Starting in mid-September, I’ll be in-residence and working in a project space at the Headlands Center for the Arts. Looking forward to diving into a new body of research and work around the relationships between Okinawa & Taiwan that’s been on the back burner for a number of years. The
It’s been a busy but exciting few weeks with the rest of Related Tactics and the amazing artists we’ve gathered to spend time with us in-residence at the Lucas Artists Program (LAP) of Montalvo Arts Center. The LAP team commissioned us to organize a CoLAB residency session–a program series in
Over the next year+ I’ll be supporting choreographer Yayoi Kambara‘s upcoming project, IKKAI Means Once: a transplanted pilgrimage, as a set-designer. The piece is an evening length immersive dance project exploring the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, struggles for reparations and healing, and current & future
Related Tactics (Michele Carlson, Weston Teruya, & Nate Watson) is excited to have been awarded a 2021 Craft Research Fund Artist Fellowship to support Disclosure: The Whiteness of Glass, a research process examining the whiteness of the glass field through an iterative series of creative visualizations and a collaborative social
Over the course of the project, the lead artists Weston Teruya & Kimberley Arteche will facilitate and create a series of community artworks to be integrated into SOMA storefront businesses that highlight the history, knowledge, and trades of community members. The artists will be collaborating with staff from each of
Courtesy of the Alameda County Arts Commission, here’s a video covering the pieces I created for the Highland Hospital Acute Tower Replacement project: I’ve also added photos of the drawings to the site here.
I’m excited to be working on a new series of drawings that will be installed at Highland Hospital through a commission from the Alameda County Arts Commission’s small-scale artwork commissioning program. This is my first opportunity to create site-responsive work that will be exhibited within that particlar site. The hospital
videos investigating the work of a handful of Bay Area Now 6 artists. Here is the profile he admirably pulled together from my nervous explanations about history, ghosts and the possibilities of architectural models: The opportunity to exhibit at YBCA has been wonderful for many reasons, but my favorite moment has been
* Even more snippets from Montalvo: Not sure what to call this one: think this will be called: the gracious city at its neighbor’s edge spraypaint and drawing media on paper sculpture 168″ x 96″ x 92″ 2010 The latest incarnation of this piece: