Grassification and Fire Resilience Project Showcase

Please join us for a showcase of new works that examine the ‘grassification’ of the Sonoran Desert. Funded by an Annual Resilience Theme Grant awarded by the Arizona Institute for Resilience, a cohort of local students, educators, scientists, artists, and policy experts joined forces for a year-long series of collaborations, interventions, and events that aim to bring new focus and awareness about invasive plant species and their interplay with larger climate change forces as well as their impact on the Sonoran Desert ecosystem. This evening we will showcase several new projects including three by local artists that received special grants to promote awareness and public engagement around the issue of introduced grasses and forbs.

The artists who will be presenting their new, grant-funded, works are Alex! Jimenez, David Fenster, and Serena Tang. In addition, we will present several new video works by Tohono O’Odham Community College students as well as the work of Barrio Buffelworks Adobe Brickyard. 

Don’t miss this important event to expand your knowledge about this critical ecological issue and see how local artists and students are taking creative approaches to spread the word!

The Grassification and Fire Resilience projects are part of the AIR Annual Resilience Theme Theme Award project Invasion, Ignition, and Restoration: Science, Art, and Education for Sonoran Desert Resilience.
To learn more, visit: https://air.arizona.edu/projects/science-art-and-ecology-sonoran-desert-fires

Grassification and Fire Resilience Project Partners:

Arizona Institute for Resilience
University of Arizona (various departments)
Center for Digital Humanities
Tohono O’Odham Community College
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Tumamoc Hill Desert Laboratory
MOCA Tucson
Odyssey Storytelling