RADIANT RUIN: gallery show, artist talk & DJ block party
Aug
16
to Sep 20

RADIANT RUIN: gallery show, artist talk & DJ block party

ON VIEW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20TH

artist talk: friday 9/12 7pm
CLOSING block party: Saturday 9/20 7PM

Communion on Convent
382 S. Convent Avenue
Tucson, Arizona

Oh yes there’s more of RADIANT RUIN! The gallery show runs through 9/20, open Fri, Sat & Sun afternoons. One-of-one metal prints are still available – come see them all together while you can! This show won’t be repeated.

We’ll be hosting an artist talk with Logan and Sydney Ballesteros Friday 9/12 7-8pm, going behind-the-scenes on process, hidden connections between NoVoGRAFíAS projects, plus Q&A. Free – join us!

Last but not least: a 3 hour DJ set by Dirtyverbs himself at the RADIANT RUIN closing block party, Sat. 9/20 7-10pm. Cumbias on Convent Ave. under the stars – plus the video installation will be back up for the final night! An entry fee is requested to support the work of the gallery and artist, but you decide what to pay (including $0 if that’s what makes sense for you right now).

Photos and video of the opening and performance piece coming soon, stay tuned – it was a special one! Thanks all who came out.

Don’t miss these next opportunities to engage this unique show before it’s finished.

RADIANT RUIN is the closing ritual for the most recent cycle of NoVoGRAFíAS by Logan Phillips. A gallery show curated by Phillips and Sydney Ballesteros of COMMUNION featuring a set of metal prints, each in an edition of one, never to be reproduced in this format. The prints are drawn from Phillips’ work in the triptych of the “urban psychogeography spellbooks” NoVoGRAFÍAS 02, 03 & 04. Combining elements of photography, collage, sigilism and visual poetry, these images come from the intersections of dream logic and the quotidian built environment, exploring cycles of capitalist colonialism and concurrent time, as witnessed from the vantage of Phillips’ home in downtown Tucson, Arizona.

Since 2010 the NoVoGRAFÍAS series has been poet Logan Phillips’ vehicle to research and develop new approaches to writing and performance. Through installations, durational performance, art objects and print, Phillips explores the somatic experience of poem arriving to poet, hypnogogia and threshold consciousness, spells and the built environment of the aridlands.

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OPENING Saturday, August 16th 2025

Join us for a Tucson summer evening of art + music featuring a performance by Logan Phillips (spoken word / video projection / sound sculpture) and music by an incredible line up of DJ’s: Humblelianess, DJQ and Menopause the DJ. 7-10pm, all ages, FREE, Performance at 8pm

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*POSTPONED* Teaching an Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar
Oct
13
4:00 PM16:00

*POSTPONED* Teaching an Online Class! "Poetry for Every Writer" Generative Seminar

** POSTPONED NEW DATE SOON! **

An entirely new type of offering!

I’m bringing my years of experience teaching writing online to a space OUTSIDE the academy, open to all!

A two-hour seminar on bringing the tools and practices of poetry into any writing practice.

I’m collaborating with my good friends at Margo Steines Creative to bring this seminar to life. Come learn what poetry can add to your practice!

Scholarships available.

“It’s often the case that prose writers and artists hold both a reverence and fear of poetry. “Poetry is the most pure form of writing, it offers the most freedom,” they might say in one breath, followed by “and I don’t understand it at all.” At the heart of this contradiction is the truth that too much creative freedom can be intimidating: when anything is possible, where and how do we begin? This course is an invitation to demystify the tools and processes of poetry writing, thus making them available to writers and artists across disciplines and genres.

We’ll take an all-levels approach that explores insights from “the basics” of line breaks and the mechanics of metaphor to what can be learned from exploring the materiality of language and linguistic logics. Together we’ll read poems by Daniel Borzutsky, Marie Howe, Simon J. Ortiz, Saretta Morgan, and others.

A variety of techniques for structuring a creative practice will be offered with the understanding that poetry is a process, not a product.

The course is open to all writers and artists of any experience level. Some previous experimentation with writing is recommended but not required.

At the conclusion of the class, students will leave with new creative experiments to use to inform their own work, as well as the seeds of new writing, poems or otherwise.”
— Logan Phillips
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No Place Like Home
Jun
7
6:00 PM18:00

No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home: More Info Here

I’ll be acting in this play that I co-wrote!

In partnership with the City of Tucson’s VIVA initiative by the Community Safety, Health and Wellness Program, No Place Like Home utilizes storytelling and performance to strengthen social bonds among residents working to reduce crime and improve their living conditions. The project aims to amplify the voices and lived experiences of a segment of our population that is often overlooked while creating a space for joy and hope. 

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Cultivating Culture
May
31
6:30 PM18:30

Cultivating Culture

Cultivating Culture

Su:dagi, Jewed, Ñiok - Flooding the Land with Stories & Poems

Saturday, May 31, 2025
U’us Wihogdag Masad - Mesquite Ripening Moon

Hosted by Amy Juan and Logan Phillips

Featuring

Claire Hong

Ruben Cu:k Ba’ak

Nicole Yanes

Music by DJ Humblelianess

6:30 PM - Food & Open Mic Signup

7:30 - Poems and storytelling

9:00 - End

Free, with gifts accepted for the series

San Xavier Coop Farm
8100 S. Oidak Wog
Tucson, AZ 85746

Brought to you by:

San Xavier Co-op Farm & TBOSC - Tucson Birthplace Open Space Coalition, with support from The University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Flyer by Double Happiness Design

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