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JOIN US ON THURS., April 27, 2023 FOR VPA’s VISITING ARTIST SERIES | FEATURING Related Tactics!

Lecture date: April 27, 2023

Time: 6-8pm

Location: VPA Complex, Build. 70

Free & Open to the Public!

Register for Event: Advance Registration/Self-Attestation*

For ADA Accommodations: Carol Silveira at [email protected]

Lecture Title: Collectivity as Practice

Lecture Description: Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nate Watson) will discuss our work together as a collaborative unit, a platform that allows us to disrupt the idea of a singular artist voice wherever possible—challenging the radical individualism embedded in the art world and our lives—particularly as we engage with issues requiring a multiplicity of perspectives to build collective analysis and power. While the core of our work is a creative collaboration between the three leads, we often utilize curatorial approaches as artistic gestures to construct space for collective voice, address the impacts of systemic white supremacy, and foster mutual support and transformation.

About Collective: Related Tactics is an artistic collaboration between artists and cultural workers Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, and Nathan Watson. Formed in 2015, our projects are made at the intersection of race and culture. We explore the connections between art, movements for social justice, and the public through trans-disciplinary exchanges, collective making, and dialog. Related Tactics has exhibited at Wexner Center for the Arts, University of San Francisco Thacher Gallery, Southern Exposure, The Luminary, and Center for Craft; and supported through Kala Art Institute’s Print Public, Montalvo Arts Center, Craft Research Fund, San Francisco Arts Commission, and Ruth Foundation for the Arts.

Artist’s Website: https://relatedtactics.com/

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Arte Sonído: Voz, Comunidad, and Performance

ARTE Sonido: Voz, Comunidad, and Performance is a community-based art exhibition that reflects on Covid-19 response and recovery efforts through regional community-based partnerships, art-making, installation, sound, and performance.  This exhibition features work by Tristan Bochum, Jesus Espinoza, Claudia Hernandez, Mana Kato, Juan Luna-Avin, Gazelle Parsons, Delia Saldivar, Melissa Smedley, and Olivia Wieker that examines Intersectional Communication & Covid-19 through the medium of sound as a form action, personal ritual, resilience, and survival linked to socio-cultural identity, protest, community building, and shared experiences within marginalized and disproportionality impacted communities.

Exhibition Title:  Arte Sonído: Voz, Comunidad, and Performance

Exhibition Dates:  April 20 – May 19, 2023

Opening Reception and Performance:  Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6-8pm

Performance/Sound Intervention from from The Department of Homeland Inspiration : Thursday, April 20, 2023, 6-6:30pm

Join us for the exhibition reception featuring an interactive sound performance by Melissa Smedley.

About Performance: The Ruckus | The Silence | The Synthesis is a collaborative sound intervention from The Department of Homeland Inspiration to accompany the "ARTE Sonido: Voz” exhibition. This group performance, led by Art Ranger a.k.a. Melissa Smedley will be both an invocation of the vigorous clanking of pots and pans to celebrate healthcare workers during the pandemic and a tribute to the “caceroladas” protests that have occurred throughout Latin America.

* A cacerolada or casserole is a form of protest that consists of a group of people making noise by banging pots, pans, and other utensils in order to call attention to social issues

All events are Free & Open to the Public! RSVP Link & Self-Attestation

Gallery Hours: 11-5pm, Monday, Wednesday, Friday & Tues./Thurs. by Appointment* Additional hours by appointment at [email protected] Student tours available upon request. About Covid-19 Recovery and Response Grant:  Arte Sonído: Voz, Comunidad, and Performance is the 3rd and final installment of a three-part interdisciplinary art project that examines Under-represented Identities: Community-Engaged Arts to Pan-Ethnic Studies through cross-campus and community collaborations that emphasize Covid-19 awareness and recovery within disproportionately impacted populations of color through a series of exhibitions, panels, workshops, 1/1 mentorship, community outreach events, and performance.From spring 2022 through spring 2023, a series of exhibitions explored the intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class through autobiographical stories about cultural identity, community-building practices, project-based learning, professional practices, and hands-on activities that included applied studio art practices and research focused on the importance of sustainable and accessible community art practices.  Workshops dedicated to art-making practices about post-pandemic meaning through 1/1 mentorship with emerging tri-county artists of color, regional community partners, and collaborative curricular art projects included engagement with CSUMB students in VPA 209: Day of the Dead Workshop, VPA 302: Visiting Artist Series, VPA 337: Community Infrastructure Practices, and HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories, HCOM 371, Community Journalism Studies, and HCOM 434: Creative Publishing and Critical Storytelling.

