Investing in Artists - Equipment and Tools | Visual, Crafts & Literary Arts

Favianna Rodriguez is a printmaker and new media organizer who uses high-contrast colors and vivid figures to address migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether her subjects are immigrant youth in the U.S., women fighting against climate change, or her own abstract self portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens. She will use her grant to acquire tools and equipment for printmaking and digital media, to support the creation of new work for a graphic novel format.

Investing in Artists - Presenting & Marketing, Planning | All Disciplines

Favianna Rodriguez is an Oakland-based printmaker and institution builder. Her dynamic political prints and posters tell a history of social justice, capturing the daily sentiments of a people in daily struggle. Favianna's work attempts to reclaim public space, community centers, streets, billboards' and to redefine that space through art, youth workshops, and the establishment of collective cultural spaces. With her grant, Favianna will develop a media outreach strategy in order to reach a larger audience base for her political and activist oriented work, helping to shift and change ideas around art and social change.