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Flower Shop Collective presents live art installation at The Other Art Fair
Flower Shop Collective announces community partnership with this year’s The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn, New York. They will be exhibiting an installation entitled “Our Myths Into Our Futures.” The fair is presented by Saatchi Art and will take place at Brooklyn Expo Center, 72 Noble St., from July 22-25th.
Written across the walls in black and white will be the Flower Shop Collective’s living artist manifesto, which encourages artists to ‘engage in collective care as cultural practice’. Throughout the fair, color will be added as several FSC artists draw from their ancestral and future realities to complete the mural piece-by-piece: a physical embodiment of community. Flower Shop Collective remains in service to artists of color, and they remain determined to cultivate stories of diaspora and home, wherever home may be.
ND Time Bandits: Co-Adventures in reshaping time acquired by LACMA
7/16/2021
The Revolution School is proud to announce that their collaborative piece created for Mind’s Eye has been acquired into the LACMA’s permanent collection for archival care.
Nikki receives NYC Artist Corps grant for plantita
MULTIDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL & ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE ARTIST NIKKI LUNA PAZ RECOGNIZED WITH $5,000 CITY ARTISTS CORPS GRANT FROM NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS (NYFA) AND THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS (DCLA)
Nikki Luna Paz Will Present plantita: a community project at Know Wastelands Community Garden in Bushwick in September as Part of Award Program
New York, NY – Nikki Luna Paz is one of 500 New York City-based artists to receive $5,000 through the City Artist Corps Grants program, presented by The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA), with support from the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME) as well as Queens Theatre.
Luna Paz was recognized for plantita: a community project, which will bring an installation including a plant exchange station to the Bushwick neighborhood in Brooklyn in late August/early September.
New York City is full of urban gardeners who grow plants in every nook and cranny of tiny apartments, outdoor spaces, rooftops, and fire escapes. Community gardens and social media are two ways that residents can connect with each other for friendship, mutual aid, and support. Luna Paz is looking into the ways Brooklyn residents “craft fascinating collective rituals as kin to remember the past, honor the present, and plan for the future.” They ask, “Why are we drawn into nature during a time of social, economic, political, and ecological turmoil?” plantita: a community project will be an interactive archive of remembrance and connection - starting with something as simple as relationships through plants.
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I’m excited to share my work with you this summer at Know Wastelands in Bushwick as part of the #CityArtistCorps Grants program! Thanks to for the support. Imagining a future where artists are always valued.
The Revolution School exhibits multi-experiential piece as part of Mind’s Eye
The Revolution School’s ND Time Bandits (Cedric Tai, Sara Barnett, Nikki Luna Paz, Kristen Mitchell, Jessie Closson, Devin Alejandro-Wilder, Clara Philbrick, and Jennifer Moon) have created an inter-dimensional poster-video-site which highlights intersections of identity/place/space/race/class/etc with neurodiversity. The piece is on display through May and June as part of the LACMA’s poster project Mind’s Eye. Developed as part of We Rise LA for Mental Health Awareness Month, LACMA has commissioned graphic artworks by five artists to be displayed on vinyl clings installed along the construction fence on Wilshire Boulevard. Other artists featured are Scoli Acosta, Andy Alexander, Kerry Tribe, and Favianna Rodriguez.