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Saturday afternoon I’ll be at Bandung Books & Eastside Arts alliance celebrating the new children’s book The Bridges Yuri Built authored by Kai Naima Williams, great-granddaughter of activist and visionary Yuri Kochiyama. Please join us and share widely with educators and parents!
I’ll be presenting on a panel called Gardens of Knowledge in conjunction with the exhibition Bonnie Ora Sherk: Life Frames curated by Tanya Zimbardo. Click for more information.
Excited to share some work this Wednesday at the Mills College Art Museum — Danforth Hall. I spent the last month writing and have an activity to share about what we make in this life and my book project, We Make Constellations of the Stars.
Pieces from Estamos Contra el Muro | We Are Against the Wall are on view along with collaborator Isaías Rodriguez’s work.
The exhibition Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration is one of the first-ever exhibitions to spotlight piñatas as a traditional craft and vibrant contemporary art form. This groundbreaking show includes more than 80 works made by Latinx artists and makers from across the U.S. and explores how piñatas are designed, constructed and executed, along with the role they play in modern material culture and in artistic practices. Work by traditional piñateros will be featured alongside the creations of artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata to form a burgeoning, expressive media. Made with humor, biting wit and skilled craftsmanship, this is a vital and constantly evolving field for artmaking.
This exhibition is guest curated by Emily Zaiden, Director of the Craft in America Center, and is a reimagining of the exhibition featured at Craft in America in 2021.
Site specific installation of “To Curry Favor” on view in Canada!
Free online event CLICK HERE TO RSVP
What sounds inspire your activism? What flavors do you connect with your creative pathways? What does belonging feel like and how does it help us survive? Join us for an imaginative virtual event that engages the senses and explores the intersections between belonging, creativity, activism, and community. The evening is curated by Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, a visual artist, food-justice organizer with People’s Kitchen Collective (PKC), and author of the forthcoming book, We Make Constellations of the Stars.
Sita will engage in a lively conversation with PKC cook activist Jocelyn Jackson, artist and educator Patrick “Pato” Hebert, and USC professor Adrian De Leon about creative pathways and collaborations, and how these intersections are integral to social change.
Throughout the evening, guests will be invited into Sita’s book process through interactive prompts. What constellation might we form together? After the event, each attendee will receive a kit inspired by the collective conversation.
In conjunction with the April 1st event Belonging as Survival , Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik will lead a hands-on workshop inviting participants to trace their creative origins through art. Using art as a strategy to connect memory and history with urgent social issues, the visual artist, food-justice organizer, and co-founder of the People’s Kitchen Collective will address decolonization, the hierarchy of the senses, the impact of migration, and more.
An artist talk for the Yale Modern and Contemporary Forum programmed in collaboration with Nathalie Miraval
Wednesday, March 2
6-7 p.m.
Online Event
Register to join us on Zoom at:
https://yale.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcodu-upjkjEtYj3AQZ1Efkqn6KADDcYyLy
Info here: https://arthistory.yale.edu/event/modern-and-contemporary-forum-sita-bhaumik
My only artist talk of the season! Please join as I share new work and an excerpt from my forthcoming book.
This fall, the Craft in America Center will present Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration, which will focus on handmade piñatas and piñata-based art objects made by artists predominantly based in Southern California. This show will explore how they are designed, constructed and executed, and the integral role that they play in modern material culture. It will simultaneously present the work of traditional piñata artisans and artists who reinvent and reinterpret the piñata through their engaging sculptural practices.
I’ll be speaking at GLIDE’s Sunday Celebrations at 9am and 11am PST online on the subject of Belonging as Survival. I have been thinking of all of the intersections in May - APA heritage month, the shared birthdays of Yuri Kochiyama and Malcolm X, GLIDE’s support of the I-hotel residents in the 1970s and the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and more. See you Sunday.
Please note all celebrations are currently ONLINE.
From Self-Portraiture to Selfie, Contemporary Art in the Social Media Age
(Postponed to 2022 - Please stay tuned for more information) Visual artist, food-justice organizer, and author Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik will lead a hands-on workshop inviting participants to trace their creative origins through art. The session will be presented in advance of the release event for her book, We Make Constellations of the Stars.
Curated by Tanya Zimbardo
Spanning the past decade, Origin Stories: Expanded Ceramics in the Bay Area surveys key works by 10 artists and artist groups who consider ceramics in relation to site and place. Select works trace where material comes from in the landscape, while others investigate histories of ceramic production and the movement of objects across international borders.
Curated by Alana Dao
Six artists, women from all over this continent, took action to ruminate upon any and all of the following: seed to sprout, tenderness, labor, land, movement, fruit as culture, fruit as slang, fruit as an offering to the spirits. Can fruit provide insight to our past while being a means to a more tender future? Let a study on fruit lead us there!
Be part of this Solidarity Exchange towards Kamëntsá Food Sovereignty! In the face of the pandemic, the Kamëntsá indigenous community is recovering its tradition of jentrocan / trueque - solidarity exchange - and they need our support to get it started. Located in the Amazon rainforest, community leaders are organizing to buy, collect and barter food & medicinal herbs.
