Chandler Museum Exhibits

The Chandler Museum exhibit hall features 6-8 exhibitions each year. The schedule includes a combination of in-house produced exhibits exploring Chandler history topics and nationally traveling exhibits showcasing culture, history and art.

Current Exhibits

Select Treasures from The Organic Architecture + Design Archives: A Micro Exhibit

Organic Architecture and Design Archives

Nov. 5, 2024 - March 24, 2025

In 2013, the Organic Architecture and Design Archives, Inc. was founded as the only educational non-profit organization in the world dedicated to the mission of preserving materials associated with the American organic architecture and design movement.

OA+D has since saved hundreds of thousands of drawings, plans, correspondence, photographs, slides, publications, ephemera, furniture, decorative objects, architectural salvage, and many other forms of historical documentation.

This “micro exhibit” provides a glimpse of the treasures that continue to accumulate under OA+D’s stewardship.

I Can’t Help Myself: Jon Arvizu

Can't Help Myself: Jon Arvizu

Jan. 7 - June 8, 2025

As one of the most prolific graphic designers and printmakers in the Valley, Jon Arvizu has been at the service of others for much of his career. But what happens when your foundation is shaken? How does a creative person who is always helping others help themselves? What happens to a creative person who has an honest awakening and realizes they need to pour some loving attention into themselves?

For Arvizu’s first solo exhibition, I Can’t Help Myself, he began making deeply personal work. The result is an exhibition that delves into self-love and introspection—looking at his past, present and potential future.

Upcoming Exhibits

Gaman

Gaman

Feb. 4, 2025 – Jan. 26, 2026

During World War II, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were ordered out of their homes and incarcerated at various internment camps across the western US. Near Chandler, the Gila River Internment Camp held 16,655. Their crime? Looking like the enemy.

This poignant exhibit highlights how the Japanese value gaman—enduring the seemingly impossible with patience and dignity—guided these American citizens’ experience of loss and incarceration in the Arizona desert.

Through the Eyes of Youth: Life and Death in Będzin Ghetto

Będzin Ghetto

Feb. 7 – April 6, 2025

When Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, German forces occupied the city of 50,000 people, half of which were Jewish. Forced into a cramped ghetto, the entire Jewish population was eventually deported to extermination camps.

The youth of Będzin struggled with growing up amid violence, hatred, and loss, while still trying to find small joys in life. All photos and artwork featured in the exhibit are from the town of Będzin.

Ceangal/Connections

Ceangal/Connections

March 15 – July 20, 2025

Did you know that Chandler has a sister city? For 15 years, Chandler, Arizona has been “twinning” with Tullamore, Ireland and we’re celebrating with an exhibition that showcases the cities’ reciprocal relationship. Ceangal/Connections is an art and culture collaboration between eight artists—four from Chandler, Arizona and four from Tullamore, Ireland.

Connect with the various ways artists across mediums explore the contrasts and similarities between the two cities including landmarks, landscapes, and culture of both places.