JANUARY 2004

Museums

AZ Historical Society Museum Downtown

140 N. Stone Ave., 770-1473. Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 admitted free. Students 12-18 years of age, and Seniors (60 years of age), $2.00. Adults, $3.00. “History in the Heart of Tucson” is currently featured. Free parking in the Wells Fargo Bank parking garage.

Arizona Historical Society

949 E. 2nd St., 628-5774, www.arizonahistoricalsociety.org. Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 free. Students 12-18 years of age and Seniors 60 years of age, $4.00. Adults, $5.00. Admission is free on the first Saturday of every month. A variety of exhibits exploring the southwest are featured including “Rio Viejo/Rio Nuevo: Uncovering Tucson’s Past.” The exhibit focuses on the City of Tucson’s Rio Nuevo Project.

Arizona State Museum

1013 E. University Blvd., 626-8381, www.statemuseum.arizona.edu. Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Sunday, Noon to 5:00 pm. Admission: free. “Paths of Life: American Indians of the Southwest and Northern Mexico,” is the museum’s permanent exhibit. Through June is “With An Eye On Culture: A Helga Teiwes Photo Retrospective.” Teiwes stands among the last century’s most accomplished documentary photographers of the Southwest. Continuing through September is “The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the Secrets of Southwestern Pottery.”

Center for Creative Photography

SE corner of Park Ave. and Speedway Blvd. 621-7968, www.creativephotography.org. Hours: Monday–Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, and Sunday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: free. Opening January 10 and running through March 24 is “Evidence Revisited: Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel.” The collection of photos was originally published in Sultan and Mandel’s 1977 book “Evidence.” The book is comprised of images culled from institutional files and provokes contemplation of the role of a photograph between functional documentation versus personal expression.

MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art)

191 E. Toole Ave., 624-5019. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: free. Two solo shows open on January 24, with members’ preview from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and the public opening from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. Heidi Hesse will be exhibiting “Exploring Liberty,” and Jason Manley’s “Terrain” is a part of MOCA’s SOON/PRONTO series.

Pima County Sports Hall of Fame

110 S. Church Ave., in La Placita Village. 514-1600. Hours: Monday/Wednesday/Friday from 10:00am to 2:00pm. Admission: free. View the collection of sports memorabilia of current and former Arizona greats inducted in the Pima County Sports Hall of Fame.

Sosa-Carrillo-Fremont House Museum

151 Granada Ave. at the Tucson Convention Center, 622-0956. Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission: children under 12 admitted free. Students 12-18 years of age, and seniors (60+), $2.00, Adults, $3.00. Admission is free on the first Saturday of every month. Free parking is available in the TCC Lot C, 151 S. Granada Ave. Running through January 31 is the Guadalupe and Victorian Christmas exhibits. The Guadalupe exhibit showcases traditional and contemporary images of the religious folk symbol of the southwest and Mexico, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The Victorian Christmas exhibit includes Victorian ornaments displayed from 1880-1910, made of glass, cotton and guilded cardboard.

Tucson Children’s Museum

200 S. 6th Ave., 792-9985, www.tucsonchildrensmuseum.org. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday, Noon to 5:00pm. Admission: $3.50 for children 2-16, $5.50 for adults, and $4.50 for seniors. The 3rd Annual Festival of Lights continues with “Three Kings Day” on January 4 and “Chinese New Year” on January 24, both running from 1:00pm to 4:00pm. The museum also continuously features hands-on exhibits that include a dinosaur canyon, the ocean discovery center, a temple of art that showcases work by area schoolchildren, wee world for those under 5, the fire house and more!

Tucson Museum of Art

140 N. Main Ave., 624-2333, www.tucsonarts.com. Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm, Sunday, Noon to 4:00pm. Admission: $5.00, Seniors (60+) $4.00, and students (13+) $2.00. Free on Sunday. Members and children under 12 are admitted free. Running through February 8 is “Painted Devotions: Retablos from the TMA Collection;” through February 1 is Alan Sonfist’s “Burning Forest.” On exhibit until February 29 is “Dan Collins: Return to the Garden,” and “Directions: Carrie Seid Barancik.”

UA Museum of Art

Speedway Blvd. and Park Ave., 621-7567, www.artmuseum.arizona.edu. Hours: Tuesday- Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm, Saturday and Sunday, Noon to 4:00 pm. Admission: free. Continuing through January 25 is the figurative works of Kolomon Sokol. Sokol’s contributions to the development of modernism, especially in printmaking, in his native Czechoslovakia and in Mexico provided for a legendary career. Also through January 25 is “Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation.” Comic Release features art by more than fifty nationally-known and emerging artists.