native American and Indigenous Studies. A citizen of the Osage Nation, she holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on American Indian expressive forms through an interdisciplinary lens. She has published widely in venues such as Museum Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Research, Museum Management and Curatorship, Museum Magazine, and First American Art Magazine.