Free Third Thursday & Exhibition Opening:
Natalie Brewster Nguyen

Join us for an extra-special Free Third Thursday event to celebrate the opening of a new Great Hall exhibition Natalie Brewster Nguyen: We Need to Talk with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, food by Bisou Burger, drinks by Brick Box Brewery, and music!

About the exhibition

We Need to Talk is a large-scale installation by artist Natalie Brewster Nguyen that combines weather balloons, text, and audio to explore division and repair; celebration and excess; and the emotional and ecological impacts of human behavior. Balloons are symbols of whimsy used as decoration in children’s birthday parties and celebrations, and simultaneously hold heavier histories as tools in wartime communication, early flight, and as ceremonial objects. Situated in MOCA Tucson’s Great Hall and rooftop, the artist creates a field of weather balloons of various sizes printed with fragments of text that drift through space, shifting in meaning with each interaction and over time, accompanied by layered audio composition.