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The Arizona State University Art Museum is an art museum operated by Arizona State University, located on its main campus in Tempe, Arizona. The Art Museum has some 12,000 objects in its permanent collection and describes its primary focuses as contemporary art, including new media and "innovative methods of presentation"; crafts, with an emphasis on American ceramics; historic and contemporary prints; art from Arizona and the Southwestern United States, with an emphasis on Latino artists, and art of the Americas, with one historic American pieces and modernist and contemporary Latin American works.〔"(Collections )." Arizona State University Art Museum.〕〔"(Facts )." Arizona State University Art Museum.〕 The art collection was established in 1950.〔 The current director of the Art Museum is Gordon Knox.〔"(Directory )." Arizona State University Art Museum.〕 The director of the museum reports to the dean of the ASU Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, and community members are represented through an Art Museum Advisory Board.〔 The museum is located in two buildings. The main exhibition space is the Nelson Fine Arts Center, designed by architect Antoine Predock. A second museum facility, the Ceramics Research Center lies to the north, on 7th Street and Mill Ave in the Brickyard Engineering Building.〔"(History )." Arizona State University Art Museum.〕 Admission to the museum is free.〔 Parking at the main museum is free if you use the reserved spaces across 10th Street. Parking at the Brickyard location is metered. ==History and facilities== In 1950, prominent Phoenix lawyer Oliver B. James gave a gift of 16 oil paintings by American artists to ASU.〔"(American Collection )." Arizona State University Art Museum〕 Over five years, James donated over 149 works by various American, Mexican, and European artists to the museum.〔〔 The collection was originally included among the stacks at the university's first library building, the Matthews Library.〔 The Neoclassical building was constructed in 1930 and was remodeled in 1951.〔"(HPS-247, Matthews Library )." Tempe Historic Property Survey, Temple History Museum.〕 The library was expanded in 1955,〔"(Matthews Library )." Arizona State University Libraries, Department of Archives and Manuscripts, University Archives.〕 but in 1966, with the library space outgrowing the university's collection, Matthews Library was closed and of books were moved to the Charles Trumbull Hayden Library, which had been completed the previous year and remains the university's main library today.〔〔〔"(About Us - Hayden Library )." Arizona State University Libraries.〕 The art collection remained at the Matthews Library building, renamed Matthews Center. Contributions from donors expanded the museum's collections, particularly of prints and American crafts. In 1977, the museum received a National Endowment for the Arts matching grant to purchase of contemporary American ceramics. By 1978, the museum occupied the entire second floor of the Matthews Center, with some of exhibition space. In April 1989, the ASU Art Museum moved into the newly completed Nelson Fine Arts Center, designed by architect Antoine Predock, where the museum remains today. The Nelson Center is and includes five galleries as well as administrative offices and storage and processing areas.〔〔 Soon after the Art Museum's move to its new facility, the size of its staff doubled, and a curator of education, a print collection manager and several administrative and security workers were added to the staff.〔 In 1992, Marilyn A. Zeitlin became the museum's director. Zeitlin was praised for expanding the museum's collections eightfold during her tenure. Under Zeitlin, the museum was chosen to curate video artist Bill Viola's show at the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 1995.〔(Video Artist Is Chosen For the Venice Biennale ) ''New York Times'', May 7, 1994.〕 However, the museum experienced controversy when ''The Arizona Republic'' revealed that a university audit in early 2007 showed that the museum had received $450,000 over seven years from prominent donor Stephane Janssen, one of the museum's largest donors, and arranged with him to buy art from Janssen's company. The arrangement was found to not be illegal but was discontinued.〔Anne Ryman, "(ASU Art Museum director to leave post after 15 years )" (November 14, 2007). ''Arizona Republic''.〕 Zeitlin stepped down at the end of the year in 2007 after 15 years as director. There was "unanimous agreement that the ASU Art Museum has flourished" during Zeitlin's tenure.〔Amy Silverman, "(Framing Marilyn Zeitlin )" (April 30, 1998). ''Phoenix New Times''.〕 In March 2002, the Ceramics Research Center opened in the Tempe Center just to the north of the Nelson Center. The center was designed by Gabor Lorant Architects, Inc. and includes with two galleries, open storage stacks and a research library.〔〔 Additional facilities at the library's two buildings include a lecture room, a print study room, and a "nymphaeum" (courtyard).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arizona State University Art Museum」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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