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Hostile Terrain 94 Participatory Art Installation Workshop

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM, April 11th - April 14th 2022

You're invited to participate in Hostile Terrain 94, a participatory art installation hosted by the Anthropology Department in collaboration with the Undocumented Migration Project. The installation is made up of approximately 3,200 handwritten toe tags representing persons who have died in the Sonoran desert of Arizona, largely from dehydration and hyperthermia, trying to cross the US-Mexico border. These tags include the names, age, sex, cause of death, condition of body and location for every person whose body has been recovered. The tags are then placed on a wall map in the exact location where the remains were found.

The workshops listed below ask volunteers to come fill out the toe tags and to bear witness, emotionally connect, and memorialize the lives lost.

  • Monday, April 11: 2-5pm
  • Tuesday, April 12: 12-2pm; 3-5pm
  • Wednesday, April 13: 2-5pm
  • Thursday, April 14: 12-4pm

Join anytime and stay as long as you can. Refreshments will be provided.

Save the date for the grand opening on April 20 at the White Gallery.