California College of the Arts - CCA | Indira Allegra | CCA 2021 Commencement Alumni Performance @CCAarts | Uploaded June 2021 | Updated October 2024, 36 minutes ago.
How do we come to learn about art? To teach it? The Work of Looking explores the tension existing in learning environments when the work of teaching and learning begin as separate threads but emerge as one cloth.
Indira Allegra’s work re-imagines “memorial” as a genre vital for life for its ability to hold the tension that grief creates inside ourselves within crafted objects, spaces, and rituals. Allegra is deeply informed by Quiet, the inner life of people, places, and things, and the ritual, relational, and performative aspects of weaving. They use weaving as a methodology to explore the repetitive crossing of forces held under tension—be they material, social, or emotional. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at Museum of Arts and Design, the Arts Incubator in Chicago, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, and the Museum of the African Diaspora, among others. Their commissions include performances for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured in ARTFORUM, BBC Radio 4, Art Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and Surface Design Magazine. They have been the recipient of the Burke Prize, Artadia Award, Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant, MAP Fund, Windgate Craft Fellowship, and Jackson Literary Award, among others. Allegra is a YBCA 100 Honoree, Fleishhacker Eureka Fellow, Lucas Artist Fellow, and California Black Voices Grantee. indiraallegra.com
This performance was commissioned for CCA's 2021 Commencement Ceremony on May 10, 2021.
Learn more: cca.edu/2021
How do we come to learn about art? To teach it? The Work of Looking explores the tension existing in learning environments when the work of teaching and learning begin as separate threads but emerge as one cloth.
Indira Allegra’s work re-imagines “memorial” as a genre vital for life for its ability to hold the tension that grief creates inside ourselves within crafted objects, spaces, and rituals. Allegra is deeply informed by Quiet, the inner life of people, places, and things, and the ritual, relational, and performative aspects of weaving. They use weaving as a methodology to explore the repetitive crossing of forces held under tension—be they material, social, or emotional. Their work has been featured in exhibitions at Museum of Arts and Design, the Arts Incubator in Chicago, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Center for Craft Creativity and Design, and the Museum of the African Diaspora, among others. Their commissions include performances for SFMOMA, de Young Museum, Wattis Institute, City of Oakland, and SFJAZZ Poetry Festival. Allegra’s work has been featured in ARTFORUM, BBC Radio 4, Art Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, and Surface Design Magazine. They have been the recipient of the Burke Prize, Artadia Award, Mike Kelley Artist Project Grant, MAP Fund, Windgate Craft Fellowship, and Jackson Literary Award, among others. Allegra is a YBCA 100 Honoree, Fleishhacker Eureka Fellow, Lucas Artist Fellow, and California Black Voices Grantee. indiraallegra.com
This performance was commissioned for CCA's 2021 Commencement Ceremony on May 10, 2021.
Learn more: cca.edu/2021
