The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

22 June 2026

MOCA Announces The 2026 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists

Night Bloom: Grants for Artists supports the arts ecosystem in the greater Tucson area through funding collaboratively focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grants support efforts to create experimental and community-embedded opportunities for artistic exchange that engage with the region’s unique contexts and possibilities.

Night Bloom: Grants for Artists is organized by MOCA Tucson in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

 

Eight artists and collectives have been awarded grants to bring their bold, visionary projects to life:

π‘ͺπ’π’Žπ’Šπ’…π’‚ π’š π‘΄π’†π’Žπ’π’“π’Šπ’‚: π‘Ίπ’•π’π’“π’Šπ’†π’” π’‡π’“π’π’Ž 𝑺𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉 𝑻𝒖𝒄𝒔𝒐𝒏 by DesirΓ©e Guerrero
𝑬𝒄𝒉𝒐 π‘¨π’Žπ’π’π’ˆ 𝑼𝒔 by Shaye Aryanna Thiel
𝑳𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒔 π’Šπ’ 𝑬𝒓𝒂𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 by Elizabeth Denneau
π‘΄π’†π’Žπ’π’“π’Šπ’†π’” 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓 π’Šπ’ 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒕: 𝑨 π‘ͺπ’π’π’π’†π’„π’•π’Šπ’—π’† 𝑨𝒓𝒕 π‘©π’π’π’Œ by Maria Torres inΒ collaboration with Archivo Familiar del RΓ­o Colorado
π’π’Šπ’ˆπ’‰π’•π’—π’Šπ’”π’Šπ’π’π’” by Anushka Peres, Maria RenΓ©e, and Comet Sinclair
π‘Ίπ’•π’Šπ’•π’„π’‰ π’ƒπ’š π‘Ίπ’•π’Šπ’•π’„π’‰ by Regina Dante
𝑻𝒉𝒆 π‘Ίπ’π’π’Šπ’„ 𝑺𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝑷𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒍 by Jacqueline Arias Thompson
π‘½π’Šπ’•π’‚π’ π‘©π’π’…π’š by Nika Kaiser

 

β€œOur grants help to ensure that a broad range of artistic voices participate in cultural dialogue around issues of pressing local, regional and national concern.”

Joel Wachs, President