Caretaking: Preserving Collections, Communities, and Creativity

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Thursday, Feb 1, 2024  5:30pm - 7pm

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Kick-off TMA’s celebration of its centennial with a conversation about caretaking to explore the ways in which institutions, artists, and professionals embody the role of caretaker. Presenters, including Rachel Adler (collections manager / registrar), Amber Doe (artist), Alexandra E. Samarron Longorio (assistant professor of practice, nutritional science and wellness), and Feng-Feng Yeh (founder, Chinese Chorizo Project), will share insights on their practice—creative and professional—and the way they enact and provide care.

For more information about TMA’s Centennial and the celebration of its first 100 years click here.

Lecture admission is $5 or free for members and students.

Upon request, American Sign Language interpretation for lectures can be provided. Visitors can request this service up to two weeks before the date of the lecture. To request this service call Isai Pacheco at ipacheco@tucsonmuseumofart.org or 520-616-2699.

Previa solicitud, se puede proporcionar interpretación en español para conferencias. Los visitantes pueden solicitar este servicio hasta dos semanas antes de la fecha de la conferencia. Para solicitar este servicio comuníquese con Isai Pacheco a ipacheco@tucsonmuseumofart.org o 520-616-2699.

About the Speakers
Rachel Adler has been with the Tucson Museum of Art and Historic Block in the Collections Department since 2006, where she began her work as an intern and was promoted to head of the department in 2016. Her responsibilities include the care and supervision of the Museum’s permanent collection consisting of almost 12,000 objects and artworks; coordination of temporary exhibition logistics, including loans, shipping, insurance, and installation; and the management of Museum object and exhibition archives. In addition to her position at TMA, she was also an apprentice at a local art conservation studio from 2006-2017. Rachel is a native of Tucson and a graduate of the University of Arizona with a bachelor’s degree in art history.

Amber Doe (b. Washington DC) is a multimedia artist who currently lives and works in Tucson, AZ. She holds a BFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a recipient of the 2023 Night Bloom MOCA Grant, AZ Commission on the Arts Research and Development Grant, 2022/2023 Projecting All Voices Fellowship, and the 2021 Abbey Awards Fellowship. Her work has been included in exhibitions at the Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX; The LeRoy Neiman Art Center, New York, NY; Gabriel Rolt Gallery, Amsterdam; La Ira de Dios, Buenos Aires; Snakebite Gallery, Tucson, AZ; and Blue Lotus Artists Collective, Tucson, AZ.

Alexandra E. Samarron Longorio is currently an Assistant Professor of Practice at the School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness at the University of Arizona. Samarron Longorio has a Bachelor’s in nutritional sciences (dietetic emphasis) with minors in biochemistry and women and gender studies at the University of Arizona and a master’s in public health (health promotion emphasis) at Northern Arizona University. As a Mexican immigrant, being a first-generation student and growing up in a single parent working class household, Samarron Longorio holds lived experiences that have informed her passion, and dedication for community engaged research, and program development. Since 2009, through grassroots community organizing, Samarron Longorio has led anti-deportation campaigns, immigrant workers’ rights collective advocacy strategies, housing justice efforts, and the design of higher education resources for Undocumented students in Arizona.

Feng Feng Yeh (she/her) is a chef and emerging multi-disciplinary artist who explores identity, feminism, and activism, under a provocative lens of sensuality, nostalgic camp, and comedy. She is the founder of the Chinese Chorizo Project, a MOCA Tucson and Andy Warhol Foundations for the Arts awarded project. In 2023, the Pima County Board of Supervisors named October the Chinese Chorizo Month recognizing the contributions of immigrants in America. Additionally, Yeh has received several awards including the Tucson City of Gastronomy Food Visionary Award and the Downtown Tucson for Everyone Grant. By providing an intersectional perspective of the connections and collaborations between art, food, history, and humanity, Yeh hopes to uplift underrepresented communities across boundaries.