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Art for the Heart
About the Project:
Art for the Heart is generously funded by the City of Sacramento Office of Arts & Culture. Additional support is provided by Sacramento State and the Crocker Art Museum. Special thanks to all our volunteers who assembled the artwork packages and to Paratransit Inc., United Cerebral Palsy, and the Asian Community Center for assisting in the delivery of the artworks.
Aida Lizalde
Aida Lizalde is a Mexican multimedia artist based in Northern California. Her artwork raises questions about power structures, exploring cultural identity through narrative and symbolism. Her work—ranging from collage on hand-made paper to sculpture and performance-based works—invites the viewer to consider and empathize with the struggle of navigating the immigration system, the process of assimilating to American culture, and the nuances of having an identity that is continuously shaped by capitalism, neocolonialism, and politics.
Lizalde’s work has been exhibited at the CCA Hubbell Street Galleries in San Francisco, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary in Oakland, the Torrance Art Museum in Los Angeles, Museum of Northern California of Chico, the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art in Novato, SOMArts South of Market Cultural Center of San Francisco, among others. She is a recipient of the Vermont Studio Center Fellowship, Young Space Grant, the Hopkins Endowment for Studio Art Students, the Crocker Kingsley Art Award, and the Herb Alpert Scholarship for Emerging Young Artists.
Lizalde received a B.A. in Studio Arts from the University of California, Davis.
Luis Ramón Campos-García
Luis Ramón Campos-García (Lurac), is a multidisciplinary artist, graphic designer, cultural worker, educator, and migrant from Mexico City. His work explores the use of visual art, graphic design, and music to create worlds inhabited by fantastic creatures inspired by Mesoamerican and Mexican culture, street art, cartoons, globalization, and everyday life. Campos-García studied at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México before coming to Sacramento and earning his B.A. in Studio Art at California State University Sacramento. He was a co-recipient of a Block by Block grant by the Crocker art Museum. Campos-García is currently the Arts Education Director at Sol Collective. He is interested in cultural diversity and how it can enrich the human experience, as well as in developing art exposure experiences that can engage the public in the art making process, beyond the act of viewing a piece, thus empowering people to validate their personal and collective experiences.
Peter Foucault
Peter Foucault is a Sacramento-based artist who creates works on paper, videos, and installations that are fueled by his love of drawing and mark making. His work is concept driven, and often utilizes objects that reference printmaking and multiplicities.
Foucault has participated in numerous exhibitions nationwide and internationally, including the Getty Museum and Getty Villa, Los Angeles; Oakland Museum of California Art, Torrance Art Museum; California Museum, Sacramento; San Luis Obispo Museum of Art; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Kit Schulte Contemporary, Berlin, Germany; the University of Salford, Manchester, England; and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA.
In addition to his own practice, Foucault is the co-founder of the Mobile Arts Platform (MAP), a Northern California based artmaking and curatorial team that creates interactive “pop-up” mobile exhibitions that directly engage the public.
Foucault has been awarded funding from the California Arts Council, Creative Work Fund, Wattis Family Foundation, the City of San Jose Public Art Program, the City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program, US Bank, the Seattle Center Foundation, Puffin Foundation and the Zellerbach Family Foundation.
His work is represented by K. Imperial Fine Art and the SFMOMA Artists Gallery.
Emma Montalbano
Based in Sacramento, artist Emma Montalbano works primarily in photography, painting, drawing, and printmaking, often blurring the lines between these practices by means of collage and assemblage. In her personal artwork, Montalbano explores photography from a more hands-on approach through traditional darkroom and alternative processes. Montalbano is currently a student at Sacramento State earning a BFA in Studio Art and Art History.
Laura Hansen
Laura Hansen is a senior at Sacramento State and will be graduating in May 2021 with a BA in Studio Art Methods. She currently resides in Elk Grove, CA. After decades of civil service work using that ‘left-brain analytical’ side while knowing there was a great deal of creativity throughout Hansen’s life, it was time to tap into the ‘right-brain artistic’ side and Hansen began the final steps to achieve this degree. Printmaking is just one of the many avenues taken during this education process to allow that creativity to come to fruition.
the Mayor
The Mayor lives and works in Sacramento and is currently pursuing a BFA in Studio Art at Sacramento State. He is the Vice-President of the Print Club as well as a member of various art clubs at Sacramento State. He is a member of Myrtle Press at the Verge Center for the Arts and has a studio in the E Street Gallery. He primarily works in monotype, woodblock, and screen print.
Jessica Orejel
Jessica Orejel is an aspiring freelance artist living in Woodbridge. Orejel works primarily with digital art, drawing on her iPad, but from time to time picks up pencil and markers and works on traditional art. Currently working on her BFA in graphic design, Orejel plans to graduate soon and start a new job in a field she enjoys, while still being able to work on her own personal projects.
Summer Ventis
In her work, artist Summer Ventis uses the printed surface to address internal and external landscapes and their intersections; the imprints we leave on each other and our surroundings and the imprints that our surroundings leave on us. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and is included in the collections of the Denver Art Museum and Proyecto ’ace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of the Colorado-based collectives Hyperlink and ARTNAUTS and the Axis Gallery in Sacramento. Ventis received a BA in Art from Grinnell College and an MFA in Printmaking from the University of Colorado Boulder. She is Assistant Professor of Printmaking at Sacramento State.