Unveiling Hidden Histories: Exploring Professional Growth,
The Scholarship of Discovery
My research examines the issues of environmental impacts on the land and waterways, Indigenous knowledge, memories, and the untold hidden history that existed always alongside the history that was told. I want to understand how the present became. Between reality and representation it is said that there is a huge gap that is impossible to fill. I am still standing in the gap.
I am an interdisciplinary artist. My works are poetic artifacts seen in fragmented forms as paintings, drawings, and videos where found materials and memory lingers. Through this body of work, I am creating narratives made to become my materialized thoughts that operate as language and demonstrates the theory of mark-making as a driver of creativity that facilitates the negotiation of meaning. These acts of mark-making are as an imprint we left behind. They are my evidence of data, and research. Paintings, poetry, performance, found objects, collages on paper, mark-makings, material engagements, digital provocations, writings, and something in between. Artistic interventions can bring unforeseen ways of thinking from a gaze, and a poetic gesture there is seen a new insight of reality that emerges into un-thought configurations of reality.
(Petra looking down at me painting as I paint in her garden in Berlin)
I participated in altogether five separate art exhibits 8/2023-present. I have attended multiple lectures, art events, exhibitions, museums, and gave four workshop, and was given a place of residency with a host family in Berlin this summer while exhibiting my work in Berlin and Hannover. I will not count the faculty works, nor the work from Fig Garden as the works were shown more than once.
2024-2023 Counting Backwards
Art Exhibits, Art happenings, Workshops, Talks, Poetry Readings
August 2024
CSUFRESNO FACULTY SHOW
Join us tonight for the 2024 Faculty Art Show where Fresno State Art, Design, and Art History faculty and staff showcase select artworks they have created.
Exhibition Runs: Wed. Aug 28th-Fri- Oct. 4th, 2024
2024 Faculty Art Show, Chahta Vba Isht Taloa "My Choctaw Hymn of Conviction" Time-based media art, Standing in the Gap 2019 (2024 version)
August 2024
venezia.contemporanea, Ghetto Vecchio, Venzia "At the Dinner Table"
MA:R Instagram, Motherartrevistedmotherartrevisited.com Group exhibit in Venice with my collective MA:R. I have a small piece hanging on the line. August 18-31, 2024 Exhibition: featuring new and original art pieces generated from the MA: R Simultaneous Community Gatherings in March, 2024.
What Can Be Saved?
Two-sided small works of watercolors on paper wrapped in tissue with a small window opening, with marks in graphite, colored pencils on both sides. "10 x "10, 2024.
A peek beneath the tissue paper reveals nothing more than life veiled in obscure memory still not completely understood. -I had traveled to Chicago in the winter seeking answers in a place that has always strangely beckoned me with seemingly open arms. I wondered if my welcome was still standing? What was the city like when winter came to it and I am no longer there.
[I am sorry but I decided to cut my dialogue for later and better edited days]
In an argument with my mother I said "Grandma never spoke Choctaw to us!" A month or so later my mother will shared that my grandmother, her mother or "Momma" as she calls her, was never allowed to speak her Choctaw language by my mothers father. Our family can be traced back before the DAWES and the Trail of Tears. My grandmother's grandfather John Pulcher, was a Choctaw Judge in Oklahoma.[There is a large gap in this story that I will share at another time. For now I am just going to jump around for a bit] My mother talks about something that happened before my grandmother died. She shares how my gramma had called out to her mother and father as if they were there. Strange, this memory feels like my memory, as if I was there in the room with her before she died. This small painting is about what we choose to hide. How our painful memories wrap around us, and how we carry that pain in this life.
This exhibition took place in August 18-31, 2024, Exhibition: featuring new and original art pieces generated from the MA: R Simultaneous Community Gatherings in March 2024. The exhibition is taking place on the site of Venezia Contemporanea Artist Residency, in Venice, Italy, hosted by MA: R artist and current Venezia Contemporanea Artist in Residence Patricia Rain Gianneschi and curated by MA:R artist Galina Shevchenko.
Originally I was invited to to join Rain in Venice at her residency and to curate this exhibition, but as curating is not mentioned in my probationary plan, I did not think it would be seen as part of my practice and research. But I did travel to Chicago for the Art Happening of "At the Dinner Table..." and my students will even participate by joining us on Zoom followed with creating their own event inspired by this one. These artworks are the creative efforts from the Mother Art Re-Visited collective members of twenty plus women across the nation and international locations. All the members are SAIC graduates under director Greg Borderwitz. They are mothers and grandmothers who are practicing artists who all dwell where ever the heart beat of art exists. We share a common denominator of being women who love our families and are passionate about making art.
