[Peace] Favianna Rodriguez at YMCA 2/7

[Lori A. Serb]

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> Art and Resistance

> Saturday, February 7, 2009
> (12:30 pm - 2:30 pm)
> Latzer Hall, University YMCA
> 1001 Wright Street
> Champaign, IL
FREE and OPEN to the Public

> ABOUT THE EVENT: Favianna Rodriquez, the award winning Bay Area  
> printmaker (www.Favianna.com) will speak to how historically  
> marginalized communities use multiple art forms to express voice and  
> challenge domination within diverse contexts of resistance. Her  
> presentation will use examples of media produced by African  
> American, American Indian, Asian American, Chican@, Latin@, and LGBT  
> communities. Intersections of Art and Resistance will be  
> artistically, historically and politically contextualized within  
> this multimedia presentation. Time will be allotted for discussion  
> and audience participation.

> CO-SPONSORS: Allen Hall, Art Graduate Student Organization, Campus  
> Faculty Association, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society,  
> Critical Research Collaborative, Diversity and Technology for  
> Engaging Communities, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Graduate  
> Employees' Organization, iResist.org, La Casa Cultural Latina,  
> Latina Latino Studies Program, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and  
> Transgender Program, Native American House, Radio Liberacion, & Red  
> Roots, School for Designing a Society, Women’s Resource Center

> Videos of Artist available at http://www.iresist.org
>
On Jan 30, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Laura Haber wrote:

> Favianna Rodriguez – Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/8-2/12
>
> Celebrated printmaker and digital artist Favianna Rodriguez will be  
> a Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/8-2/12. She will be  
> speaking and leading workshops each evening of her residency. All  
> events take place in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall, 1005 W.  
> Gregory, Urbana unless noted.
>
> Sunday, February 8
> 7:00pm - Opening Program: Art is a Hammer
> There has never been a movement for social change without art and  
> visual communications being central to that movement. Graphics are  
> powerful living reminders of struggles for worldwide peace and  
> justice. Favianna will discuss the process of developing art in  
> collaboration with community-based organizations, her own creative  
> inspiration, and how she has been able to successfully carry out her  
> vision.
>
> Monday, February 9
> 7:00pm – Linoleum Block Printing Workshop (limited to 25, priority  
> given to Allen Hall residents)
> The historical context of printmaking as agit prop along with  
> practice in the techniques needed to produce linoleum block prints  
> without studio facilities or expensive specialized equipment. With  
> an emphasis on hand printing, participants are encouraged to  
> improvise using different textures and colors, learning how to  
> create layered pieces. Participants will produce hand-made prints.
>
> Tuesday, February 10
> 7:00pm – Art Making in the Digital Age Workshop (in the Allen Hall  
> computer lab)
> The Internet is one of the most democratic mediums available to us  
> today as artists and activists. We will merge digital media with  
> traditional media, such as printmaking, to create political graphics.
>
> Wednesday, February 11
> 7:00pm – Design for Social Justice 101 Workshop
> Learn how to design visually engaging posters for a public education  
> campaign of your choice. We will incorporate graphics from the book  
> Reproduce & Revolt to develop exciting and engaging materials that  
> have political content. Participants will each produce a completed  
> design.
>
> Thursday, February 12
> 7:00pm – Radical Women Artists
> How women artists have broken new ground in the fields of  
> performance art, printmaking, digital arts, and video art and  
> examples of how women tackle themes of sexuality, identity, and  
> political equality.
>
>
> Favianna Rodriguez uses the arts as a tool for liberation. Since  
> 1998, Rodriguez's pieces have been posted on street corners, store  
> windows, telephone poles, raised at mass rallies and community  
> festivals, or may have found their way into your mailbox. Rodriguez  
> is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an  
> Oakland-based collective of third world artist and community  
> organizers who use the arts as a tool in the freedom struggle. She  
> is the director of Visual Element a graffiti arts organization that  
> trains young graffiti writers to produce political murals in  
> communities of color. She is also the co-owner of Tumi's Design, a  
> multi-service technology and design firm. Implementing advanced  
> graphic & web technologies with a social consciousness, Tumi's seeks  
> to use multimedia to engender global communication between oppressed  
> communities and to promote political art and open forums of  
> expression.
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