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PROCESSA TALKS

PROCESSA TALKS

By Kiara Cristina Ventura / Processa

A podcast centering artists and visionaries of color in the visual art world and beyond. Hosted by curator Kiara Cristina Ventura. Presented by Processa.
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PROCESSA TALKSOct 14, 2020

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We Back! + Interview with Artist Piero Penizzotto (S2-EP.1)

We Back! + Interview with Artist Piero Penizzotto (S2-EP.1)

Tune into the new season of Processa Talks (formerly known at AW CLASSROOM) with an interview with artist Piero Penizzotto, a Peruvian-American artist born and based in Queens, NY. Penizzotto’s practice consists of creating life-size painted papier-mâché sculptures as an ode to the friendships and communities he is a part of in New York and South Florida.
This recording is from an artist talk between Piero Penizzotto and curator and founder of Processa, Kiara Cristina Ventura, on October 14th 2023, at Penizzotto's solo exhibition at White Columns in NYC. In tandem with themes within this exhibition, Penizzotto and Ventura discuss themes of home, belonging, migration, and honoring family history. 

You can also watch the video of this interview on White Column's Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1q0TLanPM4I

For more info about Processa, visit processa.art .

Jan 18, 202458:14
As Time Stood Still: Interview with Artist & Documentarian Luis Santana (EP. 21 - *Bonus episode* )

As Time Stood Still: Interview with Artist & Documentarian Luis Santana (EP. 21 - *Bonus episode* )

For this bonus episode officially ending Season 1 of the AW Classroom podcast, curator Kiara Cristina Ventura interviews artist Luis Santana for a discussion around his current solo exhibition, "As Time Stood Still," currently at the Mynt Gallery in Chelsea, NY till February 16th, 2022. Here, they speak about photography work in the NFT world, the process behind Santana's work, and his journey in combining the practices art and photography.   

“As Time Stood Still,” curated by Luis Santana and co-curated by Kiara Cristina Ventura, is a NFT photography solo exhibition highlighting the works of artist and documentarian Luis Santana. Taking place at the Mynt Gallery, an experimental NFT Lab and art gallery in Chelsea, the exhibition is Santana’s first NYC solo exhibition and NFT genesis drop. 

The show centers around 18 pieces from framed black and white photographs to blue mixed media cyanotype works on paper and canvas that are connected to NFTs online.  

Follow Santana's work at: @luissantanaaaa on IG & www.luis-santana.com  *

Cover image of Luis Santana by Shravya Kag * 

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For more information about “As Time Stood Still” and to view the NFTs:  https://luis-santana.webflow.io  

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Feb 09, 202226:55
Galleries and Artists You Need To Know: NADA Miami 2021 Art Fair (EP. 20)

Galleries and Artists You Need To Know: NADA Miami 2021 Art Fair (EP. 20)

For the 20th episode of AW CLASSROOM podcast, we covered the NADA Miami 2021 art fair where we interviewed various artists and galleries about the works they are presenting. In order, we chatted with Danny Baez of Regular Normal Gallery, artist Melissa Joseph, artist Jeffery Meris with Fragment gallery, Dominique Clayton of Dominique Gallery, artist Amber Ahmad with Tone Gallery, Anthony Akinbola with False Flag Gallery, Chela Mitchell of Chela Mitchell Gallery, Graham Wilson of Swivel Gallery, and lastly, artist Vyczie Dorado.

social media handles:

@digitaldannybaez

@regularnormalnyc

@melissajoseph_art

@jeffreymeris

@fragment_gallery

@lookatdominique

@dominique.gallery

@amber.ahmad.art

@tonememphis

@heyitsbunmi

@falseflaggallery

@chelamitchellart

@chelamitchellgallery

@_graham_wilson_

@swivelgallery

@vyczie_dorado_art

The New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) is the definitive non-profit arts organization dedicated to the cultivation, support, and advancement of new voices in contemporary art. @newartdealers

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Dec 04, 202143:10
Cocinando Artist Talk ft. Cielo Felix Hernandez, Emmanuel Massillon, Estelle Maisonett, & Nicole Bello (EP.19)

Cocinando Artist Talk ft. Cielo Felix Hernandez, Emmanuel Massillon, Estelle Maisonett, & Nicole Bello (EP.19)

This 19th episode of AW CLASSROOM features an artist talk in tandem with our past August 2021 virtual exhibition, "Cocinando," led by the curator Kiara Cristina Ventura. This episode was recorded in August 2021 & features 4 of the artists included in the show: Cielo Felix Hernandez, Emmanuel Massillon, Estelle Maisonett, and Nicole Bello.

