A summer camp where children explore the Sonoran Desert using their senses, learning from plants and animals, and engaging in art and games.
This STEAM-focused camp for curious kids will investigate the natural world using scientific tips and tools, meeting Desert Museum scientists and zookeepers.
Scamps will learn the makings of a hero’s journey and create their own devised scenes to present to their friends and family on June 12th, followed by a “cast party” for campers and their families.
This generative workshop invites poets and prose writers to use archival thinking as a way into new work, exploring how voice, omission, and form can transform inherited material. Meeting will take place in the Poetry Center's Alumni Room, Room 205; limit 12 students.
This interactive, 3 hour program offers a camp-like experience for your child to live a morning in the life of a Zoo Keeper. Travel behind-the-scenes, create an enrichment puzzle, watch a training session, and learn more about the day-to-day tasks that go into providing optimal care for animals at Reid Park Zoo.
This STEAM-focused camp for curious kids will investigate the natural world using scientific tips and tools, meeting Desert Museum scientists and zookeepers.
A summer camp where children explore the Sonoran Desert using their senses, learning from plants and animals, and engaging in art and games.
This workshop brings continuing bonds theory, sympathetic magic, and creative practice together to better understand our ongoing relationships to those we’ve lost. Through storytelling, writing, collage, and bookmaking we’ll consider new ways one might (re)connect and continue building or deepening relationships with an ancestor of your choosing.
Immerse yourself in a creative, restorative experience combining nature and self-expression through poetry, pressed flowers, and guided sensory walks. Deepen your connection to yourself and the living world.
Scamps will move from creating their own plays to working on a scripted play, directed by Zac Austin. This session will culminate in a production for friends and family on June 26th followed by a “cast party” for campers and their families.
This workshop brings continuing bonds theory, sympathetic magic, and creative practice together to better understand our ongoing relationships to those we’ve lost. Through storytelling, writing, collage, and bookmaking we’ll consider new ways one might (re)connect and continue building or deepening relationships with an ancestor of your choosing.
A week-long day camp for rising juniors and seniors in high school to learn about cities, buildings, and spaces through design thinking, drawing, and model making. Held at the School of Architecture on the University of Arizona campus, participants will engage in work in the design studio, take tours of campus buildings and gain insights into the profession, discipline and education of architects.
Campers will discover the incredible diversity of animals in the Sonoran Desert, learning about conservation challenges and meeting live animals.
A summer camp where campers discover how to be superheroes for plants and animals through nature exploration and hands-on activities, learning about protecting ecosystems.
This workshop explores the relationship between writing and nature, focusing on finding form and inspiration in a world affected by deforestation.
Explore the ekphrastic approach to climate change with Hannah Larrabee and Jacinda Russell. This workshop encourages attendees to bring a photograph, artwork, or article related to climate change for generative writing, or a climate/ecological poem for visual artists.
This generative workshop explores how successful poems balance literal coherence with emotional truth, examining works that make audacious logical leaps while still feeling grounded and earned. Through close reading and writing exercises, participants will practice identifying where a poem needs more logical scaffolding and where it needs to trust its emotional instincts.
This master class focuses on lessons from ancient Southwestern perishable material culture, running from 10 a.m. to Noon on March 5 – 26, 2027.
A five-part series developed and taught by Dr. Michael M. Brescia, Curator of Ethnohistory and Professor of History, focusing on biographies of power and culture in 20th Century Mexico.