Sandra de la Loza, Into the Night: A Regenerative Somatic Workshop
University of Virginia Department of Art,Ruffin Distinguished Visiting Artist Workshop
Tuesday, November 11, 6:00pm, Visible Records
Join artist Sandra de la Loza for an intimate, regenerative, somatic workshop that is free to attend and open to all. Those working within creative and activist spaces are especially encouraged to attend. Please RSVP to Elena at ruffin-gallery@virginia.edu by November 11. Participants are requested to bring a meditation pillow or yoga mat if you have one, but comfy seating will also be provided.
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/
