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ASU Art Museum Opens Two Powerful Exhibitions Exploring Migration and Urban Resilience

Join ASU Art Museum’s opening celebration on September 13 for Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration and Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life.

Michaelangelo Lovelace, Block Party, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 in. Collection of ASU Art Museum, Museum Purchase. Copyright Michelangelo Lovelace Estate. Courtesy the artist’s estate and Fort Gansevoort, New York.

2025 Fall Exhibitions at ASU Art Museum
Saturday, September 13, 5-7 pm
ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ

This fall, the ASU Art Museum will open two timely exhibitions that explore how we navigate the world.

Tierras Reimaginadas: Migration reimagines migration as a natural, spiritual, and emotional experience shared across species and generations. Drawing from the museum’s collection, the exhibition invites reflection on the movement of people, plants, animals, and ideas as a force that reshapes land, identity, and belonging.

Michelangelo Lovelace: Art Saved My Life is a retrospective exhibition. Lovelace, who often spoke about his life and career as an artist through a vivid and layered lens, chose to paint in an intentionally simplified manner because it allowed him to show what he called “the raw power of life in the inner cities of America.”

Together, these exhibitions provide a thought-provoking exploration of resilience, community, and the various ways art helps us navigate today’s ever-evolving world.

RSVP for the Opening Celebration

Saturday, September 13, 5-7 pm
ASU Art Museum, Tempe

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Julio César Morales, Broken Line, 2019, neon, 48 x 72 in. ASU Art Museum, purchased with funds provided by the Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation.
Carolina Aranibar-Fernandez, El desplazamiento y las flores, 2021, tulle, fabric, copper, and glass beads, 120 x 60 in. Purchase with the ASU Art Museum Annual Fund.
Michelangelo Lovelace, My Community, 2016, acrylic on canvas, 39 x 36 in. Copyright Michelangelo Lovelace Estate. Courtesy the estate and Fort Gansevoort, New York.

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Arizona State University Art Museum centers art and artists in the service of community well-being and social good. The ASU Art Museum is dedicated to collecting, commissioning, documenting, and caring for important works of art to honor people and their stories. It produces exhibitions of artists of diverse media, ethnicity, geography, and gender, and scholarly publications serving as critical contributions to the field of art. The ASU Art Museum is an integral part of the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. Arte para todos. Art for all.

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