My piece, Seeds Carrying Hope Through Grief, 18" x 24 1/4", monotype, will be on view October 31 - December 5 at Robert F. Agrella Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA

Gallery Hours:
Monday–Thursday: 10am –12pm & 1pm –4pm;
Saturdays: Nov 9, 16, 23, 30, 12pm – 4pm.

California Society of Printmakers

Thrilled to share that I will be in NYC October 18-20 roaming, joining 75 other artists, on 14th street each bringing gestures and performances of CARE. My work, Slowly Moving With a Burden Bent is a participatory performance, pausing urban time, welcoming dialogue and gestures that undo and reassemble repurposed fibers into a secondary, three dimensional poetic response.

Art in Odd Places(AiOP) 2024: CARE is curated by Patricia Miranda and Christopher Kaczmarek. Curatorial Manager: Valentina Zamora. Producer: Robin Schatell. Founder & Director: Ed Woodham.

Art in Odd Places is an annual festival that presents visual and performance art in public spaces along 14th Street in Manhattan, NYC from Avenue C to the Hudson River each October. Active in New York City since 2005, AiOP aims to stretch the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. Using 14th Street as a laboratory, this project continues AiOP's work to locate cracks in public space policies and to inspire the popular imagination for new possibilities and engagement with civic space

Slowly Moving With a Burden Bent, the artist walks, carries, and occasionally rests. A participatory performance, pausing urban time, welcomes dialogue and gestures that undo and reassemble repurposed fibers into a secondary, three dimensional poetic response. Look for the burden of an exaggerated canvas backpack being carried, slowly. Look for the moments when the burden requires rest. Stop to listen for the fiber being torn. Stop to listen to the dialogue between strangers twisting and knotting fiber and looking for the words chosen to anchor the ends of the chord before the artist packs up the tangle and moves on to another location.

Crit Lab Exhibition 2024
At Hudson Valley MOCA, 1701 Main St. Peekskill, NY

Crit Ecologies: Artists, Community, Criticality
Curated by Dr. Livia Strauss, executive Director, HV MOCA and Patricia Miranda, founder, The Crit lab

Dates: September 21 - December 7, 2024

Artists for the exhibition Crit Ecologies have been participants in The Crit Lab, a graduate-level critique seminar program for working artists after and outside academia. The Lab is an alternate critical community for artists to come together in ongoing, sustained, contact, with empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialogue, in an act of hope over destruction. The structured pedagogy was developed by Miranda to focus and deepen discussion beyond common subjective reactions, and to support ethical structures in which artists’ practices can thrive. The Crit Lab structure was designed in response to the opinionated and personal nature of much critique, often clouded by the unremarked power dynamics of gender, class, race, etc.

Curated in a competitive juried process from Crit Lab participants from Fall 2023-Spring 2024, selected artists have the benefit of exposure through an exhibition at Hudson Valley MOCA, an institution whose reputation is partially based on a successful record in identifying extraordinary talent early in an artist’s career.
Hudson Valley MOCA

For the month of August I worked in a 200 sq ft. Project Space at Kala Art Institute. A simple, room with very high ceilings allowed me to complete a large, 5 page, mixed media drawing, Soup on Wednesdays and display pages from an ongoing project Samplers. Additionally, I worked to prototype a performative piece, Slowly Moving With a Burden Bent that is traveling to NYC in October for the 3 day event, Art in Odd Places.
Short articles document the work on substack

Heading to Massachusetts in July for a 2 week residency at Rockaway House. It is an installation space begging for work that invites display and community engagement. Happy to be collaborating with my dear friend Brooke Toczylowski making our thinking visible between visits to the nearby lake.

May 4-12,2024, Berkeley Art Center, 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA.
Roundtable Collaboration, and Postal Collage Project #13 collects over 200 collaborative collages created between September 2023 and Spring 2024.

