Border/Arte supports women-identified and femme collectives in the Borderlands and amplifies the voices of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, queer, non-binary, and API artists by fostering place-based and binational cultural collaborations, discussions, and cultural gatherings. Border/Arte highlights creativity across various art forms—from multimedia installations to theater, dance, poetry, and readings—within the ever-changing tapestry of US/Mexico borderlands.
Border/Arte theorizes the border as both a geopolitical location and conceptual landscape in which competing cultural narratives, political tensions, and imaginative possibilities shape our identities. Through cultural and artistic interventions, Border/Arte addresses complex issues including migration, race, gender, climate change, water rights, Indigenous land rights, and displacement. By collaborating with artists, cultural workers, and grassroots organizations in urban and rural areas of the Sonoran Desert, including Phoenix, Colorado River, Tucson, Nogales, Agua Prieta, San Luis, Somerton and Mexicali, we provoke meaningful conversations and support base-buildng efforts through cultural organizing.
Special thank you to LISC Phoenix, Wend Foundation, Henner Foundation, Mass LIberation AZ.
Border/Arte theorizes the border as both a geopolitical location and conceptual landscape in which competing cultural narratives, political tensions, and imaginative possibilities shape our identities. Through cultural and artistic interventions, Border/Arte addresses complex issues including migration, race, gender, climate change, water rights, Indigenous land rights, and displacement. By collaborating with artists, cultural workers, and grassroots organizations in urban and rural areas of the Sonoran Desert, including Phoenix, Colorado River, Tucson, Nogales, Agua Prieta, San Luis, Somerton and Mexicali, we provoke meaningful conversations and support base-buildng efforts through cultural organizing.
Special thank you to LISC Phoenix, Wend Foundation, Henner Foundation, Mass LIberation AZ.
2026
Feb 25 : "Reckon" a Reading with Logan Phillips
Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, 7 pm
Join us for a reading from Reckon, followed by a conversation with producer Mary Stephens about the role of poetry and literature during a moment of resurgent white supremacy and political violence, and about how men can meaningfully confront the legacies they inherit. This event invites all of us, and white audiences in particular, to step more fully into the work of memory, repair, healing, and collective accountability.
About Reckon: What does it mean to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona, a town where myth, masculinity, and whiteness have long performed a narrative of American nationhood? This hybrid memoir blends essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings, and screenplay fragments to examine sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and the contradictions of loving a landscape built on erasure and “slathered in murder. ” Moving through the Tombstone of the 1980s and 90s, where daily reenactments and museum displays reinforced a nostalgic masculinity, Phillips exposes a history far more complex than the one he was raised on and maps how empire and patriarchy shape belonging, narrative, and American nationhood.
March 4 - 10
Alabama Civil Rights Research Trip
Alabama is both a birthplace of freedom struggles and a stronghold of white supremacy. As these forces resurge today, we’re returning to the sites of civil rights resistance—both iconic and lesser-known—to learn from past strategies and strengthen our response now.
Through a feminist, intersectional lens, this research trip centers the everyday spaces—safe houses, schools, kitchens, and rural meeting halls—where women, queer organizers, and communities built disciplined, collective power. Their legacy offers strategic insight for confronting today’s white supremacist and authoritarian tactics.
Join Border/Arte for this unique and timely research trip to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.
Oct 10 - 16
Our 7th Binational Arts Residency engages with histories of Chinese migration in the US/MX borderlands. We will work with artists on both sides of the border to learn about the unique social architecture and food fusion culture in the borderlands.
Location: Mexicali, Baja California. More information forthcoming.
Feb 25 : "Reckon" a Reading with Logan Phillips
Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, 7 pm
Join us for a reading from Reckon, followed by a conversation with producer Mary Stephens about the role of poetry and literature during a moment of resurgent white supremacy and political violence, and about how men can meaningfully confront the legacies they inherit. This event invites all of us, and white audiences in particular, to step more fully into the work of memory, repair, healing, and collective accountability.
About Reckon: What does it mean to have been born in Tombstone, Arizona, a town where myth, masculinity, and whiteness have long performed a narrative of American nationhood? This hybrid memoir blends essays, photography, poetry, newspaper clippings, and screenplay fragments to examine sexuality, masculinity, parenting, and the contradictions of loving a landscape built on erasure and “slathered in murder. ” Moving through the Tombstone of the 1980s and 90s, where daily reenactments and museum displays reinforced a nostalgic masculinity, Phillips exposes a history far more complex than the one he was raised on and maps how empire and patriarchy shape belonging, narrative, and American nationhood.
March 4 - 10
Alabama Civil Rights Research Trip
Alabama is both a birthplace of freedom struggles and a stronghold of white supremacy. As these forces resurge today, we’re returning to the sites of civil rights resistance—both iconic and lesser-known—to learn from past strategies and strengthen our response now.
Through a feminist, intersectional lens, this research trip centers the everyday spaces—safe houses, schools, kitchens, and rural meeting halls—where women, queer organizers, and communities built disciplined, collective power. Their legacy offers strategic insight for confronting today’s white supremacist and authoritarian tactics.
Join Border/Arte for this unique and timely research trip to Selma and Montgomery, Alabama.
Oct 10 - 16
Our 7th Binational Arts Residency engages with histories of Chinese migration in the US/MX borderlands. We will work with artists on both sides of the border to learn about the unique social architecture and food fusion culture in the borderlands.
Location: Mexicali, Baja California. More information forthcoming.
