This exhibition features the gifts and promised works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr., who have been building a personal collection of the art of their time for more than 20 years. The exhibition features more than 75 contemporary sculptures, paintings, design objects, and works on paper from the era’s most well known and art historically significant artists. It will inaugurate newly designed galleries in the Steve Chase Wing, which completes the museum’s dramatic changes following three years of transformative renovations.

The glass center is installed with glass works drawn from the museum’s permanent collection and new works on loan from significant private collectors of contemporary glass in the desert communities. Noted national and international artists in this exhibition show a range of glass techniques and their diverse subjects range from the narrative and figurative to the natural world and the exploration of color in space.

Imagery and technique are intimately linked in Connor's work. The photographer has always gravitated towards images that reveal "the essence of something, the apparition of a form or idea, rather than a particular fact." A large-format view camera allows her to achieve remarkable clarity; frequently using long exposures, the images can also present time and movement. Her prints are created by direct contact of the 8x10-inch negative onto printing-out paper, the image exposed and developed in her garden using sunlight. She then tones the prints with gold chloride. The results are extremely rich in detail and have a warmth and delicacy seldom found in standard photographic printing.

Many artists from Mexico, Central and South America looked to their artistic heritage for inspiration. Artists such as Gunther Gerzo, Rufino Tamayo, Carlos Merida and others collected artifacts from their ancestral past in an effort to preserve them for future generations and to use as inspiration for their modern artistic production. This installation of works from the museum’s permanent collection brings together a wide range of expressions. Ancient figures and abstractions are displayed along side modern ones. Echoes from the past can almost be heard, like a whisper, joining voices with the modern expressions paying homage to their roots.