Join us on Thursdays during Postcards from the Pandemic for virtual Q&As, conversations and reflection with exhibition participants.
Join us on Thursdays during Postcards from the Pandemic for virtual Q&As, conversations and reflection with author Maria Baker and artist Yikui (Coy) Gu exhibition participants.
Patrisse Cullors is an internationally recognized artist, activist, and advocate for civil rights and social justice. In 2013, she and two fellow organizers—Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi—created what they described as a “Black-centered political will and movement building project.” They called it #BlackLivesMatter. Although many people know it only as a social media hashtag, it is far more than that. Cullors will discuss the art and activism behind, beyond and of the BLM hashtag, and take questions from moderators and attendees.
Angie Mazakis’s first book, I Was Waiting to See What You Would Do First, describes the various experiences of a first-generation immigrant. Her work has been widely published, including in The New Republic and Boston Review.
Playwright Joyce Van Dyke, director Judy Braha, and actor Elaine Vaan Hogue talk about their collaboration on a new one-woman play featuring suffragist and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe, who asks, “What does it do to your soul if you don’t have representation?” The play is a fever dream and a call to action by Howe, who was a playwright, poet, and founder of the American Woman Suffrage Association which supported voting rights for Black women as well as white women. The conversation will draw parallels between Howe’s mission and today’s election.
Brandon Shimoda has been widely recognized for the imaginative spirit he projects in his poetry. His most recent book, The Desert, was published in 2018. He has been awarded the William Carlos Williams prize for his second book, Evening Oracle.
Ross-Ma’u, Wheaton alumni from the class of 2008, provides a glimpse into his musically diverse background in a performance that explores collaborations with some of San Diego’s finest artists and showcases a taste of his original work.
Dwarika is a designer, motion graphics artist, and managing director of Black Mixture, a brand strategy design company. He will discuss his creative work, his career, and his growing Black Mixture YouTube Channel.
Join Charlotte Mangin and Sandra Rattley, the makers of UNLADYLIKE2020, as they describe how they created a new visual vocabulary for documentary filmmaking in digital shorts, while elevating the voices of unsung women and little-known heroines who shaped and changed America over 100 years ago, and the women who now follow in their footsteps. In illustrative conversations, Mangin and Rattley share insights on how they crafted the multi-media tools to present history in a bold new way—covering the early years of feminism and suffrage, to the women-led anti-racist work of today.
Through their use of film, music, and various forms of digital media, award winning artist and alumni, Cliff Notez ’13 explores several themes of mental health (acknowledgement, processing and healing through the arts). Cliff also discusses their work in digital media, building their company, HipStory, and how they find work/life balance through a healthy practice of art therapy.