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The University of Arizona Museum of Art and Archive of Visual Arts

Current Exhibitions

Making Care: Drop-In Maker's Space

June 24 - November 4, 2023 Making Care invites visitors of all ages to play, explore and create, helping to transform the drop-in space into a temporary studio through active art making. Art museums play a vital role in the health and wellbeing of our communities by offering quiet spaces to learn, reflect, or experience…

Desert Triangle Print Carpeta

June 10 - December 21, 2023 The Desert Triangle Print Carpeta is a collaborative project born from the mind of self-proclaimed art agitator Karl “KRRRL” Whitaker, who wished to showcase the artistic merit that exists within the American Southwest. KRRRL traveled around the region defined by Tucson, Albuquerque, and El Paso—a desert triangle—and recruited 29…

The Vault Show: Staff Picks

May 27 - September 30, 2023 The UAMA collection is comprised of approximately 7,000 works of art that span many centuries and cultures. The Vault Show creates an opportunity to bring artworks out of storage and showcase selections from the permanent collection in new and interesting ways. In this iteration, each UAMA staff member selected…

American Art Gallery

This exhibition highlights works from the UAMA’s collection and provides a representative sample of major artistic movements happening from 1925-1945 in the United States. With such destabilizing events such as the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and World War II, it is no surprise that artists found various forms of visual expression with which to…

Modern Art Gallery

The mid-twentieth century was a watershed moment in the history of art where artists began to challenge traditional understandings and practices of art-making. This was done in part through a negation of pictorial space and narrative in favor of an emphasis on artistic process, experimentation, and the development of a universal visual language. In addition…

Contemporary Art Gallery

This exhibition features a variety of works from the UAMA's contemporary art collection that reflect on issues related to religion, social justice and other pressing issues of the past thirty years. Highlights include recent acquisitions Drop Me Off in Harlem by David Shrobe and …Run as fast as you will, escape if you can, you are…

The Samuel H. Kress Collection

The Kress Collection at UAMA consists of 64 European artworks, including The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo, that span the 14th to the early 19th centuries. Featuring portraits, mythological subjects, and biblical narratives, these pieces represent some of the most prevalent trends in early modern art production and offer visitors the opportunity to see stylistic differences…
The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo is a jewel of the UAMA collection and one of the most important works produced in 15th-century Spain. This altarpiece, also called a retablo, was made for the cathedral of the city (Ciudad) Rodrigo in the province of Salamanca, Spain, between the years 1480 and 1488, and after 1493. The…