MASCellaneous: Rainbow Visionaries
A workshop w/ Edgar Fabián Frías
Monday, November 7, 2022
6–7:30pm PT
VIRTUAL via Zoom
About the Workshop
Join multidisciplinary artist Edgar Fabián Frías in a divinatory space to facilitate attendees' connections between identity, community, art, & euphoric visionaries!
Tapping into the long hxstory of gender euphoric visionaries, this workshop will support its attendees in forging connections between their identities, communities, and creative practices, using divination as a source of inspiration and guidance. Ideal for beginners or those slightly versed in divination techniques and open to all forms of art making. We will go over the most common techniques available for practitioners and practice a few of them together, using creative practice as a way to process our experiences.
Please bring any sacred and/or divinatory tools you have at your disposal (e.g. tarot, runes, crystals, a bowl with water, a candle, tea leaves, etc.) and any art materials that may support you in connecting with yourself (e.g. your phone, pen and paper, a camera, your body, etc.
FREE with registration! (click Register for Event above or below)! Tax-deductible donations welcome!
This event is for cis and trans men and masculine of center women and non-binary people looking to explore queer masculinities, but open to people of all gender identities and expressions.
About the Artist
Edgar, a 2-Spirit Wixárika person stands with their hands clasped in front of them in front of a black background. They are wearing a purple and pale blue tie-dyed t-shirt. They have a bald shaved head with a curly black mustache and beard. They are facing the camera with a solemn expression on their face.
Edgar Fabián Frías works in installation, photography, video art, sound, sculpture, printed textiles, GIFs, performance, social practice, and community organizing, among other forms. Frías is Wixárika and their family is from Mexico, though they have lived in the United States for most of their life. Their art addresses historical legacies and acts of resistance, resiliency, and radical imagination within the context of Indigenous Futurism, spirituality, play, pedagogy, animism, and queer aesthetics. Weaving together the traditional and ancestral with the contemporaneous and emergent.
Born in East Los Angeles in 1983, Frías received dual BA degrees in Psychology and Studio Art from the UC, Riverside. In 2013, they received an MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, with an emphasis on Interpersonal Neurobiology and Somatic Psychotherapy. Frías received their MFA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley in 2022. Their work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Vincent Price Art Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco, Oregon Contemporary, MOCA Jacksonville, Performance is Alive, Project Space Festival Juárez, and ArtBo, among others. Their work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Taschen, Bustle, Mashable, Slate, CVLT Nation, Terremoto, Hyperallergic, and other publications.
Connect with Edgar on instagram: @edgarfabianfrias
To Participate
Attendance is FREE, but donations are welcome by joining our Patreon page or via our fiscal sponsor Intersection for the Arts: Donate Here
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About the Series
MASCellaneous is a creative workshop series exploring queer masculinities. The program seeks to create new queer masculine archetypes, shift existing queer masculine culture, and create affinity amongst cis and trans men and masculine of center women and non-binary people. Learn more →
MASCellaneous is made possible with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities (www.calhum.org), and the Artist Power Convenings program at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.