Events

  Join us to welcome the 2019 Guadalajara resident artist in Phoenix, Karian Amaya. Amaya will present a talk about her artistic practice and current research interests, followed by an intimate reception and meet-and-greet. Amaya was selected as the 2019 resident artist in Phoenix for GDL>>PHX Residencias Artísticas through a competitive process open to emerging and mid-career Guadalajara artists. During her Phoenix residency September 3 - October 12, she will research binational visual and literary responses to the Sonoran Desert, as well as the history…

  Please note: This event is not a concert The eighth edition of Crossfade LAB will stage a special meeting between celebrated Grammy-winning Los Angeles band La Santa Cecilia, and Mexican poet, journalist, and writer Dolores Dorantes. Moderated by cultural writer and MacArthur Fellow Josh Kun, the evening will follow words and music across the verses and line breaks of the Americas, from Olvera Street to Ciudad Juárez and El Paso, and from celebrations of love and family to the…

  Join us for an intimate evening of bilingual conversation and poetry with Mexican fronteriza writer Dolores Dorantes. This event is presented in partnership with the ASU Marshall Chair Borderlands Poetry Series and Palabras Bilingual Bookstore. DOLORES DORANTES is a Mexican poet, journalist, and writer living under political asylum in El Paso, Texas. She has published nine books of poetry and prose, most recently The River/El Río (2018), a collaboration with the photographer Zoe Leonard; Style/Estilo (2015 a book of prose poems that transforms the…