Artist, Performer, and Art Practice Alumna Vreni Michelini-Castillo will be presenting a lecture and series of performances featuring an all-star lineup of contributors to Color Theory (Wolfman Books, 2019).

Featuring:

Melinda Luisa de Jesús
shah noor hussein
Leila Weefur
Vreni Michelini Castillo a.k.a. Chhoti Maa
Shylah Pacheco Hamilton
Lukaza Branfman Verissimo

This is an unprecedented opportunity to experience the work of these extraordinary artists in person, and to celebrate a critical mass of artists of color whose work addresses race, gender and class, and offers urgent and insightful criticisms of art world institutions.

Color Theory brings together womxn and gender non-conforming working artists of color from four generations to explore the intersections of race, gender, class and labor in and around art institutions. These reflections, stories, and remedies (through essay, image, and poetry) engage a multidisciplinary and intergenerational dialogue around ethical aesthetics, systemic oppression, and the ritual landscape. More than a simple indictment (though indict it, unabashedly, does), Color Theory is a must-read collection of communal solidarity, critical resistance and creative healing. “We are not afraid of color,” the editors declare, “because we are the embodiment of color.”

Contributors include Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Nasim Aghili, Onyinye Alheri, Grace Rosario Perkins, Leila Weefur, Melinda Luisa de Jesús, Shylah Pacheco Hamilton, Lukaza Branfman-Verissimo, Jen Everett, Keara Gray, Shah Noor Hussein, Las Nietas de Nonó, Vreni Michelini Castillo, Maya Gomez.

Published by Wolfman Books in Oakland.