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Activist Favianna Rodriguez Crafts Multimedia Career with Smart Business Plan
Survival for Bay Area artists gets tougher all the time. You need talent but more importantly you need chutzpah, ingenuity and the ability to improvise and adapt. Favianna Rodriguez has all of that.
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Favianna Rodriguez on Art & Migration Know No Borders
Favianna invites us to explore the wisdom of nature and Earth relations as a lense through which to envision an alternative to the current immigration crisis. As climate change advances, the consequence of human migration will only become more pressing, Favianna invites us to explore the freedom in recognizing this beyond the extractive economy.
Jesse Nichols / Grist
Favianna Rodriguez says Climate Change Imagery Lacks a Human Touch
Favianna Rodriguez grew up in Oakland, California. As an artist and activist, her calling card is injecting vibrant, bold images into the fight for climate justice and migrant rights. You might recognize her iconic “defend our mother” poster from the 2014 People’s Climate March.
Rex Pham
Into Action – Artist Favianna Rodriguez On The Role Of Culture In Activism
As we continue our special reporting from Into Action, the pop-up Art exhibit and conference that took place in Los Angeles from January 13 to 21, we’ll turn next to acclaimed artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez.
Muralist and printmaker Favianna Rodriguez
Rodriguez is a prolific artist and activist, whose Latina-American roots inform her art practice. For the last six years, Rodriguez has produced a body of work titled Migration is Beautiful, now on view at the Oakland Museum of California (OMCA).
Living Futures
Favianna Rodriguez and the Power of the Artist
Favianna Rodriguez works tirelessly to promote the power and possibility of art and how it can inspire social change. Part artist and part activist, her mission is to create profound and lasting social change in the world.
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Culture Strike: Art in Trump's America
“Migration is beautiful.” These three words give dual meaning to Oakland artist Favianna Rodriguez’s daffodil-colored print of a stained-glass-esque butterfly, the wings of which are appropriately filled with human likenesses. The pro-migration butterfly is just one of the many distinctive images used throughout the artist’s transformational body of politically and socially entwined works.
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There Can Never be Political Change Without Cultural Change
AWID spoke with artivist Favianna Rodriguez about the role of art as a tool of resistance and what is needed to shift the hateful and damaging words and actions in the USA, under newly elected President Trump´s administration.
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Oakland Artist Taps Power of Art to Organize…
At 16, Favianna Rodriguez helped lead a student walkout at San Leandro High School. She and her fellow students marched to the BART station where they demanded that the ticket agents let them enter because they had “youth power.”
Jesus Iniguez / CultureStrike
On the Power of Art and Challenging Cultural Inequity
From the visual imagery in the streets and in galleries, to the stories we see enacted in movies, to the books we read to our children—is informed by the same systemic inequities and ideas that we experience and witness in our day-to-day lives. Art has the ability to solidify dominant ideologies, or to transform them entirely.
YBCA
Favianna Rodriguez + Adrienne Skye Roberts | Take This Hammer: Artist Conversation | YBCA
From an evening of conversations between the artists of Take This Hammer, an exhibition that presents the work of Bay Area artists, activists, and technologists originating some of today's most powerful social movements impacting racial justice, police brutality, immigration, displacement, and war.
Ford Foundation
#InequalityIs: Favianna Rodriguez on Cultural Inequality
We need to present a multi-dimensional view of who we are,” says Rodriguez, who serves as the executive director of CultureStrike. “We have to create the content that reflects our stories.” The #InequalityIs campaign by the Ford Foundation.
Tani Ikeda
Shifting Narratives Through Art and Activism
Visual artist and cultural organizer Favianna Rodriguez grew up in the Fruitvale district in East Oakland, far from her parents’ native Peru. She says she wants to change how immigrants and other marginalized groups are portrayed so that the full spectrum of people's stories can be shown.
Matthew Modoono/Northeastern University
How Art Can Disrupt Our Ideas and Identities
Now, for the first time, Favianna's abstract prints—multilayered collages of vibrant colors and reverberating shapes—are on display: 27 of them line the walls in Northeastern’s Gallery 360 in an exhibit called “The Multiverse of Identity” as she begins her weeklong stint at Northeastern as artist in residence.
Oakland Museum of California
Mapping Oakland's Immigrant Communities through Food
For a recent piece displayed at the Oakland Museum of California’s “Who is Oakland?” exhibit, Rodriguez wanted to use food’s symbolic powers to demonstrate the vital diversity of immigrant Oakland. She lined shelves with items collected from local East Oakland markets -- things like jackfruit in syrup, jalapeño salsa, shrimp chips and votive candles.
Cy Musiker
A Museum Show That Uncovers the Many Identities of Oakland
Who is Oakland? That’s the question the Oakland Museum of California put to 10 artists, all residents of the city. And their answers, including portraits of residents and neighborhoods from the hills to the flatlands are the basis for a new show called "Who is Oakland?" that opened last weekend.
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Favianna Rodriguez: ‘Artists are Risk Takers and Truth Speakers
The renowned Black feminist poet, theorist, and activist Audre Lorde once said, “There is no such thing as a single-issue struggle because we do not live single-issue lives.” This is exactly what the art, politics, and voice of Favianna Rodríguez represent.
KQED Art School
Favianna Rodriguez: Speaking Out Through Political Printmaking
Favianna Rodriguez's art is as colorful as it is political. Rodriguez uses prints to speak out about immigration, women's rights, racism and gentrification, among other issues. She joins us as part of our First Person series, which features the local innovators, leaders, and notable characters who make the Bay Area unique.
AJ+
Butterfly Art Gives Immigration Activists Wings
Butterflies are beautiful and some would argue that they are migrants because they cross borders. Artist and immigration activist Favianna Rodriguez explains to AJ+ how all that comes together in her latest art campaign.
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Badass Latina Visual Artist Celebrates Pussy Power in Philly
It’s not every day that you see the f-bomb prominently displayed in an art gallery, but if you’re walking into the Iconography of Meaning exhibit at the Taller Puertorriqueño in Philadelphia, you’d better prepared to see the f-word and then some.
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