FIND US IN THE COMMUNITY
During our extended-temporary closure, we're bringing exhibits out into the community.
Catch Traditions in Motion
at Tucson Comic Con 2025
August 29-31, 2025
Tucson Convention Center
For many Indigenous communities, adopting and adapting car culture is a way of expressing heritage and contemporary experiences. Cars, skateboards, motorcycles, bicycles, and even shoes become canvases, often incorporating traditional symbols, colors, and patterns. This unique expression of self is a dynamic and evolving cultural landscape.
This exhibit includes photographs and artwork by Indigenous artists focusing on Indigenous lowriders and their cars, skateboards, motorcycles, and bicycles. Eleven die-cast model cars painted by Native artists will also be on display. Related activities with Indigenous car and motorcycle club members, artists, and curators will be offered.
This exhibit is presented by
Photo:
Hano clown skater by Herbert Talahaftewa, Hopi
ASM 2008-282-11
Catch our NEW pop-up exhibit, Tricksters and Truth Tellers, at Tucson Meet Yourself, October 17-19, 2025!
Tricksters and Truthtellers: Different Ways of Seeing highlights local and national Indigenous artists whose works make viewers consider different perspectives on current issues such as identity, appropriation, the environment, the role of museums, and ways communities come together to care for each other and protect what is valued. The pieces chosen use animals to tell their stories. The traditional tricksters, Coyote and Raven, serve as your guides through the exhibit, offering their own humorous commentary. The exhibit also includes hands-on activities.
Curated by Lisa Falk and Jennifer Juan, Arizona State Museum. Illustrations by Tom Farris (Otoe-Missouria/Cherokee).
A SPECTACULAR DISCOVERY
A window exhibit at the Bisbee Restoration Museum
February 15, 2025 -- Closing date TBD.
In 1951, Dr. Emil W. Haury, Director of the Arizona State Museum, received an exciting call. Ranchers near Naco, Arizona found two spear points near huge bones eroding out of a wash. Dr. Haury, with a team of University of Arizona faculty and students, rushed to investigate.
What they excavated was a one-of-a-kind discovery: a mammoth killed by Clovis hunters over 13,000 years ago. Archaeologists speculate that the mammoth (Mammuthus (Parelephas) columbi) actually escaped the attack but was mortally wounded by the spear points excavated from between its ribs and vertebrae. When it died, it fell on a sandbar next to a stream.
See large photographs of the excavation, a diorama of mammoth hunting and butchering, and replica Clovis points.
Bisbee Restoration Museum
37 Main Street
Bisbee, AZ 85603
https://www.bisbeerestorationmuseum.org/
Special thanks to ASM Director's Council Member Doug Dunn for initiating the installation and for his financial support of it.
Our Song is Our Strength was curated by members of the Pascua Yaqui community
Amerind Museum
2100 N. Amerind Rd.
Dragoon, AZ 85609
October 19, 2024 through August 2025.
See the online version of this exhibit.
Su:dagi/Shu:thag: Rekindling Our Connections, was curated by members of the Gila River and Salt River communities
Opening soon at
S'edav Va'aki Museum
Phoenix, AZ
See the online version of this exhibit.
Invisible No More! was curated by members of the Hia-Ced Oʼodham community
New exhibit location TBA.
See the online version of this exhibit.
