Evelyn Serrano
eserrano@calarts.edu
661.755.6974
Available for meetings on Wednesdays from 12:40 to 3pm.
Evelyn Serrano is a Cuban interdisciplinary artist, educator, independent curator, community organizer, and mother currently living in Los Angeles County, California. Serrano obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in Baltimore and a Master of Fine Arts degree from the California Institute of the Arts, School of Art, in Valencia, California. Prior to that, she studied visual arts, design, art theory, epistemology, and literature in Havana, Montevideo and Miami. She has exhibited her work in many solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. In addition, she is honored to have worked with talented artists, choreographers, writers and performers in many exhibitions, projects and art events she has organized and curated throughout the United States as well as in Montevideo, Tel Aviv, Tijuana, and La Habana. Serrano currently teaches at the CalArts School of Theater, Antioch University, and has lectured and led workshops at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, the CEART in Mexicali, the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock, the University of Texas in Dallas, and the Instituto Superior de Diseño Industrial in La Habana. She is the founder and lead coordinator of NOMAD LAB, a community-based program in Valle del Oro, Newhall, addressing the rise of criminal activity and racial intolerance through arts, leadership training and community engagement. Her work is focused on context-specific practices that advance the impact of the arts as a tool for social change.
www.evelynserrano.net
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Class Description
Description:
This survey course will explore the work of radical collectives, community artists, guerilla performers, and other modern and contemporary troublemakers and active agents whose artistic practices are fundamentally committed to social justice through the visual and performing arts. We will investigate theoretical and historical references as they relate to public and context-based work within and outside of institutional environments. We will explore work as it pertains to the performance arts, visual arts, writing arts, community building/organizing and other practices that eloquently question/examine the dynamics between artists and their communities.
Objectives:
-Students will acquire a contextual understanding of historical and contemporary political, social and artistic references and practices as they relate to the development of the field of arts and activism
-Students will explore and investigate social justice-focused artistic practices through research and in-class presentations
-Students will learn about and implement leadership skills, community building strategies and collective approaches
-Students will learn about and interact with a network of LA-based community arts organizations, artists, performers, activists, and intellectuals working and advancing issues of social justice through their artistic practices.
This survey course will explore the work of radical collectives, community artists, guerilla performers, and other modern and contemporary troublemakers and active agents whose artistic practices are fundamentally committed to social justice through the visual and performing arts. We will investigate theoretical and historical references as they relate to public and context-based work within and outside of institutional environments. We will explore work as it pertains to the performance arts, visual arts, writing arts, community building/organizing and other practices that eloquently question/examine the dynamics between artists and their communities.
Objectives:
-Students will acquire a contextual understanding of historical and contemporary political, social and artistic references and practices as they relate to the development of the field of arts and activism
-Students will explore and investigate social justice-focused artistic practices through research and in-class presentations
-Students will learn about and implement leadership skills, community building strategies and collective approaches
-Students will learn about and interact with a network of LA-based community arts organizations, artists, performers, activists, and intellectuals working and advancing issues of social justice through their artistic practices.
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