University of Arizona

STOP. LOOK. LISTEN. Art and Social Justice

The University of Arizona School of Art Visiting Artists and Scholars Series, 2019-2020

Desertification Cookbook

Matthew Garcia (Desert ArtLAB)

October 3, 2019, 5:30 PM  |  Center for Creative Photography, Rm 108

Residency Project:

The public art project Desertification Cookbook is a collection of bilingual community  driven recipes, statements, and actions for exploring, surviving, and belonging in the  desert borderlands.​ ​The cookbook gives voice and identifies complex political and  social dilemmas that reveal themselves in our constructed environments through a  series of public art directed workshops, plantings, and interventions will take place  during the Fall of 2019 and Spring 2020. The cookbook “recipes” will be publicly  displayed at locations throughout the city of Tucson Spring 2020.  

Bio:

Matt Garcia’s artistic practice investigates ecology, its relationship to knowledge  systems and how media can connect communities to a reclaiming or re-imagining of  lost epistemology. Matthew Garcia is an assistant professor of Art and Design at  Dominican University of California located in the San Francisco Bay Area and the  founder of the interdisciplinary collective Desert ArtLAB.  In 2010, Garcia established  Desert ArtLAb with April Bojorquez to explore how a connection to desert ecology and  art can foster a sense of belonging, empowerment, and self-determination. Garcia’s  work has been presented nationally and internationally at: Ecole Nationale Supérieure  des Beaux-Arts (Paris, France), Museum of Contemporary Native Art – MoCNA (Santa  Fe,NM), Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara ,The International Symposium on  Electronic Art (2012,2015), Balance-Unbalance Festival (Noose, Australia) and HASTAC  (Lima, Peru). Garcia is a 2016 Creative Capital awardee in Emerging Fields.  

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Matthew Garcia (Desert ArtLAB)

Matthew Garcia (Desert ArtLAB)

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Miranda Belarde-Lewis

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