Exhibition – NOW OPEN!

FREE and open to the general public! ~ ¡ABIERTO PARA NUESTRA COMUNIDAD!

Right in the heart of Nogales’s Morley Arts District…and just steps away from Arizona’s busiest border crossing into Mexico!


Open Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm


Historic 1904 Santa Cruz County Courthouse


21 East Court Street in Nogales, Arizona

Family in the Kitchen: A Tradition of Love and Culture (2024)

“Beyond Fronteras: Treasuring an Arizona Border Community’s Past and Future” is an exhibition featuring student artwork, poems, and other writings as well as work lovingly created by local historians and professional scholars, including undergraduate history students at the University of Arizona.

A youth from Nogales High School provides interpretation for a class mural on Nogales history painted in Mr. Luke Brannen’s I.B. History of the Americas honors course. Photo by Carlos Parra.

Please visit us to get the full Beyond Fronteras experience in Downtown Nogales, Arizona! In the meantime, check out our virtual exhibition highlighting the work of Santa Cruz County youth, artists, and local residents in creating this special celebration of our Arizona Border Community’s Past and Future.

“Beyond Fronteras” the exhibition and multimedia project was curated and coordinated by Carlos Francisco Parra, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arizona and a born-and-raised native of Ambos (both) Nogales.