Postponed - Artist Lab: In the Studio with Melanie Cervantes
Wednesday, June 24 2020
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Free | 18+
#ArtistLab
For this feature of In the Studio, listen to Bay Area artist, Melanie Cervantes and Andi Xoch, artist, SHG studio coordinator, and apprentice, 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.