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This monthly bulletin produced by Equity in the Arts, details opportunities, resources, and news you can use. See the past issues below!
- Issue 4: January 2023
- Issue 3: November 2022
- Issue 2: October 2022
- Issue 1: September 2022
Extended! JustArts Fellowship Call for Applications
Deadline extended – Friday, May 12, 2023
The JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts advances equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts by inviting student leaders to design and complete a change–oriented project that increases student access to meaningful arts experiences. Fellows identify challenges, generate creative solutions, and collaborate with student peers and Arizona Arts mentors to bring a more just vision of the arts to life.
Proposed projects should offer a concrete plan to address an organizational issue, problem, or concern encountered by students on the University of Arizona campus by turning it into an opportunity for change. Fellows work together to present fresh ideas, put those ideas into action, and practice new and existing skills. Impactful projects will educate, inspire, and connect members of Arizona Arts and the broader community.
Extended! Event Co-Sponsorship & Curriculum Innovation Grant Proposals Deadline
Deadline extended – Friday, May 5, 2023
Deadline – Monday, May 1, 2023
The JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts advances equity, diversity, and inclusion in the arts by inviting student leaders to design and complete a change–oriented project that increases student access to meaningful arts experiences. Fellows identify challenges, generate creative solutions, and collaborate with student peers and Arizona Arts mentors to bring a more just vision of the arts to life.
Proposed projects should offer a concrete plan to address an organizational issue, problem, or concern encountered by students on the University of Arizona campus by turning it into an opportunity for change. Fellows work together to present fresh ideas, put those ideas into action, and practice new and existing skills. Impactful projects will educate, inspire, and connect members of Arizona Arts and the broader community.
Ibrahim Thiaw: Environmental Justice: Seeding the Ground, Planting New Roots
POSTPONED – Wednesday, April 5, 2023
12:00 PM | Student Lunch and Fireside Chat (Limited to Students Only), Honors Village Amphitheater
4:00 PM | Keynote & Reception (Open to all), Student Union Memorial Center Grand Ballroom
Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD)
Ibrahim Thiaw was appointed as Under Secretary General of the United Nations and UNCCD Executive Secretary on 31 January 2019. The Mauritanian brings 40 years of experience in sustainable development, environmental governance and natural resource management. Executive Secretary Thiaw is well-poised to lead the global effort on land restoration, build drought resilience; and improve food security, gender equality and land rights for vulnerable populations. Before joining UNCCD, he was Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for the Sahel, where he supported the implementation of the United Nations Integrated Strategy for the Sahel (UNISS) and the development of a UN Support Plan for the Sahel. From 2013 to 2018 he served as Assistant Secretary General and Deputy Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Before that he was the Director of UNEP’s Division for Environmental Policy Implementation, and he also served as the Regional Director for West Africa, and later Acting Director General of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Join us! Arizona Arts Faculty & Staff D&I Luncheon and Workshop
Friday, March 31, 2023
12:30pm | BOI5 Institute, Room 103
Join us for a boxed lunch and an arts-based workshop using short poems as inspiration to connect with colleagues across Arizona Arts and build community centered on diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’ll share ideas and experiences about how to best support students, including those from historically marginalized communities.
This workshop is led by Laila Halaby, who combines writing and social services to create engaging community programs that encourage creative thinking and communication. Laila Halaby is the author of two novels:
- Once in a Promised Land and West of the Jordan (winner of a PEN Beyond Margins award)
- A forthcoming memoir, The Weight of Ghosts (Red Hen 2023)
- Poetry collections, why an author writes to a guy holding a fish and my name on his tongue.
Laila lives in Tucson where she works as a counselor, museum educator, and creative writing teacher.
Join the EDI Book Club this Spring for Me and White Supremacy
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
12:00pm or 4pm | Virtual
To finish this semester the EDI Book Club will have one virtual meeting to discuss Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla Saad, which will be provided free courtesy of Arizona Arts. the EDI Book Club encourages anyone interested in participating to read and join the session for shared dialogue and community.
Arizona Arts faculty, and staff including graduate teaching assistants are invited to RSVP by March 24, 2023.
SALON 2nd Annual Showcase!
Thursday, March 30, 2023
5:00 PM | Slonaker Courtyard, 1027 E. 2nd St.
lnVisibility makes space for emergent artists and scholars whose voices have been historically underrepresented in the Performing and Visual Arts. Come to SALON and watch Arizona Arts students present their annual showcase featuring performances and exhibitions.
Questions?