Meandering Proposal is an artist book I assembled during a residency at InCahoots, Petaluma, 2019. The poem was written several years before. It is a floppy collection of irregular pages, some maps, others deconstructed pages from collage, digital output, and serigraph. Bound with accordion fold tyvek it explores table space in a long narrow cascade or can be propped up on its long side in a circular form.
Visit Kala Art Institute's Table at the Public Book Fair, Henry Kaiser Convention Center, Oakland, CA February 4-7, 2024.
CODEX

My dyad, Unfortunate Packaging from my 65th Birthday is included in this California Society of Printmakers Exhibition featuring pairs of monoprints based on the same matrix, reusable template, origin or construction or marked plate. Juror: Michelle Edelman, Tint Gallery, SF. Arc Gallery is open 1-6PM on Wednesdays & Thursdays and 12-3PM on Saturdays.
exhibition catalogue

The Crit Lab is a community of working artists outside of academia coming together for sustained contact with empathetic listening, radical optimism and rigorous dialogue in an act of hope over destruction.

I am currently a member of the Crit Lab group meeting Thursday mornings two times each month. You can find out more about their work and visit my web page on their site TheCritLab

Oakland Museum of California
October 13 from 4:30 pm – 7:00 pm

Free - Fall Teacher Night
OMCA celebrates teachers during our Fall Teacher Night. Explore liberatory and creative education practices with Do Your Lessons Love Your Students? Creative Education for Social Change

Authors: Mariah Rankine-Landers and Jessa Brie Moreno.
Join a facilitated conversation on the role of love in education and try out some strategies during interactive workshops.

Schedule of events
4:30: Arrival! Free bar tickets for the first 100 arrivals.
5-6: Book Talk and Panel Discussion
6-7: Engagements led by Susan Wolf and Dr. Monique LaSarre!
7-8: Celebration in the Garden-Swing by and say hello!

Meet some of the principals, teachers, artists and school leaders we've been working with over the years! Connect with Julie Kendig from Rise Research and Evaluation to learn more about her findings in our work. These are transformational days and we can't wait to celebrate with you!
-Mariah and Jessa

Six of my self portrait, color photographs are included in this exhibition. They are a part of the carrying care series. On view through January with an opening reception October 28th.

Location:
Piedmont Center for the Arts, 801 Magnolia Avenue. Piedmont, CA
Viewing dates: October 8, 15, 21, 22, 28, 11–2:00 pm
Artist Reception: October 14, 6–9pm
Closing Reception: October 29 11–1:30

Look for my monotype, Porus Carrier

Honored to announce that I am now a part of a professional printmakers group, California Society of Printmakers. You can visit my page and then jump deeper into the work of 250 other printmakers.

CA Printmakers

Excited to be returning to In Cahoots Residency for 2 weeks end of November 2023.

Macy has awarded me the designation of frequent flyer. Although this residency location in Petaluma CA is a short drive from home it is an oasis for immersive reflective work. During this time I will continue to pull prints that are a part of my inquiry about carrying / caring as well as become distracted by the neighborhood emu!

for more follow on IG: @incahootsresidency

May 11th @ Oakland Museum of California
Join me at this event to advocate for arts in public schools. I will be facilitator for one of the breakout groups.

follow: @artsedalliance

Join the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area as we host this region-wide, day-long convening focused on the newly-approved Proposition 28 and its impact on the community arts education ecosystem. Intended to further organize and activate our field, the day will include opportunities to connect with peers and colleagues throughout the Bay Area, join region-specific dialogue to information share and build strategy, and hear from state leaders including Danielle Bunch from CreateCA and Letty Kraus, Director of the CCSESA Statewide Arts Initiative.

Kala's annual auction benefit on Saturday, May 13th, 6-9pm! Please consider attending and supporting my favorite working space in the Bay Area. I'm currently enjoying an artist residency there in 2023.

Celebrating Kala's 49th year, Art Kala 2023 brings together Kala's creative community to raise funds that support and sustain Kala all year long.

LOCATION:
Kala Gallery
2990 San Pablo Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94702

Sunday, May 14-Friday May 18 hours 11-5pm
Location: Berkeley Art Center 1275 Walnut Street, Berkeley CA
Fundraiser Preview Party: Friday, May 12 hours 6-9pm
Opening Reception Saturday, May 13 5-8 pm

More info on IG: @berkeleycommonplace @berkeleyartcenter

I've participated in this collaborative mail are event 2 times now. Each group has its own style and language of collage.

My collaborators:
Gail Coito, Diana Nolan, Priscilla Otani and Lauren Broyles