On the Clock
June 5 - Sept. 8, 2024
Have you ever wondered who inspects the storm drains or creates the graphic design for the Recreation and Parks for the City of Chandler? For most people, they may be familiar with the more forward-facing municipal employees such as firefighters, police personnel, and city clerks. However, with a staff of over 2200, the City of Chandler is comprised of a wide swath of individuals that work to ensure the city runs well. From managing the water to checking out library books to fixing potholes on city roads to creating interesting exhibition, the city workforce does it all.
On the Clock celebrates the diverse group of individuals that makes up Team Chandler. While it would be difficult to highlight all of the individuals, this exhibition gives a glimpse into the many jobs that the city hires to ensure the residents have the best quality of life.
On the Clock was curated in conjunction with the Off the Clock exhibition at the Vision Gallery which features artwork from City of Chandler Employees. To learn more about that exhibition, please visit Vision Gallery.
High Flying Humor at Williams Field Air Force Base
June 7 - Oct. 27, 2024
This exhibition examines the pride and belonging that was fostered through humor by pilots-in-training. The exhibit includes oral histories, patches, painted ceiling tiles, photographs, and yearbooks that show how artwork, mascots, and mottoes were employed over time to represent class spirit and camaraderie at the base. An extended version of the exhibit will be featured on ChandlerpediA.
The exhibit is curated by Hannah Boese, Chandler Museum Intern.
Chandler A to Z
Dec. 19 - Oct. 13, 2024
From Agriculture to Intel to Zora Folley, this exhibition will take visitors on an alphabetical journey exploring the people, places, events, and industries that make Chandler what it is today.
Portraits of Dementia
Sept. 3 – Oct. 6, 2024
More than 50 million people are living with dementia globally. In the United States, one in three seniors suffers from Alzheimer’s disease or dementia at the time of their death. And yet despite the millions of individuals and families affected, dementia is often a taboo subject with limited public awareness or discourse. Portraits of Dementia destigmatizes those living with dementia through moving portraits and stories of lives well lived.
A program of Exhibits, a national division Mid-America Arts Alliance and The National Endowment for the Arts.
Image: Joe Wallace, Rene Perkins, 2021; ink on paper, 28 x 35 1/4 inches (framed, approximate); Courtesy of the artist
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Resistance
Sept. 17 - Dec. 1, 2024
The story of women's suffrage is a story of voting rights, of inclusion in and exclusion from the franchise, and of our civic development as a nation. Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence, a poster exhibition from the Smithsonian, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment and explores the complexity of the women's suffrage movement and the relevance of this history to Americans' lives today.
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence is organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery. This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
Image: Suffrage Pageant, 1913, George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress
Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross
Oct. 29, 2024 - Jan. 19, 2025
Considered one of the greatest artists in the field of comic books, Alex Ross has created some of the most iconic images known to comic fans today. For nearly 30 years, he has revitalized classic superheroes into works of fine art by illustrating characters including Spider-Man, Captain America, Iron Man, Storm from the X-Men, the Avengers, Black Panther and many more.
In addition to highlighting original art from his book Marvelocity, visitors will also learn about how Alex Ross developed into a great illustrator through his childhood drawings, preliminary, sketches, paintings, and 3-dimensional head busts of characters in the Marvel Universe.
Marvelocity: The Art of Alex Ross was developed by the Bess Bower Dunn Museum.
Image: Captain America Marvelocity Cover, 2018, Alex Ross, Courtesy of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum
Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories
Nov. 12, 2024 - Jan. 5, 2024
Beginning in the 1870s, the US government attempted to educate and assimilate American Indians into “civilized” society by placing children—of all ages, from thousands of homes and hundreds of diverse tribes—in distant, residential boarding schools. Many were forcibly taken from their families and communities. They were stripped of all signs of “Indianness,” even forbidden to speak their own language amongst themselves. Up until the 1930s, students were trained for domestic work and trade in a highly regimented environment. Many children went years without familial contact. These events had a lasting, generational impact.
This exhibition is made possible by NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. It was adapted from the permanent exhibition, Away from Home: American Indian Boarding School Stories, organized by The Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Image: Students posing at the entrance to Chemawa Indian Training School, near Salem, Oregon, 1905; photograph, variable size; Courtesy of Pacific University Archives.