Sacred Times
hazel batrezchavez
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October 2024
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November 2024
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What does it mean to create from a place of hope? SACRED TIMES (2024) explores affirmations during these unprecedented times. These times include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, genocide in Palestine, natural disasters, and so much more. Our individual and collective capacities are continuously tested. The phrases within these three banners --- YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AROUND YOU TO CREATE CHANGE, EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM YOU IS SACRED, YOU ARE SACRED --- are gentle reminders to the individual of the agency and power that we have in creating change in our private and public environments.
What does it mean to create from a place of hope? SACRED TIMES (2024) explores affirmations during these unprecedented times. These times include the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, genocide in Palestine, natural disasters, and so much more. Our individual and collective capacities are continuously tested. The phrases within these three banners --- YOU HAVE EVERYTHING YOU NEED AROUND YOU TO CREATE CHANGE, EVERYTHING THAT COMES FROM YOU IS SACRED, YOU ARE SACRED --- are gentle reminders to the individual of the agency and power that we have in creating change in our private and public environments.
hazel batrezchavez
hazel batrezchavez is a brown queer artist and educator. Their textiles, performance, and sculpture works are rooted in the politics of survival and the poetics of movement. batrezchavez’s work has been exhibited at El Paso Museum of Art (TX), Santa Fe Art Institute (NM), Loom Indigenous Gallery (NM), Southern Exposure (CA), SOMA (MX), Radford Museum of Art (VA), ICOSA Collective (TX), Higher Art Gallery (MI) among many others. batrezchavez received their BFA in Anthropology and Studio Art from Grinnell College and their MFA in Sculpture from the University of New Mexico. Currently they are a 2024-2025 Culture & Narrative Fellow as part of the Innovators Lab at the Opportunity Agenda. hazel batrezchavez (Stolen Land, b. 1994) lives and works as an artist and educator in Tiwa, Tewa, and Pueblo Territory (Albuquerque, NM). They are a founding member of the fronteristxs Collective and Granadina Co-op.