Exhibition of the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards, with a solo show by Alice Leora Briggs and a group show of the Lehmann Emerging Artist Award recipients, at the Phoenix Art Museum.
The Phoenix Art Museum is hosting the 2025 Arizona Artist Awards, a program that’s been running since 1986 and has put more than $350,000 into the hands of over 200 Arizona-based artists. This year's exhibitions premiered on July 29, 2026, and run through January 24, 2027, so you've got plenty of time to catch them. The whole thing is curated by Christian Ramírez.
The main draw is Alice Leora Briggs, the 2025 Scult Family Artist Award recipient. She gets a solo museum exhibition titled NOW WHAT? and a $20,000 award. Briggs was born in a West Texas oil boomtown and raised in Idaho's Snake River Valley, and she works out of Tucson with drawing, woodcut, letterpress, and sgraffito. She often incorporates the words of her 104-year-old mother into her work. She's also a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar.
Alongside her are Chris Ignacio and Jan Talmadge Davids, the 2025 Sally and Richard Lehmann Emerging Artist Awards recipients. Each of them receives $10,000 and a spot in a group show. Ignacio is a Filipino-American puppeteer based in Phoenix, and Davids is a Tucson native who works in clay and mixed media. The program is supported by the Scult Family, Sally and Richard Lehmann, and the Cohn Fund for Arts and Culture, a founding gift of the Museum's Education and Engagement Excellence Fund.
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General admission is $23. You'll find the exhibitions on the second floor in the Katz Wing of the Phoenix Art Museum, at 1625 N Central Ave, with the opening reception and artist talk held in Whiteman Hall.
