5ArtsCircle

19 Years Supporting the Arts

Welcome to 5 Arts Circle – Arizona’s premier philanthropic organization supporting the arts community. Whether you are passionate about the performing arts or the visual arts, Arizona 5 Arts Circle offers you access to it all. Become part of this important group of arts patrons in our community. Membership not only provides a unique portal to the arts, but is an investment that pays lasting cultural dividends to our community. Join others who have collectively contributed $5 million for the enrichment of our community.

Enjoy invitations to special programs hosted by the five arts organizations
Attend exclusive Arts & Beyond events organized by 5 Arts Circle
Support Arizona’s art community through a single tax deductible donation
Make lasting friendships with other art patrons in the community

Our Arts Beneficiaries

Through our philanthropic efforts, 5 Arts Circle is proud to support the following Arizona arts organizations:

Arizona Opera
Ballet Arizona
Phoenix Art Museum
Scottsdale Arts
The Phoenix Symphony

Arts & Beyond Events

There’s so much more than exclusive invitations to the Arts programs. Check out our private series that showcases creativity in much more intimate settings. Gander at the museum-quality art hanging on a local collector’s walls, or savor a private-reserve Cabernet as the vintner leads you down into his wood cellar and more.

Visit our Events section to learn more about these special programs.

Upcoming Events

april

fri15feb - 30aprAll Day20th Anniversary Video Exhibition(All Day) 7374 East Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary ArtEvent Organized By: Jill Christenholz5 Arts Circle:Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

fri15feb - 19mayAll DaySMoCA - Now PlayingHappenings(All Day) 7374 East Second Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85251Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art5 Arts Circle:Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art

fri1mar - 31All DayScottsdale Public Art - IN FLUX Cycle 8Happenings(All Day) Various Location around Scottsdale and the greater Phoenix area5 Arts Circle:Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

sat9mar - 1sepAll DayAgnes Pelton :: Desert Transcendentalist(All Day) 1625 N. Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685 Phoenix Art MuseumEvent Organized By: Jill Christenholz5 Arts Circle:Phoenix Art Museum

Event Details

Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is the first survey of this obscure American painter in over 24 years. Born to American parents in Stuttgart, Germany, Pelton (1881-1961) and her family briefly lived in Basel, Switzerland before returning to the United States in 1888. A graduate of the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she began experimenting with abstraction in the early 1900s in New York, eventually exhibiting in the Armory Show of 1913 at the invitation of Walt Kuhn. Intentionally moving away from the “mainstream” arts community, Pelton eventually settled in Cathedral City, California. She painted conventional desert landscapes to make a living, but it was her abstract studies of earth and light, biomorphic compositions of delicate veils, shimmering stars, and atmospheric horizon lines, that distinguished her work.

A believer in numerology, astrology, and faith healing, Pelton’s abstract compositions propelled her into an esoteric world epitomized by the Transcendental Painting Group (1938-1942), a short-lived group that promoted abstract, non-objective art. Although Pelton received some attention during her lifetime, she has been relatively unknown within the field of American Art. Approximately 40 – 45 works will comprise this exhibition shedding light on Pelton’s artistic contribution to American Modernism, while examining her practice against a broader, international framework of spiritual and esoteric abstraction.

Time

March 9 (Saturday) - September 1 (Sunday)

Location

Phoenix Art Museum

1625 N. Central Avenue Phoenix, AZ 85004-1685

Organizer

Jill Christenholz

Calendar GoogleCal

mon1apr - 30All DayScottsdale Public Art - Cycle the ArtsHappenings(All Day) Various Location around Scottsdale5 Arts Circle:Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts

sat20apr2:00 pmRomeo & Juliet and Porgy & Bess2:00 pm 75 N 2nd St., Phoenix, AZ 85004Symphony HallEvent Organized By: Jill Christenholz5 Arts Circle:The Phoenix Symphony

sat20apr7:30 pmRomeo & Juliet and Porgy & Bess7:30 pm 75 N 2nd St., Phoenix, AZ 85004Symphony HallEvent Organized By: Jill Christenholz5 Arts Circle:The Phoenix Symphony

Our Corporate Sponsors

Photos provided by: SMoCA – Architect: Will Bruder; Photos courtesy of Bill Timmerman and Sean Deckert, Arizona Opera – Kent Miles Photography for Utah Opera; Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts – Gene Devine/Devine Images and Max Pucciarielo; Ballet Arizona – Alexander Iziliaev.