Sita will be in conversation with Henry Mavisoy from the Andino-Amazonian people Kamëntsá Biÿá, Agroforestry Engineer and MSc in Agroecology, will share his knowledge on his biocultural heritage.
Conversation in Spanish
THE FOOD HISTORIAN
Directed by Manjula Varghese
Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik uses food to tell the stories of migration. She is an artist, writer, educator that cooks with the People’s Kitchen Collective, which she helped establish with two other found members. They began collectively cooking and sharing meals and the history surrounding food served at the meals through community dinning in shared spaces in Oakland since 2011.
December 16, 2019 - The Fleishhacker Foundation announced today that it has awarded twelve Bay Area visual artists with Eureka Fellowships. The largest cash prize for individual artists in the Bay Area, the Foundation’s Eureka Fellowships are designed to help artists continue making work by supporting more uninterrupted creative time.
4-5pm Info Session with Sita K. Bhaumik for anyone interested in the Visual and Critical Studies Program at California College of the Arts (San Francisco Campus VCS Homeroom)
5:30-6:45pm Fall Forum with Weston Teruya open to the public (Wattis Bar @350 Kansas San Francisco, CA)
(A little birthday reception to follow!)
Panel discussion
Berkeley Art center
Curated by Related Tactics
For this participatory exhibition, Related Tactics presents mobile stations that gather and deploy a collection of artist-made interventions, tools, and strategies that can be used by audiences to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation and erasure, large and small.
As part of READY, Seeds of Sanctuary is a collaboration with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Cece Carpio and Janaki Jagannath of the Marigold Society
Curated by Related Tactics
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 26, 6pm–8pm
For this participatory exhibition, Related Tactics presents mobile stations that gather and deploy a collection of artist-made interventions, tools, and strategies that can be used by audiences to interrupt systems of marginalization, exploitation and erasure, large and small.
As part of READY, Seeds of Sanctuary is a collaboration with Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Cece Carpio and Janaki Jagannath of the Marigold Society
Celebrate AAWAA’s 30th Anniversary with a discussion from Five Asian American women artists from different disciplines and from different stages in their careers. They will discuss the role of race and gender in the development of their art practices and examine their contribution toward a broader racial and political discourse.
Join People's Kitchen Collective for our annual tradition inspired by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and their Survival Programs. This year we will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Black Panther Party’s Free Breakfast Program with music, dance, and special guests. We'll be serving a hot, delicious, and nutritious breakfast of grits and greens, free to the community.
This meal is a part of the annual Life is Living festival presented by Youth Speaks!
Video from 2016 Life is Living
Join AAWAA and the Japanese American Museum of San Jose (JAMsj) as we close out our multidisciplinary art exhibition, Agrarianaa, featuring 9 local and national artists inspired by the rich history of Japanese American agricultural crafts, legacies and present-day community placemaking. As part of the closing program, we will be hosting a plant swap! Bring seeds, cuttings, and plants to trade. Light refreshments will be served.
*This event is free with paid admission to the museum.
Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 12:00pm – 4:00pm, $5 Student/Senior Admission, $8 General Admission.
Funded in Part by: California Arts Council, Grants for the Arts, Midori Kai, and National Endowment for the Arts
Contemporary art and food are frequently paired together in artist projects and exhibitions in order to explore the sensorial to the political. This panel features individuals working at the intersection of art and food who will discuss why it is repeatedly mined by artists and art institutions, and what it means for the public to experience this topic in new ways within cultural spaces.
This program is part of the upcoming CURRENT:LA FOOD public art triennial on view from October 5-November 3, 2019. ICA LA is the lead curatorial team for this city-wide program. CURRENT:LA FOOD is funded by the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles.
Join the Asian American Women Artists Association and Japanese American Museum of San Jose for a multimedia exhibition featuring 9 local and national artists inspired by the rich history of Japanese American agricultural crafts, legacies and present-day community placemaking.
Agrarianaa artworks will be in dialog with the permanent collection of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose, which chronicles more than a century of Japanese American history.
Mamasita’s Tea House collaborator Ines Garcia Leal of Alfareria Jafet will be selling ceramics at EastSide Art Alliance’s Holiday Art + Book Fair.
Proceeds from “Sin Fronteras” cups will benefit Al Otro Lado providing medical and legal resources at the US/Mexico border.
"Shadow Stories and Matters of Time" brings together three contemporary artists, Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Christopher Myers and Kambui Olujimi, who focus on the transformative aspects of storytelling, time, migration and light, as metaphors for contemporary realities. Through found materials and crafted objects, each creates narratives that reflect lived experiences and make social commentary that references recent and historic events related to issues of race, migration and social justice.
Bay Area Now 8 (BAN8) is a triennial exhibition of Bay Area artists. On view is The Archive of Dreams, a new installation created with a my mother, Alicia Kuratomi Bhaumik, who immigrated to the US from Colombia fifty years ago to become an artist.
Read about the work in “Artist uses her own family’s migration story to build solidarity among immigrants” by El Tecolote’s Elissa Jimenez
