Center for Creative Photography (AZ)

EXHIBITION: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research & Integration

LOCATION: Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ)

DATES: October 17-26, 2023 (Gallery Talks & Public Reception on October 24 (2:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.)

DEAR BODY OF WATER was part of an exhibition with the University of Arizona College of Fine Arts titled “Ways of Knowing, Ways of Being: Arts Research and Integration” at the Center for Creative Photography in Fall 2023. The exhibition featured cross-disciplinary projects along with workshops and class visits demonstrating arts research methods and encouraging diverse approaches, investigating alternative ways of knowing and facilitating situations of alternative ways of being with varied subjects.

An undercurrent of arts research around Dear Body of Water questioned: How might we cultivate care for overlooked ecologies including bodies of water, both far afield and right where we are? 

Read more about the exhibition here.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to: the University of Arizona's Ellen McMahon, associate dean for research and professor in the arts, and Jennifer Fields, executive director of the Office for Societal Impact, and all of the other collaborators in this initiative.

Land Acknowledgement (from the University of Arizona): We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson being home to the O’odham and the Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Native Nations and Indigenous communities through education offerings, partnerships, and community service.  

WATERSHED

Santa Cruz River—Gila River—Colorado River—Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California)—Pacific Ocean