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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA] presents modern and contemporary art, architecture and design from around the globe. SMoCA's minimalist building has five galleries for showcasing changing exhibitions and works from the Museum's growing permanent collection. SMoCA also features an outdoor sculpture garden housing James Turrell's "Knight Rise", a public "skyspace" for observing the ever-changing light of the desert sky, and "Scrim Wall", a monumental curtain of translucent glass panels by James Carpenter Design Associates. The Museum presents a wide variety of educational programs and special events for adults and families, including lectures, docent-led tours, workshops and classes. The Museum Store at SMoCA offers classic design objects and furnishings, contemporary jewelry, art and architecture books and imaginative gifts for all occasions.

Important Information: Museum visitors may use their cell phones to call a special number and hear short messages from the artists and curators about the artworks on view. This special behind-the-scenes information is provided free of charge, for only a visitor's use of cell-phone minutes. The recordings will also be available as podcasts on SMoCA's website, www.smoca.org.

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  Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

  7374 East Second Street
  Scottsdale, AZ 85251

  Phone: (480)994-2787

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• Current Events

  10/05/08- 01/18/09	Heresies/Herejias: A Retrospective by Pedro Meyer
  10/05/08- 01/18/09	Flip a Strip
  09/20/08- 02/01/09	Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting
  09/20/08- 02/01/09	Radical Lace and Subversive Knitting
  05/30/08- Ongoing	Fridays at the SMoCA

• Upcoming Events

  01/13/09	The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
  01/31/09- 05/13/09	At the Crossroads of American Photography: Callahan, Siskind, Sommer
  02/13/09- 05/24/09	Seriously Funny
  02/14/09- 02/15/09	SMoCA's 10th Anniversary Celebration

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• Past Events

  12/20/08	Special Winter Solstice Skyspace Viewing
  12/11/08	Flip a Strip Presentation and Discussion
  11/28/08	Friday Night Art Lounge
  11/20/08	Meet Janet Echelman
  11/13/08	Representation and Latin American Film
  11/13/08	Stitched: All New SMoCA Nights
  11/13/08	David William Foster
  11/13/08	SMoCA Nights
  11/05/08	John Kaliski
  10/30/08	Fiber Optic Design
  10/22/08	The Friday Night Knitting Club
  10/16/08	Flip a Strip Presentation and Discussion
  10/10/08	Interactive Comedy Duo
  10/04/08	Flip a Strip: Opening Party and Awards Ceremony
  09/20/08	Special Equinox Skyspace Viewing
  07/31/08	Free Gallery Talk: Crazed Consumers - Behind the Psychology of Shopping
  07/17/08	Summer Family/Kids Night at the Museum
  06/26/08	Free Gallery Talk: Innovations in Marketing
  06/19/08	Summer SMoCA Nights
  06/19/08	Frank Lloyd Wright Film Screening
  06/14/08- 09/21/08	Branded and On Display
  06/12/08	Free Gallery Talk: Southern California Modernist Design
  06/04/08	Jonathan Santlofer
  05/17/08- 09/07/08	Pae White: Lisa, Bright and Dark
  05/10/08- 09/07/08	Pushing Paint Around: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  05/06/08	Contemporary Reflections: Art Made of Glass
  05/01/08	Buckminster Fuller Lives On
  04/17/08	Cars in Film: 'Wheels on Reels'
  04/09/08	Architecture 'Slide Slam!'
  04/05/08- 04/06/08	Jewelry Trunk Show
  04/03/08	Gallery Talk on Gay Activism
  03/20/08	SMoCA Nights
  03/14/08	Yin Fridays
  03/05/08	Georgia O'Keeffe - Modern Masters for Lunch Series
  03/05/08	Art Discussion on The Body and The Self
  03/05/08	Meet The Artists: Liz Cohen and Lyle Ashton Harris
  02/28/08	Designing Video Games
  02/15/08	Yang Fridays
  02/13/08	Museum of Jurassic Technology with founder David Wilson
  02/13/08	Pablo Picasso in Three Dimensions Free Lunchtime Gallery Talk
  02/08/08- 05/27/08	Lyle Ashton Harris - Blow up
  02/01/08- 05/04/08	Cultivating Commonalities: A Photographic Exchange
  01/31/08	Talk & Book Signing: Excavating American Modern Architecture
  01/30/08- 04/27/08	SouthwestNET: Melinda Bergman
  01/18/08- 04/27/08	Car Culture
  01/18/08	Yin Fridays
  01/10/08	Free Gallery Talk: Henry Moore
  12/06/07	ARTiculations with Casey McKee
  11/29/07	Free Gallery Talk: When Science Becomes Art
  11/14/07	Animated Short Films
  11/08/07	Behind the Scenes Tour and Printmaking Demonstration at Segura Publishing Company
  11/02/07	Scottsdale Fashion Week 2007 - Fashion Designer Competition and Runway Show
  10/21/07	Day of the Dead - The Mystery Unraveled
  10/18/07	SMoCA Nights: Caravan
  10/11/07	Free Gallery Talk: Joe Segura
  10/09/07	Art: 21 in context
  10/05/07- 10/06/07	Green Building Expo
  10/04/07	ARTiculations: Christine Rebet and Matthew Wiener
  09/29/07- 12/30/07	Right to Print: Segura Publishing Company
  09/15/07- 01/20/08	Good Form: The Goldschmidt Collection of (small scale) Sculpture
  09/15/07- 01/20/08	In Wonderland: Animation by Christine Rebet, Shahzia Sikander, and Hiraki Sawa
  09/10/07	Art in Context
  07/12/07	Summer Family Night at the Museum
  07/08/07- 07/08/08	Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - Exhibition Tours
  06/28/07	Cinema from Outer Space
  06/21/07	Sputnik
  06/16/07- 09/02/07	Space is the Place
  06/14/07	American Masters: Alexander Calder
  06/02/07- 09/02/07	Contemporary Scandinavian Art
  05/24/07	Beyond TV: A History of Video Art
  05/12/07- 09/16/07	southwestNET: drawing outside the lines
  05/12/07- 09/16/07	Modern(ist) Love: The Dorothy Lincoln-Smith and Harvey K. Smith Collection
  05/11/07	Opening Reception to New Summer Exhibitions
  05/11/07	Opening Reception for Summer Exhibitions
  05/03/07	Art Curator Panel Discussion
  04/26/07	Art and Interaction
  04/21/07- 04/22/07	ALCHEMY: A Trunk Show of Art Jewelry
  04/20/07	Celebrity Night at the Movies
  03/24/07- 03/25/07	Progress + Preservation
  03/22/07	Spring SMoCA Nights
  03/06/07	Art on Television in Cold War Germany
  02/28/07	PBS Art:21 Series 2
  02/27/07	Angela Ellsworth
  02/22/07	Art and Interaction: Conceptual Art's Meaning and Importance
  02/15/07	ARTiculations with Marvin Heiferman
  02/13/07	Sacred Female Figures in Latino Art
  02/10/07- 05/20/07	Art is an Idea: The Moquay Collection
  02/07/07	PBS Art:21 Series 1
  01/24/07	Today's Celebrity-Saturated Society
  01/20/07- 04/29/07	Celebrity
  01/20/07- 04/29/07	Celebrating Freedom: The Art of Willie Birch
  01/19/07	ARTiculations with Antonio Ortega
  12/06/06	Crossing Arizona
  11/16/06	The Psychology of Color
  11/09/06	Luna: Fall SMoCA Nights
  11/04/06	CultureFest: Contemporary Imaginings of the Borderlands
  11/02/06	The Creative Architectural Design of The Border Film Project/El Proyector Fronterizo Fotografico
  10/26/06	21st Century Abstract Painting Reinvention
  10/13/06	Fall Opening Celebration
  10/13/06- 01/07/07	Threshold: Byron Kim 1990-2004