Make and Take: Alien Headbands
2025-06-14 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Phoenix) | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Celebrate our new exhibition, “Creatures and Cosmos!” Stop by Vision Gallery to make alien headbands and enjoy our summer exhibit. Use pipe cleaners, eyeballs, and markers to make an out-of-this-world accessory!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Make and Take: Create Your Own Creature
2025-06-21 11:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Celebrate our new exhibition, “Creatures and Cosmos!” Stop by Vision Gallery to create your own creature and enjoy our summer exhibit. Use air dry clay to create a creepy or cute creature that you can explore the cosmos with!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!

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Make and Take: DIY Stickers
2025-06-28 11:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Stop by Vision Gallery to make DIY stickers and enjoy our current exhibit! Draw and color on adhesive sheets and cut them out to create stickers of your own design.
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Con cariño siempre: Ariana Enriquez
2025-08-09 - 2025-11-08 | The Gallery at CCA, 250 North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Within the Mexican culture, there is believed to be two deaths–the first is when you physically pass away and the second is when you have been forgotten by the living. Wanting to preserve the legacy of the strong women in her family, muralist and artist, Ariana Enriquez set out to tell their stories in the best way she knew how— through her artwork. However, in order to truly celebrate these women, she would need to first delve deeper into her family’s history. Armed with pen and paper, Enriquez sat down at her Yoya’s (great aunt) table with her relatives. Her family members shared some truly incredible stories about the acts of service, kindness, and compassion that have been passed down through the generations. So often, people want to discuss generational trauma, but what about generational joy and the positivity and unity that can be passed down through the generations? This undercurrent of love and strength is something that Enriquez had felt her whole life but never quite understood how it had manifested in her family. It was then that she realized that these acts of love are the bedrock of her familial bonds.
For Con cariño siempre, Enriquez creates a visual love letter to her family. Drawing from her practice of using fauna and flora as symbolism, Enriquez created large scale installations that not only celebrate the women in her family but also highlight the love languages expressed throughout the years. By visually telling the stories of her ancestors, Enriquez aims to keep their memories alive long after they are gone.
Opening Reception
Friday, August 8, 5-7pm
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So Fun! An Exploration of Maximalism
2025-08-23 - 2025-11-02 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Born out of a rebellion against the Minimalist art movement, contemporary Maximalism counters the prejudice of high culture. From Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots to Kehinde Wiley’s portraits, this complex mode of creation has been used by artists and creatives over the decades to express themselves and transform the historical understanding of maximalist craft. The artists in this exhibition create transformative environments, explore femininity and queerness, celebrate the impact of internet culture, breathe new life into second-hand objects, and recontextualize the legacy of maximalism. Behind the tacky smiley faces, flashy flowers, and bright colors, in this exhibition there are deeply personal, social, and cultural topics being explored that challenge the perception of this playful aesthetic. Through the use of color, pattern, and repetition, “So Fun!” creates an environment rich in storytelling, self-expression, and empowerment that embodies the joyful spirit of the aesthetic of excess.
Participating artists: Lex Gjurasic, Sarah Hurwitz, Emily Spetrino, and Chloe Torri
Opening Reception
Friday, August 22, 6-8 pm
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Field of Belonging: Megan Hennessy
2025-08-23 - 2025-11-02 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
“Field of Belonging” offers a glimpse into the world Megan Hennessy is building for herself – a world shaped by joy, surreal beauty, and quiet rebellion. Inspired by maximalism, rave aesthetics, and the soft power of spiritual connection, this exhibition pulses with color, texture, and care. Exaggerated Kandi forms and glowing orbs echo with a message of affirmation: “YOU BELONG,” creating a sanctuary that exists somewhere between memory and a future dream.
This installation is grounded in four enduring values: Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect. These principles, often abbreviated as PLUR in rave culture, speak to the core of our human experience—a desire to feel safe, to belong, to connect, and to grow. Hennessy offers a personal interpretation: Possibility, Light, Understanding, and Resonate. This reinterpretation is not intended to replace the original values, but to build upon them—contributing to the formation of a space not meant for escape, but for reflection and transformation.
Hennessy invites you to become part of her personal utopia—protective, radiant, and alive—a space where new growth blooms, guardians stand watch, and acceptance is a given.

Opening Reception
“Field of Belonging” opens alongside “So Fun! An Exploration of Maximalism”
Friday, August 22, 6-8pm
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Art Social: Pumpkin Luminarias
2025-09-13 10:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Get into the fall spirit with this fun ceramics class for beginners! Participants will learn how to make and join pinch pots into closed forms, then shape them into pumpkin luminarias of their own design. All materials included; instructor will glaze, fire, and return completed projects at a later date. Led by Kathleen Escobedo.
