The practice of otherwise
Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 7:30–9 pm
Tucson Museum of Art, Baker Center for Art Education
Hosted by The Projects/Space
The Practice of Otherwise begins from a simple premise: Things could be different. It treats the present as one configuration among many, and it asks what becomes possible when we stop accepting the given terms.
“Otherwise” is both a condition and a verb. As a condition, it names the gap between what is and what might be, the space where alternatives live. As a practice, it means repeatedly stepping into that space and making something there. This is not utopian dreaming. It is grounded in the material: the way a gesture, an object, or a gathering can quietly rehearse another way of being together.
Join us for The Practice of Otherwise, a public evening with Black artists from across the Southwest. Through short, paired artist encounters, guest artists will share work, ideas, and questions that open up different ways of seeing, being, and belonging.
Arrive at 7:30 pm to meet the artists and connect with fellow guests. Artist sharings begin at 8 pm, bringing eight distinct practices into conversation:
Marie Alarcon and Chloe Riley explore memory, belonging, and the reimagining of place through diaspora, hidden histories, and intergenerational legacy.
Maya Jackson and Granville Carroll move between fragmented memory and speculative possibility, opening new ways to see and imagine Black life.
Adia Jamile Olguin and Phoenix Savage engage ancestral, material, and spiritual knowledge as living practices of continuity, transformation, and repair.
Ebony Lewis and Cayla Mae Simpson explore embodied self-inquiry, transformation, and freedom—asking how we might move, relate, and gather differently.
Please note: The DUSK Music Festival is happening downtown on the same evening as our event. Street closures for the festival:
Pennington Street from Court Avenue to Scott Avenue
Stone Avenue from Alameda Street to Congress Street
Alameda Street from Court Avenue to Stone Avenue
Church Avenue from Alameda Street to Congress Street
It will be easier to access the TMA Education Center from the north /west side. For ride share, use 175 N. Meyer Avenue as the address.
Join us in practicing otherwise.