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Exciting performances, engaging exhibitions coming to Scottsdale Arts this May and June
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale Arts will finish out its 2024–25 season in May and June with an energetic lineup of events and exhibitions.
May brings back the popular event series Glow Up @ SMoCA, where participants can engage in gentle yoga and bathe in serene melodies inside the galleries of Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA). On June 20, Melinda Milton will lead a special summer solstice Glow Up event inside James Turrell’s “Knight Rise” Skyspace.
SMoCA will open brand-new exhibitions during the summer months, including “Squidsoup: Infinite,” “Life on Mars” and “Michael Asfa: Suburban Paradise.” Audiences can experience award-winning performers at Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, including The War And Treaty and Mary Chapin Carpenter with Brandy Clark on May 31 and June 22, respectively.
The following is a list of events and exhibitions from Scottsdale Arts, a nonprofit organization comprising Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale Public Art, Scottsdale Arts Learning & Innovation, Canal Convergence and Civic Center LIVE. Visit ScottsdaleArts.org for information.
PERFORMANCES AND EVENTS
Glow Up @SMoCA: Gentle Yoga
Thursday, May 1, 2025, 7 p.m.
Thursday, June 5, 2025, 7 p.m.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Tickets: $25
This gentle yoga class, led by Melinda Milton inside a SMoCA exhibition, is open to all levels and encourages mindfulness and self-awareness through gentle movement and breathwork.
Visions ’25 Opening Reception
Friday, May 9, 2025, 5 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets: Free
High school students from Scottsdale Arts’ Visions program share their voices and show their work in a professional art gallery.
Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra | Connected Through Music
Sunday, May 11, 2025, 4 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $15
Join the Scottsdale Symphonic Orchestra for its season finale, “Connected Through Music,” as the orchestra celebrates Mother’s Day and the relationships in our lives that mean the most to us.
Glow Up @SMoCA: Sound Bath
Thursday, May 15, 2025, 7 p.m.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Tickets: $25
Refresh your aura and bathe in the serene melodies of a sound bath, led by Melinda Milton, that eases you into deep relaxation.
AJ’s The Art of Wine: Garden of Flavors
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 1 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $40
Explore a curated selection of spring and summer wines, paired with garden-inspired sweet and savory combinations that highlight the very roots of taste.
The War And Treaty
Supporting Artist Madeline Edwards
Saturday, May 31, 2025, 8 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $39.50
Nominated for Duo of the Year at this year’s Academy of Country Music Awards, The War And Treaty delivers a glorious and joyful fusion of country and soul. Madeline Edwards will open the show.
Glow Up @SMoCA: Sound Bath at Sunset
Friday, June 20, 2025, 6:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Musuem of Contemporary Art
Tickets: $25
Refresh your aura at this unique summer solstice celebration that combines the serene beauty of sunset in James Turrell’s “Knight Rise” Skyspace with a zen-inducing sound bath.
Mary Chapin Carpenter
Brandy Clark
Sunday, June 22, 2025, 7 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets start at $64
Mary Chapin Carpenter returns with her poetic song-stories and toe-tapping hits (“Passionate Kisses,” “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her”) alongside the heartfelt observations of singer-songwriter Brandy Clark (“Dear Insecurity”).
LOOKING AHEAD
An Evening with Jeremy Jordan
Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Tickets starts at $50.75
Jeremy Jordan returns to Scottsdale after starring in the title role of “The Great Gatsby” on Broadway and as Seymour in the acclaimed New York production of “Little Shop of Horrors.”
EXHIBITIONS
Visions ‘25
May 9 through Sept. 21, 2025
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Free
“Visions ’25” highlights the skills, inspirations, and ideas exchanged between advanced high school art students and Arizona-based professional artists over the year.
Life on Mars
June 14 through Sept. 14, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
Artists Erika Lynne Hanson and Steven J. Yazzie present works that link physical and metaphysical realities of nature, humanity, geology and cosmology to position Earth as the endgame.
• Squidsoup • Infinite •
June 28, 2025, through Aug. 30, 2026
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
Enter “Infinite” and be surrounded by hundreds of illuminated spheres that form a symphony of notes.
Michael Asfa: Suburban Paradise
June 14 through Sept. 14, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
“Suburban Paradise” explores the quiet, contemplative beauty of the American Southwest through minimalist sculpture and photography by Michael Afsa in his first museum exhibition.
Embroidered with Pain
April 3 through Aug. 3, 2025
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
Free
“Embroidered with Pain” aims to communicate a vital message to survivors: recovery is possible, and seeking help is the first step.
Flower Worlds
April 10 through July 15, 2025
Scottsdale Civic Center Library
Free
Tucson-based artist Lex Gjurasic expresses her philosophy of “radical happiness” and reverence for nature with a cosmic cacophony of flowers.
There are other skies
Feb. 22 through June 1, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
“There are other skies” presents artwork by twenty-nine artists from six continents, many of whom are showing in the United States for the first time.
This Just In… Recent Acquisitions @SMoCA
March 8 through Sep. 7, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
This exhibition highlights recent acquisitions to SMoCA’s ever-growing collection and celebrates the unexpected connections between works spanning a wide range of media.
Cybele Lyle: Floating Seeds Make Deep Forms
Aug. 24, 2024, through Aug. 3, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Admission: $10 to $16
“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.
SMoCA _____ space and Courtyard Installations
March 8 through Sep. 7, 2025
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Free
“Biophony” is a hand-coded generative synesthesia environment created by Berlin-based artist Alida Sun. And Shomit Barua’s “Hyperwilding” is an immersive installation that uses spatialized audio to produce a hybrid auditory experience.
Scottsdale Public Art Permanent Collection
Ongoing
Various locations throughout Scottsdale
Admission: free
More than 150 artworks, many of them large-scale sculptures, can be found throughout the city at parks, in public facilities and along the streets. See the map at ScottsdalePublicArt.org for locations.
For more information about the events, and to order tickets, visit ScottsdaleArts.org. Scottsdale Arts thanks the following sponsors and partners: City of Scottsdale, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Flinn Foundation, Billie Jo Herberger, Krumwiede Lewis Family Foundation, Nationwide, National Endowment for the Arts, Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, SOAR Foundation, SRP, Terra Foundation for American Art, Karen and John Voris, Arizona Republic, Buddy Taub Foundation, Betty Hum & Alan Yudell, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, Virginia M. Ullman Foundation, Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation, and Ethelyn Cohen.