By: Marvella Muro

In conjunction with the virtual Annual Print Fair and the Artist Lab program, SHG will present In the Studio, two types of studio visits with the SHG family of artists live on Facebook at 7:00 p.m. on select dates. The program will begin with Pavel Acevedo, Nanibah Chacon, and Daniel Gonzalez (May 13); Mario Ybarra Jr., Amitis Motevalli, and Rafael Cardenas (May 27); Wayne Perry and Andi Xoch (June 3), Patssi Valdez and Andi Xoch (June 10), and Melanie Cervantes and Andi Xoch (June 24). In the Studio aims to maintain the artist community connected during this period of isolation, provide support, and reflect on our shared experience. Learn more about future dates and special guests on our website or our Facebook events page. Learn more about the Annual Print Fair here. Support SHG during the Annual Print Fair here.

Artist Lab: In the Studio with Pavel Acevedo, Nanibah Chacon, and Daniel Gonzalez

May 13, 2020, at 7:00 .p.m.  – LIVE on Facebook

SHG is excited to visit with Mexican artist and printmaker, Pavel Acevedo, who is also SHG’s artist in residence for our first In the Studio. To join the conversation, Pavel invited artists Nanibah Chacon, Diné (Navajo), and Chicana woman, to join us from her studio in Albuquerque; and printmaker and graphic designer Daniel Gonzalez to join us from his studio in Boyle Heights. The three artists will share how they have coped with the quarantine, talk about their practice, and show examples of their work. The program will stream live on Facebook and archived on our SHGTV YouTube channel. 

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Artist Lab: In the Studio with Mario Ybarra Jr., Amitis Motevalli, and Rafael Cardenas

May 27, 2020, at 7:00 .p.m.  – LIVE on Facebook

SHG is excited to visit with artist Mario Ybarra, Jr, from his home studio in Wilmington, California. Since 2019, Mario has been a member of SHG’s Artist Committee and has been involved with SHG for many years. The program will stream live on Facebook and archived on our SHGTV YouTube channel.

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Artist Lab: In the Studio with Wayne Perry and Andi Xoch

June 3, 2020, at 7:00 .pm. – LIVE on Facebook

Join Artist and SHG Studio Coordinator and Apprentice, Andi Xoch, and Los Angeles-based Artist and Board Member, Wayne Perry, in conversation about his experimental print that combined linocut and silkscreen; its challenges, and how the work evolved from its initial concept. The program will be featured on Facebook Live and archived on our SHGTV YouTube channel. 

Wayne Perry is an accomplished Los Angeles based artist, art fabricator, and educator.  He maintains a studio practice, where he produces ceramic art, paintings, and prints for exhibitions and commissions. For the past 22 years, Perry has worked on over 50 public art projects throughout Los Angeles and California. As a ceramic tile mural fabricator, he has helped make over 30 large-scale art projects with renowned artists. Perry's technical and artistic mastery in ceramics and sculpture comes from studying and working with artist Peter Shire, where he produced pottery, ceramic art, and public art for 15 years.

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Artist Lab: In the Studio with Patssi Valdez and Andi Xoch

June 10, 2020, at 7:00  .pm. – LIVE on Facebook

Join Andi Xoch, Artist and SHG Studio Coordinator and Apprentice, in conversation with legendary artist Patssi Valdez. The artists will discuss the process and theme of a recently commissioned print created by Patssi in SHG’s serigraph studio. Earlier works created by Patssi will also be highlighted as we invite her to reminisce about her time in the former studio on Gage Ave in East Los Angeles. The program will feature on Facebook Live, recorded and archived on SHGTV. 

Patssi Valdez is an internationally recognized artist known for her vibrant paintings, installations, and early performance work with the avant-garde art group ASCO, of which she is a founding member. Born and raised in East Los Angeles, Valdez received her BFA from Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles and was named outstanding alumni in the 1980s. She is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including from the J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Brody Arts Fellowship in Visual Arts. Her artwork is included in major collections, including the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona; The San Jose Museum of Art, California; and the El Paso Museum of Art, Texas.  Jane Chafin.

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In the studio: Melanie Cervantes and Andi Xoch

June 24, 2020, at 7:00 p.m.

For this feature of In the Studio, watch Bay Area Artist, Melanie Cervantes and Artist and Andi Xoch, in conversation about prints created in SHG’s serigraph studio. The artists will discuss the design, creation, and production of Melanie’s 2019 Day of the Dead commemorative print, Light the Way for the Spirit of the Ancestors, as well as the stories behind two earlier portraits. The program will feature on Facebook Live, recorded and archived on SHGTV. 

Melanie Cervantes lives in the San Francisco Bay Area where she creates visual art inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical social transformation. Melanie’s intention is to create a visual lexicon of resistance to multiple oppressions that will inspire curiosity, raise consciousness, and inspire solidarities among communities of struggle.

In 2007 she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters, and multimedia projects that are grounded in Third World and indigenous movements, illustrating stories of struggle, resistance, and triumph into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

Melanie has exhibited extensively nationally including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco); National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and internationally at the Musée d’Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France), Galerija Alkatraz (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City, Mexico).  Her work is in the permanent collections of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the Latin American Collection of the Green Library at Stanford, the Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College and the Library of Congress and the as well as various other public and private collections throughout the U.S.

Marvella Muro is SHG’s Director of Artistic Programs and Education. Jennifer Cuevas contributed to this story.