Domingos de Foco: Celebrando el Maíz a través de la Serigrafía y la Conversación con las Artistas Xicanx, Melanie Cervantes y Elizabeth Blancas

Spotlight Sundays: Celebrating Maize Through Screenprinting and Conversation with Xicanx Artists, Melanie Cervantes & Elizabeth Blancas

Join us for an engaging event. This program will explore Indigenous Xicanx heritage and its deep connection to maize (corn). Engage with a screenprinting poster activity and informal talk with featured artist, Melanie Cervantes & guest artist, Elizabeth Blancas, who will delve into the themes presented in our special exhibition, Calli: The Art of Xicanx Peoples. We invite you to connect, learn, and celebrate with us!

This event is free and open to the public.

Note: Masks required to attend this program. Masks will be available upon request.

Artists

Melanie Cervantes (Xicanx) makes her home in San Leandro, California where she creates visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical social transformation. Her intention is to create a visual lexicon of resistance to multiple oppressions that will inspire curiosity, raise consciousness and inspire solidarities among communities of struggle. Melanie’s practice includes the production of screen prints, political posters and multimedia projects that are grounded in Third World and indigenous movements that build people’s power to transform the conditions of fragmentation, displacement and loss of culture that result from histories of colonialism, patriarchy, genocide, and exploitation. The purpose of this work is to illustrate stories of struggle, resistance and triumph into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

Elizabeth Blancas (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working in mediums including: muralism, ceramics, illustration, printmaking and florals. She utilizes art as a tool for resistance as well as a celebration of the communities she comes from and is in solidarity with. Through her practice, she explores themes of culture, spirituality, healing, justice, sexuality, and womanhood. Blancas holds a B.A. from UCLA in Chicanx Studies and Art History.

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