Breathing Futures

October 3 – November 2, 2025

East Wing Galleries

Breathing Futures highlights MOCA’s five Education programs which promote interdisciplinary learning and seek to create spaces for imagination and critical thinking. Gathering around art-making activities, each distinctive program centers around collective learning, friendship, and care. 

The exhibition features selected artworks created in each program, education documentation and archival materials, and reflections from participants. Evoking the spirit of the Education programs, Breathing Futures also offers spaces to rest, games to play, snacks to eat, and interactive art activities through which visitors can engage and imagine.

 

MOCA Education Programs 

Hamrah Arts Club
A free, multilingual arts club for youth to foster cross-cultural solidarity and build a network of support through art, play, and gathering. 

Minor Mutiny
A six-week leadership program that offers youth opportunities to explore collaboration through art, research, dialogue, and community engagement. 

Satellite
A free, year-long, mobile arts education program that brings art-integrated activities into classrooms for K-12 youth in Title 1 schools across Tucson where arts curriculum may not otherwise exist. 

Stay Gold
A free, six-week intergenerational LGBTQIA+ arts program for youth and adults to co-create art, explore identity, and learn from each other in a safe, inclusive environment. 

Summer Camp
An annual arts-focused, week-long summer camp with sessions for youth to engage in art-making, play-based learning, and creative peer collaboration. 

Learn more about MOCA Education programs and how to get involved here.

 

Organized by Mariel Miranda, Head of Interdisciplinary Learning and Engagement Research, and Alexis Wilkinson, Curator. Exhibition design and production by Dominic Valencia, Lead Exhibition, Installation, and Design.

Generous support for this exhibition is provided by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, Teiger Foundation, Windgate Foundation, Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona, and MOCA Tucson’s Board of Trustees, Ambassador Council, and Members.