Free Third Thursday

This month’s Free Third Thursday celebrates Living With Injury before it closes on September 27th, featuring the Sonoran Institute’s Tucson Green Drinks celebrating Latino Conservation week. Hear from exhibition curators Alisha Vasquez and Sunaura Taylor, Eduardo Quintana, Co-founder of  Tucsonans for a Clean Environment, and community groups who care about water in the Sonoran Desert. 

Plus on-site screen-printing of the Tucsonans for a Clean Environment Logo – bring your own bag or garment to print on, or use materials provided!

With music by KXCI Community Radio, galleries open late, a screening of the film Earth’s Greatest Enemy, free beer by Brick Box Brewery and food from La Indita.

 

About the Exhibitions

On view in the East Wing Galleries is Living With Injury, an exhibition centering the environmental justice movement led by Mexican American community members in their fight against defense industry pollution that caused widespread illness in the southside of Tucson in the 1980s. Featuring archival materials, and the work of local artists, journalists, researchers, and community members, the project reflects on the power of community organizing, disability justice, and collective healing in the face of environmental racism.

Light as Resistance is an exhibition of paintings, drawings, video, and a site-specific wall painting by Hilma’s Ghost, an artist collective formed by Dannielle Tegeder and Sharmistha Ray. Influenced by spiritual and esoteric knowledge systems, histories of abstraction, and research recovering the legacies of overlooked women artists, their name pays homage to the Swedish mystic and painter Hilma af Klint, who is now recognized as one of the first abstract artists in Western art history. Working collaboratively—with one another, with spiritual practitioners, and with unseen energies—the collective incorporates practices like ritual, divination, automatic drawing, and color magic into their artmaking process.

 

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