Jul 10, 2016, 12pm
Join us on the second Sunday of each month for a whirlwind of great art and hands-on activities. Through the generosity of Discount Tire Company, the Museum opens for free on the Second Sunday of each month, with exciting activities, scavenger hunts, live performances, story time, free tours, and more. Each Discount Tire Free Family Second Sunday features an opportunity to learn about and make art with a featured local Valley artist, from muralists to dancers and more.
Open to the public from noon to 5 pm each month, Museum Members can bet the rush and enjoy a Member's Preview hour from 11 am- noon. Not a Member yet? Purchase your Summer Mini Membership (http://www.phxart.org/summertime) to enjoy free visits to Phoenix Art Museum all summer long.
Don't forget that participants of the Maricopa County Summer Reads Program can earn an electronic badge for attending Discount Tire Free Family Second Sunday!
Activities For July 10:
Make It: Paint with Ice
Create stained watercolor paintings using ice.
Inspiration: Helen Frankenthaler’s Lush Spring
Wolfswinkel Education Center Studio
Make It: Chill Mural
Help Artist Yai Vila paint a mural inspired by Wayne Thiebaud’s Four Ice Cream Cones.
Wolfswinkel Education Center Gallery
Make It: Desert Storms
Make your own cotton monsoon clouds.
Inspiration: Louisa McElwain’s Desert Rain God
The Hub
Explore: Hands On
Take a virtual trip down the Colorado River with Maya Lin’s Pin River
Great Hall
Explore: Hands On
Discover how sea shells can be transformed into one-of-a-kind fashion accessories
Lewis Gallery amidst the Defining Moments: 50 Years of Fashion at Phoenix Art Museum exhibition
“Cool Jazz”
Listen to jazz written by the coolest of cool! Phoenix's leading jazz performance and education space, The Nash, located at 1st St and Roosevelt, presents an afternoon of Cool Jazz. Join this great quartet of local jazz musicians as they share the music of Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and many more. The quartet features Alan Acosta (saxophone), Matt Williams (keyboard), Will Goble (upright bass), and Connor Sample (drums and cymbals). Find out more about jazz in Phoenix at www.thenash.org.
11:30-3:30
Steele Gallery
Performance Dance With Nicole Olson
Move with Nicole Olson and Nathan Mabry’s Two Vessel’s (Unpacked)
Marcus Gallery
Relax.
Take a break and spend some quiet time in the Lemon Art Research Library.
Wolfswinkel Education Center
Story Time
Join Phoenix Public Library for 3 interactive story times. Attend and you can earn a Maricopa County Reads badge!
Lemon Art Research Library
1:30pm, 2:30pm, 3:30pm
Build Your Own Tour
Visit our Ask Me Docents at 4 different stops throughout the museum for a family-friendly
Wayland and Tooker Galleries
Steele Gallery
Marshall and Hendler Galleries
Asian Galleries
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