A CREATIVE EXCHANGE
Art museum to partner with Brazilian counterpart

The ASU Art Museum will participate in an exciting partnership with the Museu de Arte Contemporânea at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, according to an announcement by the American Association of Museums this spring. The association indicated that the ASU museum is one of 17 included in its International Partnership Among Museums program for the 2005-2007 cycle. The program helps American museums advance their mission by carrying out collaborative projects with partners institutions abroad.

Each participating staff member spends a month working on-site at the partner's museum. ASU Art Museum's Ted Decker, special museum initiatives manager, is working in São Paulo this summer; a staff member from the São Paulo museum will come to ASU to work in the fall.

The project will also link the two museums via Web technology. Visitors to the two museum Web sites will learn about each institution, university and community.On kiosks in each museum lobby, visitors will be able to view works of art from permanent collections and learn more bout the history of the works. Streaming video will provide live visual access to each museum's galleries.

The University of São Paulo's museum boasts a collection of modern and contemporary Latin American art that is considered one of the best in the hemisphere. The project is expected to augment the ASU Art Museum's programming initiatives in Latin American art. Six exhibitions are scheduled over the next three years, featuring work by artists from Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico.

The ASU Art Museum is located on the southeast corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street in Tempe. Exhibition hours are 10 a.m.- 9 p.m. on Tuesdays and 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday. Admission is free. For more information, call (480) 965-2787 or visit the museum online at http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu.