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For Alumna Claire Apana, Origami is an Integral Part of Her Practice
Inspired by the work of M.C. Esher and drawing on her heritage as a mixed person of Hawaiian descent, Claire June Apana started making giant origami structures. IMPRESSIONS is an “American scale” installation that was shown at University of California, Santa Cruz’s Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery…
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
We will not experience the full power of the arts unless access to the means of representation is available to all. And we will not realize the full power of the arts if our iconographies and methodologies are dictated by the very few. So, I am driven to expand access so that authorship, critique and the shaping of what we know can be driven by all, and what we take for granted or natural can shift, and to keep our definition of the arts, fervently open.