Thursday, October 2, 2014


**Save the Date**
Don’t be Tardy for the pARTy 2015!
First glimpse of the new Andy Warhol: Portraits Exhibition
WHO:        This year’s event co-chairs, CEO and Founder of My Sister’s Closet – the Valley’s largest family designer consignment shops - Ann Siner, sister and My Sister's Closet head stylist, Tess Loo, and philanthropist Cheryl Londen invite you to attend the pARTy, Phoenix Art Museum’s annual fundraiser. This  evening will feature cocktails, dinner, dancing, a fashion collaboration by Neiman Marcus, and a rare, first glimpse at the new exhibition Andy Warhol: Portraits. Proceeds from the pARTy support the Museum’s exhibitions and programs.
WHAT:        Phoenix Art Museum’s annual fundraiser, the pARTy
WHEN:        Saturday, February 28, 2015
WHERE:      Phoenix Art Museum - 1625 N. Central Ave.

About Andy Warhol: Portraits Exhibition
Andy Warhol: Portraits features original works from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This notoriously private artist is revealed in the company he keeps. Including screen prints, drawings, paintings, Polaroids, and vintage family photos, this exhibition explores the phenomenon that is Warhol’s work on a deeply personal level, including more than 130 portraits produced by Warhol from the 1940s to the 1980s. This exhibition contains portraits of Warhol in his youth, a reproduction of Warhol's first celebrity autograph (from Shirley Temple in 1941), early portrait drawings from the 1940s, samples of Warhol's commercial work from the 1950s, movie star portraits from the 1960s, and more than 100 portrait paintings from the 1970s and 1980s.
About Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix Art Museum has grown to an institution with an international reputation for excellence. The Board of Trustees has provided solid leadership and economic stewardship. Our membership is loyal, generous, and supportive and the volunteers within our support organizations are a unique force in driving programming enrichment, and enthusiasm for the Museum. Since 1959, staff members have been a passionate, dedicated force following a vision of making this institution the best it can be. From all of these groups and more, donors have shared our vision, and, in turn, invested in the efforts of to this institution to raise the quality of life in metropolitan Phoenix.  Our Mission is simple - Phoenix Art Museum is a vibrant destination connecting people to great art from around the world to enrich their lives and communities. In the last 50 years, Phoenix Art Museum has hosted more than 400 exhibitions, grown the collection to more than 18,000 works of art, and has been visited by millions.
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