Casey At The Bat @ MAC >> Scoring Another Run For The Arts March 2016

Press release today for immediate release: Upcoming Events > March 2016

AT THE MAC: March 2016

Contact: Casey Blake, 480-644-6620, casey.blake@mesaartscenter.com

For immediate release: Dec. 30, 2015

 

Selected Highlights for this post include:

spark! Mesa’s Festival of Creativity

Mar. 18-19, 2016 | 12 Noon – 10 p.m.

Mesa Arts Center | Free

spark! Mesa's Festival of Creativity, will provide an immersive environment to celebrate the work of amazing, creative people and to discover the creative thinker inside every visitor! The festival will offer food, fun and creative activities for the whole family! 

Street Pianos Mesa: Play Me, I’m Yours

Mar. 1 – April 9, 2016

Free

Street Pianos Mesa: Play Me, I’m Yours will kick off in February and run through early April. For six weeks the pianos will live in public spaces, available for the community to play and enjoy. When the project launches, more than 20 playable and artistically enhanced pianos will be featured, primarily in Downtown Mesa along Main Street, near Mesa museums and libraries, on Mesa Arts Center’s campus and at numerous other accessible and open-to-the-public locations, including several satellite locations throughout the city. www.streetpianosmesa.com

 

The Triplets Of Belleville

Featuring Le Terrible Orchestre de Belleville with Composer Benoit Charest

Mar. 1, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.

Ikeda Theater | $30 - $45

The “Triplets of Belleville” is a unique cinematic and musical experience involving an on-stage 8-piece orchestra playing, singing, dancing and performing live sound effects in sync to the Oscar-nominated animation feature “The Triplets of Belleville.” Benoit Charest, the composer of the soundtrack conducts and plays in this fine band to the delight of audiences everywhere.

 

Juilliard String Quartet

Mar. 10, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.

Piper Theater | $30 - $45

The Juilliard String Quartet, widely known as the quintessential American string quartet, is comprised of Joseph Lin (Violin), Ronald Copes (Violin), Roger Tapping (Viola), and Joel Krosnick (Cello). Founded in 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet was the first ensemble in the United States to play all six Bartok quartets, and its performances of Schoenberg's quartets helped establish the works as cornerstones of the modern string quartet literature.

Il Volvo

Mar. 24, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.

Ikeda Theater | $49.50-$89.50

In anticipation of their upcoming tour, IL Volo released their fifth studio album Grande Amore at the end of September via Sony Music. Compromised of members Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble, they recently won the “Big Artist” Award at the prestigious Sanremo Music Festival in Italy, which led them to go 3x Platinum in Italy with their latest EP and an appearance on the final episode of HBO’s hit series Entourage.

 

Chris Botti

With the Phoenix Symphony

Mar. 26, 2016 | 7:30 p.m.

Ikeda Theater | $54-$84

GRAMMY® award-winning trumpet player Chris Botti makes his Phoenix Symphony debut for an evening of jazz classics. Swing to the sophisticated sounds of America’s best-selling jazz instrumentalist alongside The Phoenix Symphony in this magnetic must-hear performance.

 

MESA CONTEMPORARY ARTS MUSEUM
 

Ecosystem by Bradley Hart

Dec. 18 – Mar. 27, 2016

Bradley Hart is a New York-based Canadian artist known for his pixelated photorealistic images made by injecting bubble wrap with acrylic paint. Hart’s imagery is derived from his collection of photographs depicting friends, family and inspiring figures. For Hart, these images invoke a personal memory or narrative that is as malleable as the plastic he uses. By using a mass-produced product and repurposing his syringes and dried paint, Hart’s work is an environmental commentary about society's excessive use and dependence on disposable materials.

 

37th Annual Contemporary Crafts

Feb. 12 – Apr. 24, 2016

Highlighting the finest in contemporary crafts from across the country, Mesa Contemporary Arts’ Annual Contemporary Crafts exhibition has become a benchmark for innovation and quality. Representative of traditional craft mediums including ceramics, fibers, basketry, metals, wood, glass, jewelry, papermaking and book arts.

 

Jeff Reich: Recurrent Edges

Feb. 12 – Apr. 17, 2016

Arizona artist Jeff Reich is known for his geometric ceramic sculptures with nature inspired surfaces. He draws influence from the waters of his native Michigan as well as the natural formations and mountains in his new state. Accompanying his ceramic forms, Reich’s latest body of work reinterprets his signature landscapes as acrylic paintings with surrealist undertones