The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson is launching a weekly summer art series on social media while it closes its doors for a few weeks to prep for fall.
Arizona Daily Star The Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson is going on summer break, shutting its doors from July 6 through Aug. 30, but there’s still time to check out what’s on exhibit.
Sonoran QuipuArtist and poet Cecilia Vicuña’s “Sonoran Quipu” is a sprawling sculpture composed of natural and human debris that was collected by community members and organizations across Tucson, the museum said. Items shed by plants, broken by a child, left in an alley and more were transformed into a living installation.
Through video installation, graphic scores and performance, Chacon amplifies Indigenous women’s voices, centering their leadership and vision both as carriers of memory and authors of culture, the museum said. MOCA commissioned a new chapter of Mira’s project, imagining “White Dust From Mongolia,” an unfinished film by the late artist and author Theresa Hak Kyung Cha.During the closureMOCA plans to take the summer to prepare for a busy fall season. Expect announcements about upcoming programs, exhibitions and artist features at instagram.com/mocatucson and facebook.com/MOCATucson.
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