Nereida Garcia-Ferraz - Visiting Artist Lecture April 2
March 31, 2015
Thursday, April 2, visiting Artist Nereida Garcia-Ferraz will lecture on her recent
works,Overlapping History, 2010-2015, currently on exhibition at the Santa Fe College
Fine Arts Hall. Doors will open at 6 p.m. with the lecture to begin at 6:30 p.m.
Nereida Garcia-Ferraz is a painter, photographer and video maker who graduated from
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has received the following grants:
Ryerson Traveling Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1985 and
in 1998, The Ford Foundation grant in 1994. Illinois Arts Council Visual Arts Fellowship
in 1985, 1986, 1989 Mac Arthur Foundation Media Grant in 1994 as well as The Richard
Diebenkorn Teaching Fellowship from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2000 – 2001.
She has taught at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The San Francisco Art
Institute, and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has also been a resident/visiting
artist in many Art Schools and Museums. She currently works at MOCA's Women on the
Rise Program and Miami Art Museum's Brick X Brick Education Program, working with
youth on issues of Urban Design and Architecture, also at the Idea Lab at BASS Art
Museum in Miami. Founded The Photography Program at MACLA, San Jose California in
1998.
Her works have been exhibited in numerous Museums and Galleries around the US and
abroad.The artist will be talking about how her recent work is making an impact at
the upcoming Havana Biennale in May. For the past five years since she left her old
studio in Little Havana, Miami, Nereida's work has evolved from painting large figurative
canvasses to working on modular panel drawings that address in her practice, issues
like eroding landscapes, architecture, surface deterioration and displacement.
Overlapping History will be on display in the Fine Arts Hall lobby through Monday,
April 13. Please contact the Gallery Office at 395-5464 with any questions or concerns.
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