2024 SCU Visiting Artist/Montalvo Lucas Fellow
Please join the Department of Art and Art History in welcoming Ana Teresa Fernández, our resident artist who is here for the Winter and Spring quarters 2024. Ana Teresa is our third Lucas Fellow of the Montalvo Artist Residency Program in collaboration between SCU’s Department of Art and Art History and the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga.
Meet the artist Ana Teresa Fernández for a talk and reception on April 16, 2024, 4-6 pm, Dowd Lobby.
In addition to the welcome reception, Ana Teresa will host three tile painting workshops throughout campus, a student involvement lunch mixer, and a Social Sculpture display and reception. Ana Teresa will also participate in a SCUSAL (SCU Student Art League) critique in May.
April 17, Tile Painting workshop, 1-3pm, Sculpture Garden
April 24, Lunch Mixer, noon-1pm, Dowd 218
April 24, Tile Painting workshop, 1-3pm, Santa Clara Mall
May 3, Tile Painting workshop, 1-3pm Alameda A - In front of the Library
May 21, Social Sculpture Display and Reception, 4-6pm, in front of the de Saisset
The artist talks, receptions and workshops are free and open to the community.
ANA TERESA FERNÁNDEZ is an artist of fluencies. A student of linguistics, she speaks five languages. An artist of border erasure, she elevates the intersectionality of place, person, and politics to create a common human vernacular. Time-based actions and social gestures are her syntax. Land, history, gender, climate, and culture are her subjects. Performance, video, photography, painting, and sculpture become her dynamic tools of grammar. Through enacted narratives, she reveals all that too often gets lost in translation, becoming the literal embodiment of the stories that divide but also bind us as human beings sharing a planet of great fragility and beauty. Asked to characterize her work, Fernandez gives it the novel label Magical Non-fiction, explaining: “Where unimaginable conditions are the reality, I seek to portray dreamscapes of what’s possible. The courage to transform is up to us.”
The Montalvo Arts Center will host an ArtSplash Community Festival celebrating Earth Day on April 13, an LAP 20th Anniversary Celebration and a closing reception for the Lucas Artist Program recipients on the grounds of the Montalvo Art Center.
In compliance to ADA/504, please direct your accommodation request to Mitch Grieb at mfgrieb@scu.edu at least 72 hours prior to the event.