ARTWORK
ART TOYS (2014-2017)
ZINES (2012-2019)
MULTIMEDIA (2015)
Dedicated to Hazel Scott
2015
Digital video with audio, 1:56 looped; Framed digital print, 18 x 24 in.; Zine handouts, 8 x 11 in.
Dedicated to Hazel Scott was a multimedia project exhibited in the Women Who Dare (2015) exhibition at the Carver Community Cultural Center in San Antonio, Texas. The work consisted of a digital video, framed digital print, and zine handouts. Curators: Sarah Castillo and Anel Flores
The Dedicated to Hazel Scott project is a dedicatory multimedia installation to the jazz pianist Hazel Scott. Based on independent research from the Austin History Center, I created this work as a commentary on Hazel Scott’s cancellation of a live concert at the University of Texas. Hazel Scott was a world-renowned piano virtuoso. Julliard-trained by the time she was a young child, Scott had an extensive career in piano and voice with a signature style in classical and jazz-based compositions. In 1948, Scott was scheduled to perform at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas but cancelled upon viewing a segregated audience. As a homage to Scott’s original sanction on the Texas political space, I created a dedicatory, original composition that scores digital excerpts from Scott’s performances, commercials, concerts, and film appearances. My undertaking is an alternative method of monograph-making and a medium-specific conversation with Scott’s memory.
Claudia Aparicio-Gamundi- "Wishful Thinking" 0:00-0:12 James Huizar "Build a Fence" 0:14-0:41 Claudia Zapata "Austin City Plan-1928" 0:42-3:05
animation Shorts by The Puro Chingón Collective
The East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T) partnership between the Collective and Creative Action developed after its members spoke to Creative Action’s mural program, Color Squad. The Puro Chingón Collective realized Austin young artists wanted to see more interpretations of East Austin and people of color artists. As a result, Puro Chingón constructed a digital animation project consisting of vignettes related to Texas and Austin histories. From themes of border politics, behavioral dissonance in a multicultural world, and historical segregation via Austin’s 1928 city plan, the Collective’s animation are interactive moving images acting as forms of cultural pedagogy. The brief shorts are confrontational visual conversations relating to the nation and race. Sponsored by Creative Action for the East Austin Studio Tour 2015 Tour
INSTALLATION
PAINTING (2013-2016)
PRINTS (2012-2020)
DRAWINGS (2012-2016)
DIGITAL IMAGE (2016-2020)
DESIGN (2013-2019)
APPAREL (2013)
GIFS (2020)