Next date: Friday, October 10, 2025 | 10:30 AM to 04:30 PM
JUAN WILLIAM CHAVEZ: ART POLLINATION (OCTOBER 10, 2025 - JANUARY 18, 2026)
The social practice of artist Juan William Chávez is rooted in his holistic view of aesthetics, ecology, ritual, craft, labor, activism, and his Peruvian heritage. An artist, activist, educator, and beekeeper of Indigenous Latinx and Irish descent, Chávez brings together art, culture, and community in a cross-pollination of people, disciplines, gathering, and storytelling. His work emphasizes intentional generosity and the importance of exchange, gathering material culture and symbolic tools to create evocative sites that expand multiple cultural signifiers as visual traces and contemporary evidence for pollinating, for being, resulting in elevating platforms for contemplation, reverie, respect, and action. This exhibition features a multi-media installation including drawings, embroidery, zines, artifacts, and ephemera that reflect a specific archaeology of place highlighting how creativity is nurtured through the pollination, exchange, of art and ideas. Chávez’s installation explores themes of food sovereignty, community building, environmental awareness, and decolonization.
Juan William Chávez, Calamintha Wak’a, n.d., acrylic and spray paint on raw linen. Courtesy of the Artist © 2025 Juan William Chávez.
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