ASU West Artistic Events

Hey friends, the West Valley Film Series on the ASU West Valley campus will screen a film every month (except in December) and is open to the public. The series is described as "Provocative Films for Viewing and Discussion," and each film will be followed by a brief feedback time led by faculty members from New College. The first film that will be screened on Wed, Sept. 18 @ 7:00 pm is "Cinema Paradiso," a masterpiece from 1988, considered one of the greatest films of all time and one of the most romantic to celebrate film itself. Set in a small Sicilian town, this film centers on the friendship between a young boy and a projectionist who works at the local movie theatre. The film is in Italian with English subtitles and is rated PG.

Admission is free and will be shown on the ASU West Valley campus (4701 W. Thunderbird Road, parking in Lot 17) in CLCC Lecture Hall (far east side of the campus). More information (and a flyer) can be found at https://newcollege.asu.edu/artspacewest
Be sure to join us!

Our 2024-25 season of artistic events at ASU West Valley campus begins on Wednesday, September 18, with the opening of "Breaking" by IAP faculty Charles Eppley. This interdisciplinary sound and visual installation will begin at 6pm in ArtSpace West Gallery (located next to the campus bookstore) with an opening reception.

At 7:00 p.m., we begin our once-a-month West Valley Film Series, described as "provocative cinema for viewing and discussion" and curated by New College faculty. Our first film is a masterpiece from 1988: "Cinema Paradiso." Set in a small Sicilian town, this film centers on the friendship between a young boy and a projectionist who works at the local movie theatre. This film is considered one of the greatest of all time, as well as one of the most romantic to celebrate the art of film, possessing one of the most memorable musical scores ever written. The screening will be followed by a brief discussion led by New College faculty. This film is in Italian with English subtitles and is rated PG. Admission is FREE, and it will be shown in CLCC Lecture Hall, which is located on the far east side of the West Valley campus. For more information, go to https://newcollege.asu.edu/artspacewest

West Valley Forward: Pow Wow and Salute to Service | ASU Events Celebrate Native American heritage and honor the contributions of all U.S. veterans at the Native American Heritage Festival featuring the 20th Annual Veterans Day Weekend Traditional Pow Wow on Fletcher Library Lawn at ASU’s West campus. The centerpiece of the event — the Pow Wow — is a tradi...

Opening reception! 🎉 Please join us for the opening of the Native Veterans Print Exhibition on Wednesday, November 8th, 7-9pm at ArtSpace West. The exhibition is organized by IAP faculty Jacob Meders in collaboration with the Heard Museum and the Native Artists Resource Group.

This exhibition includes works created in the Veterans Printmaking Workshop, which is led by Meders at the Heard Museum and dedicated to Natives who have served. The workshop provides a safe space to commune with fellow Indigenous Veterans and express themselves through art.

Please consider joining us this Wednesday for our opening reception to view and experience this work. If you are unable to attend, we encourage you to visit the show during its gallery run from November 8th- November 22nd. Please also consider joining us at the ASU West Pow Pow on Saturday, November 11th, 11am-10pm.

ArtSpace West
Mon-Thrs, 12-5pm
4701 W. Thunderbird Rd.
Glendale, AZ. 85306

Lights Up! You're invited to an Evening of Short Plays from the ASU West Campus student body on October 19th, 20th & 21st at Second Stage West! Directed by Charles St. Clair, the evening will be unique, absurd, irreverent and enormous fun for actors and audiences alike - and will feature current ASU students and alumni!

Plays begin at 7:30 PM

Admission is Free!

Second Stage West
Lower Level of UCB Building
4701 W. Thunderbird Rd.
Glendale, AZ. 85306

Presented by the Interdisciplinary Arts & Performance (IAP) program and the School of Humanities, Arts & Cultural Studies (SHArCS).

Exhibition opening! "Uninvited Guests" by IAP faculty member alejandro t. acierto (Oct. 4-28). Opening reception on Wed. 10/4, 7-9pm!

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How might we imagine the invisible, the hidden, or the unseen as a way to understand this important moment while we have the opportunity to build different relationships with the land? How can we invite alternative methods of building that care for the needs of life before expansion?

The upcoming exhibition, Uninvited Guests, by IAP faculty member , shares new and ongoing photographs, time-based works, and sculptural pieces that consider the environmental consequences of urban expansion in the fragile ecosystems of the desert.

For those who are local, please consider joining us on 10/4 at 7pm at ArtSpace West gallery for this exhibition's opening reception!

Unfortunately, the ASU West Campus power outage continues, and we will remain closed today and until further notice. We will provide an update on our reopening ASAP. The campus facilities team is working hard to get the power back up. Thank you for your patience!

