May 19 – June 9

The Kipsworld Experience

Opening Reception: May 19^th 7-11pm – Music, Prose readings and Give-aways.

The exhibit will showcase an assortment of Kips broad range of artistic figurative and comic fantasy imagery. Both original painting and prints will be available. Kip is a Freelance artist and illustrator, featured and published in multiple indie comic/ magazines. With a fanciful prolific make-believe imagery, the works consist of some pop-culture icons and references, with fantasy fetish and often with a Viking flare, along with fantasy pin-up pieces.   Many of the paintings tell a story created in the artists’s mind and depicted in paint. Living in Mesa AZ Kip is often seen and featured in various Conventions across the country. Some mature subject matter, under 18 accompanied by an adult.

June 17, 2023 Splash Day

June 17, 2-8pm, FREE

Alwun House welcomes friends and neighbors to come have a cool splash. The Art Park will get converted into a Water Park. We will have a giant 24 foot tall waterslide to splash around and cool off for a fun Splash Day. We’ll also have a splash pad for toddlers and doggos! Plus, there will be super soaker squirt guns, water balls and other fun games like chalk drawing! Arizona Sno-Shack will be there with shaved ice snow-cones where you can put your own flavored syrups on! The first 100 kids (under 16) get a FREE snow-cone. The three events culminate in with a really huge water slide – on August 19 the event will feature a 27 foot tall waterslide that is 70 feet long. This program made available by the generosity of many Garfield residents and Alwun House patrons with the goal to provide a cool refreshing safe fun day for Garfield youth neighbors and of course our artist friends.

July 7 – August 25, 2023

Deaccession Exhibit & Sale

Opening Reception: July 7th First Friday 6-9pm

An exhibit and sale from the collection of Alwun House. Works from various well known artists from throughout the valley who have gifted these works to Alwun House. A wide variety of beautiful artworks available in need of rehoming to fresh loving environments that can relish and enjoy these works on a daily basis. An investment opportunity to build your own collection of notable artworks. Viewing Tuesday through Friday Noon to 6pm.

July 15, 2023 Splash Day

July 15, 2-8pm, FREE

Alwun House welcomes friends and neighbors to come have a cool splash. The Art Park will get converted into a Water Park. We will have a giant 24 foot tall waterslide to splash around and cool off for a fun Splash Day. We’ll also have a splash pad for toddlers and doggos! Plus, there will be super soaker squirt guns, water balls and other fun games like chalk drawing! Arizona Sno-Shack will be there with shaved ice snow-cones where you can put your own flavored syrups on! The first 100 kids (under 16) get a FREE snow-cone. The three events culminate in with a really huge water slide – on August 19 the event will feature a 27 foot tall waterslide that is 70 feet long. This program made available by the generosity of many Garfield residents and Alwun House patrons with the goal to provide a cool refreshing safe fun day for Garfield youth neighbors and of course our artist friends.

August 1, 2023 Splash Day

August 19, 2-8pm, FREE

Alwun House welcomes friends and neighbors to come have a cool splash. The Art Park will get converted into a Water Park. We will have a giant 24 foot tall waterslide to splash around and cool off for a fun Splash Day. We’ll also have a splash pad for toddlers and doggos! Plus, there will be super soaker squirt guns, water balls and other fun games like chalk drawing! Arizona Sno-Shack will be there with shaved ice snow-cones where you can put your own flavored syrups on! The first 100 kids (under 16) get a FREE snow-cone. The three events culminate in with a really huge water slide – on August 19 the event will feature a 27 foot tall waterslide that is 70 feet long. This program made available by the generosity of many Garfield residents and Alwun House patrons with the goal to provide a cool refreshing safe fun day for Garfield youth neighbors and of course our artist friends.

September 29, 2023

Friday, Sept. 29 7-10pm

Tickets: $15 advance through Eventbrite or $25 @ door
Doors open at 7:30pm Show starts at 8pm

The Arizona LGBT+ History Project will be hosting it’s annual Banned Books Reading on Friday, Sept 29 at the Alwun House 1204 E Roosevelt St

The Arizona LGBT+ History Project will be hosting it’s Banned Books Reading on Friday, Sept 29 at the Alwun House – 1204 E Roosevelt St, Phoenix, AZ 85006.

