A Conversation with Alex "Otiswoods" Gonzalez

Alex "Otiswoods" Gonzalez and Fabian Cereijido PhD held a talk in conjunction with the closing of Debajo, Lo Mas Bajo.

Date: Thursday, June 27th 2019

Craftivism with Sarah Corbett

Award-winning speaker, professional activist, author and artist, Sarah Corbett lead a talk about Craftivism.
​Corbett is the founder of Craftivist Collective, a social enterprise which uses the technique of Craftivism - combining craft and activism - to engage people in social justice issues "in a quiet, non-confrontational manner involving pretty, handcrafted gestures of defiance". 
Corbett is the author of A Little Book of Craftivism and How To Be A Craftivist

Date: Wednesday, June 23rd 2019

Mending As Metaphor with Ruth K. Souza

Ruth Katzenstein Souza is the founder of Mending As Metaphor, a mending group where people gather to share stories, mend and alter their textiles and explorerestoration on many levels. There is a growing movement toward repair and remaking of clothing to combat the waste and mindless consumption that is so toxic to our world.
Souza presented a lecture on the 19th of June at the Art Division Library as part of our summer Lecture Series.

Date: Wednesday, June 19th 2019

Ken Fields: Poetry And Memory

 A reading with commentary from Fields’s latest poems, Blue Plateau.

“I am interested in several kinds of memory: autobiographical memory, what Proust calls involuntary memory, and poetic memory, memory of poets in my life, lately the ancient Chinese poet Hanshan, who wrote Cold Mountain.  Blue Plateau begins with memories of Cold Mountain and improvises back and forth from him.” - Ken Fields

Date: April 12th 2019

Phranc Talk: The All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger and the Art of the Cardboard Cobbler

Join us for a 70 minute multi-media presentation that includes stories, songs, images and live musical performance that celebrates the intersection of DIY punk rock, personal and political history, feminist art, cardboard sculpture with proud butch lesbian swagger.

Date: Saturday, March 23rd 2019

The Shadow Sense

Sound is invisible yet impacts us so deeply.
Please join us for an evening that will shift how you hear the world. 
dublab founder Mark “Frosty” McNeill opens our ears to the powerful mysteries of sound. 
We will explore the innovative ways in which artists have sought to visualize music and how by pivoting our auditory perspectives we can discover to new sensations.

Date: Saturday, February 23rd 2019

SIGHTLESS & SOUNDLESS:
HOW BLIND AND DEAF ARTISTS CREATE
A TALK BY KATHERINE SHERWOOD

Katherine Sherwood will explore the work of several Blind and Deaf contemporary artists including Christine Sun Kim, Joseph Grigely, Pedro Hidalgo and John Dugdale. Sherwood is a Professor Emerita at UC Berkeley who taught a class entitled Art, Medicine and Disability. She exhibits with Walter Maciel Gallery in Los Angeles where she had a show entitled The Interior of the Yelling Clinic last spring. Katherine Sherwood is also an artist with a disability.​

Date: Sunday, October 28th, 2018

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CHANCE AND SILENCE: THE WORK OF MERCE CUNNINGHAM AND JOHN CAGE

Fabián Cereijido and Jack Taylor lead a discussion on the artistic impact of Merce Cunningham and John Cage, the legendary avant-garde couple whose work in dance and music still reverberates today. In conjunction with the talk, there will be dance performance to music by Cunningham and several Cage pieces will be  performed by Taylor and Parches, an artist who works in different media (from painting to music to poetry to social relations to virtual reality)​.

Date:Wednesday, September 5th, 2018

John Cage and Merce Cunningham talk

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2018
Meet The Artist - Narsiso Martinez  
Meet The Artist - John Nava 
Meet The Artist - Bo Daraphant 

2017
Art & Brain - Lectures by Katherine Sherwood, Larry Swanson, Leo Christov-Moore
Jean McLaughlin from Penland School of Crafts 

2016
Meet the Artist - Roberto Gil De Montes 
Meet The Artist - Dario Canul, Cosijoesa Cernas, Itandehui Franco 
John Humble, Dan McCleary, AD Print Collective at Craig Krull Gallery 
Meet the Artist - Peter Zokosky​
Ayotzinapa: Citizen Responses to Unanswered Questions - Lecture by Roman Lujan
Meet the Artist - Ruth Weisberg
Meet the Artist - Pierre Picot

2015
Meet the Artist - Filmmaker, Rodrigo Garcia