All Past Events

In Pictures for Charis, American photographer Kelli Connell reconsiders the relationship between writer Charis (pronounced CARE-iss) Wilson and photographer Edward Weston through a close examination of Wilson’s prose and Weston’s iconic photographs. 

Join us for a one-day-only pop-up exhibition, Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectivita, at Hotel Congress. This event is held in conjunction with CCP's Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva. Admission is free.

Join us for a Sobremesa event at Futuro in Phoenix, AZ, from 7-10 p.m. Admission is free.

Photography Network will convene its fourth annual symposium in the Sonoran Desert Borderlands city of Tucson, Arizona in partnership with the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Grounded in the themes that arise in three CCP--organized exhibitions of Latinx photography that will be on view this fall (Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, curated by Elizabeth Ferrer; Chicana Photographers LA!, curated by Sybil Venegas; and Laura Aguilar: Nudes in Nature, curated by Sybil Venegas and Christopher Velasco), "In Relation" will consider how communities are made visible, defined, and constituted through photography. 

Pima Community College and the Center for Creative Photography present "Pride of Expression: LatinX Photography and Low Rider Culture," sponsored by Bank of America.

Join us for a one-day-only pop-up exhibition, Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectivita, at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery at Pima Community College (PCC).

Join us at CCP for the Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva Community Celebration from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Enjoy food, music, and art-making activities, as well as a variety of outdoor events inspired by Bernal's work.

Join us for an artist panel and reception for Chicana Photographers LA! This exhibition features the work of five Chicana artists from Los Angeles, focusing on themes such as families, neighborhoods, sacred spaces, and body and identity politics.

Chicana Photographers LA! will be exhibited alongside Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, highlighting artists inspired by Bernal's legacy, focusing on Chicanx culture, identity, and the impact of gentrification on communities through a visual exploration of neighborhoods, families, and sacred spaces.

Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva presents some 125 photographs by the pioneering Chicanx photographer active in the 1970s and 1980s, focusing on his moving portrayals of Mexican American people living in the barrios of Tucson and throughout the Southwest.

Join us for the opening celebration of Louis Carlos Bernal: Retrospectiva, featuring a lecture by curator Elizabeth Ferrer at 6:00 p.m., followed by a lively reception from 7-9 p.m. 

The Place Where Clouds Are Formed is an interdisciplinary arts collective that examines the intersection of spirituality, migration, and current and historical policies that have impacted the borderlands of the Sonoran Desert.

Join us for a panel discussion about The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, a collaborative project, initiated in 2018 that explores the intersection of spirituality, migration, and historical policies affecting the Sonoran Desert borderlands.

Join us in celebration of The Place Where Clouds Are Formed, a visual art and poetry exhibition which examines the intersection of spirituality, migration, and current and historical policies that have impacted the borderlands of the Sonoran Desert. The special reading features poets Ofelia Zepeda, Amber Lee Ortega and Su:k Chu:vak Fulwilder. 

Join us for the screening of Witnesses to Democracy: the Journey of a Mother and a Photographer, an award-winning documentary film that tells the story of three people brought together by the tragic killing of college student Lee Han-yeol, whose death propelled the South Korean Democracy movement in June 1987.

The Center for Creative Photography, in collaboration with the University of Arizona's Center for East Asian Studies, the College of Humanities, and the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, presents "2086: Together How?," a keynote lecture by Prof. Park Kyong.

Laura Aguilar: Nudes in Nature is the first exhibition to bring together nearly 60 photographic works from five series of nude self-portraits by the groundbreaking photographer Laura Aguilar (1959–2018). 

Join us for the screening of the Korean documentary "Tour of Duty," followed by a conversation with directors Dongryung Kim and Kyoungtae Park. Their 2012 award-winning film centers around the life stories of the three survivors of the camp town. In the film the directors listen to their stories, inviting the women to engage with their camera to recollect their memories in the military camp towns.