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

Dossier: Queering and Performing Boundaries of the Imaginary Xicanx Body Co-edited by Marissa Del Toro and Cecilia Fajardo-Hill Missing Bodies, Invocation, and Amalia Mesa-Bains’s Altar-Installations by Laura E. Pérez Outrageous and Unconventional: Erotic Connotations in the Works of Gabriela Ruiz and Tamara Santibañez by Marissa Del Toro Love Is in Abundance: Rituals of Care by Edgar Fabián Frías and Jessica Carolina González by Ana Briz Laura Aguilar’s Nature Self-Portra