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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

02mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

02mar4:00 pm7:00 pmSanta Cruz River Farmer's MarketSanta Cruz River Farmers' Market, 221 S Avenida del Convento, TucsonEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market
When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM
Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745
We are excited for another cool market where we know you all will join us but what will you get? This week we will have plenty of produce! Lots of peppers, greens, and did someone say MELONS?! As well, we are excited to be welcoming our new vendors Wolf Den Soaps and Forbes Meat Company!
Again, we want to thank everyone for taking the time to engage with our surveys over the past two weeks. We had almost 250 responses all together! With this information, we plan on looking further into the improvements we have heard from you all and our other stakeholders (Advisory Committee, Vendors, and our Abundant Harvest Cooperative). In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns can always be sent to our email farmersmarket@communityfoodbank.org
Some reminders for our visitors:
We have a huge dirt lot by our market – park there! Please do not park on the east side of the Avenida going south as it is designated for our Vendors.
Restrooms are accessible in the Monier Building, MSA Annex, and Mercado.
The information table is where you can DOUBLE UP your SNAP dollars for FREE, sign up for AZFMNP, and swipe your Credit and Debit cards in exchange for wooden tokens to be used at market. As well, get all your questions answered here!

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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market

221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

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Children's Museum Tucson200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

02mar5:00 pm7:01 pmDiscovery Nights - Children's Museum TucsonChildren's Museum Tucson, 200 South 6th Ave. TucsonEvent CategoriesChildren's Events,Museums

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights from 5-7 pm every Thursday at Children’s Museum Tucson! Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights
from 5-7 pm every Thursday
at Children’s Museum Tucson!
Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working families and offer inclusive hands-on exploration in arts and science activities.
Discovery Nights programming includes an interactive blend of science, arts and culture with bilingual activities. Museum admission is free.
CMT’s exhibits are fully accessible and provide the backdrop for creative exploration. The extended evening hours offer additional flexibility, providing greater accessibility for working families.
See you there!

Time

(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:01 pm

Location

Children's Museum Tucson

200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

02mar5:00 pm8:00 pmFirst Thursdays at the Tucson Museum of ArtFree Museum Admission | Performances | Activities | LecturesTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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First Thursday of every month 5–8 p.m. Free Museum Admission | Performances | Activities | Lectures On the first Thursday of every month, the Tucson Museum of Art is free and

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First Thursday of every month 5–8 p.m.
Free Museum Admission | Performances | Activities | Lectures

On the first Thursday of every month, the Tucson Museum of Art is free and open to the public from 5:00 to 8:00 PM. Join us for exciting evenings of live music, performances, art-making, and one-of-a-kind gallery experiences, as well as a cash bar offering local beer and wine. Participants can enjoy mixed beats by MizSkoden, a tarot card reading with Alice Vath, and Kundalini Flow Moving Mediation guided by Fiona Fenix.

*Limited tickets available. Reserve online two weeks before the event. Free First Thursday will take place indoors and outdoors and follow all TMA COVID-19 protocols.

Free First Thursday is presented by an anonymous donor.

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

02mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Thursday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

03marAll DayNogales Mercado Farmer's MarketNogales Mercado Farmer's Market, 250 N. Grand Avenue, NogalesEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April) The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April)
The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to support the local economy by hosting artisans, craftsmen, and other producers of local products. Most importantly, everyone, including, FMNP and SNAP beneficiaries, are able to buy locally-grown fruits and vegetables. We also accept debit cards. The Nogales Mercado is a collaboration of community partners to connect local food producers with Nogales shoppers. The goal is to provide a downtown location for residents to purchase locally-grown, healthy foods as well as create a socially- vibrant, healthy environment where all can learn, share and enjoy the community. Organizers are Nogales Community Development and Mariposa Community Health Center.

