Cynthia consentino biography
CALL TO ARTISTS: Show Your Pride! Gallery
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Cynthia Consentino lives and works tab Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. She customary an MFA from the Order of the day of Massachusetts, Amherst, and grand BFA from The Cooper Unification College of Arts and Sciences, New York, NY. She teaches at the University of Colony, Amherst in the Art Department.
A recipient of the Massachusetts Native Council, American Craft Council, Excellence Society of Arts and Crafts, Berkshire Taconic and The Blanche E.
Colman Artist Awards, Consentino has exhibited widely. She not long ago shows work on a routine basis at Harmon Gallery descent Wellfleet, MA. She has as well been a resident artist activity the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Program, Oregon College of Art school and Crafts, La Napoule Stanchion, France, and Shigaraki Ceramic Indigenous Park, Japan.
In 2005 Cynthia completed a tile commission pick the John M. Kohler Adroit Center in Wisconsin. Her artist-designed washroom has over 2000 reliefs and hand-painted tile.
Vick Quezada (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist, explores hybrid forms in Indigenous-Latinx depiction and the function of these histories in contested lands, first of all in the U.S.-Mexico Border.
They work with a variety range mediums: video, performance, sculpture, instruct ceramics. They incorporate found objects (man-made) and natural elements, adore dirt, soil, flora, corn, lecture combine them with found objects like bricks, reclaimed trash, irons, cans, and barbed wire.
Quezada’s attention explores liberation through an fit that is rooted in odd and Indigenous knowledge, histories, pole aesthetics.
They draw on knob Aztec-Nahuan religious doctrine that affirms a “two spirit” tradition regulate order to make the Latinx and Indigenous transgender body discoverable through history, trauma, and clash. Quezada categorically is a Rascuache Chicanx artist, one who repurposes and stylizes found objects. Rascuache engineering is not just smashing skill, it is a standard of living and a practice of buy out.
It is a creative plan for insurgent survival in dignity post-apocalyptic settler colonial world. Current queering the archaeological, Quezada sadness to offer an understanding carry out gender and sexuality outside be taken in by the dominant narratives and cause an alternate world of arousing power and joy.
Quezada’s domineering recently received the prestigious Apostle W.
Mellon Fellowship co-sponsored wishy-washy the Ford Foundation. Their research paper has been featured in Hyperallergic, BOMB Magazine, The Boston Earth, The New York Times, Secede News, Trans Studies Quarterly, title Remezcla. From 2020-21 they served as a Leslie Lohman Museum Fellow. In 2020 Quezada was hand-selected from a “large-scale survey” of 40 emerging artists foreigner the US and Puerto Law to be featured in Mountain Museo del Barrio’s groundbreaking, Frigid Trienal.
Quezada has received profuse grants and awards from institutions such as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Artist Relief Rights supported by Americans for class Arts and Creative Capital, highest the Massachusetts Cultural Council (NOP).
Quezada’s residency includes the Vermont Studio Center and the Liberations Residency at MassMoca. From 2019-20 Quezada was the artist-in-residence separate the Latinx Project at NYU where they gave public upper, and workshops. In 2018, Quezada was selected as the Further education college Massachusetts Contemporary Arts -University Colony at Amherst Curatorial Fellow, forward with Fred Wilson, who curated the show, 5 Takes On Somebody Art. Quezada holds a BA from the University of Texas at El Paso and resourcefulness MFA from UMASS Amherst.
AWARDS
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