This casual 3 hour class doesn’t require any prior knowledge or skill, and all materials are included in the $35 class fee. This class is for adults 18 and older.
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"So Fun!" Day
2025-10-04 10:00 - 16:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Emojis, flowers, and beads, oh my! Join us for “So Fun!” Day on October 4, 10am-4pm for a day full of giant games, crafts, and maximalism overload inspired by “So Fun! An Exploration of Maximalism.”
This event will be an all-day event, so stop by any time between 10am-4pm. Drop-ins are welcome!
About “So Fun! An Exploration of Maximalism”
Born out of a rebellion against the Minimalist art movement, contemporary Maximalism counters the prejudice of high culture. From Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots to Kehinde Wiley’s portraits, this complex mode of creation has been used by artists and creatives over the decades to express themselves and transform the historical understanding of maximalist craft. The artists in this exhibition create transformative environments, explore femininity and queerness, celebrate the impact of internet culture, breathe new life into second-hand objects, and recontextualize the legacy of maximalism. Behind the tacky smiley faces, flashy flowers, and bright colors, in this exhibition there are deeply personal, social, and cultural topics being explored that challenge the perception of this playful aesthetic. Through the use of color, pattern, and repetition, “So Fun!” creates an environment rich in storytelling, self-expression, and empowerment that embodies the joyful spirit of the aesthetic of excess.
Participating artists: Lex Gjurasic, Sarah Hurwitz, Emily Spetrino, and Chloe Torri
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Make and Take: DIY Spider Webs
2025-10-18 11:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Stop by Vision Gallery to make a creepy crawly spider web just in time for spooky season! Use an embroidery hoop, yarn, pom poms, and googly eyes! Everything you need to spin a boo-tiful spider web!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Art Quilts 30: Palette Cleanser
2025-11-08 - 2026-01-10 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
“A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Terre des Hommes
(published in English as Wind, Sand and Stars)
With the constant onslaught of news media around us, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and disconnected from the world around us. As a respite from these intense narratives, exploring minimalism through art offers a refreshing Palette Cleanser, inviting us to reflect on simplicity in a chaotic world.
Simplicity reveals a profound beauty, as it strips away extraneous details to reveal clarity in your artistic thought, design and execution. Maybe your best work is known for its clean lines or its geometric shapes. Do you use a limited or monotoned color palette? Does negative space play a big role in your art? Is your quilt stitching stripped down to the essential shapes needed to highlight and emphasize your design? Perhaps you’re pushing the craft forward by making modern interpretations of traditional quilt blocks or by creating three-dimensional sculptures from quilts that result in spare and elegant forms.
However you use minimalism in your art quilts, we want to see your submissions for the 30th Annual Art Quilt exhibition. Practicing the art of reduction requires a deep understanding of your subject, excellent technical mastery and the ability to identify the most crucial elements of the quilting craft to create dynamic emotional effects and leave a lasting impression in your viewers. Palette Cleanser celebrates the beauty of minimalism and encourages simplicity, clarity, and timelessness to create powerful, thought-provoking pieces.
About the Juror
Susan Allred manipulates textiles and other fibers to explore the ways they affect and reflect our daily lives. Her work expresses her thoughts and feelings about society’s expectations for women, their bodies and their work. Her artistic process, which is lengthy and repetitive, becomes a meditation on “women’s work” — the painstaking labor, both mental and physical — that has historically been dismissed as merely decorative or utilitarian instead of as the product of a fertile, creative minds. By transforming quilts into non-functional sculptural works that invite viewers to think about concepts that may be controversial, Allred questions the notion that crafts cannot be used to create fine art while also commenting on the invisibility of women’s labor.
Allred’s work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions, most recently in a two-person show at the Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum. She was an artist member at Eye Lounge contemporary art space and served as co-president for two years. Allred lives and works in Tempe, Arizona.

Opening Reception
Saturday, November 8, 4-6pm
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Rice is Mẹ: Anh-Thuy Nguyen
2025-11-15 - 2026-02-07 | The Gallery at CCA, 250 North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Rice. This humble, white grain is an essential component to most Asian cuisines. It also holds a plethora of meanings and symbolisms in various Asian cultures. For artist, Anh-Thuy Nguyen, this ubiquitous food staple has become an obsession. In her latest body of work, Nguyen utilizes rice as a metaphor for herself as she grapples with the reality that her culture and wisdom are being lost from generation to generation. Like grains for rice running through her hands, Nguyen felt her culture was lost from her mouth to her daughter’s ears. Throughout this exhibition, Nguyen is reconciling her feelings of loss, resilience and hope for the future.
