September 20, 2025 at Phoenix Art Museum Panel 1: MARS and the Chicano Aesthetic Presenters: Marissa Del Toro , Assistant Director of Programs and Exhibitions at NXTHVN Angélica Becerra , Associate Curator at the Huntington Art Museum, Library, and Botanical Garden Martín Moreno , Artist El Movimiento Artístico del Río Salado (MARS) was a Phoenix-based arts collective and gallery that was established in 1978 by and for local Chicano artists. The group’s work was largely excl

May 3-4, 2021 Youtube link As we continue to move through the time and space of this new decade, we are currently beholden to a...

December 12, 2020 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego On the occasion of the exhibition To Tame a Wild Tongue: Art after Chicanismo, the...

November 19, 2020 Phoenix Art Museum On November 19, 2020, curator and art historian Marissa Del Toro and Matthew Toro, director of maps,...

October 15, 2020 American Federation for the Arts On Thursday, October 15, the AFA presented a panel discussion with three leading...

April 6, 2019 The University of Houston, Houston, TX SESSION 23: ZINES AND PUBLISHING Moderator: Claudia Zapata, Souther Methodist...

April 5, 2018 Cal State University, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA This event framed zines as a form of public art and culture that...

February 21–24, 2018 Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA “The Collective as a Model for Practices in Diversity and Inclusion”...

August 6, 2017 ​Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Long Beach, CA Presentation: Carving out space in the folds: Latinx Zine Art and...

April 13, 2017 47th National Conference, San Diego, CA ​Panel - Art & Design Culture: ​Looking at Race and Identity in Visual Culture...