Fronterizx Collective

Phoenix, AZ, Douglas, AZ

Stewards of Place in the Borderlands - Mixed Media Interpretations of Oral Histories

Fronterizx Collective is a multidisciplinary team of artists, organizers, and educators working transnationally across the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Their proposed project for the Naco Heritage Alliance Fellowship will center on the theme of stewardship and memory. Through a social practice framework, Fronterizx Collective will activate Camp Naco as a living site of cultural preservation, creative expression and collective memory. Their work will blend oral history, photography, video art, image making, asset mapping, and peer-to-peer learning frameworks, that reflect the region's rich interwoven histories and support the community to become authors of their regional narrative. Fronterizx's work is grounded in liberatory pedagogy, healing justice, and cultural production, drawing from their deep experience in cross-border collaboration and creative placekeeping. Through this project, they aim to foster reflection, connection, and belonging while preserving local narratives and generating a collective portrait of the borderlands community actively remembering and reimagining place and history.