A two-part evening designed to foster meaningful connections and conversations. The first part will feature a panel discussion between Yasmine Nasser Diaz, gloria galvez, Beth Pickens, and Irene Tsatsos, offering unique perspectives on the theme of intergenerational friendship and mentorship. After a short break, we will move into the second part, which will resemble a speed-dating format, but with a  focus on mentorship connections. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with one another, using a set of prompt cards with thoughtfully crafted questions to guide the conversations and help facilitate connections. This is a chance for people to find mentors, share wisdom, and expand their networks in a relaxed, supportive environment.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Beth Pickens is a consultant for artists. She’s the author of The Artist’s Deck (Chronicle Books), Make Your Art No Matter What (Chronicle Books), and Your Art Will Save Your Life (Feminist Press.) She and her work-wife Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs host Homework Club, a year-round workshop support system for artists, and Parakeet, a year-long writing program for people with a book stuck in them. She’s a former FCCW Board member and a longtime fan.

 

 

 

 

gloria galvez (she/they) is an artist, organizer, educator, and nature steward whose artistic practice zig-zags across drawing, video, sculpture, and communal experiences — while often interweaving into these forms and their making, community organizing, and citizen science insights and frameworks. She is the founder of earth dwell/ers school, an ongoing series of site-based performance lectures and postcard snail mailings that dwell on earth sites, the earthlings that inhabit them, and the issues they face. galvez is a faculty member and the current Robert Fitzpatrick Chair in the Art program at CalArts — and she is a recent fellow with Nature Nexus Institute. galvez has exhibited in traditional and alternative spaces like Chuco’s Justice Center, the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, the Radical Mycology Convergence, and the Mistake Room gallery — and has been an artist in residence with organizations like the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles and the Feminist Center for Creative Work.

 

Irene Georgia Tsatsos (she/they) is an artist with fluid life/work/art boundaries. For over 30 years, she has sustained a daily rhythm of writing, drawing, and reading, which informs her work in clay, textiles, installation, and curatorial projects.

Her interests center on the interpersonal and psychosocial dynamics, norms, and values within families, relationships, workplaces, and communities. She explores attachment styles, the agency of infants and toddlers, intergenerational trauma, migration histories, loneliness, death rituals, cultural assimilation, and epigenetics.

Until 2023, Irene served as Director of Exhibition Programs and Chief Curator at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA. She has also held positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Getty, published extensively, and served on numerous award and program panels. After holding the honor of being founding chair of the early Feminist Center for Creative Work, Irene is back on the board for this next chapter.

 

Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a visual artist whose work often inhabits domestic spaces to explore cultural identity, feminism, and social critique. Her work has been exhibited at the Getty Center, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Station Beirut in Lebanon, and the Poetry Project Space in Berlin. Her mixed media works are part of the permanent collections at LACMA, the Arab American National Museum, The Columbus Museum, and UCLA. Diaz has been awarded the Harpo Visual Artists Grant, the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship, and the Efroymson Visiting Artist Residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.