Acknowledgments: This project is a collaboration between the School of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) and the Visual and Public Art Department (VPA). Covid-19 Grant Principal Investigators, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Installation, and Community Engaged Practice, Hector Dionicio Mendoza (VPA), Associate Professor of Integrated Media, Photography and Community Engaged Practice, Angelica Muro (VPA), and Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Maria Villaseñor (HCOM).

The Visual & Public Art Gallery is located @:

3050 Divarty Street, Seaside, CA. 93955 (@ Engineer Lane & Divarty St.) College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, 504 California State University, Monterey Bay

Gallery entry is Free & Open to the Public!

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Prayers for Everyday Ancestors: A poetry reading by Pilar Graham & Daniel B. Summerhill

Event Title:  Prayers for Everyday Ancestors, featured Pilar Graham & Daniel B. Summerhill |  Live Music by Katie Koo & Crystal Singing Bowls

Date: Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Time: 6-8PM

Location: Visual and Public Art Dept. Gallery, Build. 504

Event is free & Open to the Public!

RSVP & Self Attestation Link: https://forms.gle/Wkc1LVKCHeG5hgfb9

About Event:  We walk a thin line between life and death, and to those who are near and dear to us, as we navigate these dichotomies. Prayers for Everyday Ancestors is a poetic and sound experience that explores the contrast as it relates to our everyday ancestry; prayer as both a petition and a device chronicling the many narratives that show up in our lives. The work shared will invite the audience to consider their own journeys and the ever-shifting nature of our human conditions.  

Prayers for Everyday Ancestors will feature poetry readings by Pilar Graham, Daniel B. Summerhill, and live music by Katie Koo & Crystal Singing Bowls.

This event is a collaboration between the School of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) & the Visual and Public Art Dept. (VPA).

The Visual & Public Art Gallery is located @: 3050 Divarty Street, Seaside, CA. 93955 (@ Engineer Lane & Divarty St.) College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, 504 California State University, Monterey Bay

Gallery entry and events are Free & Open to the Public!

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My Voice/ Mi Voz Visual: Community and Public Art Making

My Voice/ Mi Voz Visual: Community and Public Art Making is the 2nd installment of a three-part interdisciplinary art project, Under-represented Identities & COVID-19: Community-Engaged Arts to Pan-Ethnic Studies, that fosters cross-campus collaboration and Covid-19 awareness and recovery within disproportionately impacted populations of color through a series of exhibitions, panels, workshops, 1/1 mentorship, and community outreach events. My Voice/ Mi Voz Visual features work by Irma A., Valerie Anthony, Idaisa Arenas Rojas, Maria Barrera-Solis, Rolando Barron, Emily Chavez, Linsey Copple, Nancy Nallely Cornejo, Kaila Farrell, Emma Garcia, Megan Goodwin, Nancy Gutierrez-Diaz, Sabrina Hedayati, Eric Helmick, Alexis Hernandez, Arianna Hernandez, Gema Hernandez, Steven Hickman, Ellie Honkoski, Olivia Howard, Tyshell Johnson-Hill, Marissa Jost, JR, Justine King, Fluid Martinez, Adrian Medina, Julian Mendoza, Alexandria Munoz, Matthew Novak, Enrique Padilla, Amelia Parker, Breanna Peterson, Yesenia Piceno, Rocio Carranza Pineda, Mary Ponce, Taylor Prentiss, Allysa Quiambao, Brianna Reyes, Kelly Rolston, Samantha Saldana, Melody Sickler, Abigail Simas, Angela Soto Cerros, Samantha Tobar, Natalie Valdez, Cynthia Vargas, Vivian Velasco Vasquez, Jasmine Venegas, Jesse Villarruel, Jennifer Villafana, Kefan Wang, and Jared Williams.

