How Artists Are Transforming the Narrative on Immigration and Equality
Favianna Rodriguez
Tuesday, 24 Sep 2013 at 8:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union
Favianna Rodriguez is a printmaker, digital artist and cultural organizer. She is known for her vibrant posters dealing with issues such as war, immigration, globalization and social movements. She also promotes the use of art in civic engagement and leads art workshops at schools around the country. She is directing CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights and in 2009 helped found Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities. Part of the Latino Heritage Month Celebration.Favianna Rodriguez is based in Oakland, California. In 2003, she cofounded the Taller Tupac Amaru printing studio to foster resurgence in the screenprinting medium. She is co-founder of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) and Visual Element, both programs dedicated to training young artists in the tradition of muralism. She is additionally cofounder and president of Tumis Inc., a bilingual design studio helping to integrate art with emerging technologies.
Rodriguez is coeditor of Reproduce and Revolt! with internationally renowned stencil artist and art critic Josh MacPhee (Soft Skull Press, 2008). An unprecedented contribution to the Creative Commons, the 200-page book contains more than 600 bold, high-quality black and white illustrations for royalty-free creative use. Her artwork also appears in The Design of Dissent (Rockport Publishers, 2006), Peace Signs: The Anti-War Movement Illustrated (Edition Olms, 2004), and The Triumph of Our Communities: Four Decades of Mexican Art (Bilingual Review Press, 2005).
Favianna Rodriguez has exhibited at Museo del Barrio (New York); de Young Museum (San Francisco); Mexican Fine Arts Center (Chicago); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); Sol Gallery (Providence, RI); Huntington Museum and Galería Sin Fronteras (Austin, TX); and internationally at the House of Love & Dissent (Rome), Parco Museum (Tokyo), as well as in England, Belgium, and Mexico. She was a 2005 artist-in-residence at San Francisco's prestigious de Young Museum, a 2007-2008 artist-in-residence at Kala Art Institute (Berkeley, CA), and received a 2006 Sea Change Residency from the Gaea Foundation (Provincetown, MA). Rodriguez is recipient of a 2005 award from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Workshop with Favianna Rodriquez
Migration is Beautiful: Butterfly Art Workshop
Wednesday, September 25, 2:00 pm
Workspace, Memorial Union
Learn how the butterfly has become a symbol for migrant rights and make your own butterfly.
Cosponsored By:
- College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
- College of Design
- Latino Heritage Month Planning Committee
- Multicultural Student Affairs
- Multicultural Student Programming Advisory Council
- Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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