Parks and Tranquility Opening Celebration: Amy Reed and Chris Christion & Jessica Wimbley
Join us as we will celebrate Parks and Tranquility Grant awardees for the opening of the exhibits Chókim bètana wéeye (It comes from the stars) by Amy Melissa Reed and Fieldnotes: California State Railroad Museum by Chris Christion & Jessica Wimbley on Saturday, August 10, 2024 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM at the California State Railroad Museum 125 I St, Sacramento, CA 95814.
Photo, Chris Christion & Jessica Wimbley from Fieldnotes: California State Railroad Museum, 2024
During the program, the artists will be discussing their video and sound art exhibitions. They will also feature performances by MA ENSEMBLE and additional Sacramento poets and artists who were awarded Parks and Tranquility grants.
Installation View, Chris Christion & Jessica Wimbley from Fieldnotes: California State Railroad Museum, 2024
This event is free and open to the public.
Amy Melissa Reed is a Sound, Visual, Multi-instrumentalist, and Performing Artist.
They work with language reclamation, rematriation, indigenous ways of being, and non-hierarchal improvisation informing their creative practice. They recently returned from the Himalayas with Susie Ibarra’s NatGeo sound team recording the source waters of the Ganges and the many beautiful sounds of North Sikkim. They founded Ma Series at Gold Lion Arts in Sacramento, CA, and co-founded MA SERIES ARTS, an organization supporting historically underfunded artists.
Chris Christion and Jessica Wimbley are both artists/curators based in Sacramento, California.
Wimbley/Christion’s interdisciplinary artistic practice includes working with ambitious video/ digital installations, including the video work Fieldnotes: Califia installed on the Digital Media Wall at California Natural Resource Agency in Sacramento, CA. Collaborative works have been featured in the traveling exhibition Mexicali Biennale: The Land of Milk and Honey, and included in the Library of Congress. Conceptually, both artists have experience working with historical, state-themed projects that reach a large audience, challenge traditional fine arts practice/ presentation in the public sphere, and include an intersectional viewpoint.
As a curatorial team, they’ve developed the curatorial project series Biomythography, with exhibitions in academic and non-profit art spaces in Southern California including Cerritos College, California Lutheran University, Eastside International, Los Angeles, University of La Verne, and Claremont Graduate University.
This event is part of the Sacramento Public Library’s Parks and Tranquility program. This project is supported in whole or in part by funding provided by the State of California, administered by the California State Library. Learn more at saclibrary.org/tranquility
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