ARTISTS



Francis Estrada - Born in the Philippines and currently residing in Brooklyn, Francis Estrada is a visual artist, museum educator, and freelance educator of Filipino art and culture. Francis has a fine arts degree in painting and drawing from San Jose State University, and he has taught in a variety of studio, classroom, and museum settings to diverse audiences, including programs for adults with disabilities, cultural institutions, and after-school programs. He was also an administrator and educator at the Museum for African Art, where he enjoyed teaching about the amalgamation of art and culture through objects. Francis exhibits his work internationally, including online publications. His work focuses on culture, history, and perception.

Jevijoe Vitug - Born in Philippines and now based in Queens, New York, Jevijoe Vitug creates paintings and community based projects as avant-garde strategy to visibilize labor, indigenous legacy and forgotten history of Filipinx in the United States.
Jevijoe earned his MFA dual degree in Studio Arts and Design and Technology from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015 and his work has been included in exhibitions at the Cultural Center of the Philippines (2005, 2006), Singapore Art Museum (2006), Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2009), Contemporary Arts Center, Las Vegas (2012), Staff show at The Metropolitan Museum of Art , NY (2017), Queens Museum, NY (2018), San Diego Art Institute, San Diego CA (2019). His performance projects have been presented at NIPAF, Japan (2004), Koret Educational Center at SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA (2008), London Biennale organized by David Medalla (2012, 2014), Flux residency at AroS Museum, Denmark (2018), Museum Mile at The Africa Center and El Museo Del Barrio (2019). In 2019, Vitug is a recipient of Queens Arts Fund New Works Grant and an artist-in-residence of The Laundromat Project’s Create Change Program. He is member of Museum Union Art Workers, District Council- 37 Local 1503.

Xenia Diente is interested in strengthening opportunities for artists and designers to creatively serve NYC. As a Queens based public art professional, she has worked for 17 years with artists and multiple stakeholders improving civic facilities and infrastructure with public art. Xenia has served on artist selection panels for the NYC Percent for Art Program, Queens Council for the Arts, and co-chaired the Augustus Saint-Gaudens award for professional achievement in Art.  She was a 2011 social practice artist in residence led by Rick Lowe at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Coro Leadership NY alumna, a Laundromat Project Create Change Fellow and current artist-in-resident. She currently serves on the board of Filipino American National History Society–Metro NY chapter. Xenia earned a BFA from The Cooper Union, formerly a tuition-free art school in NYC.

Jaclyn Reyes is an artist and designer with experience in bridging multidisciplinary practices with education, storytelling, and research. She has done work for the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Resilient Communities program at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Penguin Random House, Condé Nast, and Visionaire. In 2014, she received a Fulbright grant and worked as an educator in Malaysia. As a teaching artist, she has worked in Brooklyn, Phnom Penh, Xela, and Gamay. Currently, she is a 2020 Create Change artist-in-residence at The Laundromat Project, where she is co-creating community-based art interventions with Little Manila Queens Bayanihan Arts in Woodside, Queens. She studied studio art at California State University Long Beach before transferring to Syracuse University where she earned her BFA in art photography. Last year, she received her master’s degree in education from Harvard University.



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