Thinking of the kitchen as a space of gathering, cooking, experimenting, connecting and so on, the "Cocinando" exhibition relates the kitchen to the artist studio. Here, we update ourselves on what these NYC based Latinx artists have been experimenting with and cooking up. Speaking on themes of home, identity, and food via the mediums of painting and sculpture, the artists collectively chop up the conversation, raise the temperature, and serve us fresh perspectives. Curated by ARTSYWINDOW.

Artist Bios:

Nicole Bello is a Dominican-American artist born and raised in the Bronx. She attended Hunter College and received a degree of The Arts, currently she is working on a Visual Arts Masters degree at City College. Her work deals with themes of identity, sexuality, gender, home, self love and power. IG: @nicolebello__

Cielo Felix-Hernandez is a Puerto-rican transdisciplinary artist, primarily working in oil paint, the figures in Felix-Hernandez oil paintings author their own narratives constructed out of familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies.Having grown up between both lands, Felix-Hernandez processes their relationship to land, indigeneity, the historical, and the personal and how those themes affect survival. IG: @cielofelixhernandez

Emmanuel Massillon (b. 1998 in Washington D.C.) is an African American conceptual artist who works in several different mediums including painting, photography, and sculpture. With these varying mediums, He explores the complex history of race, identity, culture and it's the relation to people of African descent. Massillon's upbringing in the inner city of Washington D.C. shapes the unique narrative that he strives to convey through his work, which is introducing others to new ideas by creating work from day-to-day life to politically charged topics. IG: @massi____

Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican and Puerto-Rican mixed-media interdisciplinary artist that uses found objects, photography, and sourced clothing to create life size collages that document her experience living in NYC. The interior and exterior spaces she builds are collages of photographs, patterns, and archived found objects she has collected. Creating figures void of the human body, she explores how the assumed figures' relationship to consumer products, location, and material inform sociocultural identity. IG: @elle915

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*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. *

Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español. For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.

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Nov 30, 202150:45
Where Science Meets Art: Interview with Artist TJ Shin (EP.18)

Where Science Meets Art: Interview with Artist TJ Shin (EP.18)

For the 18th episode of AW CLASSROOM, curator Kiara Cristina Ventura interviews artist TJ Shin about how they use their practices in science and art to speak on colonialism, the body, queerness, and identity.

TJ Shin is a Canadian-Korean artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Shin explores the porousness of bodily boundaries and the ceaseless movement of living processes, like fermentation, echoing the history of colonialism. They are interested in the history of conquest and the literal digestion of materials – smells, microbes, and food – as a system of relations that emerges from a complicated history of entanglement.

Follow their work at: @fff00slut on IG

TJ Shin links:

https://www.corneliamag.com/article-set/microbes-bodies-biomes-borders-a-pandemic-ferment

https://www.recessart.org/anaiwataki/

https://aaa.org.hk/en/ideas/ideas/yellow-skin-white-gold

*Cover image of TJ Shin by Mary Kang @Mary.kang *

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*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. *

Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español. For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.

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Nov 29, 202125:44
Redefining the Studio Practice: Interview with Artist Khari Johnson Ricks (EP. 17)

Redefining the Studio Practice: Interview with Artist Khari Johnson Ricks (EP. 17)

For the 17th episode of AW CLASSROOM, we virtually sat with artist Khari Johnson Ricks and discussed what it means to have a multidisciplinary practice where one practice informs and supports another. In the interview, Khari speaks to the power of his work and practices being rooted in love, community, relationships, the body, and of course, Jersey Club dance and music.  

