"Futurisms in Contemporary Art" - Art History Talk

Futurisms in Contemporary Art

Art History Talk with local artist Cynthia Brannvall, Artist-in-Residence with the City of Palo Alto and the Cubberley Artist Studio Program.

Artists have been remixing and synthesizing the aesthetics of science fiction, technology, fantasy, and indigenous ways of knowing to challenge dominant narratives. Artists are harnessing the power of artistic expression as a catalyst for new possibilities to spark dialog, inspire action and promote changes for the future we want to create. This talk will focus on artists making work in the intersections of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futurism and Climate Futurism.

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About Cynthia Brannvall

Cynthia Brannvall is an art historian and an interdisciplinary multi-media artist who works and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She teaches art history through a global lens at Foothill Community College as a full-time tenured faculty member. Cynthia has undergraduate degrees in Art Practice and Art History from UC Berkeley where she was a Phi Beta Kappa and a Ronald E. McNair scholar and was awarded the Departmental Citation for her research in Art History. She has an MA in Art History from San Francisco State University with an emphasis on Modern and Contemporary art. An advocate and ally for social justice and equity, Cynthia’s artwork explores identity formation envisioned in an imagined deep time terrain of memory, reclamation, and the geographies of forced and voluntary migrations of body and spirit.

Her artwork has been widely exhibited in juried group exhibitions in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Luis Obispo, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Washington DC. Cynthia was selected for the 2022-2023 Emerging Artist’s Program at the Museum of African Diaspora in San Francisco where she had her first solo exhibition March 29-June 12, 2022. She was awarded a 4 hear studio residency at Cubberley Artist Studio Program in Palo Alto and has exhibited in multiple museums—MoAD, San Francisco, New Museum Los Gatos, Triton Museum, Marin Moca Museum of Northern California, Museum of Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Luis Obispo. Cynthia has published short essays for exhibition catalogs and has served as a juror for exhibitions and public art commissions.

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Palo Alto Art Center Auditorium

Palo Alto Art Center, 1313 Newell Road, Palo Alto, CA, 94303, View Map