The University of Arizona

CCP at the Phoenix Art Museum

NEW EVENT

First Annual Photo Evaluation and Silent Auction
Sunday, October 16, 2011, Noon to 5:00pm
Gebert Contemporary Gallery
7160 E. Main Street, Scottsdale, Admission is FREE! Wine and hors d'oeurves will be served!
 
Got a photograph you’d like to know more about? Perhaps an old family portrait, or a framed photograph you found at a yard sale? Terry Etherton, of the Etherton Gallery in Tucson, and Jeremy Rowe, Arizona State University Emeritus Professor and expert on historic and unusual photographs, will provide professional identification and evaluation of your treasures.  Evaluations require a fee of $30, payable in advance, for evaluation of up to five photographs or albums.
 
Items in the silent auction include 50 collector photographs, including works by Dick Arentz, Barbara Bosworth, Linda Connor, Jody Forster, Frank Gohlke, Mark Klett, Chris McCaw, Laura McPhee, Alan Ross, John Schaefer, John Sexton, Alex Webb, Robert Weingarten, and Kim Weston as well as local photographers, selected by Dr. Rebecca Senf, Norton Family Curator of Photography, Phoenix Art Museum.   Bidding starts between $300 and $2000.  Some of these photographers will be attending the event, so it's a great opportunity to meet them and discuss their work.
 
Reservations are required for the photo evaluations only.  Please email Ed Mertz at e.mertz@cox.net to schedule a time for your evaluation. Please include your contact information (phone and email), the number of items you’ll be bringing and a brief description of each (age, format, subject, photographer, etc.). Reservations in advance are strongly encouraged. There is no guarantee that time slots will be available for walk-in evaluations.
 
All proceeds benefit INFOCUS, the photography support organization of Phoenix Art Museum. Preview the auction: www.infocus-phxart.org/auction

A Landmark Photography Partnership

Phoenix Art Museum

In 2006, Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona in Tucson inaugurated a highly innovative and unprecedented collaboration to bring the finest in photography to Phoenix Art Museum visitors. It established a vibrant new photography exhibition program at the Museum, while bringing the Center's world-renowned collections to new and larger audiences.

The Center for Creative Photography is one of the world's largest repositories of materials chronicling photography. Founded in 1975, it now houses 3.8 million archival items and 80,000 fine prints by photographers including Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Aaron Siskind, W. Eugene Smith, Frederick Sommer, Edward Weston, and Garry Winogrand.

One of the nation's leading art museums, Phoenix Art Museum presents international exhibitions of the world's great art and features a collection that spans the centuries and the globe-American, Asian, contemporary, European, Latin American, and Western American art, and fashion design. Not to be missed are the Thorne Miniature Rooms, the interactive family gallery PhxArtKids, great shopping and dining, and a variety of public events.

Now, through the combined efforts of these two organizations, Phoenix Art Museum visitors will experience unparalleled excellence in the field of photography in the Museum's new Doris and John Norton Gallery for the Center for Creative Photography.

Phoenix Art Museum
Central Avenue & McDowell Road
(602) 257-1222 \ PhxArt.org