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FOCUS on European Art is a Phoenix-based community of art lovers with a focus on European paintings, sculpture, & decorative arts
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The season typically runs from September through May, with a kick-off Fall Social featuring the Executive Director of a local art museum and a spring Social focusing on new membership at a local art gallery, interspersed with educational and fun Salons and Lectures, private tours of museums, and travel. Click on the “join Us” tab to learn more about the levels and benefits of membership.
Membership: 76 households
Including:
12 Philanthropist and Patron Households
19 Sponsor Households
2024-2025
Events & Travel
6 fully subscribed events, including Anne Connor speaking on Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Megan Pogue of the Timken Musuem in San Diego on the conservation of their Boucher “Lovers in the Park,” Cammy Brothers, Professor at Northeastern University in Boston on the Architectural History of Islamic Spain, and Ann Dumas from both the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the Houston Museum of Art on Matisse, Derain and the Origins of Fauvism. Our annual collaboration with Phoenix Art Museum featured Senior Curator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts speaking about Women Protagonists of the Dutch Baroque in connection with the special exhibition “Dutch Art Expanded.”
Supporting art
Phoenix Art Museum for the installation the Special Exhibition “Dutch Art Expanded” ($25,000)
Arizona State University for a scholarship for a PhD candidate in Art History ($5,000)
Musical Instrument Museum to support “Stradivarius and the Age of Strings.” ($7,000)
