Workshop and Photo Event: Together in Pictures with Francis Almendárez
Workshop and Photo Event: Together in Pictures with Francis Almendárez
Saturday, August 21, 2021
Have your portrait taken by Houston-based artist, Francis Almendárez, or take the opportunity to snap a photo of your loved ones yourself at this family-friendly event. Guests are invited to work with Almendárez to create polaroid photo portraits and to think about the meaning of togetherness in 2021 through written responses to the question, “what does being together mean and look like to you?” Attendees can take their polaroid portraits home with them in a paper sleeve that can be designed and decorated on-site with the help of FotoFest’s dynamic teaching artists. Photographs and responses from attendees will be digitally scanned and presented in an online exhibition via FotoFest’s Instagram page over the course of the following weeks.
This program is held in conjunction with the public art exhibition Public Life: Recording the Blur, on view through August 29 in Arts District Houston, featuring photographic works by artists Francis Almendárez, Yan Wang Preston, Lindokuhle Sobekwa, and Kara Springer.
About Francis Almendárez
Francis Almendárez is an artist, filmmaker, and educator working at the intersections of history, (auto)ethnography, and cultural production. In attempting to make sense of and reconstruct identity, he uses them as tools to address memory and trauma, specifically of im/migrant, queer, working-class bodies of Central America, the Caribbean, and the Diasporas. Almendárez has participated in exhibitions and screenings in the USA and abroad including rhythm and (p)leisure, Artpace, San Antonio, TX (2019); The Potential Wanderer, The Reading Room, Dallas, TX (2019); Sisyphus, Ver.20.18, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2018); and Voices of Our Mothers: Transcending Time and Distance, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (2018). Almendárez is the recipient of various awards including a Houston Artadia Award, the Carol Crow Memorial Fellowship from Houston Center for Photography, and artist grants, in collaboration with his brother Anthony Almendárez, from Y.ES Contemporary and the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. He has been a participant of the Artpace International Artist-in-Residence program, and the Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow Summer School. Writing on his work has been featured in publications including D Magazine, spot Magazine, Artforum, ARTNEWS, Glasstire, Y.ES Contemporary, and The Dallas Morning News among others. Almendárez was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA and is currently living and working in Houston, TX where he is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Houston School of Art. He received his MFA in Fine Art (with Distinction) from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BFA in Sculpture/New Genres from Otis College of Art and Design.
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