Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens
26041 Midline Rd, Cleveland, TX 77328
(832) 422-5090
Leticia R. Bajuyo, Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato), 2023. Photo: Paul Hester.
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Artist Statement by Leticia R. Bajuyo
Leticia R. Bajuyo creates visual poems, drawings, sculptures, and site-responsive installations that are inspired by the cyclical patterns. Bajuyo’s continued research of cultural privilege and internalized pressures of assimilation yields a drive to create visions of comfort, containment, and control that question their own existence while inviting interaction. Bajuyo has presented site-specific works at the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan; at the Silos of the Site Gallery at Sawyer Yards in Houston, Texas; at the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee; and in the Tony Hillerman Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Current projects include a traffic roundabout sculpture for the Fort Worth Public Art program and solo exhibitions at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas and at the Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Bajuyo seeks community and collaboration by participating in collectives such as the Filipinx Artists of Houston and Land Report Collective as well as serving on Boards of Directors for Public Art Dialogue and the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Bajuyo received her B.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Originally from a small, rural town on the border of Illinois and Kentucky, Bajuyo creates, lives, works, and teaches in Norman, Oklahoma where she is an Assistant Professor at The University of Oklahoma.
Marilou Mariko Carrera and the Filipinx Artists of Houston
(they/siya*/she) is a queer Filipinx-Japanese cultural worker participating from the area called Chicago on Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi lands. An emerging artist with roots in healthcare, organizing, and advocacy, they root largely in the practices of writing and movement as pathways and practices for personal and collective power, sharing stories, and healing. Their current preoccupations include Kali martial arts, Butoh, queer online series, anti-imperialism, and reading.
*Siya does not translate to English use the way “they” and “she” do, but please know it is a gender-neutral pronoun from the Philippines.
The Filipinx Artists of Houston’s mission is to grow a creative Filipinx community committed to discovery and sharing the stories of voices unheard through each of our own gifts while being rooted in the collective and individual experience of being human. Members of the Filipinx Artist of Houston include: Jerick Alegarbes, Dr. Pat Lindsay Catalla-Buscaino “Ateh Pinky”, RJ Coronado, Nikki Deocampo, Nico Herrera, Josh Johnson, Matt Manalo, Cyril Maza, Tita Lorna Maza, Jenah Maravilla, Kim Miranda, Hannah Medrano, Trisha Morales, Anthony Pabillano, Cybil “Ateh_Ubeh” Saenz, Rea Sample, Christian Toledo, and Debbie Vu.
Work in progress
Leticia R. Bajuyo
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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Leticia R. Bajuyo, Swing Set: Share a Share (Duyan: Ibahagi ang Balato), 2023. Photo: Paul Hester.
Artist Statement by Leticia R. Bajuyo
Leticia R. Bajuyo creates visual poems, drawings, sculptures, and site-responsive installations that are inspired by the cyclical patterns. Bajuyo’s continued research of cultural privilege and internalized pressures of assimilation yields a drive to create visions of comfort, containment, and control that question their own existence while inviting interaction. Bajuyo has presented site-specific works at the From Waste to Art Museum in Baku, Azerbaijan; at the Silos of the Site Gallery at Sawyer Yards in Houston, Texas; at the Nashville International Airport in Tennessee; and in the Tony Hillerman Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Current projects include a traffic roundabout sculpture for the Fort Worth Public Art program and solo exhibitions at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville, Arkansas and at the Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. Bajuyo seeks community and collaboration by participating in collectives such as the Filipinx Artists of Houston and Land Report Collective as well as serving on Boards of Directors for Public Art Dialogue and the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance. Bajuyo received her B.F.A. from the University of Notre Dame and her M.F.A. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Originally from a small, rural town on the border of Illinois and Kentucky, Bajuyo creates, lives, works, and teaches in Norman, Oklahoma where she is an Assistant Professor at The University of Oklahoma.
Marilou Mariko Carrera and the Filipinx Artists of Houston
(they/siya*/she) is a queer Filipinx-Japanese cultural worker participating from the area called Chicago on Odawa, Ojibwe, and Potawatomi lands. An emerging artist with roots in healthcare, organizing, and advocacy, they root largely in the practices of writing and movement as pathways and practices for personal and collective power, sharing stories, and healing. Their current preoccupations include Kali martial arts, Butoh, queer online series, anti-imperialism, and reading.
*Siya does not translate to English use the way “they” and “she” do, but please know it is a gender-neutral pronoun from the Philippines.
The Filipinx Artists of Houston’s mission is to grow a creative Filipinx community committed to discovery and sharing the stories of voices unheard through each of our own gifts while being rooted in the collective and individual experience of being human. Members of the Filipinx Artist of Houston include: Jerick Alegarbes, Dr. Pat Lindsay Catalla-Buscaino “Ateh Pinky”, RJ Coronado, Nikki Deocampo, Nico Herrera, Josh Johnson, Matt Manalo, Cyril Maza, Tita Lorna Maza, Jenah Maravilla, Kim Miranda, Hannah Medrano, Trisha Morales, Anthony Pabillano, Cybil “Ateh_Ubeh” Saenz, Rea Sample, Christian Toledo, and Debbie Vu.
Work in progress
Leticia R. Bajuyo
A Gift From The Bower is presented by DiverseWorks and the Locke Surls Center for Art and Nature @ Splendora Gardens (LSCAN).
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