Join AIGA Arizona during Phoenix Design Week for a special Arizona premiere screening of Beauty Is Embarrassing. 

Check-in starts at 6:45PM. Movie starts at 7:00PM

Price at the door will be $15 for everyone. 

Synopsis:

For over 30 years, Wayne White has made an indelible mark on the creative world.  As a designer, painter, puppeteer, sculptor, and musician, Mr. White created images and ideas that are an integral—yet sometimes subconscious—part of the pop culture lexicon. To this day, he still gets up every morning to do the only thing his body and mind were made to do…create. 

Part biography, part live performance, Beauty is Embarrassing tells the irreverent and inspiring story of this one-of-a-kind visual artist and raconteur. The film traces White’s career from an underground cartoonist in New York’s East Village to his big break as a designer, puppeteer and voice-over actor on Pee-wee’s Playhouse for which he won three Emmys. It follows Wayne’s success designing and animating for other children’s shows like Beakman’s World and music videos for The Smashing Pumpkins (“Tonight, Tonight”) and Peter Gabriel (“Big Time”) through a dark period of struggle and self-reflection before emerging in his present-day incarnation as a respected painter and performer. The film, like White, embraces the ragged edges and messy contradictions of life, art, and family with rabid humor and honesty.

At its core, Beauty is Embarrassing shows what it takes for one uniquely talented, profanely hilarious, and utterly uncompromising artist to make it in America.