Please join us for a lecture with artist Nora Rodriguez.

Date: Wednesday, November 29, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84448028647

Meeting ID: 844 4802 8647
Passcode: oxbow

Nora Rodriguez is an artist and educator based in Brooklyn. Her hand-drawn animation technique plays on the physical comedy of early animation to explore routines and repetitive actions in daily life. Rodriguez has completed residencies at The Museum of the Moving Image, Queens; the Queens Museum; and Magic Box Productions, Pleasantville, NY. In addition, she has curated shows at Blackburn 20ǀ20, NY, and Root Division, San Francisco, CA. Rodriguez received her BA from Columbia University.

https://www.nrodriguez.com/

Please join us for a lecture with artist Fred Nolan.

Date: Wednesday, October 25, 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86036297388

Meeting ID: 860 3629 7388
Passcode: oxbow

Fred Noland's specialty is visual storytelling in animation, comics, or illustration. Noland’s comics have appeared in the New Yorker, Popula and the East Bay Express. His illustrations have appeared in LA Weekly, Nickelodeon Jr., Xbox Magazine, Revolver, Canoe & Kayak and more. He was the chief artist on the animated short series “Priced Out,” which has been shown worldwide. His graphic novel biography about turn-of-the-century champion cyclist Major Taylor is scheduled for release from Drawn & Quarterly in 2023.

http://www.frednoland.com

Please join us for a lecture with artist Ricki Dwyer.

Date: Wednesday, October 18, 4 PM - 5 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81937551094

Meeting ID: 819 3755 1094
Passcode: oxbow

Ricki Dwyer is an artist raised and residing in the San Francisco Bay Area. His work draws from the cosmological mythologies of weaving, the industrial legacy of textiles as an economy, and his own path of queer identity construction. He honors drapery as the negotiation that things will never fall the same way twice.

https://www.ricki.website

Please join us for a lecture with artist Christine Wong Yap.

Date: Wednesday, October 11, 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81830734960

Meeting ID: 818 3073 4960
Passcode: oxbow

Christine Wong Yap (she/they) is a visual artist and social practitioner working across community engagement, drawing, printmaking, publishing, and public art, specializing in hyperlocal participatory research projects which amplify grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience, and mental well being. She has developed projects with the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, For Freedoms, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley, Times Square Arts, and the Wellcome Trust, among others. Holding a BFA & MFA in printmaking from the California College of the Arts, she lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area, after a decade of living in New York City.

https://christinewongyap.com

Please join us for a lecture with artist Julia Goodman.

Date: Wednesday, September 27, 4 PM - 5 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84466853283

Meeting ID: 844 6685 3283
Passcode: oxbow

Please join us for a lecture with artist Noa Yekutieli.

Date: Wednesday, February 15, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86098743582

Meeting ID: 860 9874 3582
Passcode: oxbow

Noa Yekutiele (b. 1989 USA) lives and works in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Engaging various mediums, including installation, sculpture, and a signature manual paper-cutting technique, she explores personal narratives and multi-hyphen identities within the context of immigration, assimilation, and conflict. Coming from a multicultural family, she draws from her personal non-singular background and incorporates inconsistent narratives of longing for unknown origins and fractured notions of a home.

As a Japanese-American-Israeli, Yekitiele combines objects, crafts, and traditional techniques from her heritage that nurtures her own sense of belonging. Simultaneously, they create a context to consider immigration and destruction as natural human patterns that coincide with change and renewal. Unable to define a singular identity or place she calls home and feels where she belongs, she includes overlapping narratives that highlight the many contexts of her past. By doing so, she creates a new whole that manifests complexity, inconsistency, and what is missing. Through her practice, she attempts to reconcile what can be seen as odds. Often merging flora patterns and imagery of destruction to consider the emotional camouflage mechanisms we develop as individuals and as a society, especially around conflict and loss. She explores how camouflaging the painful reality can both help and harm us, pushing us to surpass and survive while allowing us to overlook what should not be ignored.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Nibha Akireddy.

Date: Wednesday, March 15, 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81441475629

Nibha Akireddy is an artist from the South Bay Area. She graduated in 2022 from Stanford University, where she studied electrical engineering. Though she has not formally studied art in a university setting, she has been painting her whole life and has always found artistic inspiration in her communities. A Telugu-American woman, Akireddy is interested in complicating what it means to be a diasporic artist and embraces multicultural identity, multidisciplinary thought, and questioning the labels imposed on artists.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Vishavjit Singh.

Date: Wednesday, March 29, 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81507207002

Meeting ID: 815 0720 7002
Passcode: oxbow

Storytelling: Our Most Potent Superpower

Narratives built around our perceived differences are tearing us apart. But healing begins with acknowledging our own vulnerability to bias and prejudice. Accepting this truth opens us to learnings, unlearning, and choices we get to consciously make toward becoming a better version of who we are. Vishavjit Singh uses storytelling as a tool to create space for challenging conversations and turn our vulnerability towards bias and prejudice into personal innovation, courage, and compassion.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Rebecca Manson.

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Location: Via Zoom, https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83318272707

Meeting ID: 833 1827 2707
Passcode: oxbow

Rebecca Manson (b. 1989, New York, NY). A graduate of the ceramics department at the Rhode Island School of Design, Manson is a sculptor with both a high-grade technical toolbox and a pursuit of breakable rules. Her subject is nature and its lessons, observed in her gardens and surroundings in the countryside immediately north of New York City.

Please join us for a lecture with artist Jessalyn Aaland. She will also be our OS47 Artist-in-Residence later in the month.

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2022, 7:30 — 8:30 PM
Location: Oxbow Studios*

Jessalyn Aaland is a Bay Area interdisciplinary artist working across social practice, painting, print, and sculpture. Her work often touches upon complex social issues, but with a sense of humor, hope, and joy. Much of her work explores how systems (such as the K-12 education system) function as sites for both conformity and resistance, and conveys the possibility that a more utopian society is not unreachable. Her socially-engaged projects address public audiences of everyday people (e.g. youth, teachers, workers), and often take the form of workshops and Risograph-printed posters and booklets. Aaland’s project Class Set has provided 20,000 Risograph-printed, artist-designed posters featuring social justice quotes to schools, libraries, and educational non-profits nationwide, and the designs and accompanying curriculum are available for anyone to download online for free. Her work has been supported with funding from Southern Exposure, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. She has been an artist-in-residence at Facebook (Menlo Park), Real Time & Space (Oakland, CA), North Mountain (West Virginia), and Sim (Reykjavik, Iceland), and was a 2018-2019 Political Power fellow at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

*Please note due to COVID-19 safety protocols this event will not be open to the public.