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All Day (Friday)

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market

250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

03mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

03mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Friday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

04mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

04mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Saturday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

05mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Benderly-Kendall Opera House344 Naugle Ave Patagonia

05mar3:00 pm4:00 pmThe Sky Islands Trio – A Benderly Concert EventBenderly-Kendall Opera House, 344 Naugle Ave Patagonia

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As former Artists in Residence, Evan Kory, Emily Chao and Juan Mejia have performed at the Benderly- Kendall Opera House in several concerts. Each one of these performances received standing

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As former Artists in Residence, Evan Kory, Emily Chao and Juan Mejia have performed at the Benderly- Kendall Opera House in several concerts. Each one of these performances received standing ovations from the audience for their dynamic energy and virtuosity of their ensemble.

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(Sunday) 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Benderly-Kendall Opera House

344 Naugle Ave Patagonia

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

05mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Sunday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

09mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

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(Thursday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

09mar4:00 pm7:00 pmSanta Cruz River Farmer's MarketSanta Cruz River Farmers' Market, 221 S Avenida del Convento, TucsonEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market
When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM
Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745
We are excited for another cool market where we know you all will join us but what will you get? This week we will have plenty of produce! Lots of peppers, greens, and did someone say MELONS?! As well, we are excited to be welcoming our new vendors Wolf Den Soaps and Forbes Meat Company!
Again, we want to thank everyone for taking the time to engage with our surveys over the past two weeks. We had almost 250 responses all together! With this information, we plan on looking further into the improvements we have heard from you all and our other stakeholders (Advisory Committee, Vendors, and our Abundant Harvest Cooperative). In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns can always be sent to our email farmersmarket@communityfoodbank.org
Some reminders for our visitors:
We have a huge dirt lot by our market – park there! Please do not park on the east side of the Avenida going south as it is designated for our Vendors.
Restrooms are accessible in the Monier Building, MSA Annex, and Mercado.
The information table is where you can DOUBLE UP your SNAP dollars for FREE, sign up for AZFMNP, and swipe your Credit and Debit cards in exchange for wooden tokens to be used at market. As well, get all your questions answered here!

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(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market

221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

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Children's Museum Tucson200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

09mar5:00 pm7:01 pmDiscovery Nights - Children's Museum TucsonChildren's Museum Tucson, 200 South 6th Ave. TucsonEvent CategoriesChildren's Events,Museums

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights from 5-7 pm every Thursday at Children’s Museum Tucson! Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights
from 5-7 pm every Thursday
at Children’s Museum Tucson!
Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working families and offer inclusive hands-on exploration in arts and science activities.
Discovery Nights programming includes an interactive blend of science, arts and culture with bilingual activities. Museum admission is free.
CMT’s exhibits are fully accessible and provide the backdrop for creative exploration. The extended evening hours offer additional flexibility, providing greater accessibility for working families.
See you there!

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:01 pm

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Children's Museum Tucson

200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

09mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Thursday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

10marAll DayNogales Mercado Farmer's MarketNogales Mercado Farmer's Market, 250 N. Grand Avenue, NogalesEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April) The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April)
The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to support the local economy by hosting artisans, craftsmen, and other producers of local products. Most importantly, everyone, including, FMNP and SNAP beneficiaries, are able to buy locally-grown fruits and vegetables. We also accept debit cards. The Nogales Mercado is a collaboration of community partners to connect local food producers with Nogales shoppers. The goal is to provide a downtown location for residents to purchase locally-grown, healthy foods as well as create a socially- vibrant, healthy environment where all can learn, share and enjoy the community. Organizers are Nogales Community Development and Mariposa Community Health Center.

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All Day (Friday)

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

10mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

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(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

10mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Friday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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11marAll DayJunior Ranger ExperienceEvent CategoriesEnvironment,Recreation - Outdoor,Youth Events

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Wondering about the Junior Ranger program at Kartchner Caverns? Come out and get a well-rounded experience on what it means to be a junior ranger. Each 

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Wondering about the Junior Ranger program at Kartchner Caverns?

Come out and get a well-rounded experience on what it means to be a junior ranger. Each  Junior Ranger will build their confidence by participating in the “Where did I come from?” program. This is where each participant finds something in nature that piques their interest and builds a story around that item. This will help with practicing public speaking, creative storytelling, and building a connection between nature and the youth of today.  At the end of the program, there will be a group swear in and each participant will receive a junior ranger button. Meet at the group ramada.