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In his own words, here's a bit about artist Khari Johnson Ricks:  

"I am an artist and DJ whose work spans a range of audiovisual media and often exists in the public eye. This includes the production of zines, works on paper, performances, murals, and nightlife spaces. I often desire reprieve from the failures of the state and the constant peril black people face. My new work explores fellowship and engages acts of fiction and poetry to capture moments with kith and kin that feel loving. I ask myself what it means to make a family, community, friendship, when the world is so precarious, when the water rises, when death comes, and when all that is visible is capital. While my older work had been in conversation with vernacular movement traditions and martial arts practices like Shotokan Karate and Jersey Club dancing, which act as covert languages for those most targeted for capital extraction, I now explicitly center the fantastical and poetic nature of the Sublime. The works find their dramatic tension in the context of fragility, addressing my subjects’ deep alienation from, and even guilt in the face of, extended moments of peace. In this light, my work become testaments to the irrepressible urge of the imagination to metabolize, to reinvent, and to transcend." 

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 Follow his work at: @madebykhari on IG  

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 *This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. *  Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español.  For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.  ___________ 

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Jul 01, 202142:07
Curating with Care: Interview with Claire Kim (EP. 16)

Curating with Care: Interview with Claire Kim (EP. 16)

For the 16th episode of AW CLASSROOM, we virtually sat with curator Claire Kim and discussed what it means to navigate the art world with care and intention. In the interview, Kim breaks down highlights from her current exhibition, Un/Common Proximity, which is showing at James Cohan gallery NYC till August 13, 2021. The group show is a result of her recent fellowship with NXTHVN where she worked alongside all the artist residency fellows. More info on this exhibition here: https://www.jamescohan.com/exhibitions/nxthvn

Claire Kim is a Korean-American independent curator and arts administrator based in New York City. She was raised in San Diego, California. Kim is currently the Special Assistant to the President at BRIC. She recently completed a 2020 Curatorial Fellowship through NXTHVN. Previously, Kim has worked in museum education and programming with numerous arts institutions and organizations, including the New Museum, the Asian American Arts Alliance, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Mark Morris Dance Group. She has curated and consulted for exhibitions in spaces such as at BRIC, MoCADA, The Border Project Space, Mom’s Gallery, and Gymnasium. Kim graduated from the Downtown Brooklyn Arts Management Fellowship in August 2018. She received her BA in English and Art History from Fordham University. She is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Bard. Follow her work at: @mediumrareclaire on IG  

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*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. * 

Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español.  For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.

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Jun 22, 202144:44
Embracing the Intersections of Identity: Interview with Artist Albany Andaluz (EP.15)

Embracing the Intersections of Identity: Interview with Artist Albany Andaluz (EP.15)

For the 15th episode of AW CLASSROOM, Kiara Cristina Ventura interviews multidisciplinary artist and musician, Albany Andaluz. In the interview, Andaluz speaks about her identities and cultural backgrounds and how they result in multidimensional artworks. She also speaks on her nomadic experience moving to Mexico during the pandemic. Now temporarily based Dominican Republic, the artist ends the interview with an exclusive art performance just for us here at AW! 

*FYI there are roosters in the background of this interview so if you hear some cock-a-doodle-dooing in the background it's our rooster friends haha*

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Albany Andaluz (b. 1995, Bronx, New York) uses colloquialisms to draw intersections between Caribbean, Latin American, and American experiences. A life-taught artist, her practice reflects a repurposed, multidisciplinary approach with works that resurrect discarded textiles as mixed-media sculptures, paintings, and photographs to allude to the intersections of conflict, migration, and settlement. Andaluz’s practice examines the psychosocial and socioeconomic shifts that happen during the process of acculturation through the intertwining of techniques sourced from craft, fine, folk, low and high-brow cultures. Such work has awarded Andaluz residencies, grants and features with ProjectArt NYC, BronxArtSpace, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Bronx Documentary Center, BronxNet, ArtForum, and Aperture Foundation’s magazine. 