This work talks about the layers of meaning in a work of art. It is about the vulnerability that the artist shares enshrouded in the materials they use to speak. What exists in these works is the multiple layers resting in a world of painful interactions, misunderstandings, yet still I press on in a time where the place I exist no longer harbors me. I am like the dry riverbed as I ask myself "What can be saved?"
June-July 2024
15 June, 7 p.m., At Koc Gallery, Hahnenstraße 8, Hannover,
Grand opening with US and German artists. , 7 p.m. music with Andrea Schwarz, 9 p.m. music with Uli Meinholz and Co. My work was shipped to Chicago and then brought to Hanover Germany.I will only attended the clossing event. -Documentation of images of works below.
In Search for Pa' Ashi "Big Water" in the land of the Tachi. My grandmother Nina May King came to see what all the fuss was all about. Mixed-media watercolors ink, oil pastels. 2024
There is another painting(untitled) on clear plastic material of a Native cross that is hung and lifted up above this painting to cast a shadow upon my Choctaw Christian grandmother who recorded herself when she read her daily bread. She is always near me in my thoughts when I am near big waters. I know these are strange works and they make me uncomfortable. So I have left them in my suitcase, still rolled up in a bundle.
July 12th, 6pm, Reutergallery, Reuterstraße 82, Berlin, opening of The Ocean Between 7, "RebellenWellen":
I attended the opening and was in attendance at every event.
-images of works above
July 14th. 4 - 6 p.m. "Drawing as Language" with Jamie Nakagawa Boley, workshop and conversation with the artist. The Languages of Drawing and Place Drawing as mark-making is a special form of materialized thought that operates as language and demonstrates the theory of a driver of creativity that facilitates the negotiation of meaning.
July 16, 9 p.m. film event, Kulture Klash with Ka Ra Zen and Co. The video Standing in the Gap was shown also at this event
July 17th. 6pm closing event with performances by Kao Ra Zen and Co., Jenny Chernansky, and Jamie Boley My contribution was to read poetry from my work titled:
Waiting not Knowing. -Documentation of poetry only.
20 July 5pm Art Talk with Jamie Nakagawa Boley and all artists in Hannover and finissage with artists in Hannover, films by Jenny Chernansky and Jamie Nakagawa as well as German filmmakers, curated by Cem and Jenny -Documentation of images of works.
Sacred Bundles- In Search of Pa' ashi "Big Waters"
Mixed-media painting of watercolors, dry pastel, graphite, charcoal and ink on a variety of substrates. These works offer obscure viewing until the air lifts up the first layer and invites the viewer to look behind what is hidden. 2024
Du bist mein, ich bin dein: "You are mine, and I am yours."
You should be certain of it.
You are in my heart.
Lost is the Key to my heart. (meaning you will always stay with me)
Landscape painting ceramic sculptures. 2019 (Collection of Petra Carsenty)
Chahta Vba Isht Taloa " My Choctaw Hymn of Conviction" Time-based media (Standing in the Gap 2019) 2024
Professional Lectures and /or Presentation
July 14th. 4 - 6 p.m. "Drawing as Language" with Jamie Nakagawa Boley, workshop and conversation with the artist. Reutergallery, Reuterstraße 82, Berlin, opening of The Ocean Between 7, "RebellenWellen":
Professional Lectures and/or Presentations
I am Scheduled to give a "scholarly lecture on 11/4 /24
Professional Experiences
Janine Antoni, Art Talk TAAS 9/2024
Japanese American Citizens League’s annual Day of Remembrance—the Fresno Fairgrounds
Nancy Yodelman talk on the artwork of Laura Meyer's exhibition, titled “Small Explosions,” runs through Friday, 9/ 29/23
Grant Writing
I received 1500.00 from Professional Development and the Arts and Humanities Deans office. (Documentation: emails)
Appointments, ATTENDED WORKSHOPS ON GRANTS
PIvot/Grant Resource Center
Met with Gayle Sherwood
ORSP NEAH/NEH Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities
Professional Development
Department Standards and Expectations
Member of FATE (Foundations in ART, Theory, and Education)
TAAS The Alternatitive Art School
Professional Growth
Exhibitions/Museums
Sprengel Museum, Hanover Germany. 7/2024
Neus Museum, Berlin Germany. 7/2024
Nueue Nationalgalerie,Andy Warhol Velvet Rage and Beauty, Berlin Germany. 7/2024
Galerie im Kornerpark, Unruly Splendor, Berlin Germany. 7/2024
Hamburger Bahnhof, Joseph Beuys permenent collection, Berlin Germany. 7/2024
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,.
