The Center for Health Equity and Social Justice at the Boston Public Health Commission just launched a video trailer we produced about their work to eliminate health disparities among different racial and ethnic groups. The Center funds dynamic projects around New England that focus on the social determinants of health, community engagement and mobilization, and long-term systemic change.
MFA Graduate Exhibition in San Francisco
I'm getting my Masters of Fine Arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute next month and will be presenting a new piece at two shows (below). Lalita tells the story of a resilient woman whose body has been remarkably transformed by loss of skin pigment, cancer, and other conditions.
The piece explores the idea of the body as an archive, onto which one’s experiences are imprinted over the course of a life. Lalita Bharvani is a quintessential global citizen whose body seems to respond to her feelings about crossing national and cultural frontiers.
MFA GRADUATE EXHIBITION
San Francisco Art Institute
Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason
Marina Boulevard at Buchanan Street
San Francisco, CA 94123
May 15-22, 12-6pm daily
Opening Reception: Vernissage
Friday, May 14, 6-8pm
* I will be showing a 2-channel installation of LALITA*
GRADUATE STUDENT FILM SCREENING
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 3rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Sunday, May 16 4-6:30pm
* I will be showing a 15-minute excerpt of my LALITA film (work in progress) *
Monkey Dance in NYC April 27
My film Monkey Dance is showing at Anthology Film Archives in New York. It will be preceded by two short films:Underpass by Rain Breaw, and Chinese Dumplings by Michelle Hung.
Tuesday, April 27, 7:00pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
New York, New York
Tuesday, April 27, 7:00pm
Anthology Film Archives
32 Second Avenue (at 2nd Street)
New York, New York
The Body as an Archive of Experience
Pearl Art closes in Central Square
I was sad to see that Pearl Art & Craft was closing its Central Square branch...
SFMOMA 75th Anniversary
I was in San Francisco recently and attended the celebration weekend for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's 75th Anniversary show. Wow. Seems like every major artist working in America in the last hundred years is on display, with multiple pieces. And they had 75 artists, critics, and curators giving 7.5-minute talks about specific works of art throughout the museum. Artist Tony Labat (above) spoke about Howard Fried's super-8 film installation (presented in video) Inside the Harlequin: Approach-Avoidance III and II. An interesting piece in which one actor has the ability to cross the frame divide, and the other does not...
Videos on Leadership Institute Posted
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation has just posted three videos I produced for them on their multimedia page. The videos feature three alumni of the Massachusetts Institute for Community Health Leadership at their workplaces reflecting on how the Institute experience impacted their work. Their supervisors also speak to their improved effectiveness on the job. It was a pleasure working with the Foundation and the three featured alumni on these pieces. You can also see the clips on my site: about Joe Iannelli of Massachusetts General Hospital, Lindsey Tucker of Health Care for All, and Jennifer Chow of Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation. Thanks to all three for their generous participation in the project!