Please register for this event on our website at: https://azstateparks.com/kartchner/events/junior-ranger-experience-at-kartchner
This event is offered in the morning or afternoon

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All Day (Saturday)

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

11mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Bisbee Shopping DistrictShopping District, Bisbee

11mar5:00 pm8:00 pmBisbee After 5 ArtwalkBisbee Shopping District, Shopping District, BisbeeEvent CategoriesArt/Craft Shows

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Join us for a unique shopping and cultural experience on the second Saturday of each month! Special Sales, Promotions, Drawings Live Entertainment & Refreshments BISBEE~ already famous for its rich history,

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Join us for a unique shopping and cultural experience on the second Saturday of each month! Special Sales, Promotions, Drawings

Live Entertainment & Refreshments
BISBEE~ already famous for its rich history, its vibrant arts scene, wonderful amenities and friendly people ~ “Is turning up the excitement!”

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(Saturday) 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Bisbee Shopping District

Shopping District, Bisbee

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

11mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Saturday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

12mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

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(Sunday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

12mar2:00 pmWinslow Homer: Art that Challenged America’s Early Beliefs, presented by Kit KimballTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Lectures,Museums

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As America recovered from the Civil War, Winslow Homer’s art was ahead of its time. His art portrayed subject matter in ways that gently challenged America’s values. Also, he elevated

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As America recovered from the Civil War, Winslow Homer’s art was ahead of its time. His art portrayed subject matter in ways that gently challenged America’s values. Also, he elevated watercolor to become a serious art form by creating large, dazzling and colorful visions, often of the tropics. You will enjoy seeing many of his famous works in a new light!

Lectures are $5 for non-members; free for members and students with ID.

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(Sunday) 2:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

12mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Sunday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

16mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

16mar4:00 pm7:00 pmSanta Cruz River Farmer's MarketSanta Cruz River Farmers' Market, 221 S Avenida del Convento, TucsonEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market
When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM
Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745
We are excited for another cool market where we know you all will join us but what will you get? This week we will have plenty of produce! Lots of peppers, greens, and did someone say MELONS?! As well, we are excited to be welcoming our new vendors Wolf Den Soaps and Forbes Meat Company!
Again, we want to thank everyone for taking the time to engage with our surveys over the past two weeks. We had almost 250 responses all together! With this information, we plan on looking further into the improvements we have heard from you all and our other stakeholders (Advisory Committee, Vendors, and our Abundant Harvest Cooperative). In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns can always be sent to our email farmersmarket@communityfoodbank.org
Some reminders for our visitors:
We have a huge dirt lot by our market – park there! Please do not park on the east side of the Avenida going south as it is designated for our Vendors.
Restrooms are accessible in the Monier Building, MSA Annex, and Mercado.
The information table is where you can DOUBLE UP your SNAP dollars for FREE, sign up for AZFMNP, and swipe your Credit and Debit cards in exchange for wooden tokens to be used at market. As well, get all your questions answered here!

Time

(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market

221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

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Children's Museum Tucson200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

16mar5:00 pm7:01 pmDiscovery Nights - Children's Museum TucsonChildren's Museum Tucson, 200 South 6th Ave. TucsonEvent CategoriesChildren's Events,Museums

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights from 5-7 pm every Thursday at Children’s Museum Tucson! Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights
from 5-7 pm every Thursday
at Children’s Museum Tucson!
Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working families and offer inclusive hands-on exploration in arts and science activities.
Discovery Nights programming includes an interactive blend of science, arts and culture with bilingual activities. Museum admission is free.
CMT’s exhibits are fully accessible and provide the backdrop for creative exploration. The extended evening hours offer additional flexibility, providing greater accessibility for working families.
See you there!

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:01 pm

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Children's Museum Tucson

200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

16mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Thursday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

17marAll DayNogales Mercado Farmer's MarketNogales Mercado Farmer's Market, 250 N. Grand Avenue, NogalesEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April) The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April)
The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to support the local economy by hosting artisans, craftsmen, and other producers of local products. Most importantly, everyone, including, FMNP and SNAP beneficiaries, are able to buy locally-grown fruits and vegetables. We also accept debit cards. The Nogales Mercado is a collaboration of community partners to connect local food producers with Nogales shoppers. The goal is to provide a downtown location for residents to purchase locally-grown, healthy foods as well as create a socially- vibrant, healthy environment where all can learn, share and enjoy the community. Organizers are Nogales Community Development and Mariposa Community Health Center.

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All Day (Friday)

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market

250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

17mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

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(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

17mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Friday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Mission Garden946 W Mission Ln., Tucson

18mar8:00 am12:00 pmTraditional O'odham AgricultureMission Garden, 946 W Mission Ln., TucsonEvent CategoriesHorticulture

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Every third Saturday of the month Maegan Lopez and Sterling Johnson continue this new Mission Garden tradition of talks and demonstrations about O’odham Agriculture. They

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Every third Saturday of the month Maegan Lopez and Sterling Johnson continue this new Mission Garden tradition of talks and demonstrations about O’odham Agriculture. They talk about traditions associated with Native American crops like corn, beans and squash, and how crops brought by Europeans were integrated into O’odham agriculture. This is a great collaboration between Mission Garden and Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture. These presentations happen in the O’odham Ramada, adjacent to the O’odham Garden.
Mission Garden is at 946 W Mission Lane in Tucson, Arizona. This event is free with suggested $5 per person donation at the entrance gate

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(Saturday) 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Mission Garden

946 W Mission Ln., Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

18mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Oro Valley Marketplace12155 N. Oracle Road, Oro Valley

18mar(mar 18)10:00 am19(mar 19)5:00 pmOro Valley Spring Festival of the ArtsOro Valley Marketplace, 12155 N. Oracle Road, Oro ValleyEvent CategoriesArt/Craft Shows,Community Events,Shopping

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The 2-day outdoor artisan festival in Oro Valley showcases some of the Southwest’s finest artisans in fashion, food, home goods, painting, and visual arts. In

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The 2-day outdoor artisan festival in Oro Valley showcases some of the Southwest’s finest artisans in fashion, food, home goods, painting, and visual arts. In addition, live music on the event main stage, a beer and wine garden, and food trucks will be onsite for attendees to enjoy.
Our curated arts and crafts market celebrates the ingenuity of independently owned, small businesses and artists who channel their passions into creating one-of-a-kind handcrafted products.
​Shop with the makers themselves – and learn how they make their unique works of art. Support small, local & sustainable!

Time

18 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 19 (Sunday) 5:00 pm

Location

Oro Valley Marketplace

12155 N. Oracle Road, Oro Valley

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Sunset Ride Wine3266 AZ-82, Sonoita

18mar(mar 18)10:00 am19(mar 19)6:00 pmTrunk Show - Weavings * Wine and DyesSunset Ride Wine, 3266 AZ-82, SonoitaEvent CategoriesArt/Craft Shows,Community Events,Cultural Events

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TRUNK SHOW Weavings+ Wine and Dyes Featuring PORFIRIO GUTIERREZ Teotitlan Del Valle, Oaxaca born, Master Natural Dyer and Weaver Sunset Ride Wine “The COOP” (the turquoise bldg.) FREE Event +Wine

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TRUNK SHOW
Weavings+ Wine and Dyes
Featuring PORFIRIO GUTIERREZ
Teotitlan Del Valle, Oaxaca born, Master Natural Dyer and Weaver
Sunset Ride Wine “The COOP” (the turquoise bldg.)
FREE Event +Wine Tasting + Food
Saturday Artist Talk 11:00 AM: The Intersection of Natural Dyes and Taste
Sunday Artist Demo 11:00 AM: How PH affects Color
Info: laughinghorseranch@hotmail.com
520-237-3284

