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Adrien Segal is an artist based in Oakland, California. Her artwork draws from landscape, science, history, emotion, and perception, synthesizing data and information into elegant form. Her work has been exhibited internationally since 2007 and has been published in several books and academic journals. She has been awarded numerous Artist Residencies across the US, Canada, and Europe, and has work in permanent collections including the city of Homer, Alaska, the Center for Art in Wood, and the National Academy of Science in Washington D.C.
Adrien was awarded the Latham Fellowship at IIT Institute of Design in Chicago in 2020 and has held Visiting Artist positions at San Diego State University and at California College of the Arts, where she currently teaches art and design. Adrien pursues her creative practice out of her studio on the former Naval Base in Alameda, California.
Pictured in announcement: “Molalla River Meander”
MOLALLA RIVER MEANDER is a data sculpture that reveals 15 years of alluvial flows of a section of the Molalla River in Clackamas County in Oregon. Researchers at the USGS Oregon Water Science Center provided LIDAR maps of the river taken approximately every 5 years which were used to create a physical representation of the river that captured its path as it changed between 1995 to 2009. Flooding in the years between 2005 and 2009 caused a new branch of the river to form.
This lecture was made possible with the help of Saddleback College ASG funding.
Camilla Taylor is a Los Angeles based printmaker and sculptor working in a variety of mediums. She attended the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, where she pursued a BFA in Fine Arts with an emphasis in printmaking. Upon completion of her degree, she lost access to the expensive, printmaking equipment she had come to rely upon which led to her transition to sculpture, experimenting with fabric and clay, occasionally making mistakes like a time when her artwork ended up being consumed by flour beetles.
Camilla Taylor received her MFA at California State University at Long Beach in 2011. She has exhibited extensively since then, both nationally and internationally. Camilla’s most recent solo exhibition, “Your words in My Mouth”, was held at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles California, and was reviewed in Artillery Magazine in 2020. She happily lives with her partner and 3 cats in Los Angeles, CA.
This lecture was made possible with the help of Saddleback College ASG funding.
Cynthia Luján is a visual artist focused in figurative drawing & painting. She earned a BFA from California State University, Long Beach, and works regionally in Southern California collaborating on projects in public spaces with the mission of creating more access while addressing barriers created through social conditioning. Her passion is interfacing with other artists and with community stakeholders when working in public spaces. Some of Luján’s projects inlude murals for the events FAR Bazaar 2017 at Cerritos College, and for POW!WOW! Long Beach, where she created a 250 ft. mural aimed at bringing greater awareness around people of varying mobilities and motor-related decisions that affect the safety and accessibility of our public spaces.
Luján is a committed community leader and demonstrates a history of working in the arts & culture sector as: an active member of an informal CSULB alumni association called FA4 Collective, public art manager at the Arts Council for Long Beach, founder and previous curatorial director at __flatline gallery in north Long Beach, and arts educator to older adults for cities and non-profits in both OC & LA County.
This lecture was made possible with the help of Saddleback College ASG funding.
Tanya Aguiñiga (b. 1978) is a Los Angeles based artist/designer/craftsperson who was raised in Tijuana, Mexico. She holds an MFA in furniture design from Rhode Island School of Design and a BA from San Diego State University. In her formative years she created various collaborative installations with the Border Arts Workshop, an artists' group that engages the languages of activism and community-based public art. Her current work uses craft as a performative medium to generate dialogues about identity, culture and gender while creating community. This approach has helped Museums and non-profits in the United States and Mexico diversify their audiences by connecting marginalized communities through collaboration.
Recent museum exhibitions include Disrupting Craft: Renwick Invitational 2018 (Links to an external site.) at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C. and Craft and Care (Links to an external site.) at the Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Aguiñiga is a United States Artists Target Fellow in the field of Crafts and Traditional Arts, a NALAC and Creative Capital Grant Awardee. She is the inaugural fellow for Americans for the Arts Johnson Fellowship for Artists Transforming Communities. The award supported her creative work in communities throughout 2018 with AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides) (Links to an external site.), an ongoing series of artist interventions and commuter collaborations that address bi-national transition and identity in the US/Mexico border regions, founded by Aguiniga in 2016. AMBOS seeks to create a greater sense of interconnectedness while simultaneously documenting the US/Mexico border.
Aguiñiga has been the subject of numerous articles for American Craft Magazine. She has been featured in the ART21 series, PBS's Craft in America Series, as well as in episodes of the Emmy® award-winning arts and cultures series, Artbound, from KCET. Her work is included in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Decorative Arts collection and Contemporary Arts collection, as well as in the collection of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York, The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and The Mint Museum in Charlotte.
