Tag: Contemporary Artist

CRAFTING MEMORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH HOLLY JERGER

Claudia Pretelin

Holly Jerger. Photo: Symrin Chawla *Special thanks to Sarah E. Webb for editing this interview For the past seventeen years, Holly Jerger has been the  Senior Exhibitions Curator at Craft Contemporary, founded as a museum to reveal the potential of craft to educate, captivate, provoke, and empower. Recently, she joined Cal State University, Northridge, as their new Art Galleries Director. In this interview, Jerger reflects on her first encounters with art, her time and collaborative work at Craft Contemporary, and her influences and ideas on memory.  As a curator, Holly…

A TRAIL OF MEMORIES: A CONVERSATION WITH TRICIA RAINWATER

Claudia Pretelin

Through her work in multi-media and photography, Tricia Rainwater has opened up a dialogue between past and present which has explored a place of vulnerability and resilience. Contemplating stories from her ancestors and her own life, she becomes, learns, and fully exists. Paraphrasing writer Terese Marie Mailhot, “once you name your transgressions and transgressors, you are able to put down your pain.” Tricia has started walking this trail.  Currently based on Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco), Tricia was raised in the Central Valley until the age of ten and then…

MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS

Claudia Pretelin

Para una mejor experiencia, antes de continuar te recomendamos visitar esta exposición desde tu computadora Introducción Instruments of Memory y el Museo de las Mujeres Costa Rica presenta MEMORIAS Y RESISTENCIAS: MUJERES | ARTISTAS| HISTORIAS AFROLATINAS Y CARIBEÑAS, un proyecto curatorial que reúne investigaciones de Claudia Mandel Katz (Argentina-Costa Rica), Adriana Palomo (Argentina), Claudia Pretelin (México-Estados Unidos) y Sussy Vargas Alvarado (Costa Rica), cuatro historiadoras latinoamericanas cuyo trabajo para esta exposición se centra en un enfoque integrado de género, uniendo distintas latitudes a través de una misma temática. Esta muestra…