Love Our Island Art Walk | Alameda

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The Artists

Jennifer Brandon lives and works in San Francisco. In 2007, she received her MFA at Mills College, preceded by an MA in 2005 and BA in 2004 in Art at California State University, Northridge, as well as a BA in 1997 in English Literature at San Francisco State University. Brandon’s work has been shown at Bay Area venues including the Mills College Art Museum, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, Headlands Center for the Arts, Swarm Gallery, Pro Arts Gallery and The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Residencies, awards and fellowships include The Rayko Artist in Residence, The Herringer Prize for Excellence in Studio Art and The Catherine Morgan Trefethen Fellowship in Art.

Angela Hennessy is an Oakland-based interdisciplinary artist and Associate Professor at California College of the Arts, where she teaches courses on visual and cultural narratives of death and contemporary textile theory. She leads workshops and lectures nationally. Recent talks and performances include Death Salon Seattle, University of Cincinnati, CTRL+SHIFT Artists Collective, You’re Going to Die, IDEO/Reimagine End of Life, Disclose Silence: We See Violence and Dead Black at Nook Gallery. Last fall her work was featured in a solo exhibition When and where I enter at Southern Exposure and in the recent publication Fray: Textile Art and Politics by Julia Bryan Wilson.

Students from Associate Professor Brody Reiman’s Installations class at UC Berkeley. Reiman works as half of the collaborative team castaneda/reiman, whose work has been shown at SFMOMA, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Oakland Museum of CA, DCKT Contemporary (NY), Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Second Street Gallery (VA) and Stephen Wirtz Gallery, among others. Her Installations class explores the nature and meaning of site-specific work in the context of contemporary art practice.

About the Love Our Island Art Walk

Organized by Rhythmix Cultural Works in partnership with the Downtown Alameda Business Association and the City of Alameda, the Love Our Island Art Walk is a two‐year initiative that temporarily places art in empty storefront windows on and around the city’s Park Street business corridor. Live musical performances will accompany each window at opening events held during regularly scheduled Second Friday Art Walks. Support for the project is generously provided by the California Arts Council.

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