This exhibition spotlights acquisitions from the last several years that align with the mission of the NAU Art Museum to collect and display works of art that challenge visitors’ perceptions and expectations. Our permanent collection is what makes our institution distinct from others in Arizona and the region. These works of art, in a wide range of media used in unusual ways, reflect the cultural value of our yearly special exhibitions,… Read more
As part of the ACLU of Arizona’s 60th-anniversary celebration festivities, the NAU Art Museum is hosting a traveling art exhibition that reflects the ACLU of Arizona’s mission, In This Together: Sixty Years of Daring to Create a More Perfect Arizona.
“In This Together” is an exhibition of works that was conceived in celebration of sixty years of activism on… Read more
Patrick D. Wilson’s works employ video, photography, and architectural forms to explore issues of urban expansion and cultural transformation. His works frequently use digital technologies alongside fabrication methods and vernacular objects. In 2012, Wilson was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to photograph construction sites in Chongqing China. Since that time, he has used the frontier areas of urban development in China as the source of his… Read more
September 11–November 16, 2018
Detail of Subtle Entrapments, by Lydia Gravis
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In this exhibit, Volz —a professional artist and educator from Boulder, Colorado — shares his recent work with the NAU and Northern Arizona community.
Drawing inspiration from the forms and surfaces of antique medical devices, farm machinery, and domestic… Read more
The NAU Art Museum recently acquired preparatory sketches used by the artist to communicate with art directors whose books Baldridge was commissioned to illustrate. Baldridge is an important historical voice in American illustration, not least for his liberal, post-colonial perspective on the costs of empire early in the twentieth century. The books that he illustrated, as well as those on which he collaborated with journalist Caroline Singer, approached distant cultures in a… Read more