<div><div dir="auto">Thank you Maria, Gabriela, LeConte and Craig for your incredible work. It’s been such an honor to engage further. I’ve been blessed to meet each artist individually and to experience the convergences between The projects is deeply illuminating and exciting. </div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I think a lot about the ways Maria plays with form through paper dresses and paintings to intervene in discourses about undocumentation, and how Craig’s innovative experimentation on the page as Oceania also subverts forms in a decolonial, demilitarized act. Their work is deeply moving as it extends the ideas of how one paints and writes poetry. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Similarly, I’ve been deeply moved by the resistance strategies that connect to Gabriela’s incredible playful work in collectivity and politics in Columbia, and LeConte’s playful poetic and public health interventions with participatory action research and poetry. Both practices brings vital attention to the global south and Black communities through collaboration and play. I hope we can continue conversations in real time and on the forum even even as we move into the next month.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">This month has been incredibly moving, and impactful and I’m grateful to everyone for participating. We hope to reconvene the posts in a different space as a separate collection and will be in touch shortly for those that want to be involved. We’re grateful to Renate and her incredible mentorship and vision for —empyre— these email messages were bursts of insight, provocation, and inspiring balm of on art, poetry, and collaboration. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thank you again to former weeks participants Paige, David, Kathleen, Lynne, Truong, Maria, Kenji, Chase, Erica, Kale, Jerry, Craig, Maria, LeConte and Gabriela for being models of intervention and play. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We honor Tony Conrad in his inspiration of the initial forum and hope to continue the conversation. Many thanks again everyone. </div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 6:12 PM Maria Cornejo Cisneros <<a href="mailto:mcornejo@pratt.edu">mcornejo@pratt.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">----------empyre- soft-skinned space----------------------<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="open sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.6px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Thank you Margaret for including me and my work. </span></font></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="open sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.6px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="open sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.6px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I am attaching a few photographs from videos that Ryan Bonilla and I are making. </span></font></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'open sans',sans-serif;font-size:13.6px"> </span><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-size:13.6px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'open sans',sans-serif">I think my approach is playful and it gets people involved in the experience to open up new perceptions and inclusivity. </span><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#333333" face="open sans, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.6px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></font></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'open sans',sans-serif;font-size:13.6px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">My work is rooted in my immigrant experience in the United States. I portray the criminalization of migration, definitions of citizenship, bi-culturalism, and how cultural identity is perceived by some in this time of division and rising nationalism. I begin by drawing from my imagination then, later, from photographs, combining the two to create a macro migration narrative. Geographically, the imagery combines fictional and actual moments on the US-Mexican border; I emphasize what life is like for undocumented persons in the United States.</span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><br></b></span></font></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><br></b></span></font></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><a href="https://www.thecut.com/2016/05/artist-who-made-her-dress-out-of-paper.html" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">https://www.thecut.com/2016/05/artist-who-made-her-dress-out-of-paper.html</a></b></span></font></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><br></b></span></font></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><a href="https://museumsc.org/tierra-de-rosas/" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">https://museumsc.org/tierra-de-rosas/</a></b></span></font><br></span></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><br></b></span></font></span></div><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(204,51,153);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold"><strong><br></strong></div><div dir="auto"><font color="#cc3399" face="lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><b><a href="https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/mural-on-life-and-hope-fills-the-windows-of-pratt-manhattan-campus" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(66,133,244)" target="_blank">https://www.pratt.edu/news/view/mural-on-life-and-hope-fills-the-windows-of-pratt-manhattan-campus</a></b></span></font><br></div><div dir="auto" style="color:rgb(204,51,153);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold"><strong><br></strong></div><b style="color:rgb(204,51,153);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:16px">Faculty Maria de Los Angeles' Mural on Life and Hope Fills the Windows of Pratt Manhattan Campus </b></span><div dir="auto" style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font color="#cc3399"><b>Article by Allison Meier <br style="font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></b></font><span style="color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.68px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Over several days in early October, the first floor windows of the Pratt Manhattan campus were filled with vibrant drawings in ink. The painted mural is a long-term installation by <a href="https://pratt.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5072fda76f3fa8720b7f04ef&id=fa7fc17202&e=9071dbfd7e" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,124,137)" target="_blank">Maria de Los Angeles</a>, BFA Painting ’13 and Visiting Instructor in Foundation, Associate Degrees, and Continuing and Professional Studies. The New York-based multidisciplinary artist regularly works with unconventional media. Her detailed paintings have adorned paper, canvas, and wearable dresses. These pieces reflect on her own experiences as an immigrant to encourage dialogue about migration and marginalization in the United States.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.68px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“The mural is an homage to life, hope, and freedom,” said de Los Angeles. “The mural is welcoming with details of mothers with children, children with butterflies, stars, and people walking around a landscape composed of roses and other flowers. I like how the reflection of the building across the street and people walking by appear in the mural and it’s transformed by the light throughout the day.”</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.68px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Her kaleidoscopic layers of flora, faces, butterflies, birds, and stars are embedded with imagery responding to themes of migration, displacement, identity, and otherness. The painted dresses, worn by the artist or volunteers in performances and made from recycled materials, have surfaces that consider the body as a place for social and political discussion, particularly on biculturalism and confronting stereotypes. </p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.68px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Similarly, the mural brings this discourse to an unexpected place with its visibility on a busy New York City street. The participation of art in the community is central to de Los Angeles’s work and the mural engages both passersby and visitors in the creative work happening at the Pratt Manhattan campus which also houses the <a href="https://pratt.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5072fda76f3fa8720b7f04ef&id=99278d3549&e=9071dbfd7e" style="text-decoration-line:none;color:rgb(0,124,137)" target="_blank">Pratt Manhattan Gallery</a>.</p><p dir="ltr" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(32,32,32);font-family:'lato','helvetica neue','helvetica','arial',sans-serif;font-size:14px;line-height:25.68px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">“Through this project, Pratt hopes to attract attention to the diverse and inclusive environment of our Manhattan campus,” said Nsombi B. Ricketts, Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. “In addition, Maria de Los Angeles’s work exemplifies the Institute’s commitment to social practice and celebration of National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month.”</p></div></div>
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