Assembling Q-Identity: Self-Portrait Collage
February 5 - March 12, 2026
5:30 - 7:30 PM
This Stay Gold workshop invites participants to explore self-portraiture through collage as a powerful way to engage identity, and imagination. Using collage and mixed-media techniques, participants will create layered self-portraits that move beyond realism and perfection. Self-portraiture becomes fluid and abstract, resisting fixed definitions of self. Collage offers a visual language that honors multiplicity through color, texture, and fragmentation.
Participants will build their portraits on life-size silhouettes that will later be assembled into a collective mural. The workshop will conclude with a collaboration with Urgent Care Art to transform selected artworks into yard signs, extending participants’ voices into public space.
- Cost: Free
- Ages: Youth and adults (ages 13+)
- Dates: February 5 – March 12, 2026
- Times: Thursdays, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
About Teaching Artist Lorr-Inzalaco
Lorr (she/her) linzalaco@yahoo.com
“I’ve been drawing and painting Queer imagery all my life… and I still have a lot to say! I’ve been exhibiting my LGBTQ work for decades even in times when it’s not safe to do so. Every time I’ve had the opportunity to show art work, my queer community has attended in great support of OUT images; because there’s not enough Queer imagery “OUT” there… and we know it. And we all need to work to change this.
I love facilitating both collage, self-portraiture and group mural making with my LGBTQ community! I also love that Stay Gold classes are intergenerational! In a safe space we support and learn from one another how to visually express our deepest feelings about how fabulous we are!”
About Stay Gold
Stay Gold is a free intergenerational LGBTQIA+ arts program for youth and adults ages 13 and up. In support of our commitment to intergenerational learning, individuals of all generations, including youth 13 – 18, adults over 55, and everyone in-between are encouraged to participate.
About Urgent Care Art
Urgent Care Art is a collaborative project by queer artists Lex Gjurasic and Eli Burke that spotlights emerging and underrepresented queer visual artists in Tucson and Southern Arizona through temporary, immersive exhibitions in unconventional spaces. Responding to an urgent need for visibility, access, and experimentation in the local arts ecosystem, the project invites artists to work beyond the constraints of traditional galleries—materially, conceptually, and politically. For this iteration, artists are asked to reimagine the political yard sign as a site where the personal becomes explicitly political, particularly in relation to queer identity, visibility, and belonging. By queering exhibition formats and embedding art within everyday community spaces, Urgent Care Art challenges inherited boundaries, troubles normative assumptions, and expands who art is for, where it lives, and how it speaks.
Accessibility Information
Accessible parking near a ramp is available on the south side of McCormick St., in front of MOCA’s main entrance. MOCA has an accessible restroom in the lobby and all exhibition spaces are ADA compliant. MOCA is committed to providing access to the arts for everyone; for additional information or for accessibility requests, please call MOCA’s front desk at 520.624.5019 or email info@moca-tucson.org.