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Tanya Aguiñiga’s residency, titled Healing and Making in Nature, dovetails with the PST ART exhibition Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation (through January 12, 2025). The nine-month residency of this internationally recognized artist is co-sponsored by the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the UCLA Lab School, and the Center for Religion and Cities at Morgan State University.
Training and mentorship are key principles of the residency: Aguiñiga will work with UCLA Lab School students and UCLA undergraduates during this time, helping them learn about the exhibition and planning their own.
The residency will include:
- Art and learning activities with UCLA Lab School students
- Advising on the teaching module titled “Ecological Knowledge and the Visual Arts,” which will be integrated in the Fowler’s digital initiative “Vital Matters/ Art, Devotion, Practice” and in Bruin Learn/Canvas Commons, to be used in UCLA and Morgan State University classrooms
Art and learning activities with UCLA Lab School students
Aguiñiga’s residency Healing and Making in Nature marks the first formal educational partnership between the Fowler Museum and UCLA Lab School. Aguiñiga will work with the School teachers, Fowler staff, and student educators to design art activities that will bring to the fore the meditative and healing powers of weaving and creativity. Every class at the Lab School will visit the exhibition on view at the Fowler.
At the center of the Sangre de Nopal/Blood of the Nopal: Tanya Aguiñiga & Porfirio Gutiérrez en Conversación/in Conversation show is the “lab” where students will learn about the science of cochineal and other natural materials used by the artists Aguiñiga and Gutiérrez.
Advising on “Ecological Knowledge and the Visual Arts”
The Fowler education team has created the multimedia digital platform, “Vital Matters/Art, Devotion, Practice.” The team is creating “Vital Matters” modules focused on ecological knowledge and its reflection in the visual arts, to be used in UCLA and Morgan State classrooms. Aguiñiga will advise on and participate in this module.