RJS presents Dr. Reid Gomez’s “I like my funk uncut” Lecture
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
5:00 PM | Kachina Room, Student Union, Level 3
Writer, Dancer, and Percussionist, Reid Gomez, will share their P-Funk Study Skills handbook, and high-context immersive learning method, based in language revitalization and traditional learning practices. Gomez’s distinct work on grammars and emphasis on reading skills reflect the centrality of methods in their scholarship and teaching.
Vase Lecture: Bethany Collins
Tuesday, February 23, 2023
5:30 PM | Center for Creative Photography
Bethany Collins, a multidisciplinary artist who works in Chicago, will talk about how race and language interact in her works as part of the School of Art’s Visiting Artists and Scholars Lecture Series.
In her Contranyms series, for instance, Collins transposes definitions from Webster’s New World Dictionary of American Language onto American Masters paper, then aggressively obscures much of the entries with an eraser. What remain are specific snippets of meaning that are poetically charged through their isolation, as well as the crumbled paper bits left behind by her erasing. As Holland Cotter noted writing in The New York Times, “language itself, viewed as intrinsically racialized, is Bethany Collins’s primary material.”
Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions nationwide, including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, and the Birmingham Museum of Art. She has been recognized as an Artist-in-Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem and was awarded the Hudgens Prize in 2015. Other awards include: Lucas Artist Fellowship (2019), Montalvo Arts Center; The LeRoy Neiman and Janet Byrne Neiman Artadia Award (2019), Artadia Chicago Awards; Public Humanities Practitioner-in-Residence (2019), Davidson College; Artist Fellowship Award (2019), Illinois Arts Council Agency; Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant (2018) and Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2019), CIC Foundation.
Collins received an MFA from Georgia State University and a BA from the University of Alabama.
The School of Art focuses on bringing renowned and diverse artists and scholars from around the world to our campus. These visitors bring their own unique influences to the program by engaging with community members, students, and faculty through salons, lectures, and exhibitions.
Lesbian Looks & Docscapes Presents: Ester Newton Made Me Gay
Tuesday, February 21, 2023
7:30 PM | Loft Cinema (FREE ADMISSION), 3233 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ 85716
ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY explores the life and times of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. Throughout her career, Esther was a pioneer—questioning and challenging status quo assumptions on gender, sexuality, and anthropological methods. Her work inspired generations of scholars to pursue research in what would eventually become the field of LGBTQ+ and Gender Studies.
The film tells her story of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity which for her is now in conversation with trans-masculinity.
Keenly attuned to the cultural and societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself, a study influenced by her love for a sport—competitive dog agility—that pairs her aging butch body with her beloved dog teammate on an obstacle course that is constantly changing.
In her persistent efforts to train her body back into shape after numerous health setbacks, we see the intense drive that has helped Esther navigate a lifetime of obstacles she faced in her quest to become who she wanted to be: a butch lesbian, scholar, and athlete.
Jean Carlomusto is a filmmaker, activist, and interactive media artist whose work explores the complex nature of unique individuals and marginalized populations. Her films are often unorthodox investigations of LGBT history and HIV/AIDS. Her work has been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums and on television. She produced and directed HBO’s Emmy nominated documentary, LARRY KRAMER IN LOVE & ANGER (2015), which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival.
Her 1991 film L is for the Way You Look was featured in the very first season of Lesbian Looks, in Fall 1993.
DocScapes is a collaborative project of the UA Center for Documentary initiative and the Hanson Film Institute. The Loft screening is co-presented by the Lesbian Looks film series and the UA Institute for LGBTQ+ Studies.
Call for Participants: Artistic InQUEERIES
Deadlines to Apply:
Friday, February 10th| Drag
Tuesday, February 28th | Art
Tuesday, February 28th | Poetry
Submit your art, poetry, and drag numbers to Artistic InQUEERies: An Evening of LGBTQ+ Art, Culture, and Expression. We hope to be able to share all art submissions; however, depending on the number of submissions, priority will be given to artists who are local to Tucson, Arizona.
To submit work:
Drag – tinyurl.com/AIQ23Drag
Art – tinyurl.com/AIQ23Art
Poetry – tinyurl.com/AIQ23Poetry
Centering Servingness Webinar
Thursday, February 16, 2023
1PM | Virtual
Arizona Arts serves as a gateway to the visual and performing arts assets, experiences, and educational programs on the University of Arizona campus. Presenters from Arizona Arts share three new student programs — the JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts, Student Artist Live Opportunity Night, and Rehearsals in Anti-racism. By centering student creativity and agency, these unique programs expand access to meaningful arts experiences while also contributing to a university environment in which students from diverse backgrounds may flourish.
