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ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center

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The design of the arts center, containing museum, theater arts and dance departments involved a special attitude toward the desert - much more than simply imposing the building program on the quasi-urban university site. The harsh and relentless desert presence in Arizona is often denied; the prevailing tendency (in terms of development and attitudes toward public architecture) is to convert the desert into a Midwestern oasis, to tame the desert.

The building defines a journey, a procession; it defines options and potentials rather than particular paths. It is an open matrix of possibilities for engagement both vertically and horizontally. Art galleries extend the procession. They are anchored by exterior terraces for sculpture installations. These terraces are partly shaded by steel-plate trellises. The gallery sequence is open ended; visitors can use the sculpture terraces to explore inside and out, or they can proceed indoors to the large upper gallery, which has the highest ceilings and straddles the main entry.

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    ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center

    51 East 10th Street
    Tempe, AZ 85281

    Phone: (480) 727-0700   |   Email   |  

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    04/20/12	Civil Disobedience Park Jam! ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    03/09/12	Civil Disobedience Park Jam! ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    03/02/12- 03/16/12	American Victory ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    11/18/11	Civil Disobedience Park Jam! ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    10/21/11- 10/30/11	The AZ Centennial Plays ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    09/09/11	Civil Disobedience Park Jam! ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    04/22/11	Civil Disobedience: Urban Cultures on the Border ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    08/21/10	Master Class with Charlotte Boye-Christensen ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    04/17/10	14th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    04/02/10	Buck World Director Rickerby Hinds to Present Lecture and Workshop ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    02/04/10- 02/06/10	Lance Gharavi's Dreaming Darwin ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    11/20/09- 11/22/09	Emerging Artists ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    04/24/09- 05/03/09	MFA Collaboration Project ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    10/25/08- 11/01/08	Buddy Bolden's Blues ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    10/25/08- 11/02/08	Secrets of Gardenias ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center
    10/17/08	Distinguished Visiting Writers Series: Luis Valdez ASU Nelson Fine Arts Center

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