Exhibition Title:  My Voice/ Mi Voz Visual: Community and Public Art Making

Exhibition Dates:  February 20 -March 24, 2023

Reception, Gallery Walk-thru & Artist Talk:  Thursday, March 2, 2023, 6-8pm

Join us for a gallery walk-thru and artist talk facilitated by Professors Hector Dionicio Mendoza & Angelica Muro with artists Megan Goodwin and Jesse Villaruel.

All events are Free & Open to the Public! RSVP Link & Self-Attestation

Gallery Hours: 11-5pm, Monday, Wednesday, Friday / Tues./Thurs. by Appointment* Additional hours by appointment at [email protected] Student tours available upon request. About Exhibition: My Voice/ Mi Voz Visual is a community-based art exhibition that reflects on Covid-19 response and recovery efforts through art-making, installation, and narrative works by CSUMB students about their personal experiences, families, and community. During the spring and fall 2022 semesters, a series of workshops focused on art-making practices about post-pandemic meaning through 1/1 mentorship with emerging tri-county artists of color and collaborative curricular art projects with students in VPA 209: Day of the Dead Workshop, VPA 337: Community Infrastructure Practices, and HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories. This exhibition explores the intersection of ethnicity, race, gender, sexuality, and class through autobiographical stories about cultural identity that engage community-building practices and integrate histories, memories, self-reflection, and positionality through collaborative participation, project-based learning, professional practices, and hands-on activities that include applied studio art practices and research focused on the importance of sustainable and accessible community art practices within a cultural entrepreneurship mindset.  

Acknowledgments: This project is a collaboration between the School of Humanities and Communication (HCOM) and the Visual and Public Art Department (VPA). Covid-19 Grant Principal Investigators, Associate Professor of Sculpture, Installation, and Community Engaged Practice, Hector Dionicio Mendoza (VPA), Associate Professor of Integrated Media, Photography and Community Engaged Practice, Angelica Muro (VPA), and Professor of Chicanx-Latinx Studies, Maria Villaseñor (HCOM).

The Visual & Public Art Gallery is located @:

3050 Divarty Street, Seaside, CA. 93955 (@ Engineer Lane & Divarty St.) College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, 504 California State University, Monterey Bay

Gallery entry is Free & Open to the Public!

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VPA Visiting Artist Series,  Jessica Wimbley:  Biomythography as a Visual Arts Practice

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023

Time: 6-9pm

Location: VPA building 70 |  Program and Exhibitions Space

RSVP Link & Self-Attestation

Free & Open to the Public! 

Affiliated Events: This event is in conjunction with the 26th annual  Social Justice Colloquium @ CSUMB.  Wimbley will discuss how her practices intersect with social justice within institutional, public, and gallery spaces.

Lecture title: Biomythography as a Visual Arts Practice

Lecture description: Wimbley will discuss the evolution of conceptual and aesthetic approaches within her visual arts, curatorial, administrative, and public art practice. Wimbly will introduce Biomythography* as a framework that centers interpersonal and social justice throughout her professional practice.

*Biomythography is a literary term: A blend of biography + mythography, coined by feminist Audre Lorde, it is a style of composition that weaves myth, history, and biography in epic narrative.

About artist: Jessica Wimbley is an artist/curator based in Sacramento, California. Wimbley utilizes the literary term biomythography, defined by poet Audre Lorde as a combination of “biography, myth, and history”, as an interdisciplinary visual arts practice and framework for curatorial inquiry. Her art practice incorporates the building of visual archives via a variety of photographic/material culture. With these images, she creates interruptions and juxtapositions within histories of identity, digital photography, video, performance, and collage. Her works are included in academic, museum, and public art collections including CA Public Digital Art Collection, Crocker Museum of Art, and LACMA.

Her recent public art projects include Fieldworks: Califia, 2021, part of the CA Public Digital Art Collection, the “Social Justice Billboard Project” in collaboration with the Northeast Sculpture and Gallery Factory in Minneapolis, MN, Masking Series,2021 featuring video and still photography created in partnership with the State of California and The Center at Sierra Health Foundation, to speak directly to Californians who have been hardest hit by COVID-19.

