Women from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec look on during the community's 2022 feast day. Photo: Elizabeth Spavento.

Border Patrol Curatorial Collective

Residency featuring Indigenous artists from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec

San Joaquin Valley Kern County Latino/a/x Dance Folklife/Other Foodways Music Oral Traditions/Language Ritual/Religious Arts Visual/Craft/Material Arts Indigenous Mexican, Central and South American Oaxacan 2023

Residency featuring Indigenous artists from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec

Women from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec look on during the community’s 2022 feast day. Photo: Elizabeth Spavento.

Border Patrol Curatorial Collective (grantee: Elizabeth Spavento) explores the intersection of contemporary art and capitalist aesthetics. An 18th Street Arts Center Creative Corps Fellow, the collective will host exhibitions, residencies, events, and other public programs in spaces K4 and K5 of Bakersfield’s Brundage Swap Meet from July 2023–June 2024.

Altar created for El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec’s 2022 feast day celebration. Photo: Elizabeth Spavento.

Living Cultures Grant

2023

R.I.P. Residency Featuring Indigenous Artists from El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec

Twenty-three artists from the Indigenous Oaxacan community of El Pueblo San Pablo Tijaltepec will be in residence October 25–29 as part of Border Patrol’s R.I.P residency program, addressing the politics and aesthetics of grief and death. Artists from San Pablo Tijaltepec will build an ofrenda leading up to the Día de Los Muertos celebration, create and embroider traditional blouses and skirts, as well as practice music. Valentín Bautista, San Pablo Tijaltepec’s President, will give a talk on Sunday, October 29th.