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《La inspiración como norte no-geográfico》
Proyecto de arte e investigación que "teje" agentes culturales. 🌎❤️💜 Senior Curator @craftcontemporary

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I’m grateful to share a glimpse into my work in “tierra,” at Craft Contemporary, where land, ancestral memory, ritual, and the body come into conversation.

On view in Los Angeles through October 25, 2026. Come experience it yourself if you are in LA. 🌱

Works featured:

1. Earth Medicine, 2014
2. New Air, 2021
3. Zone of Transformation, 2026
4. To be embodied is to be the altar, the flash, and the knife, 2026

Movement Artist: Anicka Austin

#CraftContemporary #AncestralMemory #LandAsArchive #CeramicArt #clay

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tierra is the fourth iteration of the Clay Biennial at Craft Contemporary @craftcontemporary in Los Angeles
May 31, 2026 — October 25, 2026

tierra is organized by lead curator Andres Payan Estrada @andres_payan , with a curatorial committee formed by Frida Cano @arttextum , Joel Garcia @rageone , Mercedes Dorame @mercedes.dorame and Cannupa Hanska Luger @cannupahanska
tierra is created in collaboration with the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. @el.rubincenter

Part of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial series, tierra marks a reconsideration of the biennial’s conceptual and material parameters. This iteration expands its focus beyond ceramic and clay as a singular medium to encompass broader practices grounded in land and earth. Across the practices presented, earth-based materials appear not only as matter but as carriers of relation that are marked by touch, shaped by labor, and mended through care. These materials are approached as holders of cultural memory and as sites where knowledge is formed through making, tending, and embodied practice. Rather than centering medium alone, the exhibition attends to the ways artists work with and through earth, not only as a material, but as a relation.

tierra foregrounds the work of Latinx, Indigenous, and Black artists whose practices reflect emotional, familial, and cultural connections to land. Within these works, earth often appears as ancestor, relative, or teacher; a deep-time relationship shaped through kinship rather than ownership. Lineages emerge through matriarchal and ancestral histories, where making stewards knowledge across generations and geographies.

Exhibition artists include Jackie Amézquita, Natalia Arbelaez, Syd Carpenter, Teresa Castro, Armando Guadalupe Cortés, rafa esparza, Miguel Fernández de Castro, Adebunmi Gbadebo, Karla García, Christine Howard Sandoval, Joanna Keane Lopez, Ruben Olguin, Iman Person, Jeri Redcorn

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Across the street from LACMA is another excellent museum - the Craft Contemporary @craftcontemporary . Senior Curator Frida Cano @arttextum discusses their current exhibition Material Curiosity by Design. Spanning across all three floors, the show highlights the prolific careers of midcentury designers Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman in dialogue with select works by three contemporary artists. Celebrated for their vibrant contributions to California modernism, the Ackermans partnered for decades on bold designs that brought warmth to midcentury interiors. Showcasing their ceramic, textile, mosaic, wood, and metal creations alongside new works by Porfirio Gutiérrez, Jolie Ngo, and Vince Skelly, this exhibition sparks a dynamic conversation about materials, innovation, and craft.

The second floor features works by Vince Skelly, who transforms the gallery space into a recreation of his studio where wood-working tools, sketches, and wood works are on display. Vince Skelly – Source Material is an experimental approach to the artist’s creative process in which visitors will gain insights into how he explores the intersection of form, function, and collective memory through his sculptural practice. Through the power of craft, the Maker-in-Residence program is designed to invite the public to engage directly with the process of making, offering a rare opportunity to witness and participate in contemporary craft in action.
On view through May
#craftcontemporary #makerinresidence #craftart #woodworking #laartdocuments

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Grateful to be in constellation with an amazing roster of artists for this year’s clay biennial at Craft Contemporary. clay and earth continues to teach me how to remember and how to be in relation to this moment, my body and where healing and tending the earth and self are not separate, but part of the same lineage of care.

