Ruffin Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture: Sandra de la Loza

Sandra de la Loza, Digging Into the Underlayers: Building Relationship with Place

University of Virginia Department of Art,Ruffin Distinguished Visiting Artist Lecture

Wednesday, November 13, 6:30-7:45pm, University of Virginia Campbell 160 (A-School)

How can we creatively, critically, and consciously deepen and transform our relationship with the lands we live on? How can art move between the personal and the collective, the social and ecological, and beyond the gallery to create possibilities of embodied joy and transformation?

Join Los Angeles based artist Sandra de la Loza as she shares reflections, strategies and revelations from her unfolding trans-disciplinary artistic practice.

About the artist:

Sandra de la Loza is a Los Angeles artist whose artistic practice investigates underlying power dynamics embedded in social space while exposing the gaps, absences and the in-between spaces within dominant historical narratives through performative, social and aesthetic strategies that result in multi-media installations, video, photography, and public interventions.

De la Loza is the founder and only official member of the Pocho Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, a collaborative project working with artists, activist, and historians to investigate place and memory through public interventions. In 2020, together with Arturo Romo, she co-designed the Sleepy Lagoon Memorial Project, a proposal for a memorial in a public park that investigates the social, cultural and ecological history of a once popular swimming hole in a segregated and rapidly urbanizing area in Southeast Los Angeles. From 2021-2022, she was a Creative Strategist with LA County Arts & Culture, collaborating with the Department of Parks and Recreation on an arts and culture framework and toolkit that established standards for arts and culture as core programming across all Los Angeles County parks.

Current exhibitions include: From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA and Chicana Photographers at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona. Sandra de la Loza is Assistant Professor in Chicana/o Studies at the California State University, Northridge.

Website: www.hijadela.net/