Due to a campus-wide power outage at ASU West, the ArtSpace West gallery will not be open today. We plan to reopen as scheduled tomorrow at noon. Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Learn about our current exhibition, "IndigoShado: Legends," by the IAP alum Kristian Williams with Endless Vault Studios, and also read about the IAP program from current faculty members as well as a current student!

West campus faculty, alumni and students showcase art across disciplines and genres - The Arizona State Press Alumni, students and faculty discuss the uniqueness of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance program amid the opening of the "IndigoShado: Legends" exhibition. 

Join us at the opening of IndigoShado: Legends by IAP alum Kristian Williams and Endless Vault Studios tomorrow at 7-9pm at ArtSpace West!

Welcome to the new 2023-2024 season for ASU West Artistic Events. Our Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance (IAP) program have planned a great new season of installations in ArtSpace West and artistic events on the West campus for you. Our first event is an installation titled "Indigo Shado: Legends" created by IAP alumni Kristian Williams, with an opening reception on Wednesday, Sept 6 @ 7:00 pm in ArtSpace West. Williams and Endless Vault Studio present a unique installation in the realm of imaginative science fiction using digital art, video, and sculpture combined with trip hop/jazz music. This installation is can be viewed Sept 7-27, Mondays-Thursdays from 12noon-5pm (closed on Labor Day, Sept 4). Make plans to experience this!

Welcome to the new 2023-2024 season for ASU West Artistic Events. Our Interdisciplinary Arts and Performance (IAP) program have planned a great new season of installations in ArtSpace West and artistic events on the West campus for you. Our first event is an installation titled "Indigo Shado: Legends" created by IAP alumni Kristian Williams, with an opening reception on Wednesday, Sept 6 @ 7:00 pm in ArtSpace West. Williams and Endless Vault Studio present a unique installation in the realm of imaginative science fiction using digital art, video, and sculpture combined with trip hop/jazz music. This installation is can be viewed Sept 7-27, Mondays-Thursdays from 12noon-5pm (closed on Labor Day, Sept 4). Make plans to experience this!

Today is the Earth Day Celebration led by IAP faculty Barry Moon in Delph Courtyard from 1-5pm. Unplugged musical performances will be featured by IAP alumni Shiloh Ashley, Tatiana Crespo, Shape Trio, and The Woodworks!

"Lifelines" is now! ArtSpace West is open Mondays - Thursdays, 12 noon - 5 pm, and runs through April 27.

Our final installation in this ArtSpace West season is LIFELINES, an installation of works by IAP faculty Barry Moon and Jacob Meders. This installation's opening reception will take place on Wednesday, April 12 from 7-9 pm, and then will continue in the gallery until April 27. ArtSpace West is open from 12 noon - 5 pm Mondays through Thursdays on the ASU West campus.

Today and tomorrow (Wed & Thurs) are the last two days to view "Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players" in ArtSpace West. This exhibit allows you to see and hear the history of the Provincetown Players, the group that helped usher American theatre into the Modern era of the 20th century, as well as introduce the playwrights Eugene O'Neill and Susan Glaspell. ArtSpace West is open from 12n-5pm.

"Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players" continues in ArtSpace West through Thursday, March 30th. The exhibit invites you to step into the world of the Players from their inception in Summer of 1915 in Provincetown on Cape Cod to their establishment as a company in Greenwich Village in the Fall of 1916. In the process, the Players ushered American theatre into the modern age. One feature is a short film that uses original photos from their productions of Eugene O'Neill's "The Emperor Jones" (photo here showing the original "Brutus Jones" Charles Gilpin) and "The Hairy Ape," both early examples of expressionism in American theatre. ArtSpace West is open Mondays-Thursdays from 12noon-5pm.

A reminder that tonight is the opening of "Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players" in ArtSpace West from 7-9pm. This installation celebrates the work of the American theatre company the Provincetown Players and the release of IAP faculty Jeff Kennedy’s new book by the same title. The exhibit features historical photos, narrative, film, video, projections, interactive websites, and audio that display the story of the Players and how they ushered American theatre into the modern era. A special feature TONIGHT ONLY will be a staged reading of Susan Glaspell’s play, “Trifles,” featuring some of our finest local actors. This play continues to have its own legacy as one of the first feminist plays and as the most anthologized one-act in all of American theatre (This photo is of a performance in 1918, though our actors don't look quite so gray). The reception begins at 7:00 pm in ArtSpace West, and the performance will start around 7:30 pm. We hope you can attend.