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We’re excited to share the artists participating in tierra, the fourth iteration of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial, opening May 30 and on view May 31 through October 25, 2027.

Bringing together 20 practitioners, tierra expands beyond clay as a singular medium to encompass broader approaches grounded in land and earth. Across the work presented, earth-based materials appear not only as matter, but as carriers of relation, marked by touch, shaped by labor, and mended through care.

The exhibition includes 14 participating artists whose work engages material as a holder of cultural memory and as a site where knowledge takes shape through making, tending, and embodied practice. It also includes six contributing artists whose text-based works are interwoven throughout the exhibition, expanding how knowledge is held and carried across forms.

The exhibition is organized by a curatorial committee led by Andres Payan Estrada @andres_payan, and includes Frida Cano @arttextum, Joel Garcia @rageone, Mercedes Dorame @mercedes.dorame, and Cannupa Hanska Luger @cannupahanska. The invited artists emerged through ongoing dialogue with the committee, forming a constellation of work that positions material as a holder of cultural memory, and as a site where knowledge is shaped through making, tending, and care.

tierra is co-organized in collaboration with the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts.

🏺 Participating artists include:
@adebooms, @jackieamezquita, @natalia_arbelaez_, @sydcrpntr, Teresa Castro, @armandogcortes, elrafaesparza, @miguelfernandezdecastro, @karlagarciaart, @chsandoval44, @jokeanelopez, @rubenolguinarts, @imanperson_studio, @jeredcorn

✍️ With contributions by:
Andrea Everett, @liebeliebe, @skyhopinka, @tcandiani, @tksmith106, @meganmichelledorame

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We’re excited to share the artists participating in tierra, the fourth iteration of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial, opening May 30 and on view May 31 through October 25, 2027.

Bringing together 20 practitioners, tierra expands beyond clay as a singular medium to encompass broader approaches grounded in land and earth. Across the work presented, earth-based materials appear not only as matter, but as carriers of relation, marked by touch, shaped by labor, and mended through care.

The exhibition includes 14 participating artists whose work engages material as a holder of cultural memory and as a site where knowledge takes shape through making, tending, and embodied practice. It also includes six contributing artists whose text-based works are interwoven throughout the exhibition, expanding how knowledge is held and carried across forms.

The exhibition is organized by a curatorial committee led by Andres Payan Estrada @andres_payan ,and includes Frida Cano @arttextum , Joel Garcia @rageone , Mercedes Dorame @mercedes.dorame ,and Cannupa Hanska Luger @cannupahanska. The invited artists emerged through ongoing dialogue with the committee, forming a constellation of work that positions material as a holder of cultural memory, and as a site where knowledge is shaped through making, tending, and care.

tierra is co-organized in collaboration with the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts.

🏺 Participating artists include:
@adebooms, @jackieamezquita, @natalia_arbelaez_, @sydcrpntr, Teresa Castro, @armandogcortes, @elrafaesparza, @miguelfernandezdecastro, @karlagarciaart, @chsandoval44, @jokeanelopez, @rubenolguinarts, @imanperson_studio, @jeredcorn

✍️ With contributions by:
Andrea Everett, @liebeliebe, @skyhopinka, @tcandiani, @tksmith106, @meganmichelledorame

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2026 CLAY BIENNIAL CURATORIAL COMMITTEE

We are pleased to announce the curatorial committee for the 2026 Clay Biennial, tierra. Part of Craft Contemporary’s ongoing Clay Biennial series, this iteration unfolds through layered understandings of the word tierra.

tierra as ground beneath the body, as homeland carried across distance, and as a living archive shaped by labor, violence, and care. Expanding beyond clay toward practices grounded in land and earth, the exhibition approaches earth-based materials as carriers of relation: touched, altered, remembered, and tended. tierra foregrounds Latinx, Indigenous, and Black artists whose practices reflect emotional, familial, and cultural connections to land.

