Day Trip to San Francisco
2023-08-19
The Tudors: Art & Majesty in Renaissance England

Guest Speaker: Claudia Mesch
2023-09-30 11:30 - 13:30 (America/Phoenix)
Claudia Mesch, Professor of Art History, ASUDynamics of Cold War Art: European Postwar Painting‍
Luncheon at Phoenix Country Club

Trip to Florence, Italy
2023-10-16 - 2023-10-22

Robert Aronson
2023-11-13 17:00
Robert AronsonAronson Antiquairs, Delft Delftware and the Golden Age of Dutch ArtPrivate home in Paradise Valley

Ross King
2024-01-28 12:30 - 14:30
Sunday luncheon at private Paradise Valley club with Ross King, international best-selling English author on The Florence Bookseller: Manuscripts and Power

Landscapes Through Oriental and Occidental Eyes
2024-02-21 17:00 - 19:00
Claudia Brown, PhD, ASU Professor and form Curator of Asian Art at Phoenix Art Museum
Will guide us in a comparison of Western and Asian Landscape.

This will be primarily in the Asian Galleries.

Seating is very limited

Ceramics and the Silk Road: Over Land and Sea
2024-03-20 15:00
“Ceramics and the Silk Road: Over Land and Sea” with FOCUS scholarship student, former curator at the MIM, and Special Projects Curator at PhxArt, Colin Pearson. Talk and reception in a penthouse apartment at Mirabella in Tempe. Philanthropist and Patron event.

The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
2024-03-27 18:00 - 20:00
FOCUS collaboration with Phx Art Museum: Artemisia Gentileschi, 17 th c. Italian Baroque painter. Speaker is Gina Siciliano, young and edgy Seattle artist and writer of successful graphic novel, “I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi”. Reception 6:00 PM for FOCUS members on Grossman Terrace. 7 PM Lecture in Whiteman Hall.

Rotraut Klein-Moquay's Studio
2024-04-30 14:00 - 15:30
Visit to artist’s studio and sculpture garden with reception to follow.
As the number of guests is very limited at the artist’s request, you must be a member to participate

Annual Meeting at Incoming President's Home
2024-05-06 16:00
Enjoy great views of downtown Phoenix and unusual architecture while we celebrate the past year and look forward to 2024-2025. Election of Officers and Board of Directors

SOCIAL: Update on Phoenix Art Museum
2024-09-19 16:30 - 18:00
Jeremy Mikolajczak, The Sybil Harrington Director + CEO of Phoenix Art Museum.
Wine and appetizers at a private home in Paradise Valley.
Free for Members and Guests

SALON: Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Master Baroque Sculptor and Architect
2024-09-26 16:30
Anne Connor, ASU Art History, ret.
Wine and appetizers, Tommy Bahama’s Kierland

FOCUS Travels to Washington DC and Baltimore
2024-10-14 - 2024-10-20
Hirshhorn Museum
Paris 1874: “The Impressionist Moment” at the National Gallery. Exhibition is in conjunction with the Musee D’Orsay.
Hillwood Museum and Gardens.
The Walters Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art

October 14-20, 2024

SALON: Conservation in a Park: 17th c. painter Francois Boucher’s Lovers in the Park
2024-11-14 16:30 - 18:30
Megan Pogue, Executive Director of The Timken Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego
Phoenix Country Club

FOR PHILANTHROPISTS AND PATRONS Stradivarius and the Golden Age of Strings
2024-12-10 15:30 - 17:30
Curator-led tour at the Musical Instrument Museum.

Reception to follow at Cafe Allegro.

SALON: Women Protagonists of the Dutch Baroque
2025-01-30 18:00 - 20:00
Join us at 5 pm in the gallery, 6 pm for light refreshments + cash bar, and program at 7 pm.

SALON: Architecture, Memory and the Legacy of Islamic Spain
2025-02-25 16:30 - 18:00
Cammy Brothers, Professor of Art and Architecture at Northeastern University in Boston, Mass.
Reception at Vincent’s on Camelback

SALON: Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism.
2025-03-21 12:00 - 14:00
Ann Dumas, Curator at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and Consultant Curator of European Art at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Luncheon at Private Club
