Artist Date, Week One ~ Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

I went on a second Artist Date this week to the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.  There were three professional art exhibitions there, plus the young @ art gallery exhibition at the Scottsdale Performing Arts Center.

The first exhibit I saw was titled, Architecture+Art: 90 Days Over 100 Degrees.

The second exhibit I saw was titled, Spyhopping: Adventures with Sue Chenoweth and the permanent collection.

The third exhibition was Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum. 



The last exhibit which was not done by professional artists, but High Schools students from around the state of Arizona blew me away the most.  All the artwork in the young @ art gallery is operated by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art’s education department. The gallery is devoted to the creative work by youth.   SMoCA's VISIONS program, now in its twelfth year, brings together ca. 40 high-school art students from diverse Phoenix metropolitan-area high schools for a year-long series of activities designed to cultivate artistic skills, collaboration and civic engagement.  If you truly want to be inspired and really feel very optimistic about today's youth and where they are leading us, then you should go see these works by these creative and talented local youths. 



                                                                            

                                                                

                   Every time you don't follow your inner guidance,

you feel a loss of energy, loss of power,

a sense of spiritual deadness.

SHAKTI GAWAIN