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Andres Payan Estrada (@andres_payan ) — tierra Lead Curator; artist and curator whose practice moves across craft, material politics, and queer experience; Senior Curator at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts

Frida Cano (@arttextum ) — Artist and curator whose research-based practice maps cultural ecologies and systems of knowledge; Senior Curator at Craft Contemporary

Mercedes Dorame (@mercedes.dorame ) — Tongva artist whose practice engages land, sky, and ancestral knowledge, weaving material inquiry with questions of visibility, memory, and Indigenous continuity

Joel Garcia (@rageone ) — Huichol artist, educator, and cultural organizer centering Indigenous land, healing, and collective care; Director of Meztli Projects

Cannupa Hanska Luger (@cannupahanska )— Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara, Lakota artist and cultural innovator whose work activates Indigenous worldviews, ecological repair, and collective futures across material and social practice

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tierra is created in collaboration with the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts. @el.rubincenter

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🎉A huge thank you to everyone who attended Homecoming, Blue Roof’s first group show featuring alumni artists from our programs. We are extremely proud of—and deeply grateful to—the curator of this exhibition, Frida Cano.

We are thankful for the immense support, conversations, and engagement that this exhibition has sparked, and we look forward to continuing these dialogues.

To schedule a viewing of Homecoming, visit the link in our bio or email info@blueroof.art. Lastly, to arrange studio visits with artists currently in our programs, please dm us to make an appointment.

Homecoming will be on view from November 20 - December 22, 2025.

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Homecoming at Blue Roof Studios

This fundraiser brought together an incredible group of residency alumni, including Daisy Velasco, Margaret Griffith and Devi Vallabhaneni. Blue Roof also released a beautiful Nancy Baker Cahill print along with a new tote bag by Devi to support the studio and its residency programs.

So much fun spending time with curator and Blue Roof board member Frida Cano, Chief Curator of the Craft Contemporary, who curated and designed the Homecoming show. I am very flattered she picked my image for the show card. I am so proud of my CSUF artists Catherine Montoya and Mia Aghili who made the drive to see the exhibition, meet the artists, and connect with the curator.

The Firefly Residency for fire impacted artists has been one of the most generous and meaningful supports in my recovery from losing my show at Alto Beta during the Eaton fire. The work for my upcoming solo show at Charlie James Gallery evolved during my time at Blue Roof and was shaped by the clarity and focus I found there. My residency helped me refine my ideas and hear my voice again in the peaceful environment that Galia Linn has created. I am grateful to the artists and to Briana Rivera, Senior Program and Social Media Manager at Blue Roof, for the care and community they build. @arttextum @galialinn @blueroof.art @margaretrossgriffith @nancybakercahill @alto_beta @charliejamesgallery @craftcontemporary @csufvisualarts @justarts @gl0win9

#BlueRoofStudios #HomecomingShow #CraftContemporary #FridaCano #CSUFArtists #ArtistCommunity #ArtResidency #FireflyResidency #NancyBakerCahill #DeviVallabhaneni #DaisyVelasco #MargaretGriffiths #LosAngelesArt #ArtistRecovery #ArtInLA #GaliaLinn #SupportTheArts #CharlieJamesGallery #SoloExhibition. @blueroof.art

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Mark your calendars for a spectacular homecoming! 🥳

We are absolutely thrilled to welcome back our extraordinary alumni for the opening of HOMECOMING, a must-see exhibition curated by the exceptional Frida Cano! This show is a vibrant reunion, spotlighting powerful works from: Brenda Gonzalez, Carole Kim, Chen Cohen, Clarisse Abelarde, Daisy Velasco, Devi Vallabhaneni, Diane Briones Williams, Dominique Moody, Jacqueline Valenzuela, and Mary Anna Pomonis.

Join us for an evening of warmth, celebration, and artistic brilliance as we honor these incredible talents.

