Kimi Eisele 
We’re thrilled to be working with grassroots organizers from Regeneración in building a Center for Cultural Organizing and heritage-based entrepreneurship to serve neighborhoods along the corridor of South 12th Avenue from 44th Street to Drexel Road (colloquially known as “La Doce”) in Tucson. In 2023, we purchased a property, 4009 S. 12th Avenue, to house … Read more
Our exhibit, “Walking Each Other Home: Cultural Practices at End of Life” produced in collaboration with the Arizona State Museum in 2022/2023 is now online. View the exhibit here. This exhibit shares stories and traditions that were documented as part of our End of Life: Continuum project supported by the Arizona End of Life Care … Read more
Kathleen Vance, Tohono O’odham Potter. Sells, AZ | 2023 Kathleen Vance, of Tohono O’odham and San Carlos Apache descent, specializes in Tohono O’odham utilitarian pottery creating clay cooking vessels, water ollas, seed jars, effigy pots, and whistles. She first learned to gather and process clay twenty three years ago with her first mentor, Alicia Bustamonte, … Read more
Denise Bey, African Dance. Tucson, AZ | 2022 Denise Bey began studying traditional West African dance at age 14 with Ladji Camara who arrived from Guinea with Les Ballets Africans. She also studied under M’Bemba Bandoura, Youssouf Koumbassa, and Ligia Barretto. Hailing from a family of artists, Denise is also well-versed in the doctrines of … Read more
Francisco “Paros” Baltazar, Pascua Yaqui Regalia. Tucson, AZ | 2022 Paros Baltazar makes traditional regalia worn in the Yaqui Deer Dance ceremony of the Pascua Yaqui people. He prepares Yaqui youth for the ceremony and teaches them to make regalia. He has been dancing in ceremony since he was five years old and learned the … Read more
Alicia Jewelryman-Billie, Navajo Leatherwork and Adornment. Tucson, AZ | 2022 Alicia Jewelryman-Billie makes Navajo leatherwork, in the form of cedar and tobacco bags and buckskin medicine and ceremonial pouches. Growing up, Alicia attended many different ceremonial gatherings with her grandmothers, observing how they used pouches in ceremony. She learned leatherwork from her maternal grandmother, a … Read more