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mud + corn + stone + blue

ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE

 

During the 2024-2025 academic year, the Rubin Center is proud to invite seven artists and designers to UTEP for micro-residencies as part of the exhibition program for Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue. In collaboration with UTEP faculty, staff, and students, these residencies include a public artist's talk, a skills-based workshop for students, and informal gatherings to discuss topics of contemporary practice and professional development. These residencies are generously funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation.

 

ARON ADRIAN VENEGAS

Raices Family Day Inspired by Mud+Corn+Stone+Blue
Saturday, February 01, 2025 | 10 am - 2 pm 
Rubin Center Auditorium 

Meet local artist Aron Venegas, featured in the exhibition, for a special discussion about his artistic process and inspirations. Then, participate in a hands-on printmaking workshop led by the artist, where you’ll explore the techniques behind his captivating work.

Border artist works and lives in the border region of Cd. Juárez, Chihuahua, Mexico and El Paso, Texas, USA. He works with contemporary graphics using traditional techniques such as woodcut, lithography, and gravure. He also experiments with new technologies in graphics processes, making the link between modern and traditional printmaking. He currently works in his studio in the city of El Paso TX, which is named Puroborde! - Border Graphic. Established in 2011, Puroborde! promotes graphic arts and cultural projects in the Borderplex.

 

OSCAR RENE CORNEJO

Artist Residency October 7 - 11, 2024
Artist Talk: Thursday, Oct 10 
Coffee with Students: Friday, Oct 11 

Students learned about Oscar’s career trajectory, experience with artists residencies including the Skowhegen School of Painting and Sculpture, and his work with contemporary frescos. 

Oscar Rene Cornejo is an artist and educator from Houston, Texas. His socially-engaged practice draws together histories of abstraction in the U.S. and Latin America with personal experiences of the construction site, family memory, and historical reconciliation. He earned an M.F.A. from the Yale School of Art, a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, and was a recipient of the J. William Fulbright Scholarship for research in El Salvador. In 2004, he co-founded the Latin American Community Art Project (LA CAPacidad), an artist residency advocating for intercultural awareness through community art education. Cornejo has taught at The Cooper Union, Hunter College, and Yale School of Art's Painting and Printmaking Department. He teaches Fresco at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

 

 

FRANCIS ALMENDAREZ

is an artist, filmmaker, and educator from South Central, Los Angeles. His work takes many different forms including collaborations, performances, screenings, workshops, and exhibitions that have been presented in museum, university, arts nonprofit, artist-run, virtual, and DIY spaces both nationally and internationally. Through the merging of history, autoethnography, and cultural production, his works offer ways to navigate and reconcile with intergenerational trauma, and reclaim diasporic identities. Almendárez is Assistant Professor of Photography/Video and Studio Art at California State Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é San Bernardino. He received his MFA from Goldsmiths, Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of London, and BFA in Sculpture/New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design. 

 

 

TESORA MOLINA-GARCIA

is a Salvadoran-American media artist, writer, and educator. A citizen of the Global South and an American Dreamer, Tesora’s research engages mystical and esoteric traditions of ancient Mesoamerica, Southeast Asia, and Buddhist sects. In this pursuit, she synthesizes marginalized realms of knowledge alongside science, science-fiction, non-western philosophy, and leftist political theory. Tesora holds an MFA degree in Photography+Extended Media from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and graduated with dual degrees in Photography and Art History from the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of North Texas. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Futures at Virginia Commonwealth Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é in Richmond, VA. 

 

 

MELISSA GUEVARA

is a Salvadoran artist and founding member of the Fire Theory Collective. Currently based in Colombia, she has completed residencies and exhibitions internationally. Her practice considers the body as matter: physical, chemical, and mineral, in order to interrogate historical violence and conflict.  

 

 

LORENA MOLINA

is a Salvadoran multidisciplinary artist, educator, and curator. Through the use of photography, video, performance and installation, she explores identity, intimacy, pain, and how we witness the suffering of others. The work interrogates relationships and the formation of relationships as political acts that are guided by negotiations of power and privilege. She received her MFA from the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Minnesota and her BFA from California State Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é, Fullerton. She is Assistant Professor of Photography and Digital Media in the School of Art at the Ãå±±ÂÖ¼é of Houston.