Opening Reception Details:
🗓️ Saturday, November 22 🕔 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM

Come celebrate with the artists—it’s going to be a night to remember

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Artwork by Mary Anna Pomonis

Her Heart Burst Open after Sabina Ott, 2019
Acrylic airbrush on canvas over panel
30 x 30 inches

#alumnishow #blueroof #losangelesart #womenresidency

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🎨✨ CALL FOR CURATORS: Art Iran 2 Curatorial Competition & Exhibition

Farhang Foundation, in partnership with Craft Contemporary, invites curators and arts professionals to submit proposals for Art Iran 2, opening May 21 – Nov 14, 2027 in Los Angeles. The selected curator will receive a US $55,000 budget to develop and realize the exhibition.

Art Iran 2 explores Iranian culture and heritage through contemporary art—spotlighting identity, memory, craft, and innovation.

📝 Round One Submissions
Deadline: Nov 17, 2025
Email PDF to ArtIran@farhang.org including:
• CV / resumé
• 1-page proposal in English with:
– Exhibition concept
– Preliminary list of artists and media (painting, ceramics, design, drawing, textiles, assemblage, printmaking, sculpture — no photography or video art)
– Ideas for public programming

✅ Selection Criteria: relevance to Iranian culture and heritage, curatorial vision, conceptual clarity, feasibility, inclusion of emerging and diverse artists, and balanced genre representation.

🔍 Theme: Craft Contemporary’s curatorial focus frames craft within the story of humanity. For Art Iran 2, the elemental theme is “air” — breath, breeze, song, story — and curators are encouraged to interpret it through Iranian heritage and artistic expression.

🗺️ This is more than an exhibition — it’s an invitation to shape dialogue, amplify voices, and connect cultures through contemporary art rooted in Iranian heritage.

🎨 Esteemed Jury: Ladan Akbarnia, Naz Cuguoğlu, Fereshteh Daftari, Frida Cano, Shulamit Nazarian, Shirin Neshat, Ed Schad.

👉 Apply & learn more: Farhang.org/ArtIran (Link in bio) 💫

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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who joined us for our Summer Soiree! ☀️ It was a wonderful evening of cocktails and conversation, and we are so proud to see how much our organization has grown—from one residency to three!

A special thank you to our long-time supporters, Dan Ricketts and Steve Frankel, for graciously hosting us.

If you’d like to support our mission, please visit the link in our bio to donate. We couldn’t do this without you! ✨

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I had an incredibly unique and moving experience, guided by the director of The Museum Craft Contemporary, @rodyn.lopez. A late-night tour, with the exhibition opened just for me… what an honor!!! . All my senses were awakened by one of the most touching exhibitions I’ve encountered in LA in a long time.

congrats to curator @saskiacwb and curator Frida Cano @arttextum
Ether: Aromatic Mythologies will be Craft Contemporary’s first scent-based art exhibition that presents a selection of olfactory-centric installations. Curated by Saskia Wilson-Brown, the exhibition explores mythologies from various parts of the world in a narrative tapestry that transcends time and place.

“The artists in this exhibition all share an interest in how scent can convey personal, and cultural histories”, says curator Saskia Wilson-Brown. “The result is a rich tapestry of meaning, in part expressed in the most embodied way of all: smell.”

Participating artists include Alisa Banks (USA), Andrés Cortes (USA), Cristian Marianciuc (Romania), Sarana Mehra (UK/USA), Maki Ueda (Japan), Joe Merrell (USA), Peter de Cupere (Belgium), Se Young Au (Korea/ USA), M Dougherty (USA), Regina Mamou (USA), Sean Raspet (USA), Karola Braga (Brazil), and Russell Harris (USA).

This exhibition is generously supported, in part, by The Julius Bernard Kester Trust, The Japan Foundation in Los Angeles, the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, National Museum of Women in the Arts, The Consulate General of Belgium in Los Angeles, and The Institute for Art and Olfaction.

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