Tea Roots' forthcoming exhibition, "EvE" is exhibiting at
Warehouse 416 Gallery in Oakland, CA
on March 1-March 16th, 2019.
Deadline for submissions has passed and we will announce a list of contributing artists shortly.
Names of artists selected from our juried call:
Anda Lina Saylor
Cat Sommer
Chris Marin
Christina Hsu
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Crystal Azul
Ghislaine Fremaut
Helena Busansky
Henriette Kirsch
Isobel O'Hare
Jade Aldridge
Janet Braun-Reinitz
Jenny E. Balisle
Julia Espero
Julie Thi Underhill
Katherin Hervey
Kiley Ames
Laurie Shapiro
Manya Naranzogt
Marisa Bazán
Mary Behm-Steinberg
Mateo Carrero
Maya Chan
Melanie Lombard
Mojgan Saberi
Nicole Shaffer
Odessa Newman
Peter Doolin
Randy Babb
Reyes Segura
Tori Main
Zoe Reidy
Zoe Olivia Young
Anda Lina Saylor
Cat Sommer
Chris Marin
Christina Hsu
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Crystal Azul
Ghislaine Fremaut
Helena Busansky
Henriette Kirsch
Isobel O'Hare
Jade Aldridge
Janet Braun-Reinitz
Jenny E. Balisle
Julia Espero
Julie Thi Underhill
Katherin Hervey
Kiley Ames
Laurie Shapiro
Manya Naranzogt
Marisa Bazán
Mary Behm-Steinberg
Mateo Carrero
Maya Chan
Melanie Lombard
Mojgan Saberi
Nicole Shaffer
Odessa Newman
Peter Doolin
Randy Babb
Reyes Segura
Tori Main
Zoe Reidy
Zoe Olivia Young
IMPORTANT DATES:
1. Exhibition of Finalists: Friday, March 1-March 16th, 2019
2. Reception for Finalists: Friday, March 1, 2019, 6 -10pm, with performances by youth dance choreographer, Amalya Allen (w/Mini Mix’d) and aerial storyteller, Gina Goldblatt.
3. Artist Vending Day: Saturday, March 2, 2019, 1-5pm
4. Artist Panel Talk: Saturday, March 9th, 2019 1-5pm
5. Poetry & Spoken Word: Saturday, March 16th, 2019 1-5pm
Tea Roots has invited visual artists to submit work that explores new ways of communicating about empowerment and exploitation. The 2019 exhibit, “EvE,” will be on March 1st-16th at Warehouse 416 Art Gallery on the Art Murmur circuit in Oakland, CA. Aishwarya Vardhana is our featured artist, she has a dynamic multidisciplinary practice that involves digital art, drawing, sculpture, installation, and photography. Alexandra Mushinski is our emerging artist, her art focuses on community healing through tapestry.
Our goal is to facilitate creative communication about perspectives around gender-based issues like discrimination, media objectification, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, and perspectives as seen similarly addressed in recent social media waves. As we take precarious new steps in the direction of healing these long-standing dilemmas we ask, How do we move away from exploitation and empower ourselves and others?
Let’s challenge societal views on what it means to be given (or not given) agency. If we are to look towards the eve of a more just and equitable society, we must look closely at the practical difficulties of communicating from traditionally more oppressed “voiceless” positions in our communities. What some consider empowerment, others might feel to be exploitative, and the opposite is also true.
In addition, poets and spoken word artists have been selected by poetry curator MK Chavez, author of Mothermorphosis (Nomadic Press, 2016) and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2017), and recipient of the 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award. The writers will present their work, in correlation with the theme of the exhibit, at a reading led by “She Who Has No Master(s),” a collective of women and non-binary writers affiliated with the Vietnamese Diasporic Network.
For questions regarding the exhibition contact cassandra@tearoots.org or call Tea Roots at 415.863.9603 for more information.
About the Curators and Jurors:
Cassandra Rockwood-Rice self-publishes an art and literary zine called Rag which can be found at City Lights Booksellers and Pegasus. She is an award-winning poet and visual artist. Her chapbook, The Felled, is forthcoming from Corrupt Press, 2018, and her visual art has been exhibited in galleries across the United States. Before joining Tea Roots, Cassandra curated art exhibitions in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Vancouver. She has participated in or led several arts for social justice outreach projects including the One Billion Rising campaign led by Eve Ensler. She recently obtained an MFA from California College of the Arts and is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length collection.
MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis (Nomadic Press, 2016) and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2017). She is a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and her poem "The New Whitehouse, Finding Myself Among the Ruins" was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. She is a co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, a fellow with CantoMundo, and guest curator of the reading series at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the Fall of 2018.
Rosa De Anda has dedicated her life to the arts as a painter, sculptor, and now to writing. She believes art crosses all boundaries and is the most important documentation of our human experience. She considers the words tolerance, the other, minority, and people of color inappropriate and substandard in describing the world’s population with proven talent, intellectual brilliance, theological dominance, and creative inventiveness in the arts, sciences, and athletic prowess. As linguistic architects, she believes we can change our language to foster sustainable human and environmental relationships.
Aishwarya Vardhana, a recent graduate of Stanford University, is a Bay Area based conceptual artist and poet. Her multidisciplinary practice involves digital art, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. Aishwarya works in the intersection of technology and art, using this zone of creation to destabilize and reveal the nature of capitalism and colonialism. Her practice connects the south asian anti-colonial struggle with new wave American resistance and explores the concepts of de-territoriality, materialism, power, femininity, and language.
Our goal is to facilitate creative communication about perspectives around gender-based issues like discrimination, media objectification, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, and perspectives as seen similarly addressed in recent social media waves. As we take precarious new steps in the direction of healing these long-standing dilemmas we ask, How do we move away from exploitation and empower ourselves and others?
Let’s challenge societal views on what it means to be given (or not given) agency. If we are to look towards the eve of a more just and equitable society, we must look closely at the practical difficulties of communicating from traditionally more oppressed “voiceless” positions in our communities. What some consider empowerment, others might feel to be exploitative, and the opposite is also true.
In addition, poets and spoken word artists have been selected by poetry curator MK Chavez, author of Mothermorphosis (Nomadic Press, 2016) and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2017), and recipient of the 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award. The writers will present their work, in correlation with the theme of the exhibit, at a reading led by “She Who Has No Master(s),” a collective of women and non-binary writers affiliated with the Vietnamese Diasporic Network.
For questions regarding the exhibition contact cassandra@tearoots.org or call Tea Roots at 415.863.9603 for more information.
About the Curators and Jurors:
Cassandra Rockwood-Rice self-publishes an art and literary zine called Rag which can be found at City Lights Booksellers and Pegasus. She is an award-winning poet and visual artist. Her chapbook, The Felled, is forthcoming from Corrupt Press, 2018, and her visual art has been exhibited in galleries across the United States. Before joining Tea Roots, Cassandra curated art exhibitions in Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Vancouver. She has participated in or led several arts for social justice outreach projects including the One Billion Rising campaign led by Eve Ensler. She recently obtained an MFA from California College of the Arts and is currently seeking a publisher for her full-length collection.
MK Chavez is the author of Mothermorphosis (Nomadic Press, 2016) and Dear Animal, (Nomadic Press, 2017). She is a recipient of a 2017 Pen Oakland Josephine Miles Award and her poem "The New Whitehouse, Finding Myself Among the Ruins" was selected by Eileen Myles for the Cosmonauts Avenue 2017 Poetry Award. She is a co-founder/curator of the reading series Lyrics & Dirges and co-director of the Berkeley Poetry Festival, a fellow with CantoMundo, and guest curator of the reading series at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the Fall of 2018.
Rosa De Anda has dedicated her life to the arts as a painter, sculptor, and now to writing. She believes art crosses all boundaries and is the most important documentation of our human experience. She considers the words tolerance, the other, minority, and people of color inappropriate and substandard in describing the world’s population with proven talent, intellectual brilliance, theological dominance, and creative inventiveness in the arts, sciences, and athletic prowess. As linguistic architects, she believes we can change our language to foster sustainable human and environmental relationships.
Aishwarya Vardhana, a recent graduate of Stanford University, is a Bay Area based conceptual artist and poet. Her multidisciplinary practice involves digital art, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography. Aishwarya works in the intersection of technology and art, using this zone of creation to destabilize and reveal the nature of capitalism and colonialism. Her practice connects the south asian anti-colonial struggle with new wave American resistance and explores the concepts of de-territoriality, materialism, power, femininity, and language.