Time

18 (Saturday) 10:00 am - 19 (Sunday) 6:00 pm

Location

Sunset Ride Wine

3266 AZ-82, Sonoita

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

18mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Saturday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

19mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

19mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Sunday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

23mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

23mar4:00 pm7:00 pmSanta Cruz River Farmer's MarketSanta Cruz River Farmers' Market, 221 S Avenida del Convento, TucsonEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market
When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM
Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745
We are excited for another cool market where we know you all will join us but what will you get? This week we will have plenty of produce! Lots of peppers, greens, and did someone say MELONS?! As well, we are excited to be welcoming our new vendors Wolf Den Soaps and Forbes Meat Company!
Again, we want to thank everyone for taking the time to engage with our surveys over the past two weeks. We had almost 250 responses all together! With this information, we plan on looking further into the improvements we have heard from you all and our other stakeholders (Advisory Committee, Vendors, and our Abundant Harvest Cooperative). In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns can always be sent to our email farmersmarket@communityfoodbank.org
Some reminders for our visitors:
We have a huge dirt lot by our market – park there! Please do not park on the east side of the Avenida going south as it is designated for our Vendors.
Restrooms are accessible in the Monier Building, MSA Annex, and Mercado.
The information table is where you can DOUBLE UP your SNAP dollars for FREE, sign up for AZFMNP, and swipe your Credit and Debit cards in exchange for wooden tokens to be used at market. As well, get all your questions answered here!

Time

(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market

221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

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Children's Museum Tucson200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

23mar5:00 pm7:01 pmDiscovery Nights - Children's Museum TucsonChildren's Museum Tucson, 200 South 6th Ave. TucsonEvent CategoriesChildren's Events,Museums

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights from 5-7 pm every Thursday at Children’s Museum Tucson! Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights
from 5-7 pm every Thursday
at Children’s Museum Tucson!
Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working families and offer inclusive hands-on exploration in arts and science activities.
Discovery Nights programming includes an interactive blend of science, arts and culture with bilingual activities. Museum admission is free.
CMT’s exhibits are fully accessible and provide the backdrop for creative exploration. The extended evening hours offer additional flexibility, providing greater accessibility for working families.
See you there!

Time

(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:01 pm

Location

Children's Museum Tucson

200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

23mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Thursday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

24marAll DayNogales Mercado Farmer's MarketNogales Mercado Farmer's Market, 250 N. Grand Avenue, NogalesEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April) The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April)
The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to support the local economy by hosting artisans, craftsmen, and other producers of local products. Most importantly, everyone, including, FMNP and SNAP beneficiaries, are able to buy locally-grown fruits and vegetables. We also accept debit cards. The Nogales Mercado is a collaboration of community partners to connect local food producers with Nogales shoppers. The goal is to provide a downtown location for residents to purchase locally-grown, healthy foods as well as create a socially- vibrant, healthy environment where all can learn, share and enjoy the community. Organizers are Nogales Community Development and Mariposa Community Health Center.

Time

All Day (Friday)

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market

250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

24mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

24mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Friday) 11:00 pm

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Museum of Contemporary Art

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

25mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

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(Saturday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

25mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Saturday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

26mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Sunday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

26mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Sunday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

30mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Thursday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

30mar4:00 pm7:00 pmSanta Cruz River Farmer's MarketSanta Cruz River Farmers' Market, 221 S Avenida del Convento, TucsonEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745

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Who are we? Santa Cruz River Farmers’ Market
When are we? EVERY THURSDAY 4 PM – 7 PM
Where are we? 221 S Avenida del Convento Tucson, AZ 85745
We are excited for another cool market where we know you all will join us but what will you get? This week we will have plenty of produce! Lots of peppers, greens, and did someone say MELONS?! As well, we are excited to be welcoming our new vendors Wolf Den Soaps and Forbes Meat Company!
Again, we want to thank everyone for taking the time to engage with our surveys over the past two weeks. We had almost 250 responses all together! With this information, we plan on looking further into the improvements we have heard from you all and our other stakeholders (Advisory Committee, Vendors, and our Abundant Harvest Cooperative). In the meantime, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns can always be sent to our email farmersmarket@communityfoodbank.org
Some reminders for our visitors:
We have a huge dirt lot by our market – park there! Please do not park on the east side of the Avenida going south as it is designated for our Vendors.
Restrooms are accessible in the Monier Building, MSA Annex, and Mercado.
The information table is where you can DOUBLE UP your SNAP dollars for FREE, sign up for AZFMNP, and swipe your Credit and Debit cards in exchange for wooden tokens to be used at market. As well, get all your questions answered here!

