UCR Arts Gives $50K Grants for Arts Projects award to Support a Solo Exhibition Opening in Fall 2022

By: Sharjeel Sohaib

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Jan 27, 2022

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UCR ARTS has an approved $50,000 Grants for Arts Projects award to support โ€œChristina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures,โ€ an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Christina Fernandez. 

โ€œThe National Endowment for the Arts is proud to support arts projects like this one from UCR ARTS that help support the communityโ€™s creative economy,โ€ UCR ARTS is among the arts organizations nationwide that are using the arts as a source of strength, a path to well-being, and providing access and opportunity for people to connect and find joy through the arts.โ€

Ann Eilers | NEA Acting Chair

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$28.8 million of Grants by the National Endowment for the Arts

This UCR grant is part of 1,248 projects across the United States totaling more than $28.8 million selected to receive this first round of the fiscal year 2022 funding in the Grants for Arts Projects category.

Los Angeles-based photographer Christina Fernandez

The $500K UCR grant will promote the work of Los Angeles-based photographer Christina Fernandez. It captures scenes of Mexican American life, labor, gender, migration, and identity. 

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures

Name of the arts exhibition for which UCR provided $500K in grant

โ€œChristinaโ€™s work is deeply informed by postmodernism in art and her political formation in the Chicano Movement, โ€œThe exhibition examines how these forces come together in her practice. This award from the NEA is a wonderful imprimatur for the exhibition. Christinaโ€™s work is so deserving of the recognition, and the award will greatly contribute to the success of our exhibition and publication.โ€

Szupinska, Curatorial and editorial advisor Chon Noriega, distinguished professor of Film, Television, and Digital Media at UCLA. 

Other Aspects of the Arts Exhibition

  • Featuring six essays by art historians and scholars of Latinx Studies
  • An extensive interview with Christina Fernandez
  • A book that traces the development of Fernandezโ€™s work over the last three decades. It is published by the California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTS and the Chicano Studies Research Center at UCLA in the fall 2022

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