Marquis Bey Lecture and Workshop
Thursday, February 16, 2023
10AM | Graduate Workshop, Environmental and Natural Resources 2 (1064 E Lowell St), Room S225, or Virtual
4:30 PM | Lecture (Open to the Public), Environmental and Natural Resources 2 (1064 E Lowell St), Room S107, or Virtual
The Institute for LGBT Studies is excited to invite you to the 2023 Miranda Joseph Endowed Lecture with Marquis Bey and associated workshop for graduate students early that same day. Please join them on February 16th, 2023 from 4:30pm-6:00pm (AZ) for the lecture and from 10:00am-12:00pm for the graduate workshop. Both events will take place in-person and virtually. Please practice community care and consider wearing masks if attending in person. Please register as soon as possible for both events, as this allows to best ensure that everyone who wants to participate in these events can do so. The lecture is open to the public!
Lecture: In person: tinyurl.com/Bey2023 Virtual: tinyurl.com/MJEL2023
Graduate Workshop: In person: tinyurl.com/beyworkshop Virtual: tinyurl.com/MJELGrad
Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World Virtual Film Screening
Saturday, January 21, 2023
5:00 PM | Virtual Screening
The University of Arizona Beyond Juneteenth Committee has partnered with Arizona Public Media to provide the following virtual screening for the film Fight The Power: How Hip Hop Changed The World. This is a free event and opened to all who register at the link below. You can also click the image to register as well.
All attendees must enroll to attend the virtual film screening.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/fight-the-power-how-hip-hop-changed-the-world-tickets-514350625567
Re-orienting for Spring: Strategies for Graduate Student Wellness
Friday, January 20, 2023
1:00 PM | Virtual
The Graduate College’s 21st Century Masters’ Project team and Campus Health’s Counseling and Psych Services (CAPS) team are excited to invite all new and continuing graduate and professional students to attend our first graduate student wellness event of the year: “Re-orienting for Spring: Strategies for Graduate Student Wellness.” With a new year (and new semester!) upon us, we wanted to offer all graduate students a space to learn about resources and practical wellness strategies. Get tips from a panel of experts on how to cultivate physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing to ensure a more holistic and grounded degree journey experience. This event is free, open to everyone, and will be hosted online as a Zoom webinar. Invite your students to join us and several of our wellness partners on campus, including the Disability Resource Center, Women & Gender Resource Center, International Student Services, Center for Compassion Studies, and Campus Recreation for this spring orientation event.
Students can register here to get the zoom link and information: https://tinyurl.com/Re-Orient-Webinar
Recovery/Repair Art Workshop – No art experience necessary!
Wednesdays | January 18, February 15, & March 15, 2023
11:00 AM | Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Building, 1322 E. 1st. Street, Tucson, AZ 85719
Join other students to explore radical self-care in this three-part series centering BIPOC students. Attend one or all sessions. Workshops taught by visiting teaching artist Randiesia Fletcher Materials provided and no art experience is necessary!
This workshop is part of the Spring 2023 Wellness Wednesdays series, presented by the Arizona Arts Diversity & Inclusion Committee with support from the UAMA.
Afrofuturist Expressions: Viral Jusice with Dr. Ruha Benjamin
Wednesday, January 25, 2023
5:00 PM | Public Talk, Reception, & Book Signing (open to all), Health Sciences Innovation Building, Main Level
Thursday, January 26, 2023
12:00 PM | Fireside Chat & Lunch (for students only, space limited), Slonaker House
A professor of African American studies at Princeton University, Ruha Benjamin is the founding director of the Ida B. Wells JUST Data Lab and author of three books, Viral Justice (2022), Race After Technology (2019), and People’s Science (2013). Benjamin writes, teaches, and speaks widely about the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. The first 200 attendees will receive a FREE copy of Viral Justice!
Join the EDI Book Club this Spring for Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
Wednesdays | January 18, February 18, March 1 & March 22, 2023
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Virtual
The Arizona Arts Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Book Club club highlights one book per semester through small group discussions. Welcoming all perspectives and experiences, the club fosters a respectful and courageous space to grow our individual and collective understanding of EDI principles.
Arizona Arts faculty and staff, including graduate teaching assistants, are invited to RSVP today!
