Following her Brown Bag on April 14, Jessica Elena Aquino invites us to explore how our own voices and artistic expression can address questions of justice, identity, and visibility while contributing to collective action. Aquino will guide us as we carve linocuts and prints. All supplies provided.

Jessica Elena Aquino is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, and horticulturist from Santa Ana, California, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a bachelors of arts from Colgate University and an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally at institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Creative Alliance, Anna Zorina Gallery, NARS Foundation, and The Other Brooklyn Fair. Aquino has participated in residencies and fellowships at the University of Arkansas–Fort Smith as a Windgate Fellow, Manhattan Graphics Center, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Santa Fe Art Institute, Chautauqua School of Art, Textile Arts Center, and the Chrysalis Institute. She is a recipient of the Murray Dessner Travel Grant, which supported her research in natural dyeing and tapestry weaving in Teotitlán del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico.