Harvard Club of Phoenix

 Curator Presentation and Private Alumni Reception at the Phoenix Art Museum

Saturday, April 20, 2024

 2:00 pm to 3:20 pm

Presentation by Curator Rachel Zebro

Gather at Singer Hall, Phoenix Art Museum -1625 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004

Overview of Art Exhibitions - Followed by Private Docent Tour

3:20 pm to 4:50 pm

Private Alumni Reception with Light Desert Appetizers - Cash Wine and Beer Bar

Singer Hall, Phoenix Art Museum - Dinner at a Restaurant Nearby To Be Arranged

Our Phoenix Ivy colleagues write: "On Saturday, April 20, 2024, the Phoenix Ivy Council is partnering with the Phoenix Art Museum to offer our alumni and their guests discounted ticket entrance to the Phoenix Art Museum, along with a private alumni reception, special presentation by Rachel Zebro, a museum curator, and a guided docent alumni tour of the museum and its Multiple Realities exhibition. The private presentation will commence at 2:15 pm and will be followed by the special alumni docent museum tours. The private alumni reception will be held in the museum’s Singer Hall commencing from 3:20 pm to 4:50 pm. The Alumni Reception will have light appetizers catered by Conceptually Social and a cash bar for wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages provided by ARTenders. We are in the process of securing reservations at a nearby restaurant for a post-event alumni dinner. You will not want to miss this special afternoon of arts, curator presentation, private docent tours and alumni social gathering!

More on the event from intrepid organizer Phoenix Ivy:
"Rachel Zebro, art museum curator and art historyfaculty member, will provide an overview of the museum’s exhibition titled The Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s. This exhibition features nearly 100 artists from six Central-Eastern European nations, including East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia. Organized by the Walker Art Center, the exhibition features rarely seen and newly reconstructed works, tracing how a generation of artists with distinct experiences of locally specific state-sanctioned control embraced experimentation and interdisciplinary practices to confront at times harsh conditions of everyday life. The exhibition features rarely seen and newly reconstructed works, drawing on the visual arts, performance, music, and material culture to demonstrate the conceptual and formal innovation practiced by Eastern Bloc artists of the era, who were forced to negotiate and adapt their artistic practices within societies that enforced restrictions on how art could be produced, circulated, and received by the public."