Location: LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Arizona

Discover exotic LEGO creatures, hunt for rare Dino eggs, explore hidden lands and even build your own dinosaurs at LEGOLAND® Discovery Center Arizona March 2 through December 31, 2018.

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“Walking on Sunshine” features 10 emerging local artists:  Andie Olson, Dori Jung, John Mainieri, Marie Provine, Marlena Robbins, Paige Reesor, Rebecca Murphy Keith, Sabrina Hernandez, Savannah Atencio, and finally Sylvia Mousseux.  The artwork includes oil, acrylic, and pastel paintings; mixed media pieces; sculpture; along with a variety of handmade items from other local artisans as well. Grotto Gallery will be hosting a Reception to celebrate our summer exhibit called “Walking on Sunshine” on Friday, July 13th.  Doors will open at 5:00pm and the event will end at 8:00pm. This exhibit will open on July 10th  and runs through September 27th.  The gallery is located at 132 East 6th Street, Tempe, AZ in the new FABRiC building on the ASU campus near the popular Mill Avenue district.

Location: ASU Art Museum

"Indwelling" is a solo exhibition of Yuri Kobayashi, a contemporary artist who combines traditional woodworking practices and refined Japanese aesthetics to create sculptures that reflect her identity, experiences and thoughts.

Location: Changing Hands Bookstore

The Hugo Award-winning author and music journalist explores the weird and wild story of when rock 'n' roll met the sci-fi world of the 1970s in his debut novel, Strange Stars.

Location: The Marquee

Steel Pulse & Tribal Seeds perform at The Marquee with Lya Terra on August 22, 2018. Doors open at 6 p.m. All ages are welcome.

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts

The Miss Native American USA organization is excited to announce their 8th Annual Scholarship Pageant on Friday, August 24, 2018.

Location: The Marquee

Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Animal House with a toga party and a special live performance from Otis Day & The Knights, Aunt B and Redspace on August 25, 2018.

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts

MAC & Company presents "4.0" to the Tempe Center for the Arts on August 25, 2018.

Location: ASU Katzin Concert Hall

Percussionist Simone Mancuso presents a recital including works by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Alberto Jacopucci and featuring two world premiered for solo percussion and electronics. Featured works were written and dedicated to Mancuso by faculty composers Glenn Hackbarth and Kotoka Suzuki.

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts

Rhythm Dance Company presents their 2018 Recital to the Tempe Center for the Arts on August 26, 2018.

Location: Pueblo Grande Museum

Hear the untold stories of pottery sherds and discover what these pieces of the past can reveal. Find out how archaeologists rediscover history from pieces of pottery in Fragments: Broken Bowls Tell More Tales, a new exhibit opening on October 26 through August 2018 at Pueblo Grande Museum. This exhibition will feature sherds that connect the Hohokam with their neighbors across the Southwest and northern Mexico during the time of the European Renaissance.

Location: Papago Park

Featuring a collection of black and white photographs by renowned photographer Scott Baxter, illustrating 100 years of ranching in Arizona. The photographs provide an intimate look at ranching – the hardships, the relationship between rancher and animal, the isolation, and the beauty. Panel Discussions Presented in Conjunction with Exhibition: April 18 Ranching Women: Past, Present and Future May 15 Ranching in Arizona: 100 Years, 100 Challenges   *Adults $12.00;  Seniors 65+ $10.00; Ages 7 – 17  $8.00 | Children 6 and under – Free;   AHS members, Military and Veterans – Free  

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During its nearly 40 years in print, Craft Horizons documented the craft movement as it happened. This exhibition pairs works from ASU Art Museum’s collection that were made by artists featured in the magazine with articles, reviews and letters from readers to illustrate the essential role of Craft Horizons played in the development of craft in the United States from 1941-1979. *Exhibition runs from March 24 through September 15. 

Location: Tempe Center for the Arts

This summer’s exhibition draw at the Gallery at TCA is a feast for eyes and the imagination. Celebrate the arts and sciences behind the tradition of drawing. For many people working in creative fields such as visual art, fashion design and architecture, etc.; drawing is an important part of the process. This exhibition and accompanying programs for all ages explores a wide variety of creative media, styles and techniques that incorporate drawing.  

Location: Desert Botanical Garden

Don’t miss one of the best summer events, the Desert Botanical Garden Flashlight Tours. Flashlight Tours take place on Saturday nights, May 26-Sept. 1, 2018.  This event begins at 7:00 p.m.  Flashlight Tours are included with Garden membership or with paid Garden admission.  The tours are at your own pace. Along the trails, guests can find several discovery stations with plants, animals and other elements of the desert at night. Guests should bring their own flashlights and wear comfortable shoes.  Flashlight Tours are perfect for families and date nights.

Location: ASU Art Museum

“Beyond Beyond” is a solo exhibition of Ai Kijima, a contemporary artist whose riotous collages of figures, patterns and colors are made from meticulously pieced and fused textiles. In her work from the early 2000s, she used scraps of bed sheets, curtains, clothing and dish towels collected from thrift stores to create artworks that depict a variety of characters ranging from American cartoons to Japanese anime. Born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, Kijima is fascinated by the patterns and imagery of fabrics from around the globe. “Beyond Beyond” reflects Kijima’s interest in how the melding of traditional craft and popular imagery reflects a culture’s history, preoccupations and social politics.  

Location: Tempe Marketplace

Whether you’re looking forward to a fun date night or family night out, you can’t go wrong with free music performances at Tempe Marketplace. Enjoy music performed by both local and nationally known bands and musicians at The District Stage located in front of Dave & Busters. August Performances: August 3 – Wide Awake U2 Tribute Band August 4 – Ratio Motown Tribute Band August 10 – CrossTown Players Funk August 11 – The Joeys Rock August 17 – Sunset Voodoo Variety August 18 – Corridor Sixteen Indie Alternative Rock and Pop August 24 – Henry Thompson and SWELL Rock, Classic Rock August 25 – 3Nations High Energy Pop, Rock, Funk and Reggae August 31 – Black Forest Society Folk, Classical and World Music        

Location: ASU Art Museum

“A Bigger Plan” is a two-part solo exhibition of Euan MacDonald, a Los Angeles-based artist whose works span a wide range of artistic disciplines, from video to painting. The first part of the exhibition, “Side B,” is on view now through September 1, 2018, and the second part, “Side A,” is on view September 15 through December 1, 2018. “Side B” marks the first survey of MacDonald’s videos and includes formative and groundbreaking works that explore the dynamics of change and the effects of time, sound duration and chance on pictorial and social conditions. The second part of the exhibition, “Side A,” features an immersive video installation that layers pre-psychedelic patterning from the end pages of 18th, 19th and early 20th century books from the open stacks of ASU Hayden Library.

Location: ASU Art Museum

Two artists, two coasts, two media — Andy Warhol and Viola Frey were central to two movements which reinvented art in the 20th century with the embrace of popular culture, mass-produced images and objects, bold silhouettes and colors. These two solo exhibitions, Warhol’s prints and photographs and Frey’s ceramic sculptures, are drawn entirely from ASU Art Museum’s permanent collection.