Don’t miss your chance to join Curious Conversation: Art & Wellbeing with multidisciplinary artist Elizabeth Burden on October 14 at 1:00 pm, in partnership with the Fox Tucson Theatre.
Burden is the lead artist for the public art project “We Recover Together” for SaludArte 2025, which highlights stories of mental health, recovery, and resilience through art. This special event will take place at the Recovery Living Room (27 N. Stone Ave.) and will also be available virtually for those who can’t attend in person.
Registration is required to attend either in person or online. Secure your spot today and be part of this transformative conversation.
Now in its second iteration, SaludArte is a public art initiative organized by the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona in collaboration with the Pima County Health Department, focused on creatively addressing urgent public health issues through community-driven art. This year’s theme – “We Recover Together” – centers on stories of substance use, harm reduction, recovery, and resilience in Southern Arizona.
Elizabeth Burden’s installations for the 2025 SaludArte program are live and transforming our preconceived notions related to substance use, recovery, and stigma. The interactive activities and objects placed throughout Tucson will later be exhibited at the Tucson Museum of Art this Fall as the grand finale to the program.
The Recovery Living Room will serve as a community hubconnected to the project. The space is set up like a living room with board games, a free library, and recovery resources like Narcan and other supplies provided by the Pima County Health Department. Ms. Burden describes the Recovery Living Room as:
A community space that blends art, story-sharing, and connection. Part of the We Recover Together public art project, the RLR is a place to be — with no strings! Visitors are invited to browse the library, play a board game, engage in a dialogue, make some art, drop in for a workshop — or just chill. It is a temporary haven where stories, wisdom, and care are shared openly, reminding us of the power of connection. – Elizabeth Burden.
