Art & Advocacy: Contemporary Artist Naturalists

Join us for an evening virtual talk with the Bruce Museum, CT
Wed June 22 @ 4:30 -5:30 pm!
Bring your lunch and stay for the Q&A 🙂

In a panel talk with Sto Len, Blanka Amezkua, and mayfield brooks, each of these artists examine nature to express ideas about their communities and cultures. From printmaking to dance, these artists reflect disparate practices yet each uses the natural world as a springboard to explore their traditions, histories, and the environment. 

Sto Len's cross-disciplinary work includes transforming public spaces such as a river into an art studio, recycling waste into art materials, creating a community pirate radio station, and hosting water ritual performances at Superfund sites. sTo Len is based in Queens, NY with familial roots in Vietnam and Virginia. He is best known for pulling beautiful prints from polluted waterways and is currently the artist in residence at the NYC sanitation department.

Blanka Amezkua is a Bronx-based artist and cultural organizer. In 2018 Amezkua traveled to Huixcolotla Mexico to study with papel picado master Don Rene Mendoza. Her recent installation at Wave Hill NY explores this Mexican folk art using colorful cut paper to explore migrant farm labor, highlighting the crops her parents picked in Central Valley California. 

mayfield brooks is a performer, artist, urban farmer, and originator of the interdisciplinary movement project, Improvising While Black. Their recent project, Sensoria: An Opera Strange, is a continuation of brooks’ Whale Fall Cycle – a series based on the decomposition process of a whale when its body falls to the ocean floor to feed thousands of sea creatures.

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This program is produced in collaboration with Public Art for Racial Justice (PARJE)  and The Bruce Museum

Special thanks to CT Humanities, Cultural Coalition South Eastern Connecticut and the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.