Follow her work at: @albanyandaluz on IG or www.albanyandaluz.work

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*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. * Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español. For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram. ___________

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Apr 28, 202143:43
The Power of Documentary Photography: Interview with Bronx Photographer Sofie Vasquez (EP.14)

The Power of Documentary Photography: Interview with Bronx Photographer Sofie Vasquez (EP.14)

For the 14th episode of AW CLASSROOM, AW intern Abe Centeno interviews Bronx artist and educator, Sofie Vasquez. In the interview, Sofie talks about her journey being an artist from The Bronx, how she developed her skills, and also her part time practice in photographing the NYC wrestling scene.  

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Sofie Vasquez (b. 1998) is an Ecuadorian documentary photographer born and raised in The Bronx, New York.  Her work has been featured in The New York Times and has been exhibited with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Bronx Documentary Center, the Ecuadorian-American Cultural Center, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center, the Shirley Fiterman Art Center, the DGT Alumni Association Gallery House, Photoville and En Foco Inc.   She is an alumni of the International Center of Photography's Community Fellows, and is a part of the first graduating class of the fellowship (2018-2020) She was a student at The City College of New York until the COVID-19 global pandemic forced her to pause her studies. She currently works at the Bronx Documentary Center as well as freelances as a traveling documentary photographer.  

Follow her work at: @bullsinthebrnx on IG   

*This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. *  Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español.  For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram.

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Apr 01, 202130:12
Always Showing Love to Black Women: INTERVIEW WITH AYA BROWN (EP.13)

Always Showing Love to Black Women: INTERVIEW WITH AYA BROWN (EP.13)

For this special Vday drop, we are releasing a lovely interview with artist Aya Brown where we talk about her practice and how she paints and draws Black Women she loves. And we also discuss her love for Mary J. Blidge of course.  

Aya Brown (b. 1995) is a Black and Japanese artist who was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Brown’s artistic practice is focused on documenting unseen people, with an emphasis on bringing visibility to queer Black and brown women. She’s always sought to channel love and care to her community through her work. During the start of the pandemic, she became known for her "Essential Worker" series which consist of portraits of Black and Brown women essential workers in NYC from nurses to postal workers.   

Follow her work at:  @ayabrown.tiff on IG  

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Feb 14, 202142:34
When Spirit Meets Sculpture: INTERVIEW WITH TAU LEWIS (EP. 12)

When Spirit Meets Sculpture: INTERVIEW WITH TAU LEWIS (EP. 12)

For the 12th episode of AW CLASSROOM, we interview Jamaican-Canadian artist Tau Lewis about her self-taught journey and how she intentionally creates doll-like sculptures to embody spirit and connect to her ancestors.  

 Tau Lewis (b. 1993, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) employs arduous methods such as hand sewing, carving, and assemblage to build intricate sculptural portraits and quilts. A self-taught artist, her practice is rooted in healing personal, collective, and historical traumas through labour. The materiality of Lewis’ work is often informed by her surrounding environment: she constructs out of found, gathered, and recycled materials from Toronto, New York, and outside of her family's home in Negril, Jamaica. The transformative act of repurposing these materials recalls practices of resourcefulness in diasporic contexts; upcycling is a recuperative act that reclaims both agency and memory. The portraits themselves reference both individuals in Lewis’ community and imagined ancestors.  Lewis will be included in 2021 exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Grinnell College Museum of Art, Grinnell; Prospect 5, New Orleans; Haus der Kunst, Munich; and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.    


Follow her work at:  @taulewis on IG  

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This episode was edited by AW intern, Abe Centeno.   

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Feb 11, 202123:40
AW CLASSROOM: Carrie Mae Weems, The Kitchen Table Series 1990 (EP. 11)

AW CLASSROOM: Carrie Mae Weems, The Kitchen Table Series 1990 (EP. 11)

Today on AW CLASSROOM we center Carrie Mae Weems, "The Kitchen Table Series," 1990 and this work is important in the history of contemporary art, especially in the world of photography. Throughout the decades, Weems highlights and uplifts the narratives of black women in America.  

The notes for this episode were wonderfully put together by AW intern, Abe Centeno.  

AW CLASSROOM is a series of talks and art history classes highlighting the work of artists and creatives of color. Find out more at ARTSYWINDOW.COM.  

