The Los Angeles based artists featured in this ongoing series weave together art, education, and public space in our city in order to create meaningful dialogue and change. Through their guiding inspiration, individual aesthetic, professional practices, and personal choices, the artists have impacted not only my personal trajectory in art, but also my vision, and reach as an educator.
I am deeply interested in where we are going as a community of educators and artists. In my eyes, this group of individuals featured are the future in the present. They are shaping conversations that envision and inspire a new dialogue for the future of education and cultural production – and they are doing it now. In many ways, the artists and their work represent not only the voices I wish I had access to while in art school, but also now coalesce in my imagination as the source of knowledge that is formative to our future. These artists and educators are the university faculty that should be – and that will be – and that are. This is not a gentrification lab. It is the opposite of that. It is the corpus that elevates transformative influence.
The series includes interviews of the artists and the strategies they used to find inspiration and community as they were developing their form of expression, and how they speak to that in their work, teaching, and life today.
Artist Bios
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Lluvia Higuera
Lluvia Higuera (b. 1975, Los Angeles) is a graduate of Art Center College of Design, Photography Program (2005). She works as a freelance photographer and art educator, teaching in museums and non-profit arts organizations.
She has led workshops and classes in the education departments of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Latin American Art, Norton Simon Museum, Hammer Museum, artworxLA and others.
Her independent experience in arts education, coupled with her practice-based photographic research, has helped her define her thoughts on art and its pedagogy to act on new questions about public life and the role of art in community well-being.
She also has made a long-standing commitment to individuals and groups that have little access to health care by teaching restorative forms of yoga and art to help them gain physical and mental well-being.
Lluvia Higuera’s experimental approach as an independent arts professional and educator, inspired this photographic project. Lluvia lives and works in Los Angeles.
Organizations
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United Photo Industries (UPI)
United Photo Industries (UPI) is a New York based nonprofit organization that works to promote a wider understanding of, and increased access to, the art of photography.
Since its founding in 2011, UPI has rapidly solidified its position in the public art landscape by continuing to showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography from across the globe. In its first seven years, UPI has presented the work of more than 2,500 visual artists in gallery exhibitions and public art installations worldwide.
Shaping a Dialogue for Change – A Look Towards the Future in the Present
Featuring: Lluvia Higuera
Locations
View Location Details Annenberg Space for PhotographyCentury Park,
2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles,
CA 90067
Location open 24 hours
