Tuesday, Closed
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Friday, Sept. 20, 11 a.m.–3 p.m.
Exhibition On View
Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms
Aug. 24, 2024 - Feb. 2, 2025
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Exhibition On View
Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience
Aug. 17, 2024 - Jan. 19, 2025
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A museum dedicated to contemporary art, architecture, and design.
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7374 East Second Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85251
480.874.4666
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Exhibition On View
Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms
Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms is a site-specific installation that responds to deserts in the North American Southwest as non-places—liminal expanses for ambiguity within a regenerative ecosystem.
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Exploding Native Inevitable
Exploding Native Inevitable is an exhibition of the work of twelve contemporary Indigenous artists and two collaboratives, accompanied by a program of dance, film, music, performance, readings, storytelling, and video by Indigenous artists from a land we now call America.
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poetics of dissonance
Situated on the cusp of another pivotal election, poetics of dissonance presents eighteen artists from the SMoCA collection whose work navigates the tumultuous landscape of socio-political discourse.
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Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience
Brains and Beauty: At the Intersection of Art and Neuroscience is a visual exploration of neuroaesthetics, the new and rapidly expanding field of research that combines neuroscience and psychology to study the neural processes of aesthetic experience.
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The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) is an educational institution dedicated to presenting exhibitions of contemporary and modern art, architecture, and design.
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Brains and Beauty Exhibition Tour with Neuroaesthetics Expert Anjan Chatterjee
Wednesday, Oct 2, 2024, 7 p.m. - 8 p.m.
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Mystery in the Museum @SMoCA: Encore Presentation
Friday, Dec 6, 2024, 6:30 p.m.
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Exploding Native Inevitable Celebration
Thursday, Dec 12, 2024, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m.
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