Brandi's Grad Art Exhibit "Where We Build Havens: Imagination as Resistance

California State University art graduate student Brandi Nuse-Villegas is presenting her interactive graduate art exhibit, "Where We Build Havens: Imagination as Resistance" February 17 through March 8 at Fresno State University Phebe Conley Gallery 5225 Backer Street. Reception is on Thursday, February `19, 7:00-9:00pm. Contact Brandi at [email protected] if you would like to attend the exhibit outside these hours to arrange a visit.

The exhibit includes collaborations and art in partnership with community members, including those with lived experienced being unhoused, students, and my nieces

The exhibit explores the “potential space,” space in which we allow ourselves to imagine, whether it is in play or other expressions of creativity, is an essential part of our being. Allowing ourselves to dwell in that space, in all parts of our life, including work, and in community. reclaiming our creativity and reclaiming play is a form of resistance and a means of thriving, personally and collectively.

Play and other creative acts are a lifeline that sustains hope. It is a means to reclaim agency and an assertion of our humanity, individually and collectively, in its complexity and beauty. It is a means of coming back to ourselves and envisioning together. A means of joy, a form of “energy for change,” (Audre Lorde)

“There exists an intermediate area of experiencing life, to which our inner reality and external life contribute…it shall exist as a resting place for the individual engaged in the perpetual human task of keeping the inner and outer reality separate, yet interrelated.” D.W. Winnicott. and outer reality separate, yet interrelated.” D.W. Winnicott.

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