Time

(Thursday) 4:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Location

Santa Cruz River Farmers' Market

221 S Avenida del Convento, Tucson

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Children's Museum Tucson200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

30mar5:00 pm7:01 pmDiscovery Nights - Children's Museum TucsonChildren's Museum Tucson, 200 South 6th Ave. TucsonEvent CategoriesChildren's Events,Museums

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights from 5-7 pm every Thursday at Children’s Museum Tucson! Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working

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Join us for Free Discovery Nights
from 5-7 pm every Thursday
at Children’s Museum Tucson!
Discovery Nights are part of CMT’s collaborative Aprendemos bilingual program that provide flexibility for working families and offer inclusive hands-on exploration in arts and science activities.
Discovery Nights programming includes an interactive blend of science, arts and culture with bilingual activities. Museum admission is free.
CMT’s exhibits are fully accessible and provide the backdrop for creative exploration. The extended evening hours offer additional flexibility, providing greater accessibility for working families.
See you there!

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(Thursday) 5:00 pm - 7:01 pm

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Children's Museum Tucson

200 South 6th Ave. Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

30mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

Time

(Thursday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

31marAll DayNogales Mercado Farmer's MarketNogales Mercado Farmer's Market, 250 N. Grand Avenue, NogalesEvent CategoriesFarmers' Market

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April) The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to

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The Nogales Mercado Farmers’ Market is held every Friday from 4-7 pm (May-September) and 3-6 pm (October-April)
The weekly Nogales Mercado goes beyond food to support the local economy by hosting artisans, craftsmen, and other producers of local products. Most importantly, everyone, including, FMNP and SNAP beneficiaries, are able to buy locally-grown fruits and vegetables. We also accept debit cards. The Nogales Mercado is a collaboration of community partners to connect local food producers with Nogales shoppers. The goal is to provide a downtown location for residents to purchase locally-grown, healthy foods as well as create a socially- vibrant, healthy environment where all can learn, share and enjoy the community. Organizers are Nogales Community Development and Mariposa Community Health Center.

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All Day (Friday)

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Nogales Mercado Farmer's Market

250 N. Grand Avenue, Nogales

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Tucson Museum of Art140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

31mar10:00 am5:00 pmTHE STORY OF A PAINTING: JOSÉ GIL DE CASTRO’S CARLOTA CASPE Y RODRÍGUEZTucson Museum of Art, 140 North Main Avenue, TucsonEvent CategoriesMuseums

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The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s

Event Details

The Story of a Painting: José Gil de Castro’s Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez

A story of complex social relationships underlies an exceptional painting in the TMA collection, José Gil de Castro’s portrait of Carlota Caspe y Rodríguez. Created by an Afro-Latino artist born to an enslaved African mother, Gil de Castro became one of South America’s most prominent portraitists at the dawn of Independence, creating images of political elites across the continent from Argentina to Venezuela.

This exhibition uncovers the layered meanings in this single work, examining how the sitter’s identity was constructed with costume and domestic objects; revealing how portraitist Gil de Castro asserted his identity as an artist; exploring what we learn from the painting’s materiality; and considering the work’s collection history. Bringing these lines of inquiry together, we appreciate the nuanced story behind this key work in the museum’s permanent collection.

