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Public Art in Public Places : October 2025

Full Scope Workshop for October invited artists Ammi Robles, Jenea Sanchez, and Gabriela Munoz. They led a conversation about their collaborative projects through the Fronterizx Collective founded by Jenea and Gabriela. They shared their experiences on their community engagement projects and how it has impacted their community.

Meet Our Speakers

Ammi Robles

Ammi Robles is a visual artist and language interpreter raised in the border town of Agua Prieta, Sonora. She also works as a photographer, independent filmmaker, performer, and organizer. Some of her most recent photographic and video works, along with those of other borderland artists, have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tucson, AZ in the exhibition MUJERES NOURISHING FRONTERIZX BODIES: RESISTANCE IN THE TIME OF COVID-19; at the Phoenix Art Museum, AZ in the exhibition Gabriela Muñoz & Jenea Sanchez: Empowered Fronterizx Bodies; and at MUSAS, the Sonora Museum of Art in the exhibition Fotógrafas Tramontanas: Nuestras Guías del Norte. Robles is also a member and co-founder of a group of women artists from Sonora and Arizona called "Las Fronterizas," with whom she carried out a live performance installation on the border fence of Douglas, AZ / Agua Prieta, SON. For Ammi, the documentation in her projects is done to preserve the history of the border town where she lives. She wants her work to represent the border culture she grew up with accurately. Robles has been exploring analog photography and introducing film aesthetics into her art by combining it with contemporary situations to evoke feelings of nostalgia, warmth, and border pride.

Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Munoz

Jenea Sanchez and Gabriela Muñoz, founders of Fronterizx Collective, began working together in 2009. Their practice is rooted in their experiences as women of color who grew up in the liminal culture between Mexico and the United States. Their projects and collaborations uplift the labor of women and center movements of social justice and racial equity. From their first project, weaving a site-specific community offering into the US/Mexico border fence titled Tapiz Fronteriza de La Virgen de Guadalupe, they have collaborated with borderlands communities in the creation of nourishing spaces that provide opportunities to make visible the abundance and creativity found in the borderlands.