2026 Night Bloom Project Presentations & Reception

Join us for the 2026 Night Bloom Project Presentations & Reception! This year’s Night Bloom Grants for Artists awardees will present their projects, followed by a reception. This event is an opportunity to connect with Night Bloom awardees, learn about their work, and hear how their projects contribute to Tucson’s creative ecology.

2026 Night Bloom projects include:

• Comida y Memoria: Stories from South Tucson by Desirée Guerrero
• Echo Among Us by Shaye Aryanna Thiel 
• Lessons in Erasure by Elizabeth Denneau
• Memories of Water in the Desert: A Collective Art Book by Maria Torres and Caroline Tracey in collaboration with Archivo Familiar del Río Colorado 
• nightvisions by Anushka Peres, Maria Renée, and Comet Sinclair
• Stitch by Stitch by Regina Dante
• The Sonic Sonoran Portal by Jacqueline Arias Thompson
• Vital Body by Nika Kaiser 

 

About Night Bloom Grants for Artists

Night Bloom: Grants for Artists supports the arts ecosystem in the greater Tucson area through funding collaboratively-focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grants in amounts ranging from $3,500 – $7,500 support efforts to create experimental and community-embedded opportunities for artistic exchange that engage with the region’s unique contexts and possibilities. Night Bloom: Grants for Artists is organized by MOCA Tucson in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

 

About The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts’ Regional Regranting Program

The Regional Regranting Program partners with local arts organizations around the country to make grants to artists and collectives for projects that chart new creative territory in their communities; participation is by invitation only. Each partner in the network creates its own program tailored to the specific needs and artistic identity of its region. Established in 2007, the network is currently active in 39 cities and regions, supporting artists whose work falls outside the scope of traditional presenting organizations and/or funding opportunities. Projects supported by these grants have included queer zines, living room galleries, radical seafaring events, and virtual reality film screenings among other public-facing experimental activities.