Art Café

The Art Café featuring Einstein Bros. Bagels is an informal eatery and community gathering space that provides an avenue for ASU students, faculty and staff alumni to demonstrate their talents in the area of performing and visual arts. The café includes not only delicious bagels, sandwiches and beverages, but works of art by ASU community members during the semester.

Throughout the semester, scheduled performances and events will occur. Performers are ASU students, faculty, staff, and alumni. In addition to the performances, the Art Café is home to Gallery.

Gallery at the Art Café features an assortment of abstract art, mixed media, photography prints, drawings, and paintings. The exhibitions typically run for four weeks before being rotated. Below is the schedule of upcoming performances and Gallery exhibitions.

If you are interested in exhibiting your art, or for more information about the Art Café please contact John Gresley at (480) 965-0336 .

Winter 2008 Schedule Details

March 19

PAB hosts their monthly Open Mic Night.  Sign up to perform opens at 7:30 pm, performances start at 8 pm.  Performers get 10 minutes or 2 songs each on a first-come, first-served basis.

Art exhibit:  Photographs by Saif Ali, Abe Karam, and Wez Lundry.  Exhibit showing March 19 – April 9.  Saif Ali is a recent ASU alum showing his photographs.  Abe Karam is a Research Specialist in the School of Life Sciences and will show some of his long-exposure photographs.   Political Science graduate student and Thrasher magazine contributor Wez Lundry will be showing his photographs.

March 26

The African Student Association hosts a night of poetry.

April 2

Pitchforks and Ann Wertman perform.  Pitchforks is ASU’s only a cappella singing group.  Singer-songwriter Ann Wertman is a graduate student here at ASU.

April 9

Art exhibit:  Art by Gretchen Keck, Jenna Kosowski, and Erica Velasco.  Exhibit showing April 9 – April 30.  Gretchen Keck’s architectural photographs will be shown by photographic exhibition student Lia Pepe.  Jenna Kosowski is a student in the MFA Dance program and will be showing work accompanying her thesis.  Erica Velasco is a staff member in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences showing photographs from her “Perspectives in Black and White” collection.

April 16

PAB hosts their monthly Open Mic Night.  Sign up to perform opens at 7:30 pm, performances start at 8 pm.  Performers get 10 minutes or 2 songs each on a first-come, first-served basis.

April 23

Jin Jo performs on saxophone with his group.  Jo is also a doctoral candidate in the School of Sustainability.