MOCA LOCAL GENIUS TALK: KARLETTA CHIEF & CELESTINO FERNÁNDEZ

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15 | 6-7:30PM

Join us for a series of lectures by 2023 Local Genius Awardees as they discuss their creative and professional achievements. Presentations will be followed by a conversation moderated by Mary Okoye and audience Q&A.

Chief is a hydrologist who conducts environmental research devoted to supporting Indigenous communities and training students in sustainable technologies, and Fernández is a sociologist whose work focuses on topics pertaining to immigration, education, culture, and corridos (Mexican ballads).

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FREE THIRD THURSDAY

THURSDAY, MARCH 16 | 5-9PM

Join us for a free evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio's DJ Cody, food by Reservation Sensation Frybread, and free beer by Barrio Brewing Company.

ARTIST TALK & PRINT LAUNCH | 6:30 PM

The program will include the launch of a broadsheet artist print by Nika Kaiser, a poetry reading, and a talk to raise awareness and funds for the defenders of the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

How to Remain on the Earth is a broadsheet piece that includes an excerpt from a poem by Colombian activist k. kodama. The work was created with inspiration from and in support of the movement to defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

EAST WING EXHIBITIONS: OPENING WEEKEND

Join us to celebrate the opening of MOCA’s spring East Wing exhibitions, Raven Chacon: While hissing and Na Mira: Subrosa. 

MEMBERS PREVIEW: FRIDAY, MARCH 24 | 6-7PM 
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PUBLIC OPENING: FRIDAY, MARCH 24 | 7-9PM
+ Celebrate the new exhibitions with food by Brujería Pupusería, drinks, and music.

SUBROSA READING: SATURDAY, MARCH 25 | 2-3PM
+ Reading with artist Na Mira and invited authors.

RAVEN CHACON: WHILE HISSING 

MARCH 24 - OCTOBER 22, 2023 | EAST GALLERIES

While hissing is an exhibition by artist, performer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon that celebrates sound as a medium for resistance and connection. Through video installation, graphic scores, and performance, Chacon amplifies Indigenous women's voices, centering their leadership and vision both as carriers of memory and authors of culture.  

NA MIRA: SUBROSA 

MARCH 24 - OCTOBER 22, 2023 | EAST GALLERIES

Subrosa is an exhibition by Na Mira that imagines scenes from the final, unfinished, film by the late artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. Mira engages Cha’s archive, integrates her own Korean matrilineal history, and embraces technological interferences to collide past and present. The immersive installation features non-linear films, radio sound, and the color red to explore thresholds of perception.

NIGHT BLOOM: GRANTS FOR ARTISTS 

APPLICATION DEADLINE APRIL 20

We are pleased to announce the next round of Night Bloom: Grants for Artists! This program supports collaboratively-focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grants award amounts: $5,000 – $7,500

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2023 GALA & LOCAL GENIUS AWARDS

SATURDAY, APRIL 15 | 6-9PM 

Join us for an evening in support of MOCA and in honor of the 2023 Local Genius Awardees: award-winning sociologist and researcher Jennifer Carlson; hydrologist Karletta Chief, Ph.D.; sociologist Celestino Fernández, Ph.D.; baker and Barrio Bread founder Don Guerra; and late writer and journalist Tom Miller.

This year’s Gala will feature dinner, music by Las Azaleas and Sergio Mendoza Y La Orkesta, a silent auction, and dancing.

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