TUCSON, AZ -- The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Tucson announces the opening of the 2025 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program. Organized by MOCA Tucson in partnership with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program funds collaboratively-focused visual arts projects by individual artists and artist groups within Tucson and the broader Sonoran Desert region. Grant awards ranging from $3,500 to $7,500 will support efforts to create experimental and community-embedded opportunities for artistic exchange that engage with the region’s unique contexts and possibilities. 

The 2025 Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program is open to all self-identifying visual artists and artist groups based in Pima County. The program seeks to support the greater Tucson area’s arts ecosystem through funds for publicly-accessible projects that include strong visual art focus on engaging, activating, and sharing with their audience(s).

Applications will be accepted from April 1, 2025, through May 4, 2025, at 11:59 pm MST. All eligible applications to the Night Bloom: Grants from Artists program will be reviewed by a panel of three independent arts and culture professionals that reflect a diversity of expertise, experience, and geographic location(s), with one panelist from Tucson, the Southwest region, and another from across the nation. 

Night Bloom grant funds will be distributed to award recipients in July 2025 for projects occurring before June 2026. All grant materials are available in English and Spanish, and applications can be completed in either language.

Grant guidelines and the online application can be found on MOCA Tucson’s website: https://moca-tucson.org/2025-night-bloom-grants-for-artists/

Previous recipients of the Night Bloom: Grants for Artists project awards include: 

Art Extensions (Linda Chappel, Melanie Lenart, Seneca Ortega, and Aray Ramon); Barrio Blue Moon – Monument to the Future (Sharayah Jimenez); BCC Print Studio (Ryan Fatica, Chava Shapiro, Arizona Queer Archives, Memory Commune, and BCC Library); Black Arts Network (Alanna Airitam, Elizabeth Burden, Elizabeth Denneau); BorderLens SW (Victoria Westover, Alejandra Platt-Torres, Shelli Hall, and Britten Traughber); Chinese Chorizo Project (Feng-Feng Yeh); Cybertramp (Jazzy Benson aka Jazzy Boho); Deep Rooted Guidance (Palmira Miro Gutierrez); Earth, Body (Desireé Arevalo); Everybody (Maya Hawk, Alex Von Bergen, Andrew Shuta, Christian Ramírez) ; Expanded Landscape (Nazafarin Lotfi and Saretta Morgan); Extra Space (Alex Von Bergen); Hollow Place, Solid Body (Sara Hubbs and Yuyu Shiratori); Inner Freq (Angelica Lopez, Victor Valencia, and Jorge Bojorquez); Keverim (Chava Shapiro, Molly Block, Dr. Maxwell Greenberg, Nika Kaiser, and ancestors not named and unnamed); LANDING PLACE (Kimi Eisele and Maxie Adler); Lilith: A Dark Erotic Arts Experience (Knomi Flores and Allyson Plantz); My Body Is Built for the In Between Spaces (Aura Valdes and Sarah Maaske); Ok Well Tucson (Anto Chávez and Emilia Villegas); Parallel H(ear) (Rebeca Bollinger, Patricio Coronado, and Gus Tomizuka); Precious Cargo (rocki swiderski, Kevin Fisher, and the American Institute of Thoughts and Feelings); PUES MAG; Sketching the Senses: the Sonoran Series (Teresa Pereira, Melinda Englert, and Ai Nan); SNAG (School for New Art Geographies); Snakebite Creation Space (Geneva Foster Gluck and Racheal Rios); ***** by Tarp Queens (Zeena Karina, Piranha, and Chava Dreypuss); Tactile Cosmology (Amber Doe); The Covenant Project (Lizz Denneau); Tucson Hip Hop Clinic (Monique Garcia and Ruben Dorame); Urgent Care Art (Lex Gjurasic and Eli Burke); VietNail (Anh-Thuy Nguyen); and Word of Mouth Print Space at the Blacklidge Community Collective (BCC). 

For more information about the Night Bloom: Grants for Artists program, please contact Audrey Molloy at: [email protected].