Learn more >
Diversity and Inclusion Symposium 2023 Call for Presenters
Thursday, March 16 , 2023 & Friday, March 17, 2023
The Diversity and Inclusion Symposium is a unique opportunity for faculty, staff, and graduate students to learn and discuss critical issues related to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion in higher education, specifically at the University of Arizona. The Symposium will provide participants with opportunities to RISE TOGETHER by expanding our collective knowledge, strengthening our resilience, and deepening our capacity for compassion.
InVisibility SALON presents: BOSS (Blow Off Some Steam)
Thursday, December 8, 2022
1:00 PM | UAMA Courtyard
inVisibilty SALON, a student-focused group at the University of Arizona that creates space for students from historically excluded groups within the performing and visual arts will host their BOSS event in the UAMA Courtyard to help students unwind between exams. Enjoy free food, karaoke, art-making, and dancing.
For more information or for performance opportunities contact invisibilitysalon@cfa.arizona.edu.
RSVP for BOSS >
Taking Care Together: Listening Sessions on Compassion and Community in Arizona Arts
Wednesday, Wednesday, November 30, 2022
10:00-11:15 AM | Virtual, Register for the Zoom
This session is for CFA students; Arizona Arts faculty/staff are welcome to attend.
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
2:00-3:15 PM |Virtual, Register for the Zoom
This session is for Arizona Arts faculty/staff only.
These sessions are designed to give space for the College of Fine Arts – Arizona Arts community to come together following the recent tragic events on campus. For a variety of reasons, we understand many of you do not feel safe. We look to build opportunities for connection to each other as we share in possibilities for healing, listening, and checking-in with one another. Let’s create an environment of care as we foster community together. These sessions are open to students, staff, and faculty in CFA and Arizona Arts.
NEW Spring 2023 Course: FA 495/595 Rehearsals in Anti-Racism
Register for this course today!
Are you passionate about racial justice and the arts? Rehearsals in Anti-Racism is returning for its 2nd year as a course designed to provide space for engaged personal, political, philosophical, and aesthetic conversations about race, racism, and their intersections with other makers of identity. Students will help shape the thematic direction through their interactions using art, new media, and emerging technologies to explore these themes.
Native Arts Fair at Mission Garden
Saturday, November 19, 2022
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Mission Garden, 946 W Mission Ln Tucson, AZ 85745
Over 40 Native artists will exhibit and sell ceramics, basketry, jewelry, gourd decorations, carvings, beadwork, clothing, paintings, food and more. Some artists will be demonstrating their craft at their booths. This is one of the garden’s biggest and most colorful events of the year and a great chance to do some holiday shopping!
Out of this World: Afrofuturist Expressions Across Science, Art, Tech and Design
Tuesday, November 29, 2022
11:30 AM | Fireside Chat (for students only, space limited), Slonaker House
5:00 PM | Public Talk & Reception (open to all), Kachina Lounge, Student Union Memorial Center, Level 3
Black Faculty Speaker Series & Race/Remix Present: Silas Munro on “Future Forces of History”
As an “accidental scholar” of graphic design history, Munro will show how his journey to find himself as a Queer, Black designer in the past also shapes potential futures for practice, teaching, and life. Through poetic research, written scholarship, and visual art Munro questions the often-unaddressed post-colonial relationship between design and marginalized communities. Racial Justice Studio – Arizona Arts is co-sponsoring Munro’s visit.
Recordando a México Voice Recital with Diana Peralta
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
5:30 PM | Leonora Carrington Gallery, 3915 E Broadway Blvd. Tucson, AZ 85711
Join in the music with Recordando a México. This event from JustArts Fellow, Carlos G. Ramirez invites attendees to a voice recital with mezzosoprano Diana Peralta and conversation around Mexican music appreciation. Bringing together the community to support the diversity of the southwest through music, this event will surely be one you don’t want to miss.
Rap Cypher Workshop at the School of Music
Tuesday, November 15, 2022
5:00 – 7:00 PM | Fred Fox School of Music, Room 35
Tucson Hip Hop Festival in collaboration with Josh Barbre and the JustArts Fellowship present a rap cypher workshop. Come participate as they talk, teach, and do all aspects of Freestyling. This event is limited to 30 people. RSVP early to reserve your spot.
Participate in the Ofrenda for Día de los Muertos
Monday, October 31, 2022 – Wednesday, November 2, 2022
Fred Fox School of Music (Outside)
Music Education and Art & Visual Culture Education would like to invite you to a participatory ofrenda for Día de Muertos! Set up outside the Fred Fox Faculty of Music, the event will reflect our connection with those who have left this world by remembering their lives. Participate by bringing a picture of a loved one who has left this world, an object that belonged to them, or something that reminds you of a hobby or thing they used to do. Two guided processes will be done from 8:00-10:30 am and from 1:00 – 3:30 pm at the School of Art, room 241.
