This summer midcentury modern art and design aficionados will delight in SMoCA's latest offerings: three new exhibits that explore the visual culture of the mid-20th-century, as it relates to art and culture today. K-BACH'S Sterling Beeaff chats with SMoCA curator Emily Stamey.

Meet the artists and curators at the Summer Opening Celebration Friday, June 5, 7-9pm, at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art. The event is free.