Image: Vo Vo, Still Fighting: Textile workers of Lawrence, Strike of 1912 to present (detail), 2022, audio, cotton, wool, 58 x 120 x 2 inches, Image: Mario Gallucci

Please join us for a dynamic conversation between Vo Vo and Professor Andrew Santa Lucia (School of Architecture at PSU) about the relationship between anti-authoritarianism, anti-fascism, anarchism, art and design. This event will take place in the galleries of JSMA near Vo Vo’s multimedia installation Still Fighting: Textile Workers of Lawrence, Strike of 1912 to present (2022), which was created for the exhibition Weaving Data that is currently on view. We invite you to engage more closely with Vo’s artwork and the overall exhibition through this interdisciplinary dialogue. Brandon Truett, Luce Foundation Curator of Academic Programs at the JSMA at PSU, will moderate the discussion.

This program is free and open to the public. ASL interpreting will be provided.*

Vo's recently initiated career as a visual artist has seen them primarily work in textiles, embroidery, weaving, and furniture building. Their installations seek to interrogate power dynamics, structural oppression, challenge histories and realities of imperialism, white supremacy and colonization. They continue to explore support strategies and models of community care within a post-traumatic social landscape, focusing on the resilience of BIPOC, LGBTQIA2S+ and disabled communities.

Andrew Santa Lucia is a Cuban American designer, educator, and prison abolitionist, as well as Assistant Professor of Practice at PSU’s School of Architecture. He runs Office Andorus, which designs architecture for activists, public institutions and private clients with the goal of influencing public perception through the cultural instrument of architecture. He is currently co-writing a two volume book with historian & critic Daniel Jonas-Roche, entitled Antifascist Architecture, which serves to locate architectural histories outside of capitalism in the 20th & 21st centuries with a particular focus on the buildings & aesthetics associated with militancy, socialism, anarchism and mutual aid.

 Link to register: http://bit.ly/3EPTIgy

Weaving Data was organized by JSMA at PSU and curated by Theo Downes-Le Guin and Nancy Downes-Le Guin.

Exhibition, education, and outreach programs have been made possible by a grant from The Ford Family Foundation.

This exhibition is supported by the Oregon Cultural Trust.

*Accessibility initiatives have been made possible by a grant from the Richard & Helen Phillips Charitable Fund to the JSMA Community Access Fund.