Mapping Q

01/25/2025

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11/07/2024

Celebrate 10 Years of Mapping Q! Since 2014, Mapping Q has created safe spaces for LGBTQIA+ youth to reflect on identity and community through the visual arts. Its annual workshop series traditioanlly culminates with an exhibition created by participants, and this year is extra special. Titled still q***r after all these years, the exhibiion showcases work by participants from both past and present.

Thursday, November 21, 5:00-7:00pm at the University of Arizona Museum of Art (1031 N. Olive Rd). The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to join us. https://forms.gle/ePwhyP5vdJWtHwc8A

This reception will celebrate the youth, artists and community organizations who have directly shaped and supported this program over the years. Browse the new exhibition, meet the artists, while enjoying light refreshments and art activities brought to us by The Art Cart with Handcrafted by Care.

08/28/2024

We can not believe that is has been 10 years! Thank you to all the community organizations, donors, and artists who have been involved with Mapping Q since 2014. This exhibition celebrates all of those creative voices in the LGBTQ+ community in Arizona. We hope you can see the exhibition before it closes in January, 2025.

https://www.kgun9.com/news/local-news/university-of-arizona-news/exhibiting-change-lgbtq-art-program-celebrates-a-decade-of-displays-at-u-of-a-art-museum?fbclid=IwY2xjawE8hp5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHayqwq2Rz7k9dTTwAj1Kgao_Y5bVuaL47SVi-sYm2GMXxfVjE4uwSWxrgA_aem_0IrEGgIeS3Dkb3BIcm0Gbw

The University of Arizona Museum of Art marks the 10th anniversary of its groundbreaking LGBTQ-centered art exhibit, Mapping Q.

08/27/2024

Mapping Q is back for fall! You asked for it and we have delivered more workshops with RISO printmaking. This fall’s FREE workshop series is designed to introduce LGBTQIA+ youth to the risograph printing process as an art form through which they can express their unique identities and life experiences. The nature of the riso printing process enables the students to make multiple prints of their work so that their art can be shared, traded, exhibited, and sold, expanding the reach of their creative output. Registration is open now! Visit https://forms.gle/MxEfUMXrsRMsdn2u6or scan the QR code. Classes start September 10th, 2024.

Mapping Q is excited to launch our Fall series of workshops, celebrating our 10-year anniversary! We will be on the road with new art activities at sites across the UA campus and Tucson. All workshops are free, serving LGBTQIA+ youth and students (ages 13-24). Mapping Q workshops are designed and facilitated by UA Museum of Art education staff and interns, with sessions focused on q***r health, wellbeing, pride, and resiliency. Some sites require you to register in advance, with others offering drop in/pop-up art activities. Follow us on IG to stay up to date on all programs and events this season.

Special thanks to the UA School of Art’s Book Art and Letterpress Lab for their underwriting of the Mapping Q program and to the LGBTQ+ Alliance Fund held at the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona for their generous support of the Mapping Q program.

05/15/2024

Don't forget, this Friday, May 17th, is your last day to submit to the 2024 Mapping Q exhibition: "still q***r after all these years." Go to artmuseum.arizona.edu for more information on submission guidelines and the submission form (or see link in comments below). This year, submissions from current Mapping Q participants will be installed in this special anniversary exhibition alongside works by past participants who still practice art, either professionally or personally as part of a self-care regimen. The exhibition will open to the public on July 13 at the University of the Arizona Museum of Art.

05/02/2024

Calling all current and past participants of Mapping Q! Mapping Q is celebrating its ten-year anniversary. Since 2014, we have connected with hundreds of young artists, collaborated with multiple community organizations, and hosted over a dozen exhibitions of LGBTQ+ youth art. This year we want to celebrate everyone who helped us get this far. If you were a past, current participant or teaching artist, we need YOU to submit recent artwork for this upcoming exhibition, "Mapping Q: still q***r after all these years." This exhibition will be the largest exhibition of LGBTQ+ youth artwork in Tucson and will highlight the wisdom, creativity, struggles, joy, and resiliency of our community. We are still here and will be in another ten years!

Details on how to submit are in the link below. Deadline to submit is Friday, May 17th. The exhibition will open at the University of Arizona Museum of Art on July 6, 2024. Email [email protected] if you have any questions.

https://forms.gle/xAf73LSsaCVcANyt5

04/12/2024

We are so excited to meet again later today (Friday, April 12th at 4pm)! A reminder that our last three sessions, starting today, will be meeting in person on the UA campus. If you are registered, check your email for the reminder with the address/directions. See you soon!

03/14/2024

New Mapping Q series (online/in-person)! We are so excited to offer a NEW workshop, “Queer Futures”, in collaboration with UA’s RISO club, March 22- April 26, 4-6PM. Mapping Q is a program of the University of Arizona Museum of Art that invites LGBTQ+ youth (ages 13-24 years) to explore identity through art. During this workshop series, “Queer Futures” we will ask: How can we care for ourselves and others as we imagine new ways of being and doing? What does another world look like? What role does art play in imagining, creating, and nurturing the future world?

UA School of Art students will help facilitate and mentor youth through their artmaking process. During online and in-person workshops, we will be learning about contemporary LGBTQ+ artists, q***r futurism, and will make RISO prints to visually communicate our new ideas. These RISO prints will be included in this year's Mapping Q exhibition at the UAMA, opening June 1, 2024. Registration is free and open to LGBTQ+ identified youth ages 13-24.

REGISTRATION is open until full. Space is limited! Registered participants will be emailed Zoom meeting link. For more information or to RSVP: https://forms.gle/tPxUyXd2nQHBMCcc7
Email [email protected] with questions.

02/21/2024

Mapping Q is on the road again! Next week University of Arizona students can find us with our friends at UArizona Campus Health. Wednesday, February 28 you can make art with us after you increase your wellness IQ. No art experience necessary, just an interest in learning more about health and wellbeing and building resilience through the arts. Come get creative with us!

10/24/2023

Another incredible exhibition on view at the UA Museum of Art! Meet the artist, Marlowe Katoney this Thursday from 6-7:30pm, during the Fall Exhibition Opening Celebration!

Artist Marlowe Katoney's "Axis Radius" series reflects on his experience of dance culture, a specific and memorable time in his life. He shares, “ When I was in college, I used to always look forward to going out on Friday and Saturday nights. We would go out to underground parties, and breakdancing was much a part of that movement.”

This weaving, "Axis Radius #6: Pareidolia Overture," depicts a breaker rising up like a tree of life. Marlowe says, “It’s meant to reflect our investment in our young people, changing times, changing culture. Native culture isn’t all about horses, sheep, trading posts and rodeos; it’s about much more. I think too many people get caught up in what they feel like Native art should look like.”

"Axis Radius" was named for the long-running Scottsdale dance club, which closed in 2013. Check out the whole series in "Pulse: Weavings and Paintings by Marlowe Katoney," now on view at UAMA!

10/24/2023

Mapping Q is on the road! Today, October 24 (4-6pm) you can find us at the Woods Memorial Library. Come and collage with us while we celebrate our identity! All supplies provided- but feel free to bring some of your own inspiration. Every fourth Tuesday we will be at Woods offering arts-making and community building opportunities for youth ages 14-24. Stay tuned for more locations being added in the Spring!