Fall 2018–Spring 2019

Exhibition Dates: April 16–May 18, 2019 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…

Opening Reception: June 13, 2019, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM.   Exhibition Dates: June 11–July 19, 2019 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 the part of the…

September 11–November 16, 2018

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Detail of Subtle Entrapments, by Lydia Gravis Exhibition Dates: September 11 – November 16, 2018 Artist Presentation: November 16, 2018 at 4:00PM Recent works by Lydia Gravis explore the idea of liminal psychological spaces. Through repetitive mark-making in drawings that are often very large in scale, Gravis manifests her desire to respond to the world around her, but in abstract, rather than representational form. Lived experience is re-conceived and restated in sometimes obsessive networks…

Exhibition Dates: February 5 – March 29, 2019 Artist Presentation: March 29, 2019, 4:00 PM 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 appliances, Volz’s surface treatments recall a spectrum of industrial materials from frosted glass to rusting steel. His skillfully crafted Post-industrial ceramic sculptures, installations,…

Exhibition Dates: April 16–May 18, 2019 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…