Join us in welcoming and celebrating Print Public Artists, Parent-Artists, Honorary Fellows, CCA Hamaguchi awardees, and the inaugural Jen Cole AIR!

In addition to Kala’s fellowship programs, we have special initiatives and funding that provide access, artist residencies, and stipends to bring artists to Kala and support their work to advance their craft, take artistic risks, experiment with new forms of art making, and tap into the creative capacity of art to connect people and to mobilize conversations about social, political, cultural, and economic issues.

We're excited to announce that Cheryl Derricotte and Marcel Pardo Ariza are the new Print Public artists. They will have 16-month concurrent artist residencies at Kala and at the City of Berkeley where they'll be working with the Planning Department as cultural strategists on the Climate Pilot Equity Fund and the San Pablo Avenue Specific Plan. Demetri Broxton & Rupy C. Tut are beginning their parent artist residencies supported by Sustainable Arts Foundation. We'll soon be welcoming Honorary Fellows and collaborative team Jenny Lin & Eloisa Aquino from Montreal. Hamaguchi Fellows this year include talented CCA graduates Joseph Blake and Alex Larsen. Last, but not least it has been an honor to welcome Alyssa Aviles as the inaugural Jen Cole artist-in-residence. Beth Fein and Kala’s community of artists came together to create an artist residency award in celebration of the work and legacy of beloved artist Jen Cole. This award is designed to support a local printmaker who is at a pivotal point in their practice, needs support financially or in other ways, and for whom this opportunity will be transformative creatively. You can contribute to the ongoing award here. This will be offered annually through the July 15th AIR deadline.

Applications for Kala’s 2023-2024 Fellowship and special program initiatives are open through slideroom and the deadline to apply is March 15

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2023-2024 Print Public Municipal Artist-in-Residence Program

Cheryl Derricotte is a visual artist and her favorite mediums are glass and paper. Originally from Washington, DC, she lives and makes art in San Francisco, CA. Her art has been featured in the New York Times, The Guardian, The San Francisco Chronicle, MerciSF and the San Francisco Business Times. She was awarded the commission to develop a monument to Harriet Tubman at the transit-oriented development Gateway at Millbrae Station, the first sculptural tribute to the abolitionist in glass. In 2022, Cheryl was named Inaugural BIPOC Artist-in-Residence at the Corning Museum of Glass: The Studio.

Marcel Pardo Ariza (b. Bogotá, Colombia) (they/them) is a trans visual artist, educator and curator who explores the relationship between queer and trans kinship through constructed photographs, site-specific installations and public programming. Their work is rooted in close dialogue and collaboration with trans, non-binary and queer friends and peers, most of whom are performers, artists, educators, policymakers, and community organizers. Their practice celebrates collective care and inter-generational connection. Their work is invested in creating long term interdisciplinary collaborations and opportunities that are non-hierarchical and equitable.

Demetri Broxton is a mixed media artist of Louisiana Creole and Filipino heritage who was born and raised in Oakland, CA. His textile sculptures reflect his connection to the sacred art of the Yoruba people of Nigeria, the beading traditions of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians, and his love of hip hop and graffiti. Broxton holds a BFA with an emphasis in oil painting from UC Berkeley (2002) and an MA in Museum Studies from San Francisco State University (2010). His work has been exhibited internationally and most recently at SFMOMA Artists Gallery (2019), UNTITLED Art Fair (2020 & 2021), and Kala Art Institute (2021). His work is held in several private collections and the permanent collection of the Monterey Art Museum. He is represented by Patricia Sweetow Gallery in San Francisco, CA.

Rupy C. Tut creates paintings on paper using handmade pigments and materials. Her work is rooted in personal history; Tut is an immigrant, a mother, a grandchild of refugees and a practitioner of traditional Indian painting techniques in use since 18th century AD. Tut’s meticulous line work explores the relationship to homeland, and the criteria of belonging as an immigrant and a woman. Her work has recently been highlighted through exhibitions at the deYoung Museum and Headlands Center for the Arts, as well as solo shows at the Triton Museum of Art and Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco. Tut’s work is a part of significant private and public collections within the United States and the U.K., including Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the Asian Art Museum (San Francisco).

A special thanks to Sustainable Arts Foundation for supporting Parent Artists Rupy C. Tut and Demetri Broxton.

2022-2023 Honorary Fellows

Jenny Lin is a visual artist based in Tiohtià:ke / Montreal who works with experimental narrative and autobiographical fiction, mostly in the form of print installations, artists’ books and zines. Drawn to the socio-political, accessible and community-based aspects of print and zine-making, Lin uses drawing and text to process life experiences and current events, creating sequential works that move through spaces of discomfort, ambiguity, uncertainty and catharsis. Lin has collaborated with Eloisa Aquino as B&D Press since 2009.

Eloisa Aquino is a Brazilian-Canadian artist and zinester who lives and works in Montreal, where she runs the micro-press B&D Press. She was born in São Paulo (Brazil), where she made zines and worked as a journalist and translator, and moved to Montreal in order to pursue a Master’s in Media Studies. Eloisa's work is focused in non-fictional illustrated narratives on queer topics, especially stories and histories at the margins.

2022-2023 CCA Hamaguchi Fellow and Jen Cole Artist-in-Residence

Joseph Blake is an artist. He grew up in rural Washington and attended California College of the Arts, graduating with a BFA in Printmedia. He currently resides in Oakland and makes print-objects.

Alyssa Aviles is a visual artist and arts educator based in San Francisco, CA. Traditionally a printmaker, Alyssa embodies the concepts of repetition, layering and ritual across the various mediums she works in. Alyssa's work explores themes of the feminine, identity and spirituality within the context of the Latinx experience. She views her work as a threshold of transcendence through personal and political realms. Alyssa developed her printmaking practice at Mission Gráfica, where she spent many years working as an instructor and studio assistant. She currently directs the printmaking program at Youth Art Exchange and operates Suavecita Press.