Wimbley received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A in Visual Arts from the University of California, Davis, and her MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University. Wimbley is currently Artist in Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA.

Artist's Website: https://www.jessicawimbley.com/

The Visual & Public Art Dept. is located @:

3125 Inter-Garrison Rd, Seaside, CA 93955   California State University, Monterey Bay (between 5th & 6th avenues | across from Otter Student Union.)

Exhibit entry is Free & Open to the Public!

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Community-Building, Kinship, and Social Justice in the Real World

Event Title: In conversation with Josina Makau:  Community-Building, Kinship, and Social Justice in the Real World

Date: Thursday, March 9, 2023

Time: 5-9pm

Location: VPA building 70 |  Program and Exhibitions Space

Free & Open to the Public! | Refreshments will be served.

RSVP Link & Self-Attestation

Join us for an engaging and interactive experience in conjunction with art exhibition, Spirituality, Kinship, and the Human Condition: Work’s by Carole A. Pavlo  @ VPA Complex, build. 70.

Lecture description: In this period that can aptly be described as a time of crisis on multiple fronts—environmental, geo-political, and a global pandemic—it is evident that the fallout continues to disproportionately affect the most marginalized and vulnerable populations. In a time of great inequality, unrest, and division, we need to ask, what are the resources, knowledge, and skills needed to improve the quality of our communities and to forge bonds of kinship across our differences in the service of social justice in the real world? Esteemed CSUMB Founding Faculty member Dr. Josina Makau will share her insights, developed over decades of study on dialogue, cooperative argumentation, deliberation, decision making, and ethical and effective communication, in response to these pressing questions. At heart of this presentation and discussion will be key social justice concerns: How to give voice, how to be seen, how to be heard, and how to be understood.

About Dr. Josina Makau:

Josina M. Makau received an MA in Philosophy from UCLA, and an MA and PhD in Rhetoric from UC Berkeley. Following fifteen years on the faculty at Ohio State University, she was selected to help found CSUMB.  During her tenure at the university,  Dr.  Makau served as the dean of arts and humanities, director of the Human Communication Division, and coordinator of  the university’s Practical and Professional Ethics Program.  Her local and regional community service  have included participation in media literacy projects, partnerships in bioethics, peace work,  moral education efforts, and service as Vice President of the PG Pops Orchestra Board of Directors. Nationally, Dr. Makau's record includes extensive service on editorial boards and academic review initiatives. She has served in a number of leadership roles within the Academy as well, including as Chair of the National Communication Ethics Commission and editor of Ethica, among others.

Affiliated Event on view through March 10, 2023:

Spirituality, Kinship, and the Human Condition: Work’s by Carole A. Pavlo

Exhibition Hours: 1-5pm, Monday through Friday

Additional hours by appointment at [email protected]

Student tours available upon request: [email protected]

Monterey Weekly Article: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/art/visuals

Monterey Herald Article: https://www.montereyherald.com/art-that-endures/

Carmel Pine Cone: http://pineconearchive_csumb_show_celebtates_artist.pdf

The Visual & Public Art Dept. is located @: 3125 Inter-Garrison Rd, Seaside, CA 93955 (between 5th & 6th avenues | across from Otter Student Union.) California State University, Monterey Bay

Exhibit entry is Free & Open to the Public!

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WLC + VPA: Free Fábrika T-shirt Screen Printing Workshop in conjunction with the 5th Annual WLC Festival of Languages Cultures and Ideas.

This VPA-lead  screen printing workshop will feature a 2023-themed image created by VPA major, Mya Densley.

Event: Fábrika T-shirt Screen Printing Workshop

Date: March 9, 2023

Time: 9-11am

Location:  VPA, Build. 70

Workshop led by VPA Associate Professor Hector Dionicio Mendoza.

First 100 attendee will get to print a free T-shirt.

Free & Open to the Public!

RSVP Link & Self-Attestation

About T-shirt Design:

WLC and VPA congratulate Mya Densley on her Festival of Languages, Cultures, and Ideaswinning design.