Graffiti Workshop in the Tornabene Courtyard
Saturday, October 8, 2022
12:00 PM- 4:00 PM | Tornabene Courtyard, College of Fine Arts Complex
Passionate about Hip-Hop & the community? Interested in learning the graffiti artform? The Graffiti Workshop is a partnership between the Arizona Arts JustArts Fellowship and the Tucson Hip Hop Festival. Participate in the dialogue and learn all the aspects of graffiti art while making your own pieces. All materials are provided and learners of all levels are invited to participate. Spots are limited so register quickly!
49th Annual Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival is back!
Friday October 7, 2022 – Sunday, Ocotber 9, 2022
Jácome Plaza, Downtown Tucson
The 49th Annual Tucson Meet Yourself (TMY) Folklife Festival returns to downtown Tucson with food, performance, and folk arts from over 60 cultural traditions. Organized by the Southwest Folklife Alliance, and presented by title sponsor Rio Nuevo, TMY will be held on Jácome Plaza and the surrounding blocks. UA departments and research projects will connect with the public as exhibitors. The event is produced by our university nonprofit affiliate, the Southwest Folklife Alliance.
The Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship Nominations Open
Deadline to nominate is September 12, 2022
In honor of Dr. Maria Teresa Velez, former Associate Dean, University of Arizona Graduate College, the Dr. Maria Teresa Velez Diversity Leadership Scholarship is given annually to a doctoral student who has demonstrated a commitment to furthering diversity in education, higher education, and the community at large. Two scholarships are available and include a $25,000 stipend, plus full base graduate tuition, and individual student health insurance for one year.
Office of Diversity & Inclusion Hosts Welcome Event on the Mall
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
9:00 AM – 2:00 PM | UArizona Mall
Brought to you by the Office of Diversity & Inclusion (ODI), celebrate and meet students and staff from the UArizona Cultural and Resource Centers. Connect with over 40 different clubs and organizations while learning about all of the resources available to help make your experience at UArizona great.
Article: The Arizona Arts Master Plan sees the future through an inclusive lens
Posted July 18, 2022
The School of Art renovation was the first project to be completed as part of the Arizona Arts Master Plan. This is the third and final installment in a series of articles spotlighting the Arizona Arts Master Plan. While physical construction is the focus of the master plan, it also includes new programming designed to give opportunities for creative expression to historically underrepresented communities.
UArizona to provide tuition-free education for Native American undergraduates in Arizona
Posted June 27, 2022
The new Arizona Native Scholars Grant program, the first of its kind in the state, will cover tuition and fees for full-time, in-state undergraduate students from Arizona’s 22 federally recognized tribes. Beginning in the fall, new and continuing full-time, degree-seeking, in-state undergraduates will be eligible for the Arizona Native Scholars Grant, the first program of its kind in Arizona.
Learn more about the program >
Photo credit: Chris Richards/University of Arizona
UArizona recognizes Juneteenth with embedded year-round programming
Posted June 14, 2022
A planning committee chaired by Dr. Tyina Steptoe and Dr. Treya Allen has developed a yearlong program, Beyond Juneteenth, as a means of promoting awareness of the holiday and its significance within the struggle for racial justice in the United States. This programming will illuminate and celebrate the history of African Americans in the Southwest and the impact Black Americans have had in shaping our state and our region.
Read the statement from President Robbins >
Photo credit: Derek Lamar/Unsplash
Announcing the Inaugural JustArts Fellowship
Deadline to submit: June 6, 2022
The JustArts Fellowship for Student Leaders in the Arts advances equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) by inviting student leaders in the arts to identify challenges and propose creative solutions. Students selected for the Fellowship design and complete a change-oriented project that increases student access to meaningful arts experiences. Apply to be considered for the 2022-2023 Fellows Class
S.A.L.O.N. has a huge showing for its first event
Posted April 1, 2022
The School of Theater, Film, & Television and the School of Art’s invisibility and Sienna Collective came together for its first Student Artist Live Opportunity Night (S.A.L.O.N). Hosting over a dozen performances and demonstrations and over 50 attendees, the event was a success in supporting students of color in the arts in their works-in-progress for curated feedback. This outdoor “salon” is intended to expand student networks across the UA arts programs gaining valuable insight, connections, and support.
More about S.A.L.O.N.
S.A.L.O.N highlights the critical scholarship and need for community building for underrepresented students in the arts on UArizona campus.