Border Craft
March 1–June 15, 2025
Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions, including San Diego–Tijuana. The works on view, along with a series of accompanying public programs, serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. Tanya Aguiñiga, one of the exhibiting artists and a Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at UC San Diego’s Department of Visual Arts, describes her art and activism at the US–Mexico border as a “song to collapse the wall.” This statement points to the sense of interconnection and poetic resilience present across the works on display, which include ceramics, furniture, quilts, weavings, embroidery, video, and performance.
Participating Artists:
Tanya Aguiñiga, Jackie Amézquita, Margarita Cabrera, Sofia Cordova, Isidro Pérez García, tercas (Mely Barragan and Irma Sofia Poeter), Marisa Raygoza
Image: Tanya Aguiñiga, Somos una tela continua, 2023
Found objects from the LA River, low-fired terracotta, stones from the LA river, cotton dyed with terracotta, and cotton rope
This image is courtesy of the artist and Nazarian / Curcio
Border Craft is made possible by Teiger Foundation
Public Programs
Saturday, March 1, 2025, 2–6 pm: Border Craft opening celebration
Location: Mandeville Art Gallery
This event coincides with the Graduate Open Studios at the Visual Arts Facility. Open Studios will feature MFA and PhD artists’ open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. Exhibiting artist Isidro Pérez García performs at 3pm.
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 5-6pm: Reading by students in LTWR113: Intercultural Writing Workshop, led by Dr. Amy Sara Carroll (Associate Professor of Literature and Writing)
Location: Mandeville Art Gallery
Tuesday, May 25, 2025, 6:30-8pm: Guest lecture by exhibiting artist Jackie Amézquita. Organized as part of the Department of Visual Arts’ Guest Lecture Series
Location: SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego
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Border Craft (Fábrica frontera)
March 1–June 15, 2025
Border Craft (Fábrica frontera) es una exhibición grupal que presenta artistas contemporáneos haciendo uso de prácticas artesanales para abordar las realidades geopolíticas de las regiones fronterizas, incluyendo la de San Diego–Tijuana. Las obras exhibidas, junto con una serie de programas públicos que las acompañan, funcionan como un contrapunto feminista y crítico para los sistemas deshumanizados y diseñados para dividir a la gente y a las culturas. Tanya Aguiñiga, unas de las artistas presentes y artista residente de longenecker-Roth del departamento de Artes Visuales de UC San Diego, describe su arte y al activismo en la frontera de E.U. y México como "una canción para derrumbar el muro". Esta declaración apunta hacia el sentido de la interconexión y de la resiliencia poética presente a través de las obras mostradas, las cuales incluyen cerámica, muebles, colchas, tejidos, bordados, video y performance.
Artistas participantes:
Tanya Aguiñiga, Jackie Amézquita, Margarita Cabrera, Sofia Cordova, Isidro Pérez García, tercas (Mely Barragan e Irma Sofia Poeter), Marisa Raygoza
Imagen: Tanya Aguiñiga, Somos una tela continua, 2023
Objetos encontrados en el LA River, terracota a fuego lento, piedras del LA river, algodón teñido con terracota y cuerda de algodón
Esta imagen es cortesía de la artista y de Nazarian / Curcio
La realización de Border Craft (Fábrica frontera) es posible gracias a la Teiger Foundation