“If you live in a place where people are dying by the dozens every year around you, how could you not respond?”
— Dr. Scott Warren
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THIRST 2022 RECAP
THIRST 2022 is a national collection of artists joining together to raise funds for humanitarian aid at the Arizona-Sonora Border.
In 2022, WE RAISED $12,045.13 - Increíble!
THIRST 2021 RECAP
THIRST 2021 is a national collection of artists joining together to raise funds for humanitarian aid at the Arizona-Sonora Border.
WE RAISED $11,003.30 - Increíble!
the difference between life and death
la diferencia de vida y muerte
TUCSON WEEKLY FEATURE
In a solo march, former Tucsonan Cassandra Kehoe walked down the streets of her Oregon neighborhood dressed as a weeping Statue of Liberty, holding a sign with the number "545"—the number, at the time, of known missing children separated from their families at the border.
This is not the first or the last time Kehoe—an attorney and artist and the daughter of an Argentinian immigrant—used art as activism, but this act inspired her to bring together artists from across the country to support their art and a cause close to her heart.
Kehoe curated THIRST 2021: Artists for Humanitarian Aid, a virtual event and shop that gathered more than 80 artists to create art to raise awareness and funds for Tucson-based humanitarian-aid nonprofits….
