Join us for a very special gallery talk and hosted reception at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography, will speak about the groundbreaking Latinx photographer, Laura Aguilar, and her exhibition, Nudes in Nature.

After the Norton Gallery talk and a short Q&A, Linda Ballinger will host a reception for Emilia Mickevicius and AZPA at the museum. The group will move to the patio outside of the museum restaurant where there will be drinks, cheese, crackers, and conversation.

Gallery Talk: 4:00 p.m.
Hosted Reception: 5:00 p.m.

Cost: Free – Wednesdays are Pay-What-You-Wish days at the Phoenix Art Museum.

Open to the Public. 40 Attendees.
Content Guide: This exhibition contains nudity.

Registration Required. Register Here.

About the Speaker: Emilia Mickevicius is an art historian and curator who specializes in 20th century and contemporary U.S. photography. She joined the Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography in 2023 after having served at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In her role as curatorial assistant in SFMOMA’s photography department, she organized and contributed to exhibitions such as Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection 2022); Kinship: Photography and Connection (2023), the current SFMOMA exhibit, Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection (2023) among others.

About the Artist and Work: In a 2020 article for ARTnews Senior Editor Maximilíano Durón describes the late Laura Aguilar as a “key figure in the Chicanx and queer art scenes of Los Angeles, she has effectively shaped how we perceive identity today—even if, when she started making photographs, during the 1970s, she wasn’t widely known. With her images focused on her identities as a large-bodied, working-class queer Chicana woman, she considered pressing subjects, like mental health and equity in the art world, that are only today being given their due.”

Special Thanks to Linda Ballinger for hosting the reception; the Phoenix Art Museum; Paul Rogers, Gerry Grout Director of Education and Engagement of Phoenix Art Museum; Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography of Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography; Jeremy Mikolajczak, the Sybil Harrington Director and CEO of Phoenix Art Museum.