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REleasing one of a kind Chicana feelings zines Sat. OCt 20th at the Central Library for the 2nd Annual San Anto Zine Fest
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Current EXHIBITION
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly takes the migration path of the Monarch butterfly, as a geographic range and a metaphor. The butterfly crosses the border of the United States at its junctions with Canada at the north and Mexico in the south along the entire length of both of these conceptual divides. Bypassing the hotter, desert regions of the country, Monarchs flock along its western and eastern coastal edges, but the busiest path of the orange-and-black butterfly is through the center of the United States. The Monarch travels through Midwestern states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Illinois, across the Great Plains of Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma, onwards through the Texas Hill Country all the way to the state of Michoacán in Mexico. The path of the butterfly also connects the site of the Dakota Access Pipeline where it crosses the Missouri River at the border of the Standing Rock nation to the U.S.-Mexico border, but the butterfly itself is indifferent to these artificial borders and conceptual divisions. Apart from the name of the butterfly, the word “monarchs” has another meaning: Monarch signals an acknowledged ruler that is the head of a state or nation, and with that rule, the independence and freedom to rule; sovereignty. Artists in the exhibition take up this idea to present the perspectives of people native to the Americas.
This exhibition sees the defense of Standing Rock and the threat to build a border wall as continuous issues that pose challenges to people native to the Americas who have been separated by conceptual categories of indigenous, immigrant, and assimilated. Like the butterfly—which takes four generations to make the complete migratory path navigating its way through the center of the United States by drawing from inherited knowledge—these artists also pull from ancestral and cultural memory to reveal the profound conceptual legacies underpinning abstraction, reorient historical and art historical narratives, and explore centuries-old trade routes that moved aesthetics in addition to goods. Monarchs considers how objects, still and moving images, sound, and performances made by artists living in the path of the butterfly reveal their identities through form, process, and materiality rather than through content. To create the exhibition, Bemis Curator-in-Residence Risa Puleo looked to the butterfly for inspiration for the exhibition’s primary themes..
This exhibition is curated by Risa Puleo and organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, where it was first presented December 7, 2017 – February 24, 2018. The accompanying catalog is supported, in part, by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Sandra Fossum, and Watie White.
Shown:
Gina Adams The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, 2017 From the series Honor Is Hereby Pledged, 2014–ongoing, Hand-cut calico fabric letters and thread stitched onto antique quilt, 83 1⁄2 × 67 in. Courtesy the artist.
This exhibition sees the defense of Standing Rock and the threat to build a border wall as continuous issues that pose challenges to people native to the Americas who have been separated by conceptual categories of indigenous, immigrant, and assimilated. Like the butterfly—which takes four generations to make the complete migratory path navigating its way through the center of the United States by drawing from inherited knowledge—these artists also pull from ancestral and cultural memory to reveal the profound conceptual legacies underpinning abstraction, reorient historical and art historical narratives, and explore centuries-old trade routes that moved aesthetics in addition to goods. Monarchs considers how objects, still and moving images, sound, and performances made by artists living in the path of the butterfly reveal their identities through form, process, and materiality rather than through content. To create the exhibition, Bemis Curator-in-Residence Risa Puleo looked to the butterfly for inspiration for the exhibition’s primary themes..
This exhibition is curated by Risa Puleo and organized by Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, where it was first presented December 7, 2017 – February 24, 2018. The accompanying catalog is supported, in part, by the Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, Sandra Fossum, and Watie White.
Shown:
Gina Adams The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 1848, 2017 From the series Honor Is Hereby Pledged, 2014–ongoing, Hand-cut calico fabric letters and thread stitched onto antique quilt, 83 1⁄2 × 67 in. Courtesy the artist.
PAST Worshop
This workshop will be facilitated by Laurie Ann Guerrero, Bonnie Cisneros, and Sarah Castillo. All three women carry the legacy of culture making and art through their mothers, who first taught them how to wield both ink and thread as children. Guerrero is a local writer, 2016-17 Poet Laureate of the State of Texas, and Writer-in-Residence at Texas A&M-San Antonio. Cisneros has taught middle school English and Social Studies at an inner-city charter school and earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Texas State University. Castillo is a local mixed media artist and earned her MA in Bicultural Studies from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
PAST conference presentation
PAST exhibition: What the Water Gave Me
In What The Water Gave Me, Sarah Castillo and Veronica Anne Salinas present embroidery, collage, sound installation, photography and cyanotype portraits as they center intuition and memory as a platform to reflect on their relationships with water, plant life, and landscapes to translate personal narratives that emerge from medicinal plants to lucid dreaming.
PAST EXHIBITION:
We Are
curated by sarah castillo
May 17, 2018 - July 13, 2018
PAST EXHIBITION:
SHADOW BEAST: CREATING SIN VERGÜENZA
CURATED BY JESS GONZALES, REBEL MARIPOSA, ELIZA PEREZ
artist update:
find me at kolaj magazine
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Kolaj Magazine is the world's only internationally-oriented art magazine dedicated to contemporary collage.
PAST exhibition:
Right here, right now: san antonio
curated by dean daderko
April 28, 2018-August 5, 2018
Contemporary art museum houston
houston, texas
past exhibition:
DIFFUSED REFLECTIONS
CURATED BY MARISSA DEL TORO
march 16 - april 20, 2018
mission cultural center for latino arts
san francisco, california
past exhibition:
art as an embodied practice: artistic expression, conocimiento, and identity formation
curated by gina r. otvos
March 1 - april 23, 2018
pecan library, south texas college
mc allen, texas
past exhibition:
Images of Power
curated by alana coates & mark anthony martinez
february 10 - february 24, 2018
freight gallery
san antonio, texas
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past exhibition:
Chicana Feelings
solo exhibition
december 8 - january 19, 2018
guadalupe cultural arts center
san antonio, texas
artist update:
published interview with deep red press
curated by raul rodriguez
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past public presentation:
remedies for re(membering). identity, mental health, and art
curated by Sandra D Garza
september 23, 2017
northwest vista college
San Antonio, Texas
past exhibition:
nurses week - sarah castillo
curated by sandra griffin
may 1 - july 1, 2017
university of texas health science center
san antonio, texas
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artist update:
awarded the 2016 nalac fund for the arts grant
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artist update:
tyrant be gone, 2017
politics and resistance
st. sucia zine
issue ix 2017
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past exhibition:
A Woman's Place Is.....
curated by kathy vargas
march 9 - august 20, 2017
centro de artes
san antonio, texas
past exhibition:
Aqui Estamos y No Nos Vamos
curated by rebel mariposa
march 25 - may 26, 2017
esperanza peace & justice center
san antonio, texas
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artist public presentation:
anel flores & sarah castillo
on not belonging (anywhere): san antonio artivists on trauma
curated by sara ramirez
university of texas at san antonio
march 21, 2017
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past exhibition:
multiples
curated by jason eric gonzales
FEBRUARY 17 – MARCH 31, 2016
guadalupe cultural arts center
san antonio, texas
past exhibition:
hispanic latino heritage artists month
curated by sandra griffin
september 7 - november 7, 2016
bazan branch library
san antonio, texas
past public presentation:
decolonial epistemologies sypmosium: spaces and circuits of artistic production
curated by dr. liliana saldana
july 16, 2016
past exhibition:
el amor infinito
curated by david zamora casas
june 11, 2016
galeria e.v.a.
san antonio, texas
past public presentation:
state of the arts visual arts
regional arts training workshop
san antonio, texas
past exhibition:
novela: arte y drama
curated by mari hernandez & kristin gamez
march 11 - may 20, 2016
guadalupe cultural arts center
san antonio, texas
past exhibition:
pins & needles
curated by spare parts
mini art museum
san antonio, texas
past exhibitions:
bienal ciudad juarez el paso biennial 2015
curated by eduardo diaz & santiago espinosa de los monteros
november 6 - february 7, 2015
el paso, texas & ciudad juarez
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