Opening Reception
Friday, November 14, 6pm-8pm
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Art Social: Needle-felted Ornaments
2025-11-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Let your imagination go wild as you explore the wonderful world of wool by creating your own felted ornament. You will learn the basics of 3D needle felting, working with various shapes to create hanging pieces of art. You can choose to create any form you want, including gnomes, mushrooms, cacti, traditional holiday shapes, as well as a variety of animals and birds. Have fun creating something for yourself or to give away – the hardest choice will be what to make during class! Led by Memory Bradley.
This casual 3 hour class doesn’t require any prior knowledge or skill, and all materials are included in the $35 class fee. This class is for adults 18 and older.
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Make and Take: Perler Bead Ornaments
2025-12-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Get in the spirit with a fun holiday craft! Stop by Vision Gallery on Saturday, December 6 to make an ornament with fusible beads. Enjoy free hot cocoa or cider as you do any last-minute shopping in our gift shop too!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages, including adults. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Land Valuation: Luke Watson
2026-01-24 - 2026-03-21 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
From the luscious panoramic landscapes of the Hudson River School to Maynard Dixon’s seemingly endless cloud filled skies set behind painted mesas to Grant Wood’s overly saturated and stylized pastoral scenes of the Midwest, American painters have long shaped a romantic vision of the land. These images helped construct a narrative of the United States as expansive, untouched, and waiting to be explored. This myth has further been perpetuated by tourism imagery, National Park postcards, and idealized and sometimes altered travel photography. Yet the land has always borne evidence of habitation, use, and intervention. This tension between the idealized landscape and the lived landscape raises ongoing questions about perception versus reality, and what it means to love, occupy, or lay claim to the land.
For Land Valuation, Phoenix-based artist, Luke Watson, reframes the conversation around the American landscape by centering the human experience. Within the exhibition, Watson creates macro and micro encounters with nature from atv tire tracks set in front of looming mesas to a birdwatcher standing in a parking lot to an intimate rendering of an endangered bird. By foregrounding ordinary interactions with the outdoors, Watson challenges the expectation that nature must appear untouched to be meaningful. His work invites viewers to reconsider how land is valued—as scenery, resource, recreation site, habitat, or cultural inheritance. Rather than presenting answers, Watson opens space for reflection: Who gets to define what nature is? What constitutes a “nature lover”? And how do our everyday choices, movements, and pleasures shape the landscapes we claim to admire? These questions form a more contemporary discussion around our value system around land and expose inherent biases we all have around the use of nature.
Opening Reception
Friday, January 23, 2026 6-8 pm
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Art Social: Punch Rug Coasters
2026-01-31 10:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Have fun and make art in this relaxed class for adults!
Create a set of vibrant yarn coasters with the satisfying process of punch needle. Learn the basics of the punch needle process to inspire a unique addition to your home or design a handmade gift for someone else. You can create any design you want from mushrooms and fruits to customized cats and monograms. The hardest choice will be what to make during class! Led by Megan Hennessy.
This casual 3-hour class doesn’t require any prior knowledge or skill, and all materials are included in the $35 class fee. This class is for adults 18 and older.
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Make and Take: Valentines
2026-02-07 11:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Stop by Vision Gallery to design a heartfelt Valentine’s Day card! Utilize a variety of materials provided, including colorful paper, markers, stickers, and more, to craft a personalized card that expresses your affection.
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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(Be)Longing
2026-02-14 - 2026-04-17 | Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, AZ, 85225
Moving to a new country can be a daunting experience, especially as an adult. You leave behind familiar language, culture, and customs, and face the challenge of adapting to a new way of life. Yet, alongside the pressure to assimilate is the desire to preserve your identity and traditions. How do you find balance and create your own path. For the artists featured in (Be) Longing, they attempt to reconcile their two identities through art.
This exhibition features four Japanese-born artists who have immigrated to the United States and now call Arizona home. Through diverse materials from resin to clay to paint, they explore the complexities of cultural identity, nostalgia, and belonging. Their works are contemporary, yet deeply rooted in Japanese aesthetics, drawing inspiration from folklore, religious rituals, Zen philosophy, and historical art forms like Fusuma-e and Mingei craft.
Each piece offers a personal narrative: a reflection on the tension between longing for home and finding one’s place in a new land. Together, they present a multifaceted view of the Japanese immigrant experience—one that is as much about resilience and transformation as it is about memory and tradition.
Featuring artwork by: Kazuma Sambe, Kaori Takamura, Hirotsune Tashima, and Yuko Yabuki
Opening Reception
Saturday, February 21, 2026 5-7pm
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Make and Take: St. Patrick's Day Shamrock Pin
2026-03-14 11:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at Vision Gallery by making your own lucky shamrock pin! Use felt, sequins, and ribbon to craft a sparkling accessory that’s perfect to wear for the holiday and avoid getting pinched.
