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José Soto, Mexican folkloric dancer
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End of Life Programs
SFA’s End of Life: Continuum (EOL) project shares cultural knowledge about traditions, expressions, and practices associated with end of life, grief, mourning and death ... [Continue Reading]
VozFrontera in Nogales
A city without culture is a dead city. You just live to eat and work. Where there’s no creativity, no spontaneity, it’s a challenge to get your dreams going. –Gustavo ... [Continue Reading]
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Invest in the Beauty of Everyday Life. Become a Member of SFA Today! Now more than ever, cultural learning is an important part of being a loving citizen and a ... [Continue Reading]
Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations
We’re happy to share this video from Honoring Traditions/Bridging Generations, an educational program offered by the Arizona State Museum celebrating traditional artists in the state. Funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, the program brought together master and emerging artists to learn from each other and to stimulate dialogue about their […]
Cuban artist Nereida García-Ferraz visits border communities and artists
Our program to boost cultural activities and bring opportunities to youth and artist in border communities, VozFrontera, got a splash of cultura cubana this spring with a visit from Nereida García-Ferraz, a mixed-media artist who splits her time between Miami and Havana, Cuba. Born in Havana in 1954, Nereida migrated to the United States in […]
The Wood Is Like Magic: A conversation with Louis David Valenzuela
Making ceremonial masks from cottonwood is a special and spiritual practice. Yaqui/Yoeme artist Louis David Valenzuela learned the artform from traditional pascola maskmakers in Tucson’s Pascua Yaqui communities. Also a painter, sculptor and dedicated teacher, Valenzuela is a recipient of a 2018 SFA Master-Apprentice Artist Award. He spoke with BorderLore about his early artmaking days, […]
On Heat: The Ritual of Surrendering to Summer
by Debbie Weingarten The harvester ants in my parent’s Tucson backyard make a trail of flowers in an act of early morning performance art. When the sun turns the ground to a hot iron, the ants temporarily abandon their task. The flowers wilt in a purple vein beneath the mesquites. The desert body begins the […]