This Wednesday night, March 15, from 7-9 pm is the opening reception for a new installation in ArtSpace West: "Staging America: The Artistic Legacy of the Provincetown Players." Created by IAP faculty Jeff Kennedy, this installation uses historical photos, visual art, videos, interactive media, and sound to celebrate the legacy of the Players who from 1915-1922 were instrumental in ushering American theatre into the modern era with experimental plays written by American playwrights. Dr. Kennedy also has a new book that was just released with the same title as this installation. As a special event for the opening reception, five professional actors will be performing "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, which was premiered by the Players and is considered one of America's first feminist plays (as well as the most anthologized one-act play in the American canon). We invite you to join us; food will be served, and the performance will begin around 7:30 pm. This installation will continue through March 30; ArtSpace West is open Mondays-Thursdays from 12 noon- 5:00 pm.

Our next installation in ArtSpace West is "Staging America" from March 16-30. IAP faculty Jeffery Kennedy presents an historical installation of photos, ephemera, and videos that celebrate the artistic legacy of the Provincetown Players, the subject of his recently released book. This originally amateur theatre company changed American theatre beginning in 1915 by ushering it into the modern era in terms of its writing style and subject matter, and in the process introduced the world to playwrights that included Eugene O'Neill, Susan Glaspell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Reed, and Djuna Barnes. The opening reception on Wed, Mar 15 @ 7 p. m. will feature a staged reading of Glaspell's play "Trifles."

If you want to see the installation "This is Too Much" in ArtSpace West, be sure to visit before 5 pm today. While it will be available for guests of the Black History Month Pioneer Award Dinner to view on Saturday, this will be the last day of public viewing. Thank you to the visual arts students of The Academies at South Mountain High School for sharing their amazing work with us!

This is the last week to view "This is Too Much," the current installation in ArtSpace West that features the work of visual art students from The Academies at South Mountain High School. The works exhibited were juried by a panel from New College and awards were given to the students when they returned to our campus on February 14. Here are some of the works and the students who created them. ArtSpace West is open Mondays-Thursdays from 12 noon-5 pm.

Here are photos from the opening night reception of "This is Too Much," our new installation in ArtSpace West that features the work of visual art students from South Mountain High School. We were so pleased to have so many of the artists and their families and friends attend. This exhibit continues in ArtSpace West through February 23. ArtSpace West is open Mondays-Thursdays from 12 noon - 5:00pm.

Tonight is the opening reception of "This is Too Much," a juried exhibition of work by the visual art students of The Academy at South Mountain High School. Join us from 7-9pm in ArtSpace West and meet some of the artists, enjoy refreshments, and celebrate the opening of Black History Month!

Our next installation in ArtSpace West opens this next week as our campus begins its month-long Black History Month celebration. "This is Too Much" is a juried exhibition from the visual arts students at South Mountain High School. This exhibit is a visual expression of what students have to say about the world they've inherited. It represents their frustration about this world and also how they want to forget about all of the chaos and celebrate the beauty and joy they experience. The opening reception for "This is Too Much" is this Wednesday night, February 1, from 7-9 pm (preceded by the opening of Black History Month ceremony at 6pm in Delph Courtyard), and the exhibit runs through February 23. ArtSpace West is open Mondays-Thursdays from 12 noon-5 pm.

Just two more days to view "Nau te rourou, naku te rourou" in ArtSpace West! Don't miss this unique collection of work by contemporary Indigenous printmakers! ArtSpace West is open from 12 noon-5pm on Wednesday and Thursday of this week.

Our next installation, "This is Too Much," featuring the artwork of high school students from South Mountain High School celebrating Black History Month, opens next Wed, Feb. 1, with a reception from 7-9pm.

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Our installation "Nau te rourou, naku te rourou (With your basket, and my basket) continues today and all next week in ArtSpace West (Monday-Thursdays, 12 noon-5 pm). This unique installation of work by contemporary Indigenous printmakers will only be in our gallery until January 26, so don't miss it!

Today was the ASU West Campus MLK Celebration, which involves middle schoolers from many Valley schools coming to campus to learn about the different cities involved in the Civil Rights movement, and then take the signs of non-violent protest that they create to re-enact the March on Washington, this year in its 60th anniversary (originally Aug 27, 1963). The event is capped off with a recitation of King's "I Have a Dream" speech, performed by IAP faculty Charles St. Clair, and this year with help from Danta McGilvery from First Institutional Baptist in Phoenix. "Let Freedom Ring!"

This week continues "Nau te rourou, naku te rourou (With your basket, and my basket)" in ArtSpace West. We encourage you to visit this unique installation, featuring work by contemporary Indigenous printmakers. The gallery is open Tuesday through Thursdays from 12 noon-5 pm and admission is free.