December 3 - 5pm
Pinta Miami. The Hangar, 3385 Pan American Drive, Coconut Grove, Miami FL 33133
Politically-charged fiber arts in America and its relations with ancestral traditions.
This PINTA TALK featuring fiber artist Pip Brant, Aurora Molina and Evelyn Politzer is moderated by Adriana Herrera, cofounder of Aluna Art Foundation. They will discuss politically-charged fiber arts and ways of exploring the relationship between gender, history, and fiber ancestral traditions and its relationship with contemporary textile art. The talk has been organized in partnership with Threading the City, a fusion of the Fiber Artist Miami Association (FAMA), the World Textile Art (WTA), local art curators, and art historians. FAMA Fiber Artists have been using textiles for confronting subjects that include migration, and other political topics. Funding from Florida Humanities and the National Endowment for the Humanities is supporting Aluna Art Foundation for this public educational programming.
“Funding for this program was provided through a grant from Florida Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this event do not necessarily represent those of Florida Humanities or the National Endowment for the Humanities.”
Pip Brant grew up on Indian Reservations in the Dakotas and Montana, where she had her first exposure to powwows and Star quilts. From there she painted her way to the University of Wyoming, where she obtained her MFA in 1992. As a professor of the Faculty of Arts at Florida International University, she has been in the last decade, the most influential teacher in the formation of the love of textile art in the new generations of creators. She fuses experimental explorations of sound and fiber. Among her recent exhibitions are KUNSTWAFFEN, experimental music, Florida Flute Convention, Orlando, FL, PET-O-RAMMA, GRAB ASS, performance, at the Hollywood Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, FL, 2016 and Tabled Reports, Bauschau Schaustelle, Essen, Germany, 2015.
Aurora Molina. Cuban-American Aurora Molina received her Associates of Arts in Visual Arts from Miami Dade College, a Bachelors in Fine Arts specializing in Mixed Media from Florida International University and Master Degree in Contemporary Art at the Universidad Europea de Madrid, in 2009. She is represented since 2011 by Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Using the tools of embroidery, sculpture-making, drawing, photography, and video, she uses the potential of fiber art to communicate ideas about social and political issues. With a commitment to Advanced Fiber Art in Miami, Molina is a co-founder of FAMA, Fiber Artists-Miami Association, a newly artist collaborative that builds community through textiles and weaves Miami together.
Evelyn Politzer., Uruguayan-American Evelyn Politzer lives and works in Miami, Florida. She was a 2020 recipient of the Ellies Creator Award from Oolite Arts Organization and graduated with her MFA in Visual Arts in 2021. Working with wool was only natural in her native country, where the number of sheeps far exceeds the number of inhabitants. Through investigations of color, materiality and concepts, she seeks to engage with both global and local issues, establishing universal narratives. Working in fiber art allows her to foster community, bringing people together for different causes. She is a co-founder of FAMA-Fiber Artists-Miami Association.
Adriana Herrera is an independent curator cofunder of Aluna Art Foundation. She received her Ph.D. with an interdisciplinary dissertation in art and literature formulating the concept of “extreme fiction.” Since 2011, she has been part of Aluna Curatorial Collective and co-founded Aluna Art Foundation. More than 200 artists have participated in their projects, expanding social thought and imagination. Along with the Art Historian Willy Castellanos they explored the relationship between subjectivity, architecture, and the failure of social dreams in Latin America in several art exhibitions under the title "Affective Architectures". Aluna Curatorial Collective curated "Dagoberto Rodríguez: Crystal Planet" at Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami; and Sonia Falcone: Campos de vida at the National Palace of Ajuda, Lisbon (2017), Jorge Eduardo Eielson: On the Other Side of Languages, among many other projects. She has been an art critic contributor since 2000 for El Nuevo Herald and is also an editorial advisor for Artealdia International, as well as a writer for Art Nexus. Her curatorial projects had been exhibited in the Frost Art Museum, the Coral Gables Museum, and currently is working on several projects for several local and national museums. She has written catalogs for numerous Latin American artists, co-authored the book The Island Rape. Neso-lecture Exercises around Bill Viola, and As Time Goes By. Gonzalo Lebrija,". She wrote the book Viviana Zargón: Itinerancia-Itinerancy, conceived as an editorial work as well as a curatorial exercise. Her essays have been published in us International Yearbook of Futurism Studies, Volume 6, Antología de arte brasileño, and Feminine Transgression = Transgresión femenina, among other publications. .