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Jan 14, 202115:37
AW CLASSROOM: David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Cooper Square, New York, 1983 (EP. 10)

AW CLASSROOM: David Hammons, Bliz-aard Ball Sale, Cooper Square, New York, 1983 (EP. 10)

For the 10th episode of AW CLASSROOM, we center David Hammons' work "Bliz-aard Ball Sale," Cooper Square, New York, 1983.  The notes for this episode were wonderfully put together by AW intern, Abe Centeno. To see the full notes, research, and images for this episode, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/ARTSYWINDOW.

AW CLASSROOM is a series of talks and art history classes highlighting the work of artists and creatives of color. Find out more at ARTSYWINDOW.COM. 

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Dec 29, 202016:58
Using the Flag as a Medium and Pushing US Law: ARTIST DREAD SCOTT *Art History Class* (EP #9)

Using the Flag as a Medium and Pushing US Law: ARTIST DREAD SCOTT *Art History Class* (EP #9)

For the 9th episode of AW Classroom, founder of AW, Kiara Cristina Ventura, takes us through works by artist Dread Scott. Particularly, we dive into how he changed US Law and uses the flag as a medium to make a statement about the historical foundation of the US and the overall discrimination against the black community within the US.

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Dec 08, 202015:39
The Museum and Gallery Experience, Art History, and Access : INTERVIEW WITH ANTOINE J. GIRARD (EP #8)

The Museum and Gallery Experience, Art History, and Access : INTERVIEW WITH ANTOINE J. GIRARD (EP #8)

For the 8th episode of AW Classroom, we talk to young art historian and curator Antoine Girard.   Arts professional and a cultural strategist, Antoine Girard is passionate about the arts and social change. Professional and scholarly interests include black visual culture, and inclusive engagement strategies. He earned his B.A. in Art History from Howard University. He began his work in the museum field working with The Broad and CAAM and most recently The Underground Museum.  His work in the museum field has garnered support from institutions such as The American Alliance of Museums, and the Western Arts Foundation, where he was recognized as an Emerging Leader of Color. Antoine lives as an independent museum professional and curator, and thought leader based in Southern California. His upcoming curatorial work will be seen at Jeffrey Deitch Projects in Los Angeles.   

To keep up with his work, follow him on IG: @ _ajgirard 

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Dec 03, 202047:14
Digital Space as Safe Space: CYBER HEALING PANEL TALK with the Latinx Project at NYU (Ep#7)

Digital Space as Safe Space: CYBER HEALING PANEL TALK with the Latinx Project at NYU (Ep#7)

Digital Space as Safe Space Panel Talk - Hosted by Latinx Project at NYU.   For this episode of AW CLASSROOM we feature the recording of the official Cyber Healing virtual panel talk led by founder of AW and curator Kiara Cristina Ventura joined by featured artists Florencia Escudero, Moréna Espiritual, Chloe Piñero, Gina Goico, and Catherine Feliz. The conversation centers around the featured works in the exhibition, how the digital world has informed their work, and served as a safe space to explore.  

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CYBER HEALING, curated by Kiara Cristina Ventura of ARTSYWINDOW, is an exhibition that explores how Latinx and Afro-Latinx artists are healing via feminine energy and digital space. As many of us during the COVID-19 pandemic are deepening our relationships with the digital world, this exhibition raises our contemporary connectivity with the online and social media world to the surface and dissects how we have collectively curated and sourced from online spaces to create discourse, educate, empower, and serve us. Therefore, the digital world of healing has come into fruition within the last decades to be used a tool and has quickly bloomed during 2020 with more creatives seeking to aid one another and themselves.   


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CYBER HEALING, Sept 4 - Dec 1 2020 - features works by Fannie Sosa, Florencia Escudero, Moréna Espiritual, Chloe Piñero, Gina Goico, and Catherine Feliz. Ranging from video to mixed media to sculpture, the exhibition raises themes speaking to visibility, feminism, queerness, reclamation of the body, decolonization, spirituality, and ultimately how these themes educate and serve healing processes. This exhibition is presented by the Latinx Project at NYU.