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Is There Wi-Fi in Heaven? Grieving in the Digital Age
2026-03-28 - 2026-06-06 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Have you ever sent a text message you knew would always go unanswered? Or visited a dead loved one’s social media profile just to reflect on them? You’re not alone. Is there Wi-Fi in Heaven: Grieving in the Digital Age explores how technology reshapes the ways we mourn and maintain bonds with the dead. As social media and digital tools transform our interactions with the living, they also create new tools for how we grieve. Through works that consider online rituals, digital memorials, and the management of “digital remains,” this exhibition reflects on emerging practices of public mourning, continuing bonds, and even pseudo-spiritual attempts to connect across the divide. In the networked age, grief too, is increasingly mediated through screens, raising questions about permanence, ritual, and what it means to visit the dead when physical presence is no longer required.
Opening Reception
Friday, March 27, 6-8 pm
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Heirlooms: Dawn Kushner
2026-03-28 - 2026-06-06 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Emerging from craft and Appalachian history, these laser-cut vellum doilies transform transgenerational loss into material form. The doilies incorporate archival photographs, news articles, and handwritten letters related to West Virginia’s extensive history of extractive industries. By burning and removing portions of the printed surface, the work itself serves as a place of extraction. The remaining translucent, fragmented forms become artifacts of mourning, symbolizing what cannot be fully reconciled or restored.
Artwork by Dawn Kushner
Opening Reception
Friday, March 27, 6-8 pm
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CUSD Annual Showcase
2026-04-22 - 2026-05-12 | Chandler Center for the Arts, 250 N. Arizona Ave., Chandler, AZ, 85225
Chandler Unified School District’s most gifted artists put their work on display for the community to experience in this annual showcase. The burgeoning artists from Basha, Hamilton, Perry, Arizona College Prep (ACP), Casteel, and Chandler high schools display their talents and viewpoints through ceramics, paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewelry, and photographs. With nearly 100 works on display, there is always something for everyone in this exhibition.

Art Social: Creative Lettering
2026-05-09 10:00 - 13:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Learn the basics of creative lettering to create your own eye-catching signage! Conceptualize what you want your sign to say, work with our professional sign artist to develop your preferred fonts and sign composition, then write away! Whether you prefer bold swoops and swirls, thick blocky letters, classic serifs, or want to create your own font, all styles are welcome. At the end of class, you’ll leave with your own display-worthy chalkboard sign! Led by Aimee Ollinger.
This casual 3 hour class doesn’t require any prior knowledge or skill, and all materials are included in the $35 class fee. This class is for adults 18 and older.
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Off the Clock: Artwork by City of Chandler Employees
2026-05-23 - 2026-07-25 | The Gallery at CCA, 250 North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
At the City of Chandler, we know that creativity is a key quality in getting our jobs done well. For many of us, creativity also spills into what we do when we clock out, whether that be nurturing a relaxing hobby, developing skills in a craft, or finding solace through artistic expression. Off the Clock celebrates the creative talents of our fellow City employees that enrich our work every day.
Opening Reception
May 22, 4:30-6:30pm
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Make and Take: DIY Fan
2026-05-30 11:00 - 15:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
The temperature is rising! What’s better to cool you down than a stylish accessory? Make your own handheld fan out of paper and popsicle sticks to keep you cool all summer long. Everything you need to craft your fan is provided!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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Make and Take: Dinosaur Visor
2026-06-06 11:00 - 15:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Summer is here! Stop by Vision Gallery to have a roarin’ good time creating your own dinosaur visor out of foam shapes and googly eyes. All materials are provided for you to make some dino-mite headwear!
This is a free, self-led activity for all ages. Children are welcome to participate with assistance from an adult. Registering for a time slot helps us plan, but drop-ins are welcome!
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UNLOVABLE
2026-06-13 - 2026-08-15 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Bats, rats, gnats, oh my! From the creepy to the crawly, this open call exhibition invited Arizona based artists to submit work of animals that are often deemed Unlovable by the general public. Artists were encouraged to reimagine these creatures through unique perspectives, whether by emphasizing their beauty, strangeness, resilience or symbolic power. With artwork ranging from arachnoids to marsupials, these misunderstood animals will be sure to delight and fright folks of all ages.
Juried by Daniella Napolitano
Opening Reception
Friday, June 12, 5-7 pm
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Creepy Crawly Day
2026-06-27 11:00 - 14:00 | Vision Gallery, 10 E Chicago St, Chandler, AZ, 85225, United States
Celebrate our summer exhibition “UNLOVABLE” and join us for a fun-filled day of critters and crafting! Enjoy live animals provided the Phoenix Zoo, bug and animal themed crafts, and explore the mobile Chandler Discovery Library!
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