My Mom Name Is... by Peter Cordova, 2013, watercolor and pen on paper, 12 x 16 inches
Join us and Balay Kreative for a conversation about Bay Area Filipino art featuring artist Cristine Blanco and CE artist Peter Cordova.
In celebration of To the Place Where I Grew Up, a solo exhibition of work by disabled Filipino artist Peter Cordova at the CE gallery, we invite you to learn about and appreciate Bay Area Filipino art.
Join the community for a virtual conversation with Filipina artist and Kapwa Gardens Mural Residency finalist Cristine Blanco and Nicole Salaver, program director at Balay Kreative. The conversation will focus on themes of home, belonging, and artistic expression in the Bay Area Filipino community.
The program features a special virtual walkthrough of To the Place Where I Grew Up with featured artist Peter Cordova and show curators Paul Moshammer and Gilles Combet at the Creativity Explored gallery.
Following the conversation and tour, attendees are invited to engage in a Q&A discussion with Cristine Blanco and Nicole Salaver.
This event will be held on Zoom and is free and open to the public. Registration is required.
About Cristine Blanco
Look Don't Touch by Cristine Blanco, 2019, paper, cardboard, hot glue, and video installation. Image courtesy the artist
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, video and installation. Her works take environmental injustices, the precarity of resources, and familial story as her starting point. Inspired by her grandmother’s home in the Philippines, she explores the impact of rising sea levels and considers how human connectivity and adaptation are essential to recovery and transformation. Through repetition, reenactment and reconstruction, Cristine processes and makes sense of a constantly evolving world by documenting personal and global changes.
Cristine is a 2020 MFA Mills College graduate, she exhibited works at Root Division, SOMArts Cultural Center, Depart Foundation, and Slide Space 123. She curated a group show titled, “In the Meantime” an outdoor exhibition located in Pescadero, CA and is the co-founder of Far House Gallery.
About Balay Kreative
Balay Kreative is a new pop-up Filipino-American arts hub in SOMA Pilipinas translating to “House of Creatives.” The site will include a visual arts gallery, a multi-purpose event space, a food court complete with chef’s table and bar, along with space for artist workshops by 2025. You can read about their programs, grants and vision for the future at balaykreative.com