Janna Añonuevo Langholz
Janna Añonuevo Langholz
Zoom Call With Ancestors 2021
Video 17 seconds (loop)
Janna Añonuevo Langholz is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans photography, installation, performance, publications, and social engagement. She was born at the site of the 1904 World’s Fair and lives and works at the former site of the Philippine Village. Her site-specific work and research primarily investigates the period of US colonization of the Philippines between 1898-1946 and how it has shaped the histories and geographies of the US Midwest and South. She is also the caretaker of the Philippine Village Historical Site.
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@jannanonymous on Instagram
Of interest: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/smithsonian-brains-collection-racial-history-repatriation/
Arleene Correa Valencia
Arleene Correa Valencia
Pāpalōtl: Soñadores en Búsqueda de Amor / Pāpalōtl: Dreamers in Search of Love
2023
Repurposed textiles on pink canvas
Arleene Correa Valencia (b. 1993, Michoacán, Mexico; lives in Napa, California) is an inaugural recipient of the Bay Area Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts and received a regional Emmy award for her feature REPRESENT: Portraits of Napa Workers: Arleene Correa Valencia by KQED Arts. In 2023, Correa Valencia was also named a Eureka Fellow by the Fleishhacker Foundation. Her work is currently featured in the triennial Bay Area Now 9 (BAN9) at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Correa Valencia received her BFA and MFA from California College of the Arts. The Correa Valencia family fled to the United States in 1997 and found home in California’s Napa Valley. Correa Valencia has been represented by Catharine Clark Gallery since 2022.
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[gallery page-Catharine Clark]
@arleenecorreavalencia on Instagram
Mee Jey
Mee Jey
Untitled
2023
wood, paint and yarn
72 ✕ 9 ✕ 1.5 in.
A monitor will play a larger-than-life looping video of the artist activating these little travelers in the vicinity of the sculpture. Mee Jey is an Indian multi-disciplinary artist who received her MFA degree in visual arts from Washington University in St. Louis, USA. With solo shows and performances at Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Bruno David Gallery (St. Louis), Middlesex University ( London, UK), India Habitat Center (New Delhi), her works have been shown in group shows in Athens (Greece), New York, London (UK), Michigan, Miami, St. Louis, Alton (IL), New Delhi (India). She was Artist-in-Residence at the Laumeier Sculpture Park (MO, 2022), Procreate Project (London, 2023), Craft Alliance (2022-23) and Resident-Teaching Artist at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis (2022-23). Currently Mee is Creative Lab Fellow at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (2023). She was recently awarded the St. Louis Visionary Emerging Artist Award (2022) and Mother Art Prize in London (UK, 2023).
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@mee_jey on Instagram
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya
Of Soil and Sky
2024
Tapestry, borrowed vessels, poem
Amanda is developing a new work that will involve community objects and a handmade textile she will install during her time in residence with The Luminary St. Louis in late Jan./early Feb. 2024. She will deliver a Sam Fox Public Lecture at WashU on Feb. 2, 2024, and will activate her installation by facilitating a ritual at the public opening event on Feb. 3. Born in Atlanta to Thai and Indonesian immigrants, Amanda is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and activist. Her work in sculpture, textile, public art, and ritual has reclaimed space in museums and galleries, at protests and rallies, on buildings, in classrooms, and on the cover of TIME. Her work examines the unseen labor of women, amplifies AAPI narratives, and affirms the depth, resilience and beauty of communities of color. Amanda has been artist-in-residence with the NYC Commission on Human Rights and sits on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities where she advises the President on how art can foster community well-being.
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@alonglastname on Instagram
Kiki Salem
Kiki Salem
The Silver Lining We Don’t Need
2020
Concertina razor wire, steel, aluminum, mixed fiber, security alarm stands
Kiki Salem (b. 1995, Al-Bireh, Palestine) is a St. Louis-based multi hyphenate Artist, Weaver, Designer, Sculptor, Writer, Educator, and Entrepreneur. Through various mediums, with textiles and material studies at the focus, her practice covers topics of escapism, experimental visual pattern development, linguistic hybridization, occidental assimilation, orientalism, and the Palestinian question. Kiki is a member of the Screwed Arts Collective in St. Louis. Her wearable collection, Punk Ass Arab
(@punk_ass_arab) can be found on Instagram.
@low_key_ki on Instagram
Rafael Soldi
Rafael Soldi
Entre Hermanos (2018), an extension of Imagined Futures
6 photographs [click to view] 24 ✕ 30 in. ea.
Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian-born artist and independent curator based in Seattle (unceded Indigenous land of the Coast Salish peoples). His practice centers on how queerness and masculinity intersect with larger topics of our time such as immigration, memory, and loss. Rafael has been a fellow at MacDowell, Bogliasco Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and PICTURE BERLIN. His first monograph, Imagined Futures ,was published by Candor Arts in 2020. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, King County Public Art Collection, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Rafael’s work has been reviewed on ARTFORUM, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Photograph Magazine, The Seen, Art Nexus, and PDN.
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@rafaelsoldi on Instagram