Events from January 13, 2000 – September 14, 2000 – Center for Creative Photography

Muscle Memory: Lens On The Body (at Phoenix Art Museum)

Aidan Avery — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Drawn primarily from the collections of the Center for Creative Photography and Phoenix Art Museum, Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body showcases a wide range of historical and contemporary works that explore the ways photographers have represented the human figure and bodily experiences of movement, aging, disability, and more.

Featured works demonstrate how artists have grappled with physicality, dimension, beauty, form, and the politics of the body in the landscape and urban environment. Subjects are presented in the context of growing older, sports, and abstraction, offering audiences the opportunity to consider the body’s ability to morph and bear traces of lived experiences.

Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body is co-organized by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography. The exhibition is curated by Emilia Mickevicius, PhD, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography.

All exhibitions at Phoenix Art Museum are underwritten by the Phoenix Art Museum Exhibition Excellence Fund, founded by The Opatrny Family Foundation with additional major support provided by Joan Cremin.

Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna

Aidan Avery — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This exhibition is the first survey of the prolific career of American photographer Rosalie (Rollie) Thorne McKenna (1918–2003). After graduating from Vassar College in 1940, McKenna worked independently as a sought-after architectural and portrait photographer, making unique yet underrecognized contributions to American modernism and documentary photography. During her lifetime, McKenna’s work was published in numerous books and magazines including Fortune, Harper’s, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. The Museum of Modern Art’s 1955 landmark exhibition Latin American Architecture Since 1945 featured her architectural photographs. She made iconic portraits of many artists and writers, including W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, Alexander Calder, Truman Capote, T. S. Eliot, Laura Gilpin, Henry Moore, Sylvia Plath, Ezra Pound, Anne Sexton, Dylan Thomas, and Eudora Welty. McKenna used her camera to forge an unusual path for a woman in mid-twentieth-century America toward both personal and creative freedom. She embraced photography as a way to explore the true complexity of human experience—including her own.

Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna is a traveling exhibition organized by the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College. This is a unique presentation of the exhibition for the Center for Creative Photography organized by Mary-Kay Lombino, Deputy Director and Emily Hargroves Fisher ’57 and Richard B. Fisher Curator, and Jessica D. Brier, Curator of Photography. The exhibition is generously supported by the Rosalie Thorne McKenna Foundation.

Coffee House: The Reading Remix

Aidan Avery — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:30:00 +0000

Come join us at the Center for Creative Photography for Coffee House: The Remix Reading.

In conjunction with CCP’s new exhibition Making a Life in Photography: Rollie McKenna, enjoy coffee and a live poetry reading held in our very own galleries!

Poets T.C. Tolbert, Jami Macarty, Diana Marie Delgado, and Mari Herreras will read excerpts from poets, Jean Garrigue, Anne Sexton, John Ashbery, and Elizabeth Bishop, photographed by McKenna, alongside original work that reflects on these photographs, the poets themselves, and the writers’ own personal responses to McKenna’s photographs.

This event is free and open to the public.

Chill Zone

Aidan Avery — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:00:00 +0000

Beat the heat this summer at the CCP’s summer experience: the Chill Zone! This relaxed, self-guided space invites visitors to slow down and explore at their own pace. Discover new projects each week starting June 1, browse art books, and create artwork of your own in a cool, creative environment. Drop-in workshops and hands-on activities will be offered throughout the month, making the Chill Zone a perfect summer stop for curiosity, creativity, and connection.

Animality: 100 Years of Photographs

Aidan Avery — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:00:00 +0000

This interdisciplinary exhibition drawn from the Center for Creative Photography collection brings together 100 photographs and objects depicting animals and their relationships to humans. Animality features a wide range of photographic formats, a diverse group of photographers, and all manner of animals, across a century of time. Created in collaboration with seven honors students (Dylan Brown, Maya Cervantes, Emma Charles, Charles Elliott, Emily Hogg, Emma Mireles, and Shay Parchem) in University of Arizona professors Netzin and Dieter Steklis’ Human Animal Interrelationships course, the exhibition features 11 thematic groupings, which together address human-animal interactions, human and animal expressions, and animal welfare.