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The Ideal X- Welcome Guests!

HOLA’s Public Art Residency is a team effort. Carolina and David have organized some awesome guest appearances who will run a variety of workshops with the students exploring the impacts of shipping containers. 

A special welcome to all of our guest facilitators: 

Vincent Ramos  is an artist from Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (2007) and his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design (2002). His practice transforms archival material into new work, recovering the lost histories of Los Angeles’s marginalized communities and providing a deeper understanding of the history that we are taught.

Suné Woods (@constellationmatters) is an artist living in Los Angeles. She received her BFA from University of Miami (1997), and MFA from California College of the Arts (2010). Woods is interested in the breadth of intimacy and how it is achieved and relayed through interpersonal relationships and political events. She uses familial dynamics, speculative narratives, and historical happenings to further underscore this potency.

East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach. By providing workshops & trainings about environmental justice, they prepare community members to engage in the decision-making processes that directly impacts their health and quality of life.

LA Waterkeeper safeguards LA’s inland and coastal waters by enforcing laws and empowering communities. Along with hundreds of other Waterkeeper Organizations, our movement works for swimmable, drinkable and fishable waterways worldwide.

Introductions

Introductions, our first assignment of the semester, are a way for us to get familiar with each other as artists as we start the semester. In addition to creating your own tumblr account for this class and completing the introduction questionnaire distributed the first day of class, the introductions assignment also includes a post on your blog which you will project to the class in a brief 5-10 minute presentation.

Please compile and post the following to your tumblr for the introduction post:

1.) 4-5 images of your art. Try to pick projects that represent important or essential aspects of who you are as an artist to give us as comprehensive a picture as possible of what your work is about. Be sure that at least one of these artworks is something that you are interested in exploring currently, something that could inform and inspire work you do in this class.

2.) Indicate the details for each artwork your include in your post, things like title, dimensions, materials, etc to give context for each project.

3.) Include 1 image of work by 2 different artists that influence you (total of 2 images). Try to include contemporary artists and do your best to choose folks that you can connect and articulate to how they relate and inspire your own work.

4.) Be sure to source all work by other artists, indicating any applicable information you have about the work such as title and dates. Links are also helpful and suggested, but not required.

Please insure that your post is online by the beginning of class on Tuesday February 2nd.

For the presentation, you will describe the images you posted to your peers and professor as a way to introduce yourself and your work. Please expect to talk for 5-10 minutes.

Your introductions (post, presentation, questionnaire) will be graded on their quality, specifically their thoughtfulness, documentation quality and articulation of ideas.

Introductions are worth 3 points or 3% of your grade for the semester.

Looking forward to get to know each of you this semester.

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