AZ ArtWorker: Douglas

AZ ArtWorker launched in Douglas, AZ during the weekend of October 10-11, 2015. Coordinated with the border community’s first bi-national art walk, a visit from internationally renowned artist Ana Teresa Fernández, and the debut of Repellent Fence, the largest bi-national land art installation ever exhibited at the US/Mexico border, AZ ArtWorker: Douglas engaged local and visiting artists, community members, and visitors from throughout the region and both sides of the border.

October 10-11, 2015

Featured Artists

Postcommodity (NM/AZ)

Postcommodity is an interdisciplinary indigenous art collective composed of artists Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, Kade L. Twist and Nathan Young. Hosted by ASU Art Museum, Postcommodity will be in Douglas October 9-12 presenting Repellent Fence, the largest bi-national land art installation ever exhibited at the US/Mexico border. The two-mile long sculpture will comprise twenty-six tethered “scare eye” balloons, ten feet in diameter, floating fifty feet above the border.

Ana Teresa Fernández (CA/MX)

Video and performance artist Ana Teresa Fernández will visit Douglas as part of her residency with ASU Performance in the Borderlands. Born and raised in Tampico, Mexico, Fernández is best known for her conceptual work Borrando la Frontera, which used a trompe l’oeil effect to “erase” a section of fence along the Tijuana/San Diego border.

M. Jenea Sanchez (Douglas/Agua Prieta)

M. Jenea Sanchez is an intermedia artist (MFA Arizona State University, 2011) who explores the visual, psychological and environmental aspects of borders and the role of women within displaced communities. Sanchez is an art instructor at Cochise College and currently heads the organization Artwalk on G, which provides the borderlands community with an immersive arts district through artwalks and street events.