Border Craft, Installation View, Mandeville Art Gallery, March 1-June 15, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Border Craft, Installation View, Mandeville Art Gallery, March 1-June 15, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Border Craft, Installation View, Mandeville Art Gallery, March 1-June 15, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Isidro Pérez García, Tuleño Weaves the Center, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Tanya Aguiñiga, Somos una tela continua, 2023 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Tanya Aguiñiga, Artist selections from the Border Arts Workshop / Taller de Arte Fronterizo archives at the UC San Diego Library Special Collections and Archives (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Sofía Córdova, dawn_chorusiii: the fruit they don’t have here, coro_del_albaiii: la fruta que no tienen aquí 破曉歌聲 iii: 這裏沒有的水果, 2021 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Marisa Raygoza, La cuerda floja / The Tightrope, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Marisa Raygoza, La cuerda floja / The Tightrope, 2025 (Photo by Pablo Mason)
Border Craft
- VENUE Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego
- LOCATION La Jolla, CA
- DATES March 1–June 15, 2025
- URL mandevilleartgallery.ucsd.edu
ARTISTS
Tanya Aguiñiga, Jackie Amézquita, Margarita Cabrera, Sofía Córdova, Isidro Pérez García, tercas (Mely Barragán and Irma Sofia Poeter), Marisa Raygoza
DESCRIPTION
Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions, including San Diego–Tijuana. The works on view, along with a series of accompanying public programs, serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. Tanya Aguiñiga, one of the exhibiting artists and a Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at UC San Diego’s Department of Visual Arts, describes her art and activism at the US–Mexico border as a “song to collapse the wall.” This statement points to the sense of interconnection and poetic resilience present across the works on display, which include ceramics, furniture, quilts, weavings, embroidery, video, and performance.
Border Craft, Installation Views, Mandeville Art Gallery, March 1-June 15, 2025 (Photos by Pablo Mason)
Border Craft is made possible by Teiger Foundation