Border/Arte Supports Women and Femme Collectives in the Borderlands and amplifies the voices of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, queer, non-binary, and API artists by fostering place-based, binational art installations, discussions, and political gatherings. Border/Arte highlights creativity across various art forms—from multimedia installations to theater, dance, poetry, and readings—within the dynamic and ever-changing US/Mexico borderlands.
Through these cultural interventions, Border/Arte addresses critical issues like migration, race, gender, climate change, water rights, Indigenous land rights, and displacement. By collaborating with communities in urban and rural areas of the Sonoran Desert and Colorado River Delta, including Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales, Agua Prieta, San Luis, Somerton and Mexicali, we provoke meaningful conversations and drive social change through art.
Special thank you to LISC Phoenix, Wend Foundation, Henner Foundation, Mass LIberation AZ, ReFrame Youth Arts Center for support.
Through these cultural interventions, Border/Arte addresses critical issues like migration, race, gender, climate change, water rights, Indigenous land rights, and displacement. By collaborating with communities in urban and rural areas of the Sonoran Desert and Colorado River Delta, including Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales, Agua Prieta, San Luis, Somerton and Mexicali, we provoke meaningful conversations and drive social change through art.
Special thank you to LISC Phoenix, Wend Foundation, Henner Foundation, Mass LIberation AZ, ReFrame Youth Arts Center for support.
November 14 - 17, 2024
Artist Trip to El Pinacate & Campo La Salina
Arts research trip to Pinacate and La Salina, Sonora, MX to work with Indigenous artists and land protectors fusing cultural and arts activism with climate activism.
Artist Trip to El Pinacate & Campo La Salina
Arts research trip to Pinacate and La Salina, Sonora, MX to work with Indigenous artists and land protectors fusing cultural and arts activism with climate activism.
November 23, 2024
Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
Celebrating poet, novelist and essayist Hala Alyan’s latest poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back, whose poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations.
Location: Phoenix, AZ
March 3 - 7, 2025
Binational Arts Residency
Collaboration with The Poetry Center Tucson for the Arts Residency featuring poet Divya Victor. Residency will engage with poets at the US/MX border and with a curated Living Room Sessions, an intimate salon for sharing and convivencia.
Location: Tucson, AZ + Nogales, Son
Center for Imagination in the Borderlands
Celebrating poet, novelist and essayist Hala Alyan’s latest poetry collection, The Moon That Turns You Back, whose poems take stock of who and what can displace you from home and from your own body—and, conversely, the kind of resilience, tenacity, and love that can bring you back into yourself and into the context of past and future generations.
Location: Phoenix, AZ
March 3 - 7, 2025
Binational Arts Residency
Collaboration with The Poetry Center Tucson for the Arts Residency featuring poet Divya Victor. Residency will engage with poets at the US/MX border and with a curated Living Room Sessions, an intimate salon for sharing and convivencia.
Location: Tucson, AZ + Nogales, Son