The first annual t-shirt design contest winner, Mya Densley, is a double major (BA in Visual and Public Art and BS in Marine Science).  Her focus in marine science was biophysical oceanography (capstone project completed in Fall 2022); and in spring 2023, she will complete her VPA capstone project, which explores the interconnectedness and coexistence of beauty in science and accuracy in art – collaboration, intersection, and community are pinnacles in her work.

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JOIN US ON THURS., February 16, 2023 FOR VPA’s VISITING ARTIST SERIES | FEATURING Felix Quintana!

Lecture date: February 16, 2023

Time: 6-8pm

Location: VPA Complex, Build. 70

Free & Open to the Public!

Register for Event: Advance Registration/Self-Attestation*

For ADA Accommodations: Carol Silveira at [email protected] 

Lecture Title: Cruising Below Sunset: Mapping Everyday Hustle

Lecture Description: Quintana will discuss his ongoing photographic series Los Angeles Blueprints and his strategies for mapping contentious public space through reclaiming and remixing surveillance imagery. Quintana will also discuss his recent projects, Cruising Below Sunset and Love is the given of the place, where he uses collage and installation to weave his unique visual vocabulary of the everyday vernacular of Los Angeles.

About Artist: Felix Quintana (b.1991, Lynwood, CA) is a first generation Salvadoran-American visual artist and educator. Quintana’s multidisciplinary work spans photography, digital media, installation, and collage. He received an MFA in Photography from San Jose State University and a BA from Cal Poly Humboldt. Solo exhibitions include Residency Art Gallery, Cypress College, and SOMArts Cultural Center. Select group exhibitions include LAXART, Vincent Price Art Museum, Center for Photography Woodstock, San Jose ICA, and SFSU Art Gallery, among others. His work has been featured in The Guardian, NPR, Los Angeles Times, KCET, and Hyperallergic, among others. Quintana’s work is in the permanent collections of Oakland Museum of California, Altamed Art Collection, and Cal Poly Humboldt. He lives, works, and teaches in Los Angeles.

Artist’s Website: https://felixquintana.com

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2022 Visual and Public Art Dept. Media Culture Symposium

Date: December 14, 2022

Time: 2-4pm

Location: Visual & Public Art Department, Build. 70, rm 110

Schedule of Presenters:

2:00pm: Cecelia Colchico: Remembering the Potential

2:10pm: Alan Dam: What does it mean to be a White Savior?

2:20pm: Jesus Espinoza: Morality of Serial Killer Culture: Analysis of Serial Killer Culture in Media

2:30pm: Ethan Jones: Celebrity Worship and Mental Health: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

2:40pm: Chasity Mach: The Hypersexualized Representation of Asian-American Woman and It’s Contributing Effects on their Communities

2:50pm: Rylie Oppenheimer: What ‘FIT’fluencers do Compared to the Average Person

3:00pm: Alyssa Philips: The Commercialization of Journalism: Sensationalism of Fear, Shame, and Violence

3:10pm: Esmeralda Orozco: Ideal Beauty Standards and the Lack of Representation Among People of ColorThrough Popular Icons: Barbie and Marilyn Monroe

3:20pm: Katelin Richards: CNN, Fox, Fake News Talks, and Anxiety Shocks: How Fake News in Modern Media Contributes to Increasing Levels of Anxiety

3:30pm: Kris Rose: Potential and Pitfalls of Mental Health Apps

3:40pm: Hanna Sobonya: Screening Words: Captions in Contemporary Culture

Image Credit: Elon Musk Composite (includes photograph by Theo Wargo/Wire Image).

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Art Review | Wall Street Journal featuring VPA Associate Professor Dionicio Mendoza

By Peter PlagensNov. 5, 2022 7:00 am ET

“...some gems. Among them are “Extraño 9” (2020), an easily elegant combination of hanging rope and flax, by Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978); “Naufragios” (2022), a big, hilariously tragic painting of the European “discovery” of America, by the septuagenarian Raul Guerrero; and my personal favorite—a truly witty work—“Coyota” (2020), a huge folkily surrealist wall-relief portrayal of the animal by Hector Dionicio Mendoza (b. 1969).”

