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Artist Talk with Alex! Jimenez: Living With Injury
February 7 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join artist Alex! Jimenez for an artist talk about her work in Living With Injury.
Free and open to the public.
Our bodies and the earth: anxiety and grief in a contaminated world
Join us for an artist talk with Alex! Jimenez, whose work is featured in MOCA’s current exhibition Living with Injury. In this conversation, Jimenez will share how her own anxiety and grief over a dying planet relates to the years of work she has created about the Sonoran Desert and her community in the southside of Tucson. After losing her mother to cancer in 2016, Jimenez has used her artwork to discuss themes of water scarcity, communal loss, environmental loss and contamination in the Sonoran Desert. She will share how community-engaged art making has been a place to process grief and how the medium of clay can heal and validate people. Join her as she shares images of her process and final images of her piece “Groundwater Embodied” a mosaic mural completed in December 2025 that honors the impact of the TCE (trichloroethylene) water contamination that deeply impacted the community on the south side of Tucson.
1:00: Artist talk
2:00: Museum open for an informal walk in the exhibition
Event is free and open to the public.
Programming supported in partnership with Southwest Folklife Alliance’s Disability Cultures Folklife program.
For more information about SFA’s Disability Cultures Folklife program please reach out to Info@SouthwestFolklife.org.