Art & Advocacy: Contemporary Artist Naturalists
In a panel talk with Sto Len, Blanka Amezkua, and Meredith Brooks, each of these artists examine nature to express ideas about their communities and cultures. From printmaking to dance, these artists reflect disparate practices yet each uses the natural world as a springboard to explore their traditions, histories, and the environment.
Join us for an evening virtual talk with the Bruce Museum, CT
Wed June 22 @ 4:30 -5:30 pm!
Bring your lunch and stay for the Q&A 🙂
In a panel talk with Sto Len, Blanka Amezkua, and mayfield brooks, each of these artists examine nature to express ideas about their communities and cultures. From printmaking to dance, these artists reflect disparate practices yet each uses the natural world as a springboard to explore their traditions, histories, and the environment.
Sto Len's cross-disciplinary work includes transforming public spaces such as a river into an art studio, recycling waste into art materials, creating a community pirate radio station, and hosting water ritual performances at Superfund sites. sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia. He is best known for pulling beautiful prints from polluted waterways and is currently the artist in residence at the NYC sanitation department.
Blanka Amezkua is a Bronx-based artist and cultural organizer. In 2018 Amezkua traveled to Huixcolotla Mexico to study with papel picado master Don Rene Mendoza. Her recent installation at Wave Hill NY explores this Mexican folk art using colorful cut paper to explore migrant farm labor, highlighting the crops her parents picked in Central Valley California.
mayfield brooks is a performer, artist, urban farmer, and originator of the interdisciplinary movement project, Improvising While Black. Their recent project, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, is a continuation of brooks’ Whale Fall Cycle – a series based on the decomposition process of a whale when its body falls to the ocean floor to feed thousands of sea creatures.
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This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) and The Bruce Museum
Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.
Art, Tech + Advocacy Series: Federico Cuatlacuatl
Federico Cuatlacuatl, Born in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, is an artist based in Virginia whose work is invested in disseminating topics of Latinx immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability.
Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of indigeneity and immigration under a pressing Anthropocene, transborder indigeneity, and migrant indigenous futurisms.
In 2016, Federico launched the Rasquache Artist Residency in Puebla, Mexico and continues to host artists internationally in his hometown San Francisco Coapan.
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) , the New Media Caucus, and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.
Join us for a lunchtime talk by Federico Cuatlacuatl
Monday June 6 @ 12:00 -12:30 pm!
Bring your lunch and stay for the Q&A 🙂
Federico Cuatlacuatl, Born in Cholula, Puebla, Mexico, is an artist based in Virginia whose work is invested in disseminating topics of Latinx immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability.
Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of indigeneity and immigration under a pressing Anthropocene, transborder indigeneity, and migrant indigenous futurisms.
In 2016, Federico launched the Rasquache Artist Residency in Puebla, Mexico and continues to host artists internationally in his hometown San Francisco Coapan.
DONT MISS THIS EVENT! ➡️ REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) , the New Media Caucus, and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.
Art, Tech + Advocacy Series: Ada Pinkston
Join us for a lunchtime quick talk about art, technology, and advocacy. This series unpacks some of the most important ideas today about race, gender, diversity, and inclusion. Join cultural leaders and learn about how they are fighting for true change through the lense of art.
This talk by Ada Pinkston - artist and cultural organizer
Ada Pinkston (b. New York) is a multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Her art explores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies, using monoprint, performance, video, and collage.
Pinkston’s work has been featured at a variety of spaces, including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, The Walters Art Museum, The Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, The New Museum, Light City Baltimore, and the streets of Berlin.
In addition to her studio practice, she is a co-founder of the LabBodies Performance Art Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently a lecturer in Art Education at Towson University.
Join us for a lunchtime talk by Ada Pinkston
Friday April 29 @ 12:00 -12:30 pm!
Bring your lunch and stay for the Q&A 🙂
Ada Pinkston (b. New York) is a multimedia artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Her art explores the intersection of imagined histories and sociopolitical realities on our bodies, using monoprint, performance, video, and collage.
Pinkston’s work has been featured at a variety of spaces, including The Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building, The Walters Art Museum, The Peale Museum, Transmodern Performance Festival, P.S.1, The New Museum, Light City Baltimore, and the streets of Berlin.
In addition to her studio practice, she is a co-founder of the LabBodies Performance Art Laboratory in Baltimore, Maryland. She is currently a lecturer in Art Education at Towson University.
DONT MISS THIS EVENT! ➡️ REGISTER ON EVENTBRITE
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) , the New Media Caucus, and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.
Murals and Monuments
Murals and Monuments. Mary Kordak, professor of art history at University New Haven, talks about the history of murals/monuments and how they have affected cultural change. This talk surveys the history of murals since antiquity and touches on the current debates over monuments, how important it is to remember our history, and how public art can help re-tell narratives that were historically racially unjust.
Murals and Monuments. Mary Kordak, professor of art history at University New Haven, talks about the history of murals/monuments and how they have affected cultural change.
This talk surveys the history of murals since antiquity and touches on the current debates over monuments, how important it is to remember our history, and how public art can help re-tell narratives that were historically racially unjust.
20 Minute Q/A at the end. This presentation was recorded on September 1st 2021 and hosted by the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme CT.
ABOUT THIS SERIES:
Arts And Advocacy : Methods to Spark Positive Change Through Art is a six part talk series designed to inform audiences on how cultural leaders have historically and are currently thinking about art as a tool for social change. Our first two talks are on the history of public art. Other talks include Allison Glenn who curated a recent show of artwork responding to the death of Breonna Taylor.
This talk is made possible with the support of Connecticut Humanities.
We would also like to thank the NAACP Norwich branch for guidance and The Florence Griswold Museum for hosting us, as well as The Lyman Allyn Museum, and The Old Lyme NPG Library, and the Lyme Academy of Fine Arts for hosting our other events. PARJE is made possible with the generous support of the Community Foundation of Eastern CT and the Cultural Coalition of South Eastern CT.
Art, Tech + Advocacy Series: Kit Son Lee
Join us for a lunchtime quick talk about art, technology, and advocacy. This series unpacks some of the most important ideas today about race, gender, diversity, and inclusion. Join cultural leaders and learn about how they are fighting for true change through the lense of art.
This talk by Kit Son Lee - artist, curator, designer.
Kit Son Lee (sometimes Son Kit) is a designer, developer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Providence, RI and Koreatown, Los Angeles. Kit’s work investigates, exaggerates, and narrativizes the methods of network surveillance, the attention economy, machine learning, and UX/ UI design to confront them on the field of analogy.
Kit is a co-founder of Codify Art, a Brooklyn-based producorial collective dedicated to supporting work by queer and trans artists of color, and an editor at Queer Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary open-access journal pursuing equitable representation in the arts.
Artist Quicktalk with Kit Son Lee
Thursday, March 24
Kit Son Lee (sometimes Son Kit) is a co-founder of Codify Art, a Brooklyn-based producorial collective dedicated to supporting work by queer and trans artists of color, and an editor at Queer Aesthetics, an interdisciplinary open-access journal pursuing equitable representation in the arts.
Kit is a designer, developer, and artist based in Brooklyn, NY by way of Providence, RI and Koreatown, Los Angeles. Kit’s work investigates, exaggerates, and narrativizes the methods of network surveillance, the attention economy, machine learning, and UX/ UI design to confront them on the field of analogy.
This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE) , the New Media Caucus, and the Ammerman Center for Art and Technology @ Connecticut College.
Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.