6018 NORTH Water Chicago, Illinois 2011- 2024
Conley Art Gallery, Laura Meyers, Small Explosions. 2023
Conley Art Gallery, Julie Araujo, Body and Image 2023
THE SCHOLARSHIP OF INTERGRATION
Collaboration Workshops
The virtual workshop series called: “Thinking with the Languages of Drawing and Place as Neuroaesthetics” and integrated local native land acknowledgement with multilingual decolonizing education. Collaborative Narrative. This is a hands-on-line conversation between the CSU Fresno Kremen School of Education and the Department of Art, Design, and Art History.
Dr. Dominguez and I spoke about this idea for a collaboration of discussion and workshop that would allow her graduate students and my art students be participants in the benefits of what happens to the brain when it experiences art. We agreed that we wanted to students to participate in this event as an experience. Dr Dominguez works with the early childhood development graduate students of Kremen and she asked if I would be willing to participate with her and her students.
Dr. Dominguez wanted to supply students with the art supplies: The Kremen and the ART 102, Therefore we invited students to pick up a free sketchpad and drawing pencil paid for by the grant before the event. My students attended physically and Dr. Dominguez and her teacher credential students in LEE 169s research class on Inquiry Puzzles Of Practice and my ART 102 students of "Ideas of Visual Culture: Art, Media and the Computer." I purchased additional art supplies for my Art 102 students.
The Fresno State South Valley Campus in Visalia collaborated with us to allow professor Nakagawa Boley to present virtually from one of their studio spaces. One of my LEE 190 independent study students, Aleah Porter and one of my LEE 169 students, Destiny Lee collaborated to co-host this event by taking care of the chat, muting folks, and holding the digital space for us presenters.
Dr. Domingues explains "I received a $2500 IRA grant through CSU Fresno in the Fall 2024. I used the funds to collaborate with and compensate Jamie Nakagawa Boley, a land based and mixed race Choctaw and Japanese professor of art to present with me for my two multiple subject credential student action research courses. The speaker series event was hosted by the Fresno State REMEDIO project which is housed in the Huggins CDC. REMEDIO is Remida-inspired and is a project that emerged from the Reggio Emilia municipal schools of Italy in 1997. There are 17 certified centers worldwide. This new Fresno State based REMIDA inspired project will source discard materials from local businesses which might otherwise be thrown in the landfill. The underlying aims of a Remida Center are to foster ethical behavior that opposes the throwaway culture and to give value to the reuse of discarded materials, differentiated waste collection and recycling. The REMEDIO project is also inspired by the Inventing Remida Portland Project at Portland State University, which I coordinated for 4 years as a graduate student. Students and community attendees were invited to email if they are interested in creative reuse and early childhood education and in serving on the newly forming REMEDIO advisory committee."
July 14th. 4 - 6 p.m. "Drawing as Language" with Jamie Nakagawa Boley, workshop and conversation with the artist. Reutergallery, Reuterstraße 82, Berlin, opening of The Ocean Between 7, "RebellenWellen": Drawing as mark-making is a special form of materialized thought that operates as language and demonstrates the theory of a driver of creativity that facilitates the negotiation of meaning. (see images above)
Art Events
AT THE TABLE WITH MOTHER ART: REVISITED, MARCH 14, 2020
At the Table with MA:R Simultaneous, Experimental Community Dinners took place on Pi Day, March 14th, 2024, simultaneously across Chicago and North America, including Southern Florida (St.Augustine., FL), Provo, UT and Northern Canada (Halifax, Nova Scotia). The DinnerSeries have centered on the following topics: Past: Passing on generational knowledge; Present:Nurturing in the Now; Future: Dreaming of Alternative Futures. Jamie Nakagawa-Boley joinedPatricia RAIN Gianneschi in Chicago, for Rain’s Pie Dinner.
New Courses
Here is a course idea for a new course will not work for Fresno State and so I have decided to not pursue.
Professional Experiences
The virtual workshop series called: “Thinking with the Languages of Drawing and Place as Neuroaesthetics” and integrated local native land acknowledgement with multilingual decolonizing education. Collaborative Narrative. This is a hands-on-line conversation between the CSU Fresno Kremen School of Education and the Department of Art, Design, and Art History. Students attended this event.
The SCHOLARSHIP OF INTERGRATION
Collaboration
AT THE TABLE WITH MOTHER ART: REVISITED, MARCH 14, 2020
The virtual workshop series called: “Thinking with the Languages of Drawing and Place as Neuroaesthetics”
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