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Artist Reception for Pisando Lodo | Colectivo Rasquache
Artist Reception for Pisando Lodo | Colectivo Rasquache

Sat, Jun 05

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River House Arts Gallery

Artist Reception for Pisando Lodo | Colectivo Rasquache

Join Colectivo Rasquache in celebrating their first group exhibition since the inception of the Rasquache Residency in 2016. There might just be dancing.....

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Time & Location

Jun 05, 2021, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

River House Arts Gallery , 425 Jefferson Ave, Toledo, OH 43604, USA

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About the Event

Pisando Lodo (Treading Mud) is a group exhibition by the Rasquache Artist Residency and the collective of artists who have worked in and with the community of San Francisco Coapan, Cholula, Puebla, Mexico since 2016.

Featuring work that addresses the many intersections of transborder communities, immigration, indigeneity, and community engagement,  Pisando Lodo seeks to amplify the current humanitarian crisis of mass migration, diasporic migrant communities in the U.S, contemporary social practice, and pragmatic means of empathizing with our migrant sisters and brothers.

STATEMENT of Colectivo Rasquache

Pisando Lodo pays homage to the community of San Francisco Coapan which has welcomed the Rasquache Residency and given artists the opportunity to learn and respond to local and transborder urgencies. Before the 1990’s when many in Coapan were forced to self-displace and migrate to the U.S, pisando lodo in the early mornings was a community effort preparing clay to make bricks; bricks which…

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