Read full article here.

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CRITIC’S PICK 5 Artists to Watch at the California Biennial

“Pacific Gold,” the resuscitated survey’s 2022 edition, offers a revelatory look at fresh art in the region, but not without controversy. By Jonathan Griffin Oct. 20, 2022.  

COSTA MESA, Calif. — “Pacific Gold” is the swaggering title of the 2022 edition of the California Biennial, a regional survey that has been in existence, under various missions and monikers, since 1984. Continue reading here.

Pacific Gold at the newly opened Orange County Museum of Art features work by Visual and Public Art Professor Dionicio Mendoza.

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Yo Soy Chinatown, Salinas | I am Chinatown, Salinas

Exhibit & Public Art Installation

Yo Soy/I Am Chinatown, Salinas engages the power of community through histories, storytelling, and first-hand accounts of Chinatown as home, cultural landmark, and complex socio-cultural microcosm. This exhibition is part of a two-year-long community public art and exhibition project in partnership with the Visual and Public Art Dept. at CSUMB and made possible in part by a grant from The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund that is also generously supported by The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Yo Soy/ I Am Chinatown, Salinas features a series of daguerreotype portraits that bring us face-to-face with the socio-cultural concerns, histories, and stories of Chinatown. Binh Danh’s new body of work includes a public art installation, collaborative community engagement, and an art exhibition that displays a complex 19th Century photographic process as a tool for empowerment and a medium for examining socio-cultural and political issues that affect marginalized communities. Danh’s work explores the historical context of Chinatown, Salinas through community-sensitive work that employs first-hand perspectives to identify the complexities of revitalization and cultural preservation efforts alongside issues of racial disparities, exclusionary ordinances, and the criminalization of neighborhoods, communities, and public space.

EXHIBIT ON VIEW: OCTOBER 3 – NOVEMBER 18, 2022

PUBLIC ARTWORKS ON VIEW: OCTOBER 1, 2022-MAY 30, 2023

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Art to Promote Covid Vaccines | Radio Bilingue

Guests: CSUMB Visual & Public Art Professors, Angelica Muro and Hector Dionicio Mendoza Anguiano, discuss their collaborative public art/health campaign. 

Listen Here: http://radiobilingue.org/en/comunidad-alerta/arte-para-promover-vacunas-para-covid/

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Visual and Public Art Department enlists artist Binh Danh to explore Chinatown

By Marielle Argueza

full article here:

https://csumb.edu/news/news-listing/visual-and-public-art-department-enlists-artist-binh-danh-to-explore-chinatown/

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An exhibit of striking daguerreotype images at CSUMB aims to shift people’s negative perceptions of Salinas’ Chinatown.

by Celia Jiménez, Monterey Weekly

full article here: https://www.montereycountyweekly.com/opinion/mcnow_intro/an-exhibit-of-striking-daguerreotype-images-at-csumb-aims-to-shift-people-s-negative-perceptions/article_cf5af086-5b0a-11ed-9b02-0f849785e42c.html

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Theatrical lighting designer embraces ‘ethereal art form

by Marcus Crowder | Oct. 20, 2022

Each part of designer, artist, educator Stephanie Anne Johnson tells a different story with the whole being dramatically more than simply a sum of its parts.

Johnson is a theatrical lighting designer who also co-creates installations based on original lighting designs. She’s a respected educator and a Black feminist activist. Johnson is also a creative writer and performer of original theatrical work. Her energy and enthusiasm are inexhaustible.

full article here: https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Theatrical-lighting-designer-embraces-ethereal-17524074.php

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Law & Disorder w/ Cat Brooks Artist Resistance in Residence: Stephanie Johnson

The mission of law & disorder is to expose, agitate and build a new world where all of us can thrive. But how do we get there? How do we build a world many of us have only seen in our dreams? That’s where we believe the artists come in. So, each week we feature an artist, holding down a weekly residency with us, helping us to imagine a different, more liberated world.

This week’s Artist Resistance in Residence is lighting designer and mixed-media artist Stephanie Anne Johnson.