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MOCA Tucson FREE THIRD THURSDAYS
July 21, 2022 @ 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm MST
MOCA Tucson
FREE THIRD THURSDAYS
JULY 21, 2022 5:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Third Thursdays at MOCA Tucson is a free evening with galleries open late, live music by KXCI Community Radio DJs, food, and free beer by Barrio Brewing Company. Don’t miss this lively time to gather around art, music, and drinks!
This month, DJ El Toro will be on the decks. His moniker is the emancipated alter-ego of author, entertainer, and fundraiser Kurt B. Reighley. El Toro currently hosts the Friday Morning Music Mix on KXCI 91.3 FM Tucson. Previously, he was an on-air personality at KEXP Seattle from 2005 until 2016, and co-host of the long-running queer disco party “The World’s Tiniest Tea Dance” at PONY. Since 1997, he has played with notables including the B-52’s, Village People, Nina Hagen, Eddie Vedder, and Scissor Sisters. @kurtbreighley on Instagram.
DJ sets for preview at https://www.mixcloud.com/kurtbrei/
Don’t miss a special Poetry Reading featuring Lynn Xu and Joshua Edwards beginning at 7:30 pm.
About the Exhibitions
On view in the Great Hall is the exhibition Grace Rosario Perkins: The Relevance of Your Data, which features new large-scale paintings by Grace Rosario Perkins with sculpture, video, and object interventions by Lonnie Holley, Fox Maxy, Olen Perkins, and Eric-Paul Riege that create a generous conversation about identity, land, and collectivity. Kenneth Tam: Silent Spikes is a solo exhibition on view in the East Wing Galleries featuring a two-channel video installation with accompanying photographs that investigates the intersections of masculinity, race, and labor. Plein Air is a group exhibition on view in the East Wing Galleries exploring shifting ideas of western landscape, painting, and fieldwork and includes works by Susanna Battin, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, iris yirei hu, KB Jones, Hillary Mushkin, Sterling Wells, and Paula Wilson.