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Dec 01, 202001:36:12
Abstracting Identity and Channeling the Inner Child: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST MEL LUNA (EP #6)

Abstracting Identity and Channeling the Inner Child: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST MEL LUNA (EP #6)

Mel Luna and AW Founder, Kiara Cristina Ventura, sat down in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at Larissa De Jesús Negrón ‘s solo exhibition "Moving On" 2020 to talk about artistic process, abstraction of identity, and her unique journey.   Melanie Luna (IG: @ohmeluna ) is a young Dominican conceptual artist who is working with the figure in a unique way —stripping the figure of their skin thus stripping them of certain parts of their identity. She is constantly thinking of meshing the worlds between science and fiction with her playful scenes that bring the viewer to imagine what is at play.


Follow her work at:  @ohmeluna on IG

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Nov 10, 202042:07
Centering Artists of The African Diaspora: INTERVIEW WITH TIFFANY AUTTRIANNA WARD (EP #5)

Centering Artists of The African Diaspora: INTERVIEW WITH TIFFANY AUTTRIANNA WARD (EP #5)

For the episode #5 of AW CLASSROOM, we virtually sit with curator and founder of the Mare Residency, Tiffany Auttrianna Ward, who focuses her work on artists of the African Diaspora and those of marginalized communities.  


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Read here to learn more about our guest:

 Tiffany Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator and cultural producer based between Baltimore and New York. In 2019 she founded Mare Residency, a roving residency with a focus on supporting and connecting artists of African descent between the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. In its inaugural year Ward partnered with SunSpot sTudios to host Baltimore-born artist Jerrell Gibbs and Dominican-American artist Raelis Vasquez in a two-week residency created to highlight and connect artists to the city of Baltimore. Recent awards include the Intercultural Development Grant, MICA/MFA Graduate Merit Scholarship, Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship, and the MICA Graduate Research Development Grant. At MICA, she served as a Graduate Studies Curatorial Fellow and the student representative in the Vice Provost Search Committee. During the past ten years, Ward has centered the stories of the African Diaspora through her academic and professional pursuits, which have taken her to Brazil, Puerto Rico, and throughout the continental United States. From 2015-2018, she ran a bilingual Portuguese and English online journal, Cores Brilhantes—a contemporary online space for Afro-Brazilian art. Since founding the journal, she has also been a contributing writer for AFROPUNK and Sugarcane Magazine as well as assisted artists from across the diaspora with public relations and marketing support. She is a 2020 MFA Curatorial Practice graduate of Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She received her BA in History from Manhattanville College in 2011 with a focus on African Diasporic Studies.   


Follow her work at:  @auttrianna and @mareresidency on IG  


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Nov 06, 202044:42
Driving Your Art Market with Intention: INTERVIEW WITH CHELA MITCHELL (EP #4)

Driving Your Art Market with Intention: INTERVIEW WITH CHELA MITCHELL (EP #4)

For this episode of AW CLASSROOM, we talk to art advisor Chela Mitchell about her journey and how young artists of color can navigate their art market. She also gives advice to young art collectors and sheds light how the art market functions.   

Chela Mitchell is an art advisor and founder based in New York who has extensive knowledge of the emerging contemporary art market. She has a deep appreciation of the industry, mainly supporting black and brown artists. She provides art advisory services to private, public, and new collectors needing assistance navigating the contemporary art market. Her clients include collectors and luxury brands looking for guidance diversifying their collections.   Chela is also the founder of Komuna House, a global arts club centered around collectors and artists of color.   

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Oct 14, 202040:22
The Importance of Taking Photos of Their Queer Chosen Family: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST XIME IZQUIERDO UGAZ (EP #3)

The Importance of Taking Photos of Their Queer Chosen Family: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST XIME IZQUIERDO UGAZ (EP #3)

AW CLASSROOM PODCAST: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST XIME IZQUIERDO UGAZ  

For this episode, we talk to artist Xime Izquierdo Ugaz about their online archive, "se que fue así porque estuve allí," a commissioned project of El Museo's, ESTAMOS BIEN- LA TRIENAL 20/21. The digital archive expands on the artist’s ongoing series of photo portraits of their queer chosen family and features over forty images accompanied by text and audio testimonies. Along with talking about their journey, Ugaz also shares how they recently spoke out against the Brooklyn Museum highlighting how the institution mistreated many people of color on staff.  

