Defining Sustainability at Arizona State University Art Museum

TEMPE, Ariz., July 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fall 2009 season at the
ASU Art Museum and Ceramics Research Center, Defining Sustainability, is a
series of dynamic and interactive projects that tell simple stories - an
artist's proposal for green transportation or a designer's solution for
recycled shade structures. Together, they convey the complexity of sustaining
life on earth. A nontraditional art museum project, artists, designers and
faculty will include the community in their creative processes and in
conversations on sustainability.

Fall 2009 exhibitions include:

Native Confluence: Sustaining Cultures (Nora Naranjo Morse, Athena and Bill
Steen, the Postcommodity Collective)
Aug. 29 - Nov. 28, 2009
Native Confluence will include an installation in progress within the CRC as
well as seep outside onto the exterior walls of the building.

Defining Sustainability: From the ASU Art Museum Collection
Sept. 19, 2009 - Jan. 30, 2010
This exhibition will explore how artists have brought issues of sustainability
to a broader community, encouraged participation and dialog, and proposed
creative solutions.

Jillian McDonald: Alone Together in the Dark (Social Studies Project 5)
Artist in residence in the gallery: Oct. 5 - Nov. 14, 2009
Exhibition: Oct. 5, 2009 - Jan. 9, 2010
New York-based, Canadian artist Jillian McDonald will create an interactive
project that explores ideas of ghosts and abandoned houses, focusing on ideas
around sustainable living and ghost towns.

Nowhere to Hide: Three Artists in the Desert (Julie Anand, Richard Lerman,
Carrie Marill)
Oct. 10, 2009 - Feb. 20, 2010
Nowhere to Hide presents the work of three Phoenix artists who have explored
definitions of sustainability in their art. Their approaches range from
photography to sound sculpture and gouache paintings.

Urban Design Projects:

Political Ply: Recycled Evaporative Cooling Shade Structures
October - December 2009
Using recycled materials, specifically old political posters, ASU Design
students have built a gridded structure that will provide shade, respond to
the existing architecture and inject color and whimsy into the museum's
outdoor sculpture courts.

Canalscape for Metro Phoenix
Nov. 7 - Dec. 1, 2009
Canalscape proposes the creation mixed-use "urban infill" to provide highly
desirable places to gather by the water as well as an alternative to sprawl.

The ASU Art Museum strives to forge a new model for the university art museum
as an interdisciplinary lab that explores real world issues through the lens
of the creative process. To learn more about the museum, call 480.965.2787 or
visit http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu.

SOURCE Arizona State University Art Museum

Diana Wallace, Arizona State University Art Museum, +1-480-965-0014,
diane.wallace@asu.edu