Description
Favianna Rodriguez is an internationally renowned artist, activist, and teacher based in Oakland, California. Her bold posters
and digital artwork deal with social justice issues such as immigration, globalization, economic injustice, patriarchy, racism,
and war. Rodriguez works in a variety of graphic media, including digital art, silkscreen art, linoleum cuts, wood block cuts
and monotypes. Her papers currently include graphic art posters and prints on various media, newspaper articles, designs and
sketches of artwork, and a video from her talk at UC Santa Barbara. Her papers will grow over time to eventually include
art sketches, lectures, correspondence, photographs, videos and more ephemera.
Background
Favianna Rodriguez is a celebrated printmaker and digital artist based in Oakland, California. Using high-contrast colors
and vivid figures, her composites reflect literal and imaginative migration, global community, and interdependence. Whether
her subjects are immigrant day laborers in the U.S., mothers of disappeared women in Juárez, Mexico, or her own abstract self
portraits, Rodriguez brings new audiences into the art world by refocusing the cultural lens. Through her work we witness
the changing U.S. metropolis and a new diaspora in the arts.
Extent
10 Linear Feet
(3 oversize flat-boxes, 1 document box, 2 flat-file drawers).
Restrictions
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Research Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish
or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Research Collections. Permission for publication
is given on behalf of the Department of Special Research Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended
to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Availability
The collection is open for research.