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Alixa García | CV
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VISUAL ARTS
For nearly 25 years, García has used the mediums of painting, interactive installation, animation, graphic design, and large-scale visual work to tell stories of, and inspire action that centralizes life.
Who’s Next: Up In Arms | 2013 - Present
Interactive installation of an 8’X49’ pencil drawing depicting larger-than-life portraits of children under the age of 12 killed by guns in the U.S. between 2012-2013. Exhibited at The Congress, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; This Is America | Art USA Today, Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands.
Superheroes Never Die | 2020 - Present
Animation honoring nurses during the Covid-19 pandemic, commissioned by Times Square Arts Alliance. Currently showing on the mega-screens at Times Square & 1,800 LinkNYC kiosks across the 5 boroughs in New York City, as well as billboards in Boston, M.A., Chicago, I.L., and the Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.
Shadow Boxing |2016 - Present
Interactive installations comprised of large-scale watercolor paintings in handcrafted light-boxes depicting stories of LGBTQ undocumented to first-generation immigrants in the U.S. Installations include Queer Histories, Pop Up Museum, New York, NY; Manifesting Justice Exhibit, Los Angeles, CA; Currently on display at Astrea Foundation, New York, NY
S.T.I.T.C.H.E.D | 2005 - Present
A multi-colored tapestries and story-gathering project holding more than 10,000 Stories, Testimonies, Intentions, Truths, Confessions, Healing, Expressions, & Dreams written by audience members and workshop participants across the nation. Installed at hundreds of universities, high schools, prisons, courthouses, music festivals, and conferences around the country and world, including the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; National Museum of the American Indian’s Rasmussen Museum (Smithsonian), Washington D.C; Standing Rock Reservation, ND; Rainbow Warrior, the Greenpeace International Ship.
Murals (selection)
Life Spirals Upwards, Private commission by Casa Presente, Carrapateira, Portugal | 2022
The Goddess, Private commission by Eve Ensler, Kingston, NY | 2016
Dar la Luz Public commission by Inter-Nos, with an international cohort of artists Santiago, Cuba | 2006
Untitled, Public commission, Negril, Jamaica | 2006
VISUAL ART RESIDENCIES
Omega Institute, Rhinebek, NY | 2016, 2017, 2019
Blue Mountain Center, Blue Mountain Lake, NY | 2012, 2016, 2018, 2024
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL | 2012, 2015, 2016
VISUAL ART AWARDS & GRANTS
Rising Fund Grant | 2020
National Association of Latino Arts & Culture Grant | 2016
Global Arts Fund Grant- Astrea Fellow | 2015
PRINT PUBLICATIONS
Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, AK Press, 2015
Kunst Versus Trump, FD Persoonlijk Magazine, Netherlands, 2020
This Is America, Art USA Today, Netherlands, 2020
Wide Awakes, Homme Magazine, United Kingdom, 2020
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PERFORMANCE and KEYNOTES
Short Selection of University Keynotes 2003 - Present:
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Brown University, Providence, RI
California State University, San Bernadino, San Bernadino, CA
Columbia University, New York, NY
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Dartmouth University, Dartmouth, MA
Harvard University, Boston, MA
Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Mass Art College, Boston, MA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Mills College, Oakland, CA
New York University, New York, NY
Pomona College, Claremont, CA
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
University of Hawaii, Big Island, HI
University of California, Berkeley, CA
University of California, Davis, CA
University of California, Irvine, CA
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO
University of Iowa, Iowa, WI
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
University of Mass, Amherst, MA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
University of Texas, Austin TX
University of Oregon, Portland, OR
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Short Selection of Keynotes, Panels, and Performances
2023 and 2024 See full list of events here
2022
Rooted & Embodied: Our Bodies at the Borderland (global/online)
Bioneers National Conference, San Francisco, CA
Expanding Possibilities: Queer Ecology and Reimagining Ecology (global/online)
Creating Post Capitalist Futures: Living and Dying in Times of Crisis (global/online)
Creating a Psychedelic Future for All Conference, Portland, OR
2021
The Trailblazery (global/online)
Thrive: Beloved Community (global/online)
Reworlding Residency, La Fortuna Costa Rica
2020
Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival (global/online)
The Visionaries Summit Festival (global/online)
The Harmonic Convergence (global/online)
Musicology Tour, Hawai’i
2019
TED Women: Cartier Women’s Initiative Award, San Francisco, CA
United Nations Women, New York, NY
Arcosanti Convergence, Arcosanti, AZ
YMCA Racial Justice Summit, Madison WI
Beloved Festival, Tidewaters, OR
Omega Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
2018
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading, Palm Springs, CA
Bioneers National Conference, Marin County, CA
The Summit, Eden, UT
Fuego A La Isla Festival, Chemnitz, Germany
2017
Other Futures Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Aqui Festival, Andalusia, Spain
Eclipse Music Festival, Mitchell, OR
Women Workers Rising - In Solidarity With the General Strike, Washington D.C.
Franklin County Jail, Greenfield, MA
2016
Women’s March on Washington (main stage), Washington D.C.
Standing Rock Seventh Generation Medicine Concert, ND
Black Urban Growers/ National Black Farmers Conference, Harlem, NY
PBS Broadcast, WGBH Green Media Innovation Idea Lab, Boston, MA
2015
The Schomburg Center, Harlem, NY
Hammerstein Ballroom, New York, NY
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Boston Community Capital Conference, Boston, MA
Forum on Digital Media For STEM Learning, Climate Education, Boston, MA
Antioch College, Yellow Springs Ohio
2014
Ella Baker Institute, Chicago University, CA
Connecting For Change, New Bedford, CA
International Development Exchange, Oakland, CA
Delaware Environmental Institute, Newark, DE
The Coalition Against Environmental Racism, Eugene, OR
2013
Bioneers by the Bay Conference, New Bedford, MA
Allied Media Conference, Detroit, MI
Building Unity Conference, Madison, WI
Social Justice, Real Justice Conference, Eugene, OR
Martin Luther King and Human Rights Conference, Iowa City, IA
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Climbing PoeTree, Compilation of Poetry, Whit Press, 2014
Subversiones Magazine, Distrito Federal, Mexico, 2013
Variopinto Magazine, Distrito Federal, México, 2012
Ten Top, ArtForum, 2012
Pixelating: Black in New Dimensions, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts, 2012
Whole Thinking Journal, The Center for Whole Communities, 2010
The Matrix, Humboldt State University’s Women’s Resource Center, 2009
Colorlines Magazine, 2008
AWARDS & GRANTS
Geo Family Foundation Grant, 2019 & 2020
Rising Fund Grant, 2018, 2019, 2020
The Bioneers Award, 2017
Tides Fund Grant, 2016
Threshold Foundation Grant, 2015
Ms. Foundation Grant, 2014
Kindle Foundation, 2014
One Common Unity Award, 2010
Reel Sisters Film Festival- Best Director, Best Vision, 2008
Spark Plug Grant, 2008
The New York Women’s Foundation Grant, 2008