Brad Kahlhamer: 11:59 to Tucson / by Julie Sasse (Author), Natalie Díaz (Author)

Tucson Museum of Art, 2022. 

Brad 11:59 to Tucson is a hardcover exhibition catalog for a solo exhibition held at the Tucson Museum of Art of works by Tucson-born, Mesa/New York-based Brad Kahlhamer (b. 1956), who creates highly personal narratives that are both autobiographical reflections on his life and quixotic reveries about his identity. Dr. Julie Sasse is Chief Curator at the Tucson Museum of Art where she has served since 2000. She has organized more than 100 group and solo exhibitions and has written more than 40 publications about diverse subjects and artists including hybridity, the environment, Indigenous art, Latinx art, and women artists. In 2020, she released her book, Southwest Contemporary Art and the Legacy of Elaine Horwitch, published by Cattle Track Press and TMA. Sasse received a Clark Art Institute fellowship (2008); a Latino Museum Studies Fellowship in Washington, DC (2007); a Louise Foucar Marshall Foundation Graduate Fellowship (2013); and fellowships in 2016 and 2017 at the Women's International Study Center in Santa Fe. She recently authored an essay for Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art, published by Texas A & M University and contributed the feature essay for a monograph on New Mexico artist Patrick Mehaffy, published by Fresco Books. Natalie Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press, and her second book, Postcolonial Love Poem, was published by Graywolf Press in March 2020 and was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize. She is a 2018 MacArthur Fellow, as well as a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded the Princeton Holmes National Poetry Prize and a Hodder Fellowship. She is a member of the Board of Trustees for the United States Artists, where she is an alumni of the Ford Fellowship.