Artist Initiative
Artist Initiative
Leiva will complete the first part of her graphic memoir, Consecuencia, an intimate story of growing up in the struggle for democracy in Chile. She will lead comic workshops for Latinx immigrants in Minneapolis.
Ardell Brede: Mayor of Rochester, elected 2002.; Peggy Burnet: Businesswoman, art collector, and community volunteer. Chair of the Nominating Committee, Smithsonian National Board. Trustee, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.; Uri Camarena: Business consultant, Metropolitan Economic Development Association. Board chair, Minneapolis College of Art and Design. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Michael Charron: Dean of the School of the Arts, Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. Vice Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Sean Dowse: Mayor of Red Wing, elected 2016. Former executive director, Sheldon Theatre. Board member for Minnesota Citizens for the Arts. Chair, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Philip McKenzie, Oboe and English horn player; adjunct oboe faculty, NDSU. Secretary/Treasurer, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Mary McReynolds-Pellinen: Executive director, Lyric Center for the Arts; coordinator, First Stage Gallery. Officer at-large, Minnesota State Arts Board.; Thomas Moss: Consultant to nonprofits and government agencies.; Dobson West: Senior advisor, Spell Capital Partners Fund.; Christina Widdess: Arts organization consultant; former managing director, Penumbra Theatre.
Peter Driessen: Visual artist, sculptor, curator, and cultural producer; Teréz Iacovino: Visual artist and curator; assistant curator, Katherine E. Nash Gallery; Catherine Meier: Visual artist; Ryuta Nakajima: Contemporary artist, curator, product designer; associate professort of art, University of Minnesota Duluth; Nicole Simpkins: Visual artist; drawing and printmaking instructor at Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Michelle Wingard: Photographer; professor at Bethel; Arts Board grantee
ACHF Arts Access
I will complete the first four chapters of Consecuencia, my graphic memoir about growing up in the Chilean anti-dictatorship resistance movement. By the successful completion of the drawings and lettering of the first four chapters of my graphic memoir, Consecuencia. 2: I will hold autobiographical comic creation workshops with working class Latinx members of the organizations CTUL and Tenants United for Justice. If the Latinx members of CTUL and Tenants United for Justice who attend the workshops successfully create brief autobiographical comics about their lives, that I will then turn into a zine.
I have completed one full inked chapter and two graphite chapters. This graphic memoir/narrative has now become my Thesis Project as part of my MFA at the University of Minnesota. In March I will have four chapters completed and they will be displayed in the Nash Gallery. 2: I held a linoleum cut stamping booth at the Tenants United for Justice fundraiser. After the pandemic and response to George Floyd's murder, holding multi-session workshops with the organizations became impossible, so the org asked me to adapt to doing a both community art activity instead.
Other,local or private