Opening Reception of the 10th Annual Dia de la Mujer Exhibit at The Front.
PARTICIPANT ARTISTS:
MELY BARRAGÁN
KATE ROSE CLARCK
IRMA SOFIA POETER
IZTEL MARTINEZ
TANIA AGUIÑIGA
KARINA
ERIKA MURRIET
ELAINE MARTÍNEZ
EMILY HICKS
ILSE ALMAZAN
KARINA VELASCO
LYNN SUSHOLTZ
MELISSA CASTAÑEDA
MIRIAM GARCIA
NORMA CAMPOS
REBECCA GOLDSCHMIDT
ARACELI SOLLANO
CAYCE WHEELOCK
CYNTHIA ANGULO
ERICKA BARBOZA
LAURA HURTADO
MONICA MARTIN
Currently our communities face a great variety of social, ecological, political, and ethical problems that question our ways of life and our social relations. In this context, it has become urgent to imagine a different world. The premise of “Back to Basics” suggests that the way out of many of our problems is to return to the origins, to the most basic forms of community interaction, to respect for nature and all living beings, to teamwork, to respect differences, to search for happiness and love in the simplest things, to the inner and deep look of our existence. With this call, we want to know what the theme of “Back to Basics” means to each participant artists.
The Dia de la Mujer Exhibition strives to be a safe space for women artists, to celebrate through art without fear and in their full glory. We hope that in creating artwork for this exhibition, participating artists find a unique process of creating and maybe re-discover the basic desires and ways for making art.
Curated by: Norma Iglesias Prieto.
Norma Iglesias-Prieto, a transborder scholar, is professor at the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at San Diego State University and researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Norte. Her education is interdisciplinary and includes a B.A. in Social Anthropology, a M.A. Communication Theory and Media Production, and a Ph.D. in Sociology. Her 33 year of academic experience is anchored in Border Studies, with a focus on art, media production and other cultural processes on the U.S.-Mexican border. She is the author of five books among them Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladoras (1985 and 1997 in English) and Emergencia: Las artes visuales en Tijuana (2008). She has also authored several articles in peer-reviewed academic journals, chapters in academic books, and chapters in art catalogues. She is co-editor of the book People of Color in the United States. Contemporary Issues in Immigration and Migration (2016). In addition to her academic work, Iglesias-Prieto has experience as a cultural producer and art curator. She has been a scriptwriter for several television series that address issues related to the U.S.-Mexican border. Shehas participated as curator in art events including InSITE 2000 (film and video series);MEXartes.berlin (2002 film and video series); Tijuana. La Tercera Nación… (2004); Tijuana: Laboratorio de la postmodernidad (2006) as part of the exhibition Tijuana: Strange New World, and Point of Entry (2015-2016) a border art exhibition at San Diego International Airport