Xime Izquierdo Ugaz is a multimedia artist, curator, educator, and language justice worker born in Lima, Perú. Their work primarily touches on the imprint of inter-generational trauma within their own family in relationship to place and migration.  They are the visual arts co-curator at Nat. Brut & co-founder of QTPOC virtual festival based in Perú, Cabritas Resistiendo en Cuarentena.  Their hand embroidery collection is Beso de Moza & a recent collab with Omololu Babatunde, ROGUE THEIF, is an upcycled denim brand honoring thieves. They are also a co-organizer of BODYHACK, a party and mutual aid fund for trans and nonbinary folks.  Their work has appeared in FEELINGS and their first chapbook is titled Estoy Tristeza (No, Dear Magazine & Small Anchor Press ,2018).  

Please see more info linking to Xime's sites here:  

sequefueasi exhibition link: www.sequefueasi.com 

portfolio web: www.ximexime.com  

Personal ig: instagram.com/huacatayy 

BODYHACK IG: instagram.com/_bodyhack_ 

Cabritas Resistiendo IG: instagram.com/cabritasresistiendo    

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Sep 30, 202037:29
How to Support Artists and Grow as a Curator : INTERVIEW WITH CURATOR LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH (EP #2)

How to Support Artists and Grow as a Curator : INTERVIEW WITH CURATOR LARRY OSSEI-MENSAH (EP #2)

AW CLASSROOM PODCAST: INTERVIEW WITH LARRY OSSEI MENSAH


For this episode, we are diving into Larry Ossei-Mensah’s curatorial journey and perspective on supporting artists early in their careers. Larry shares his eye for art and his advice for young artists.


Larry Ossei-Mensah uses contemporary art as a vehicle to redefine how we see ourselves and the world around us. The Ghanaian-American curator and cultural critic has organized exhibitions and programs at commercial and nonprofit spaces around the globe from New York City to Rome featuring artists such as Firelei Baez, Allison Janae Hamilton, Brendan Fernades, Ebony G. Patterson, Glenn Kaino, and Stanley Whitney to name a few. Moreover, Ossei-Mensah has actively documented cultural happenings featuring the most dynamic visual artists working today such as Derrick Adams, Mickalene Thomas, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Federico Solmi, and Kehinde Wiley.


A native of The Bronx, Ossei-Mensah is also the co-founder of ARTNOIR, a 501(c)(3) and  global collective of culturalists who design multimodal experiences aimed to engage this generation’s dynamic and diverse creative class.  ARTNOIR  endeavors to celebrate the artistry and creativity by Black and Brown artists around the world via virtual and in person experiences.  Ossei-Mensah is a contributor to the first ever Ghanaian Pavilion for the 2019 Venice Biennial with an essay on the work of visual artist Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.


Ossei-Mensah is the former Susanne Feld Hilberry Senior Curator at MOCAD in Detroit. He recently co-curated in 2019 with Dexter Wimberly the critically acclaimed exhibition at MOAD in San Francisco Coffee, Rhum, Sugar, Gold: A Postcolonial Paradox in Spring/Summer 2019.   Ossei-Mensah currently serves as guest curator at BAM's Rudin Family Gallery. He also will be co-curating with Omsk Social Club 7th Athens Biennale in Athens, Greece in Spring 2021. 

 

Ossei-Mensah has had recent profiles in such publications like the NY Times, Artsy, and Cultured Magazine, which recently named him one of seven curators to watch in 2019. Follow him on Instagram/Twitter at @youngglobal or www.larryosseimensah.com.


Image: Miranda Barnes for New York Times


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Jul 24, 202001:24:37
Making Art With Intention: INTERVIEW WITH ARTIST EILEN ITZEL MENA (EP #1)
Jul 14, 202057:37