Events for October 31, 2024 - October 31, 2024

With Creative Drive, we are bringing art from the streets of Chandler into the gallery! To celebrate the 16 new traffic control box wraps we installed in 2021, we invited the participating artists to exhibit an artwork at Vision Gallery. The resulting exhibition is one that illustrates the range of creative talent in this project that celebrates the vibrancy and welcoming attitude of Chandler.

Over the last year and a half, the pandemic has left many people in emotional limbo. Through her obsessive creation process, artist Lex Gjurasic actively strives towards radical happiness and hopes that others might also find levity and a path to joy - so c'mon and get happy, y'all!

Humor plays an essential role in Diego Perez’s artistic practice, but the details and skill in his work are no laughing matter. In this absurd exhibition, Perez’s imagination runs wild as he depicts everyday people with headgear made of canaries to traffic cones to everything in between.

Grief is a messy, complicated and sometimes beautiful part of life. For the past two years, many of us have been collectively grieving a variety of losses: jobs, loved ones, and maybe even life as we knew it. In this exhibition, artists Mikey Estes, Kaitlin Jencso, Daniel Kim, Serge J-F. Levy, and Jen Urso cathartically work through their emotions to answer unanswerable questions.

Chandler Unified School District’s most gifted artists put their work on display for the community to experience in this annual showcase. The burgeoning artists from Basha, Hamilton, Perry, Arizona College Prep, Casteel and Chandler high schools display their talents and viewpoints through paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry, and photographs. With over 100 works on display, there is always something for everyone in this exhibition.

Offered as part of the Chasing Ghosts programming, this brief gathering/workshop by Adriene Jenik will relate the story of the Artists’ Grief Deck and her work as an end-of-life doula, and will lead the group in an art-making exercise inspired by the deck.

It’s a cool, cool summer. Okay, maybe not in Phoenix, but this summer the Chandler Center for the Arts invited artists from across Arizona to submit cool-tone artwork for our annual open call exhibition. As a reprieve from the brutal summers here in the Valley of the Sun, we are exhibiting artwork of all kinds, from photographs to installations, that spotlight the color blue.