“Walkshop 23”
led by Cristina Molina | Postponed until further notice
Tributaries + Tributes
Join visual artist Cristina Molina on an immersive audio walking tour along the Mississippi River. Participants will experience direct onsite observation while engaging in an unfolding narrative that recounts migrant family history and its relationship to water crossings. This project is dedicated to the memory of Berta Molina, grandmother and muse of the artist.
Cristina Molina is a visual artist who hails from the subtropics of Miami and currently lives and works in New Orleans—two precarious and vulnerable terrains that have majorly influenced her practice. Spanning performance, video installation, photography, and textile design, Molina’s work centralizes narratives about women to create revisionist histories that are set amongst landscapes both real and imagined. Molina’s projects have been supported by the National Association for Latino Arts and Culture, The Foundation for Contemporary Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. This year, Molina was one of 60 artists selected for the national exhibition State of the Art 2020 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. Previously, her work has been featured at the New Orleans Museum of Art, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, The Ogden Museum of Southern Art, The Polk Museum, New Orleans Film Festival, and Syros International Film Festival. In 2016, Art in America and Burnaway featured her exhibition Sad Tropics with Jonathan Traviesa among the top exhibitions of the year. Since 2014 Molina has been a member of the New Orleans artist-run project, The Front where she regularly curates and exhibits artwork, and co-organizes The Front’s annual juried film festival. Cristina Molina is Associate Professor of New Media + Animation at Southeastern Louisiana University where she received the 2018 President’s Award for Excellence in Artistic Activity and is the current recipient of the Viola Brown Endowed Professorship in Visual Arts and Dramatic Arts.
DETAILS
Start Time: 2 pm (Please arrive at 1:45 pm); Crescent Park, 500 Gallier Street, In Front of Red Bridge
End: Crescent Park Elevator, 2300 N Peters Street
Duration: approx. 2h
Bring: Headphones, Water & a small Snack if desired
Clothing: Please wear sturdy walking shoes and appropriate clothing
