Dreaming of Equ>lity Exhibition

For immediate release: On January 14, 2021 at 6pm PT, the Reynolds Gallery is pleased to host the opening of a juried virtual exhibition, “Dreaming of Equ>lity.” University of the Pacific student curators selected work from an open call addressing social and political discourses stimulated by the global crises of 2020. Thirty-one artists at all stages of their careers from across the US contributed work focused on their hopes for an end to the collective traumas of injustice, racism, discrimination, and climate destruction. 

Artists bravely confront systemic disadvantages with camera, paintbrush, and pencil as swords. They also make the best of virtual opportunities to communicate messages of hope and to challenge us to create a more just and equal society. The forty-six pieces in the show include documentary photography, photomontage, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture and video. Artists address issues of identity - Black Lives Matter features prominently - from painful experiences of constraint to proposing new ways of being free and genuine self-care. Tackling historic iniquity and honoring significant influences, they point to futures diverse and deeply imagined. 

Exhibiting artists: Kamal Al Mansour, Ahmet Arslan, Jena Ataras, Aram Bea, Gretchen Beck, Joe Bussell, Christian Bustos, John Chang, Trevor Coopersmith, Michael Darough, Michael Kenneth Depue, Greta Dole, Kia Duras-Carter, Roya Farassat, Sherry Muyuan He, Firoz Mahmud, Crystal Marshall, George Lorio, Paolo Morales, Jeff Musser, Brenda Munguia, Nimisha Doongarwal, Alissa Ohashi, Nikki Parikh, Chris Revelle, Ann Stoddard, Laura Tanner, VANCAI, Morrie Warshawski, Sara Zielinski, and Jing Zhou.

The exhibition was conceived and created by student co-curators Crystal Baltazar, Paola Baltazar Salcedo, Angelique Doty, Jennifer Nava, Megan Rabatan and Kaelani Valdez-Nawatani under the mentorship of professor Marie Lee and university curator Lisa Cooperman.  
The show can be viewed on ArtSteps, an online exhibition platform that allows audience to visit virtual spaces. Browse the exhibition or take the virtual tour curated by the gallery. 

The Reynolds Gallery, located in the Jeannette Powell Art Center at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, encourages the exchange of artistic and cultural ideas, and provides Pacific students and the larger region a forum to explore traditional and contemporary art and design.

COVID19. THE ART OF ISOLATION/SURVEY 3/

DECEMBER 18, 2020-JANUARY 28, 2021

AN ONLINE JURIED EXHIBITION

Jury Committee

Dr. Milagros Bello, Lieska Husband, Maura Morandi

COVID 19. THE ART OF ISOLATION /SURVEY 3

COVID 19. THE ART OF ISOLATION/SURVEY 3/ in its Third Edition covers artists’ creations during this catastrophic global crisis due to COVID 19. Our civilization has entered a new paradigm that still is being shaped through economic, social, cultural, and individual ongoing crises. Humans live in absolute uncertainty facing a radical set of life challenges that is generating a new societal model deeply interconnected to mortality, loss, and death. Artists keep creating in the middle of these tumultuous times crystallizing the complex social tissue that is harshly being fabricated.

Jurors, curators Dr. Milagros Bello, Lieska Husband and photographer Maura Morandi, have selected sixty-five artists from Iceland, China, France, Japan, Romania, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Argentina, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and the United States. Artists express their core life experiences during these abrasive times through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, and installation, reflecting the intensity of the subject in distinctive ways of expressions. Their proposals run from critical human representations, the self and the virus, to splashes of subjective realities, exposing the explosive situations we are facing all of us.

Milagros Bello, PhD

Art critic/curator

The Walt Disney Family Museum presents 

it’s a small world: A Virtual Community Art Exhibition 

“There is just one moon and one golden sun, 

And a smile means friendship to everyone. 

Though the mountains divide and the oceans are wide, it's a small world after all.” 

San Francisco, 8 December, 2020—The Walt Disney Family Museum is pleased to debut its second virtual community art exhibition, it’s a small world. Showcasing a diverse selection of original 2D, 3D, and short film  creations by teen and adult artists from around the globe, it’s a small world: A Virtual Community Art  Exhibition will be on view to the public on the museum’s website from Wednesday, 9 December 2020 at 1pm PT. 

The Walt Disney Family Museum’s first virtual exhibition, The World of Tomorrow, which opened in June,  called upon amateur and professional artists of all ages to share their ideas and hopes for our future. Now, it’s  a small world has asked the museum’s global community to share their visions for a just and equitable present.  

Just weeks after the Civil Rights Act was passed into law in the U.S., "it's a small world" premiered at the 1964– 1965 New York World's Fair. In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, according to songwriter and Disney  Legend Richard Sherman, its lyrics were meant to be “a prayer for peace.” Like many other works of art, "it's a  small world" was informed by, and inextricably linked to, the realities that existed during its creation. 

“We selected ‘it’s a small world’ as the inspiration for this virtual exhibition because it illustrates the  importance of appreciating and embracing cultural differences,” says museum Executive Director, Kirsten  Komoroske. “This theme is poignantly celebrated by our participating artists, and I am deeply grateful to each  of them for contributing their work to this initiative and bringing this exhibition to life.” 

The Walt Disney Family Museum received hundreds of contributions from artists based in Mexico, Canada,  India, Singapore, and all throughout the United States. Submissions were first entered in a juried pool, with 120 pieces ultimately selected to be displayed in a 3D-rendering of the Diane Disney Miller Exhibition Hall,  

which has previously housed world-class exhibitions including MAGIC, COLOR, FLAIR: The World of Mary Blair, Disney and Dalí: Architects of the Imagination, and Mickey Mouse: From Walt to the World. 

Works have been arranged in the virtual space by young and adult artists, artwork medium, and a gallery  dedicated to various interpretations of the “it's a small world” facade. Viewers will be able to independently  navigate through each gallery with 360° views and options to zoom in on each piece that includes information  about the work and the artist. 

it’s a small world: A Virtual Community Art Exhibition will be available to view for free at  waltdisney.org/smallworld or on the WDFM mobile app from Wednesday, 9 December at 1pm PT.