Ground/Water II: Water Advocacy on the Santa Cruz
A transdisciplinary project focusing on water justice advocacy efforts on the Santa Cruz watershed, especially in the Southside, home to the Tucson International Airport Superfund site where historic remediation efforts treat the groundwater for TCE, 1, 4 Dioxane, & PFAS, before discharge currently into the aquifer and river.
Groundwater II connects research faculty and students from shared colleges to campus and community partners to collaboratively create and enact work from a set of briefs that make use of the tools of spatial visualization, interpretation, and visual storytelling. Groundwater II is one of six Arts +Resilience projects funded by a partnership between UArizona College of Fine Arts (CFA) and the Arizona Institute of Resilience (AIR). This project site provides an overview and archive of completed and upcoming engagements, projects and presentations related to this research.
Principal Investigators: Jacqueline Barrios (College of Humanities) and Martina Shenal (School of Art)
Lead Community Consultant: Yolanda Herrera, Community Co-Chair, Unified Community Advisory Board (UCAB).
Artist-in-Residence: Jessica Wolff
Student Research Assistants: Alexis Hagestad (Graduate), Jasmine Lopez (Undergraduate), Sarah Snyder (Undergraduate)
Linked Courses: ART 343A: Traditional Photographic Techniques (Spring 2025), PAH 420: Innovation and the Human Condition - Southside Stories of Environmental Resilience (Multiple semesters)
Groundwater II is one of six Arts +Resilience projects funded by a partnership between UArizona College of Fine Arts (CFA) and the Arizona Institute of Resilience (AIR). The project team acknowledges its partners especially from Department of Public and Applied Humanities (PAH), UArizona Libraries (UAL) Special Collections & CATalyst Studio; College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture (CAPLA), Center for Creative Photography, College of FIne Arts (CFA), Arizona Institute of Resilience (AIR) as well as Sunnyside Foundation, Office of Congressman Raúl Grijalva, the Unified Community Advisory Board (UCAB), Tucson Water, Frank de la Cruz Library, the El Pueblo Senior Center, City of Tucson Parks and Recreation, with special thanks to the offices of Pima County Supervisor Adelita Grijalva & Tucson Council Member Lane Santa Cruz, and the reviewers, speakers, site-/archive- visit experts and consultants who supported our students and research.