Museum of Contemporary Art

Join us for an evening at MOCA with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio, a local food truck, and drinks by Brick Box Brewery! This month, celebrate the release of the 6th edition of the Sonoran Desert School Gardeners’ Almanac.

An exhibition centering the environmental justice movement led by Mexican American community members in their fight against defense industry pollution that caused widespread illness in the southside of Tucson in the 1980s. Featuring archival materials, and the work of local artists, journalists, researchers, and community members, the project reflects on the power of community organizing, disability justice, and collective healing in the face of environmental racism.

The first project is a commission of Arturo Herrera, artist based in Berlin, whose practice intertwines pop and queer iconography, gestural marks, and nonrepresentational shapes. Herrera’s wall painting will be on view in September 2026.