Time

(Friday) 10:00 am - 5:00 pm

Location

Tucson Museum of Art

140 North Main Avenue, Tucson

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Museum of Contemporary Art265 South Church Avenue Tucson

31mar11:00 pmCECILIA VICUÑA: SONORAN QUIPUMuseum of Contemporary Art, 265 South Church Avenue TucsonEvent CategoriesArt Galleries,Museums

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Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into

Event Details

Sonoran Quipu is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris collected by individuals and organizations across Tucson, gathered from kitchens, gutters, artists’ studios, gardens, and streets. Transforming the museum into a studio, artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña alchemized these fragments—things deemed no longer useful, having been shed by a plant, broken by a child, or left in an alley—into a living installation. The exhibition also includes elements that offer a small window into the breadth of Vicuña’s practice: three videos, a sound piece, a little library, and the vapors of performances, rituals, and relationships Vicuña created while in Tucson. Sonoran Quipu senses the fragility of our world as climate change tilts us towards mass extinction. Weaving together plant and industrial materials, the artist invites viewers to consider the beauty and precarity of our world, and our interconnected relationship to the environment and each other.

The Sonoran Quipu combines the artist’s signature sculpture forms—the monumental quipu and the precario. A quipu (‘knot’ in Quechua) is an ancient Andean communication technology that uses knotted strings to record information, and was banned by the Spanish during the colonization of South America. Vicuña reimagines the ancient quipu system, incorporating contemporary materials to highlight its capacity to connect worlds and people. The artist’s sculptural precarios are described by the artist as simultaneously “about to happen” and in a constant state of dissolution. The ephemeral precario and the delicate universe of the quipu are composed of materials perceived as disposable, reclaiming meaning from waste.

This quipu is part of a new arc in the artist’s work that she defines as “a quipu of encounters” to map and hold networks of relationships. The first ones occurred last year at Organizmo, in Cundinamarca, Colombia, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and at the Tate Modern in London, and now here in Tucson.

Sonoran Quipu is a poem in space that gently sways in the wind and changes with the passing of time. This new commission expands on the ecological and cosmic themes at the center of Vicuña’s life practice. It is enlivened by collaborations and public programs that situate the installation as a living site for contemplation, knowledge sharing, and gathering. 

 

Sonoran Quipu is organized by Laura Copelin, Co-Chief Curator, with support from Alexis Wilkinson, Assistant Curator. Exhibition production led by Dominic Valencia, Exhibition Manager & Registrar with installation crew Wesley Fawcett Creigh, YeRin Kim, Alyx Lunada, Dan Uliaszek, Vikó Velázquez and MOCA Sonoran Quipu Fellows Heidi Blaine, Maria Celis, Amber Ortega, and Alaina Pierce.

Exhibition partner is The University of Arizona Poetry Center. Project collaborators are Daniel Borzutzky, Felipe Molina, Robert Villa,  and Radius Books. Project contributors are ARC (Artist Residency Cooperative), BICAS, Center for Biological Diversity, Mission Garden, Native Seeds/SEARCH, Tohono O’odham Community College, and Tucson Waldorf School.

Major support for the exhibition is provided by The Diane & Bruce Halle Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Arizona Humanities; and Lehmann Maupin. Generous support provided by VIA Art Fund and Wagner Foundation; Barrio Brewing Foundation; and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.

In-kind support provided by Barrio Brewing Company; Exo Coffee Co., Pearly Baker; and The Downtown Clifton Hotel.

Immense gratitude to everyone who contributed materials to the Sonoran Quipu.

 

About the artist:

Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York and Santiago) received her M.F.A. from the National School of Fine Arts, University of Chile in 1971 and continued with postgraduate studies at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London from 1972-1973. This year alone, solo exhibitions of her work have been organized at a number of major institutions, including the Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (2022), and Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá, Colombia (2022). Vicuña is also included in The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2022), and was awarded a Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement (2022). Her work is in numerous public collections, including the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and Tate, London, United Kingdom. Vicuña is the author of 30 volumes of art and poetry.

 

Image Credits: Cecilia Vicuña, Seed Quipu (detail), 2015, installation view, DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, 2015. Courtesy the artist and Kunsthal Aarhus.

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(Friday) 11:00 pm

Location

Museum of Contemporary Art

265 South Church Avenue Tucson

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