This 19th episode of AW CLASSROOM features an artist talk in tandem with our past August 2021 virtual exhibition, "Cocinando," led by the curator Kiara Cristina Ventura. This episode was recorded in August 2021 & features 4 of the artists included in the show: Cielo Felix Hernandez, Emmanuel Massillon, Estelle Maisonett, and Nicole Bello. Thinking of the kitchen as a space of gathering, cooking, experimenting, connecting and so on, the "Cocinando" exhibition relates the kitchen to the artist studio. Here, we update ourselves on what these NYC based Latinx artists have been experimenting with and cooking up. Speaking on themes of home, identity, and food via the mediums of painting and sculpture, the artists collectively chop up the conversation, raise the temperature, and serve us fresh perspectives. Curated by ARTSYWINDOW. Artist Bios: Nicole Bello is a Dominican-American artist born and raised in the Bronx. She attended Hunter College and received a degree of The Arts, currently she is working on a Visual Arts Masters degree at City College. Her work deals with themes of identity, sexuality, gender, home, self love and power. IG: @nicolebello__ Cielo Felix-Hernandez is a Puerto-rican transdisciplinary artist, primarily working in oil paint, the figures in Felix-Hernandez oil paintings author their own narratives constructed out of familiar Boricua and Caribbean iconographies.Having grown up between both lands, Felix-Hernandez processes their relationship to land, indigeneity, the historical, and the personal and how those themes affect survival. IG: @cielofelixhernandez Emmanuel Massillon (b. 1998 in Washington D.C.) is an African American conceptual artist who works in several different mediums including painting, photography, and sculpture. With these varying mediums, He explores the complex history of race, identity, culture and it's the relation to people of African descent. Massillon's upbringing in the inner city of Washington D.C. shapes the unique narrative that he strives to convey through his work, which is introducing others to new ideas by creating work from day-to-day life to politically charged topics. IG: @massi____ Estelle Maisonett is a Mexican and Puerto-Rican mixed-media interdisciplinary artist that uses found objects, photography, and sourced clothing to create life size collages that document her experience living in NYC. The interior and exterior spaces she builds are collages of photographs, patterns, and archived found objects she has collected. Creating figures void of the human body, she explores how the assumed figures' relationship to consumer products, location, and material inform sociocultural identity. IG: @elle915 ------------ *This episode is wonderfully sponsored by Flower Shop Collective. * Flower Shop Collective is an art and fabrication studio that cultivates the ideas of emerging artists working towards more equitable futures. Their goal is to help artists of all skill levels execute their ideas, learn new techniques and have a safe space to do so, with a prioritization on immigrant artists, artists of color, and women-identifying artists. También les ofrecen todos estos servicios en Español. For more information please head to flowershopcollective.com or @flowershopcollective on Instagram. ___________ Follow us: @artsywindow | artsywindow.com To support our podcast and the work we do, please donate to us at artsywindow.com and click the "donate" tab. Or join us on patreon (@artsywindow) ! Much love
