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Two countries, 2475 miles, 3984 kilometers, 1+ mile of rope & twine, 882 hand knots, finally completed and now on view. It is poetic that this piece inspired by disparaging racial attacks at the bottom of a golden escalator is debuting in a show coinciding with an election that may end a four-year term of presidential lunacy. We have come to witness that any one person or group could be next in line for attack. An attack on one could be an attack on you. This eventuality proved prophetic.
“We’re All Mexican”
2020
Hammock twine, henequen rope, sisal rope, cotton yarn, backstrap loom bars.
Backstrap woven and hand knotted. 7’ 6” x 7’ 6″
Virtually on view
26 SEP 2020 — 2 JAN 2021
at www.craftinamerica.org
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#art #artist #sculpture #textiles #craft #contemporaryart #fiberart #textileart #fiber
#latinxart #latinoart #latino #Mexico #Mexicano
#handweaving #handwoven #weaving #backstrap #backstrapweaving #hechodemano #handmade
#rope #knotting
#CraftInAmerica #CraftInAmericaPBS #democracy2020
#victordelarosa #vicdelarosa
(at San Francisco, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CGYDmoIBxnf/?igshid=a4r36ddr95p8
SIEMPRE CAMBIO. Always change. Change always. Change happens. Embrace the change. Support the change. Be the change.
Disfruta del Cuarto.
On June 30 2020 Mississippi changed its flag. Who’s next?
Mural: “Future Flags of America: Study for 2050 US Flag”, Vic De La Rosa, 2012.
Photo: Dan Freeman (at United States)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCO7E8MhwoH/?igshid=gpq2f4bgfptb
SIEMPRE CAMBIO. Always change. Change always. Change happens. Embrace the change. Support the change. Be the change.
Disfruta del Cuarto.
On June 30 2020 Mississippi changed its flag. Who’s next?
Mural: “Future Flags of America: Study for 2050 US Flag”, Vic De La Rosa, 2012.
Photo: Dan Freeman (at United States)
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCO64_XBaVC/?igshid=ry20n5v7fq8u
Change always. Always change. Why do some people resist the inevitable? Embrace the change. Support the change. Be the change.
Mississippi finally changed on June 30 2020. Who’s next?
Video clip from WTVA News, Saltillo, Mississippi. “Future Flags of America: Study for 2035 CA Flag” by Vic De La Rosa. 2012.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CCHcuWMhcpS/?igshid=1c6389x4a9xx6
Getting project kits ready to mail to my Weaving I students for the professor part of my work. I hope this works. 🤷🏽♂️ 🤞🏽 (at San Francisco State University)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B-LM2hHBLub/?igshid=bfz7712sqwi2
New work in progress: handwoven and knotted rope. Will first be shown at SF State Art Faculty Exhibition opening in February. Stay tuned. (at San Francisco, California)
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7ALGZeh39L/?igshid=1wqlx4wev3sma
New work in progress. Back strap woven Mexican henequen and hammock rope — hecho en Oaxaca. Then hand knotted in SF.
https://www.instagram.com/p/B7AKagzBmLz/?igshid=1er2e87e1zmtl
In good company at SFAC Passport 10th Anniversary exhibition. Passport Class of 2014.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpP4cZRlmhM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=jvksilco1t4y
BACK-TO-SCHOOL Today is first faculty meeting of new school year. The Art Professor documentary faculty meeting T-shirt project continues. There is a workplace story about this piece but I think it speaks for itself. Kids keep pushing for and asking for a faculty that represents your community and constituency in your schools. Everyone else take a look at what is happening in your schools and ask why it doesn’t represent the community it is serving. And by all means have a great school year! (at San Francisco State University)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnFEnO5lWwX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=w79ar4y4dwc4
HAPPY FLAG DAY “Study for 2050 U.S. Flag” now on view in Puebla, Mexico at Decentered Gallery through SEP 16. RE-PRESENTADO: Their Nation Is Not My Nation with Carlos Arias, Priscilla Dobler, Samar Hejazi, Caroline Ongpin, Ai Weiwei and many other terrific artists working with ideas of migration, nationality and humankind.
Siempre Cambio — Always Change
Valhalla for textile fiends. Amazing and satisfying. Two buildings full of contemporary craft, history and ideas. I’ve never seen anything like this. Check it out https://www.textiellab.nl/en/ (at TextielMuseum)
Ready for last faculty meeting of the school year.
So much to reflect on.
Get full story behind the protest T at www.vicdelarosa.com
TO-DO LIST: DECOLONIZE ART
It is the month of May and college students are graduating across the U.S. It has me thinking of the completion of my graduate studies and my goals at the time: get a full-time tenure-track teaching position, continue creative activity and seek change in the diversity of the professorate in studio art. Some I have accomplished – I reached the top level of the teaching field, I am finishing my first academic year as a Full Professor and although I would like more access to jacquard weaving equipment my creative career continues to be engaging – but the last goal still seems far out of reach.
The arts, usually at the lead in terms of cultural change, is lagging in the area of diversity in many categories across the spectrum of art production, education, and curation. Representation is a conversation taking place everywhere now, it is heavy in the air, but the arts are behind and seemingly stuck.
My teaching institution, San Francisco State University, is straggling and losing ground: when I started there were five faculty of color across disciplines now we are three. Art history curriculum has never included courses in Mexican or Chicano art to anyones memory, and the closest to African art, Cuba, has not been taught since 2009. The SF State Art department simply has not and does not mirror the student population we serve.
My idea of diversity is not one of quotas but simply that any institution reflect the community it serves, in all the variety and differences in the community population itself. Given distributions of U.S. populations, this may be a different experience in Utah than it might be in Florida.
In California, the SF State student demographic mirrors the state demographics for this age group. The breakdown on our own university website cites 37% Latino/Chicano/Mexican-American, 30.9% Asian/Pacific Islander, 5.9% African American, 19.4% White Non-Latino. In terms of campus faculty diversity, the percentages cited are 7% Latino/Chicano/Mexican-American, 24% Asian/Pacific Islander, 4% African American, 56% White Non-Latino. The university has much more work to do in reflecting the community it serves and the SF State Art department lags behind further still.
One goal for institutions of higher learning is to educate and engage its populace in endeavors such as college teaching itself. Role modeling has proven to be a major factor in student graduation rate. There are many ways to successfully role model but at my institution faculty diversity is a major gap.
I have tried working within the system, made suggestions in faculty meetings, asked questions of the Dean in all-college meetings but my graduate school goals are further out of reach that I imagined. I need to turn up the volume and expand the discussion. My institution has much work to do in terms of diversity and reflecting the community it serves…. how is yours doing?
#sfstateartdeptsowhite
#decolonizeart
