ARTISTS

LEAD ARTISTS

Weston TeruyaLead Artist

Weston Teruya creates paper sculptures and installations that examine the social dynamics, textures, and histories of specific sites and communities. He has exhibited at Pro Arts and the Mills College Art Museum in Oakland, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Kearny Street Workshop in San Francisco, Longhouse Projects & the NYC Fire Museum in New York, and the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. Weston has received grants from Artadia and the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Investing in Artists program and has been an artist-in-residence with Montalvo Arts Center, Mills College, Recology San Francisco, Kala Art Institute, the deYoung Museum, and Ox-Bow.

Weston is also a member of Related Tactics, a collective of artists, writers, curators, and educators of color and is the host-producer of (un)making, a podcast in discussion with artists, arts administrators, and cultural workers of color.

www.westonteruya.com

Kimberley ArtecheLead Artist

Kimberley Arteche is an artist interested in globalism and how technology has affected diasporic families and performances of hybrid cultures. She works in photography, installation, and performance.

Kimberley was awarded the Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards by the San Francisco Foundation in 2014, showed in Root Division’s 2015 MFA Now, and was Kearny Street Workshop’s 2015 APAture Featured Visual Artist. She was awarded San Francisco State University School of Art’s Distinguished Graduate.

Kim is currently teaching at Leadership High School and is Root Division’s 2016-2017 Blau-Gold Teaching Fellow, teaching with San Francisco’s Filipino Education Center. Kim received her BFA in Visual Arts/Photography from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and her MFA in Fine Art/Photography at San Francisco State University.