Free Third Thursday

Join us for a free evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, food by Special Eats, and beer by Brick Box Brewery! Don’t miss this lively time to gather with friends and family around art, music, and drinks; all ages are welcome!

At 6pm: we’ll be celebrating MOCA’s Summer Camp participants with a youth fashion showcase!

All evening: MOCA will also feature a showcase of the completed works made during the Chinese Chorizo Project Tile Workshop series led by Feng-Feng Yeh, Chinese Chorizo Project, and Carlos Valenzuela, Tucson mosaic muralist, throughout the month of May 2025. In the workshops, participants learned artistic theory inspired by themes from the Chinese Chorizo Project focusing on solidarity, community, resilience, survival, restoration, and love, Then, the group engaged hands-on artmaking with ceramic tile practices of hand glazing through paint brush, airbrush, squeeze bottle techniques, and relief work through press molds to express these themes.

About the Chinese Chorizo Project Tile Workshop Series with Carlos Valenzuela

This workshop series initiates the construction of a 15 foot tall mosaic sculpture depicting two connected Chinese Chorizo links. Representing the history of solidarity forged at Chinese grocery stores between Chinese immigrants and Mexican communities in Tucson, the sculpture will continue and expand Chinese Chorizo Project’s efforts in community empowerment. The tiles created by community members can be taken home or can be donated to be incorporated on the final large-scale Chinese Chorizo sculpture to demonstrate the power of collective collaboration and creation. Learn more about the workshops here.

About the Exhibition

On view in the Great Hall and East Wing Galleries is Frequencies, an exhibition featuring a group of contemporary artists who explore the dynamic possibilities of sound. These artists attend to the audible and inaudible traces of the world to create works across sculpture, architecture, video, performance, and image. Artists included are Alluvium, Vivian Caccuri, Sofía Córodva, Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez, Nikita Gale, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, Sara Ouhaddou, Adrian Piper, Ana Paula Santana, Naama Tsabar, and Karima Walker.

Monthly Free Thursdays are presented in collaboration with KXCI Community Radio.