‘Dreams Without Borders’ art show, panel discussion, fundraiser to be held Jan. 17 at the HeART Box Gallery, Flagstaff

Join us for an evening with amazing artists Amy Martin and Chip Thomas and Northern Arizona Immigration Legal Services Director Grace Vaughan as we explore stories of resilience and hope.

Friday, January 17, 2025, at 5:30 p.m.
The HeART Box Gallery, 17 N. San Francisco St, Suite 1B, Flagstaff

Come to learn what you can do as an ally and immigrant rights advocate, and pick up your Know Your Rights materials to assist the immigrant community facing the threats of mass deportations.

This is a ticketed event, but all people are welcome, and free tickets are available. Your generous donation will make a difference in the lives of people who face the unimaginable fear of losing family, safety, and home.

During the show opening on Friday, January 17, a few lucky guests will have an opportunity to buy one of two prints by Chip Thomas.

In solidarity,

Eva Putzova

Co-founder and Co-Executive Director

Catch Fire Movement

Catch Fire Movement was co-founded by 2020 congressional candidate Eva Putzova and her colleague Steven Piasecki to help first-time grassroots candidates thrive and win. After four years of experimentation, the organization embraces a new approach to candidate coaching, incubates local projects focused on primary election turnout, and actively engages in bread-and-butter issue campaigns and coalitions for peace. In 2024, Roza Calderon joined the organization as a Co-Executive Director to help build Catch Fire’s capacity and impact.

Catch Fire Movement’s diverse advisory board, which includes labor activist Randy Bryce, former AZ House Representative Eric Descheenie, IL State Senator Rachel Ventura, and others, endorses candidates and provides guidance toward the organization’s mission to build progressive leadership and democracy from the bottom up.

Eva was the architect of the Flagstaff, AZ, minimum wage law and the Restaurant Workers Bill of Rights U.S.House resolution. She was a Flagstaff City Councilmember from 2014 to 2018 and a 2020 congressional candidate who lost to a corporate Democrat with 41 percent of the vote.

Steven is an LGBTQ+ activist, workers’ rights advocate, and communications and multimedia consultant. He had to move to Australia to take care of his Australian husband’s leukemia struggles because of the inhumane, financially devastating for-profit healthcare system in the U.S. He is a Communications Manager of Australian Greens.

Roza was a Justice Democrats-endorsed 2018 congressional candidate and has worked as a political consultant ever since. In between campaigns, she supports her family through her original profession as a geoscientist.

Catch Fire Movement maintains an active political agenda in Flagstaff, AZ, focusing on issues ranging from wage theft to immigration to climate action. It also leads coalitions toward progressive change.