via my friend Marsha….

Frida twittered us and says she’s baking her birthday cake and getting her papers in order. Hopefully the Border Patrol will let her enter Arizona without a hassle in time for her 103rd birthday celebration at Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop. Born on July 6, 1907, Frida has requested that in lieu of gifts, you instead support your favorite Latino based nonprofit cooperative contemporary art gallery located in the historic downtown Tucson Warehouse District!

Frida Kahlo’s Birthday Bash!
Saturday July 3, 2010
7 – 10 PM
cake, refreshments, music
pot luck – bring a dish to share!

Our current exhibition is “How Brown Am I ?”, a socially conscious art exhibition in response to SB1070. Over 60 works by invited guest artists and member artists looks at stereotyping, racism, sexism, education, racial profiling and how we see each other. “How Brown Am I ?” runs through July 24, 2010.

Follow link to see coverage of “How Brown Am I ?” by Andrea Rivera / Arizona Daily Star July 2, 2010

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop
218 E. 6th Street
(1/2 block east of 6th St. & 6th Ave.)
Tucson, AZ 85705
(520) 881-5335

Regular gallery hours: Friday and Saturday 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. or by appointment
website www.RaicesTaller222.org contact: www.RaicesTaller222@aol.com

Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery & Workshop is Tucson’s only Latino based nonprofit cooperative contemporary art gallery located in the downtown Historic Warehouse District

27 days left before Arizona’s immigration law SB1070 goes into effect (July 29).