Postcommodity—the transdisciplinary American Indian arts collective comprising Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Nathan Young—present two monumental installations: Promoting a More Just, Verdant and Harmonious Resolution (2011) and Pollination (2015) that question common national narratives and the commodification of nature, history and culture.
Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
Sponsored by Botanicare and Tamar Weiss in memory of Emil Weiss
Mar 21, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
Featuring drawings, paintings, prints, and sculpture from SMoCA’s collection, Mark + Making explores the use of marks, gestures, and line to build form and shape ideas in contemporary artistic practic...
Sep 19, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027
What the Earth Keeps is a site-specific installation, performance, and cyanotype-mapping project by the collective Desert ArtLAB that explores relationships between land, ecology, and cultural memory....
Sep 19, 2026 – Sep 5, 2027
Desert Perspectives is a yearlong exhibition that explores the deserts of the Southwest through more than a century of artistic responses from the museum’s collection, alongside loans and new commissi...
Sep 25, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027
ArtSpark #1 features work created by the artists in the first cohort of Scottsdale Arts’ new ArtSpark program. These artists were provided funding to engage the local community and participate in care...
