Feb 25
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Building Relationships with Galleries and Curators
Supporting Artists Through Azul Arena: Edgar Picazo
Edgar Picazo is a cultural worker from the Ciudad Juárez-El Paso border region. As an artist, writer, curator, and producer, his area of work and research is the ethical representation of border identities and issues in the arts. He has extensively collaborated with local, regional, and international artists, organizations, and institutions in a wide-range of initiatives, including exhibitions, publications, and multi-disciplinary projects. In 2018, he founded the non-profit arts organization Azul Arena dedicated to promoting the artistic and cultural production of the border region, for which he is currently director. Since 2023, the organization has been operating from a brick-and-mortar art center in Ciudad Juárez, for which Picazo serves as creative director.
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feb 27
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Building Relationships with Galleries and Curators
Collaborating Locally: La nice clika
is a transdisciplinary collective that fosters artistic creation and dissemination through vulnerability, self-management, and horizontal networks among artists and non-artists. For the collective, it is essential to recognize everyday life as the raw material of art; neither art nor knowledge is exclusive to academia, galleries, or centers of power. For us, creation crosses all kinds of borders (not just geographical), and it is not limited to the intellectual validation of any elite; on the contrary, it is built from community, experimentation, and vulnerability to generate new subjectivities that serve as resistance.
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April 22
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Telling Your Story
Shaping Your Practice: Career Choices and Digital Tools: Andres Payan
Born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico, Andres Payan Estrada currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He graduated with an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.
Payan Estrada works in craft-based processes including clay, textiles, and collage which he uses to explore social surfaces, ephemeral exchanges, and queer experiences. His curatorial and academic practice focuses on issues revolving around contemporary craft with special interests in ceramics, material politics, and queer artistic practices.
He is currently the director of public engagement at Craft Contemporary and has served as visiting art faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, and mentor in the Warren Wilson College Master of Arts in Critical Craft Studies and A+B Projects Ceramics Certificate. Payan Estrada is also the co-curator and co-founder of Craft Contemporary’s Clay Biennial and has curated and juried numerous exhibitions including Total Collapse, Clay in the Contemporary Past at the Arizona State University Museum and the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center in El Paso, Texas.
Payan Estrada has shown in numerous exhibitions including the Los Angeles Sur Biennial, Queer Threads at The San Jose Museum of Textiles and Quilts, Queer Sublime at the Visual Arts Center in Austin, Texas, and is currently part of the 2023 Border Biennale at the El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, TX and The Ciudad Juarez Museum of Art in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico.
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