Scottsdale Arts Community

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

Any guest showing their Hotel Valley Ho room key at SMoCA can gain free admission for two through December 31, 2013. The museum is located less than a mile from the hotel, at 7374 E. 2nd St.

Exhibitions

The Human Touch 
Selections From the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
- Through April 28 -
With the human figure as its focus, the collection reflects the rich cultural diversity and complexity of contemporary society. From realistic to abstract, serious to whimsical, its works of art offer a breadth of approaches and subjects. Appropriation, performance, and digital manipulation are but a handful of the strategies deployed in the creation of these artworks; and hybrid racial identities, family dynamics, and ethnic heritage but a few of the complicated topics they tackle.

Paolo Soleri: Mesa City to Arcosanti
- Through April 28 -
This exhibition begins in the early 1960s when Soleri shifted his focus from bridges and residences to large-scale urban planning based on environmental accountability. Soleri's first comprehensive vision of a community is Mesa City, an example of what he calls an “arcology,” or an architectural project based on the synthesis of architecture + ecology. In Mesa City, Soleri combines the goals of high-density living, a vibrant urban space, environmental sustainability, respect for natural resources and a commercial sector based upon creativity. The exhibition will end with Arcosanti (arcology + Cosanti), a project primarily built in the 1970s and ’80s near Mayer, Arizona.

Featured Lobby Art

Two photographic prints by Andrew Pielage are on display in the lobby. He is not only a photographer, but an assistant manager at the hotel who can often be seen at the front desk! He has over fifteen years of photography experience and shoots landscapes, events, people, and more.

AP Photography Online