OCTOBER 2003

Museums

Arizona Historical Society Museum Downtown

140 N. Stone Ave., 770-1473. Hours: Monday–Friday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission fees: 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 5:00pm. Admission fees: 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. Museum Hours: Monday-Saturday from 10:00am to 4:00pm. 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.

Helga Teiwes, photographer unknown. Courtesy Arizona State Museum.

Arizona State Museum

UA Campus, 1013 E. University Blvd., 626-8381, www.statemuseum.arizona.edu. Hours: Monday–Saturday, 10:00am to 5:00pm. Sunday, Noon to 5:00 pm. Opening Saturday, October 11 is a photographic exhibition entitled “With an Eye on Culture: A Helga Teiwes Photo Retrospective.” Helga Tiewes stands among the last century’s most accomplished documentary photographers of the Southwest. As the museum’s staff photographer from 1964 to 1993, Helga had rare opportunities to photograph the cultural and artistic traditions, the lifeways, and the peoples of Indian communities throughout the region.

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. Currently showing is “Edward Weston: A Vision Conserved.” Encompassing fine prints, negatives and papers, this show presents a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the care and preservation of Edward Weston’s work. Also showing is “Margrethe Mather and Edward Weston: A Passionate Collaboration” through Sunday, October 12. Starting October 18 is Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth, which runs through January 4.

MOCA (Museum Of Contemporary Art)

191 E. Toole Ave., 624-5019. Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, Noon to 5:00pm. Continuing through Saturday, October 25 is Alfred Quiroz’s “Razor’s Edge.” On Thursday October 16, is an artist talk: “Quiroz on Quiroz” at 5:30pm. October 18 at 2:00pm, Miguel Juarez gives a gallery lecture.

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. 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. Hours: Wednesday–Saturday, 10:00am to 4:00pm. Admission fees: children under 12 admitted free. Students 12-18 years of age, and seniors (60+), $2.00, Adults, $3.00. Currently showing is, “Soiled Doves: Women of Business in Territorial Tucson.” The exhibit features images of prostitutes who “worked” in Gay Alley during territorial times, between 1891 and 1917. Gay Alley was located between Meyer and Convent, south of Camp Street, which is now Broadway.

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 fee: $3.50 for children 2-16, $5.50 for adults, and $4.50 for seniors. Starting Sunday October 5 is the “Discovering Tucson’s All Souls Day Procession” art exhibit, which runs through November 23. The opening reception is Sunday, October 5 from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, with performances by Puppetworks, Flam Chen and The Hillwilliams. The museum will also have a special performance by internationally renowned clown Wolfe Bowart on Saturday October 11 from 11:00am-11:30am. The museum 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 Fee: $5.00, Seniors (60+) $4.00, and students (13+) $2.00. Free on Sunday. Members and children under 12 are admitted free. Continuing through November 30, is “Changing Hands: Art without Reservation” in the main gallery. Opening Saturday, October 11 and running through December 14 is artist of the year Ron Riddick in the Goodman Pavilion. On Friday, October 24 is an exhibition viewing and reception from 4:00pm-5:00pm.

UA Museum of Art

Speedway Blvd. and Park Ave., 621-7567. Hours: Monday- Friday, 10:00am to 5:00pm and Sunday, Noon to 4:00 pm. Friday, October 10 is a public reception, from 5:00pm to 7:00pm for the UA School of Art Faculty Exhibition, featuring Fiber artist Gayle Wimmer. The exhibit continues through November 9. Also continuing through November 9 is “A Century of Change: French Art of the 19th Century.” On Friday October 24 is an artist lecture and public reception from 5:00pm to 7:00pm for the Intaglio Prints of Andrew Rush, showing through January 18.