2025 Night Bloom Project
Presentations & Reception

Join us for the 2025 Night Bloom Project Presentations & Reception, hosted by Pidgin Palace Arts. This year’s Night Bloom Grants for Artists awardees will present their projects, followed by a reception in the Pidgin Palace Bar.

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.

RSVP here.

2025 Night Bloom projects include:

• A Queer & Femme Dance Affair by Moe Dorame
• Ancestral Grammar by Amber Doe
• To See, You Must Look: Erasure, Complicity, and the Future by Alanna Airitam
• Emancipatory Encounters by Elizabeth Burden
• ENCLOSURE by Erik Schmahl
• Inheriting the Void by Geneva Foster Gluck
• Silicon Borders by Aaron Cargile + Collective
• TENDERS by Slow Res Collective
• WhatSamMade Bloom presents: Queer Sewing Club by sam bloom

This event will take place at Pidgin Palace, located at 1110 S. 6th Ave., Tucson, AZ 85701.

 

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.

 

About Pidgin Palace Arts

Pidgin Palace Arts is a contemporary art gallery and pan-generational media lab. The gallery shows work that elevates the mainline and stimulates discourse from a wide swath of artists, known and less known, celebrated or even shunned by the art world, those that can play the game and the social misfits operating at the edge of civil society.