Sandra de la Loza, November 2024
Please join the UVA Department of Art for two public programs featuring Los Angeles-based artist, activist and educator Sandra de la Loza. De la Loza is the Fall 2024 Ruffin Distinguished Visiting Artist. Along with presenting a public workshop and artist talk, she will be in Charlottesville conducting research for a future exhibition.
Into the Night: A Regenerative Somatic Workshop
Tuesday, November 12, 6:00pm, Visible Records
Join the artist for an intimate, regenerative, somatic workshop that is free to attend and open to all. Those working within creative and activist spaces are especially encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to Elena at ruffin-gallery@virginia.edu by November 11. Participants are requested to bring a meditation pillow or yoga mat if you have one, but comfy seating will also be provided.
Digging Into the Underlayers: Building Relationship with Place
Wednesday, November 13, 6:30-7:45pm, University of Virginia Campbell 160 (A-School)
How can we creatively, critically, and consciously deepen and transform our relationship with the lands we live on? How can art move between the personal and the collective, the social and ecological, and beyond the gallery to create possibilities of embodied joy and transformation? Join Los Angeles based artist Sandra de la Loza as she shares reflections, strategies and revelations from her unfolding trans-disciplinary artistic practice.
About the artist:
Sandra de la Loza is a Los Angeles artist whose artistic practice investigates underlying power dynamics embedded in social space while exposing the gaps, absences and the in-between spaces within dominant historical narratives through performative, social and aesthetic strategies that result in multi-media installations, video, photography, and public interventions.
De la Loza is the founder and only official member of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, a collaborative project working with artists, activist, and historians to investigate place and memory through public interventions. In 2020, together with Arturo Romo, she co-designed the Sleepy Lagoon Memorial Project, a proposal for a memorial in a public park that investigates the social, cultural and ecological history of a once popular swimming hole in a segregated and rapidly urbanizing area in Southeast Los Angeles. From 2021-2022, she was a Creative Strategist with LA County Arts & Culture, collaborating with the Department of Parks and Recreation on an arts and culture framework and toolkit that established standards for arts and culture as core programming across all Los Angeles County parks.
Current exhibitions include: From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and Chicana Photographers at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Sandra de la Loza is Assistant Professor in Chicana/o Studies at the California State University, Northridge.
Website: www.hijadela.net/
Sara Curruchich, February 19 - 22, 2024
With a Free concert Thursday, February 22, 2024 @ 7 pm | Old Cabell Hall auditorium
Presskit
Ser mujer en Guatemala es un acto de resistencia. La mejor forma de presentar a Sara Curruchich sería decir que ser mujer maya kaqchikel además de artista es, en sí mismo, una declaración política, pero también una postura identitaria radical.
Sara Curruchich nació en 1993 en San Juan Comalapa, Chimaltenango, en una comunidad kaqchikel del altiplano central guatemalteco. Su pueblo tiene una larga tradición de arte y conocimiento, pero también una gran fuerza de resistencia y lucha. De esa cuenta, su propuesta musical se basa en el sentir colectivo e individual de los pueblos, la historia, la memoria, la cultura, los idiomas y las luchas combinadas con una reivindicación personal.
Sara Curruchich es la primera cantautora indígena guatemalteca en llevar sus cantos en kaqchikel -su idioma materno- y español a nivel internacional. Su voz y su mensaje de amor, conciencia, respeto y defensa por la vida en todas sus formas, la han convertido en portadora de luz y esperanza para muchas mujeres y hombres.
Como cantautora, desde sus inicios en San Juan Comalapa, Sara Curruchich ha llevado su mensaje a muchos rincones de su país, presentándose en comunidades rurales, así como en teatros e importantes escenarios de Guatemala. También es gestora cultural e imparte talleres de música en distintas comunidades indígenas de Guatemala y de Latinoamérica (Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, México).
Schedule of Residency:
Monday, February 19: Class visits in Spanish, Art, Global Studies, and Music Departments. Projection of Sara Curruchich’s movie “Desde nuestro muxu´x” at Casa Bolivar
Tuesday, February 20, 2024. 1:00 to 3:00pm A Conversation with Sara Curruchich: Indigenous Arts and Activism. (Auditorium of the Harrison Institute).
Wednesday, February 21, 2024. Topics: Immigration & Indigeneity, Community gathering and dinner reception at Visible Records
Thursday, February 22, 2024. Morning: “Making Noise with Sara Curruchich” in the Music Library,
Thursday, February 22, 2024. Evening: 7 pm at Old Cabell Hall auditorium, a Free concert by Sara Curruchich