This will be a very special Adult story time that focuses on book censorship, in conjunction with events like this happening across the country. Come participate in an evening of laughter while exercising our right of liberty and emancipation! Join us as a wide variety of readings from banned books, from the dissident and revolutionary to the downright salacious.

Come express your love of freedom in literature! Our independence of expression is at risk! Doors open at 7:30, show starts at 8p VIP reserved seating $50, General $15 in advance, and $25 day of show. This event is a collaboration with the Alwun House and the Arizona LGBT+ History Project. Support by Bookman’s Entertainment Exchange

October 6-28, 2023

Monsters Menagerie – October 6-28

Opening Artists’ Reception: October 6th – First Friday 6-10pm

The infamously provocative and uncensored Monsters Menagerie is a juried art exhibit, chock-full of grotesque and profane art in a variety of media from local artists. Demented creative works from menacing dark noir fantasies, satirical political demons, to monstrous and blood-curdling creations that scream for attention. Even politicians aren’t exempt from this artistic depictions of the evil social demons among us.

November 3-18, 2023

Big Rock Candy Mountain: Solo Exhibit by Aimee Shattuck

Opening Artists’ Reception: First Friday, November 3rd – 6-10pm

Aimee Shattuck is a Phoenix based artist transplanted to the Phoenix art scene in 2011 and has been a catalyst and activating artists throughout the valley since arriving.  Aimee has always created in the style of “Magical Realism”, painting images of entities in other realms. Characters often seem human-like in mannerism but are involved in imaginary sequences that question the legitimacy of their status as a human.

In this new series of oil paintings, “Big Rock Candy Mountain”, Aimee continues to awaken the mystery of dimensions. The series tells the story of a group of humans who stumble into the realm of Big Rock Candy Mountain, a parallel universe that is governed by Candy. In “Big Rock Candy Mountain,” the candy is symbolic of success, and all that comes in its pursuit. Aimee draws from her own experience as a young adult who’s trying to find some sort of means to an end by perusing a creative life. Each piece in the series portrays a different result of being in pursuit of success.

December 1, 2023 – January 5, 2024

LIGHTHOUSE – December 1, 2023 – January 5, 2024
Opening Artists’ Reception – 6pm to 10pm – Free

With gallery lights off, art emits light installed throughout gallery and into the gardens. Infused interactive light installations creating a transcendent aesthetic experience. Selected artists displaying imaginative integration of mediums, from functional to conceptual; light-boxes, lamps, art shrines, video, interactive light installation, neon, LED, fire, mixed media. If it glows, flickers, flashes, video, neon, shines in a darkened room. And one room dedicated to UV reactive arts.

Mayor Greg Stanton, stressed the importance of artists in bringing downtown Phoenix the success it experiences today. “Art is a gift,” Stanton said. “We wouldn’t have the momentum that we have, the other good things we have, without the artists.” He praised artists for helping make downtown what it is today and seeing potential in areas others did not, including himself. “Anytime you see me at a groundbreaking for some new development, be clear: I’m thinking about the artists that help find the beautiful nooks and crannies in our town … you are our eyes and ears. As we look at pioneers Alwun House — Kim Moody (Founder 1971) and Dana Johnson” “You were here first, and everything else we’ve done is on your shoulders.” Alwun House appreciates Mayor Stanton’s inclusion of artist and gallery owners in inter-departmental city planning.

MUTIGENERATIONAL REVIEW
“I love this place! And fell in love with The Alwun House back when I was in the 7th grade. My first piece was sold here. It was a still life done w pastels entered by Mrs. Wilnow, my art teacher. Years later my son Victor Solis while still in elementary school, also had his art exhibited and proudly sold 5 pieces of art. He is now 16 and a sophomore at North. Proud to say we are artists at heart. Thank you Alwun House for the beautiful memories and the opportunities given.”