Join us for a reception at the Flinn Foundation introducing a unique art exhibit and collaboration between literary and visual artists, past and current patients, and one of our state's most impactful bioscience companies.
This Uncommon Knowledge exhibition, created collectively by the Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance (SAACA) and Roche Tissue Diagnostics (RTD), focuses on understanding the value of regular disease screenings and their associated diagnostic tests as well as the importance of advocating for yourself when something does not seem not quite right.
SAACA and RTD have generously shared with the Flinn Foundation select works from a larger exhibition that presented 21 patient stories—all Roche colleagues—as interpreted by more than a dozen regional artists.
The evening's program will include:
• Light hors d'oeuvres and refreshments;
• Live music performances;
• Live original poetry and songs performed by featured Arizona artists Ashanti Files, Ash Hooke, Hudson Keffer, and Erika Segura.
Featured visual and literary artists whose works are part of the exhibit include: Ashanti Files, Rebecca Ganz, Ash Hooke, Hudson Keffer, Carla Lobmier, David Navarro, Angela Puffer, Erika Segura, Carrington Shearer, Eve Stern, Beth Surdut, Laura Thurbon, Elaine Walsh, Dennis Wunsch.
The exhibition highlights the journeys of Roche staff across the United States who have experienced a disease diagnosis that impacted their lives. It aims to change how we take notice of and manage our health through a deeply personal look at those important choices that led to distinct health outcomes.
The patient stories and their accompanying creative representations span several disease states including, but not limited to, breast, colon, prostate and thyroid cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, human papillomavirus (HPV), long covid, latent autoimmune diabetes (LADA), pernicious anemia, and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance
The Southern Arizona Arts & Cultural Alliance (SAACA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating, preserving, and advancing the arts. SAACA strengthens the bonds between people, place, and purpose through collaborative, arts-driven experiences.
Our work strengthens the bonds between people, place, and purpose through collaborative, arts-driven experiences. Most importantly, our work creates necessary opportunities for our creative sector to thrive and grow.
Roche Tissue Diagnostics
For over a decade, Roche Tissue Diagnostics (RTD) has been investing in creativity through local, regional, national and employee art exhibitions at their dedicated gallery space, open to the public.
At their Oro Valley site the pathology customer area brings excellence and innovation to science and engineering, with individuals and teams leading the discovery, development and delivery of diagnostic systems and tissue-based cancer tests that are guiding the future of healthcare.
Flinn Foundation
The Flinn Foundation is a privately endowed, philanthropic grantmaking organization established in 1965 by Dr. Robert S. and Irene P. Flinn. Its mission is to improve the quality of life in Arizona to benefit future generations.
To achieve this mission, the Foundation aims to: strengthen the fiscal and creative capacity of the state’s arts and culture organizations; advance Arizona’s bioscience sector; enhance civic life and state-level civic leadership in Arizona; and enhance undergraduate education for high-achieving students at the state’s public universities.
