Selected Art Projects & Collaborations
Poderoses (October 2023)
Art & poetry Collaboration with Rommy Torrico for Amplifier & National Latina Institute. Artwork and poetry series that celebrates the powerful community in Texas fighting for safe reproductive health care options.
Protect Trans Youth
In collaboration with Jayah Panora/Rommy Torrico/ Sonia Guiñansaca for Gender Justice LA, 2022.
While Program Director at Gender Justice LA (2021-2023), Sonia Guiñansaca re-designed the organization’s website and branding. In partnership with Rommy Torrico they created the designs below for the organizations marketing, outreach, merch, posters , and fliers.
Artist, Rommy Torrico, was selected by Galería de la Raza, to create a billboard image for their Pride Month series in San Francisco. They partner with Sonia Guiñansaca to create this image and used a line of their poem lifting up Queer Trans Migrant kin.
DIG: A Hole To Put Your Grief In
A project by Cara Levine and supported by the AJU’s Institute for Jewish Creativity, is a week-long performance of digging a large-scale hole in the ground, around which other artists utilized the site as a container for new works relating to grief and mourning, after a year of great collective loss. The weeklong duration contains this symbolic period of mourning or ‘shiva’, at the end of which, on the second Saturday, we filled the hole with water and perform a ritual cleansing or ‘mikveh’, then refilled it with its original dirt, and planted native seeds to complete the cycle for renewal.
The opening day was marked with a ceremony from Alan Salazar, a local Chumash tribal leader, and storyteller, mid-week, a havdalah service was led by Cantor Chayim Frenkel from Kehilat Israel Temple, and the final Saturday closed with celebrating closing ceremony and refilling of the hole.
DIG created a collective space to hold and process some of the grief from the past year marked by COVID19. As the covid landscape begins to change again, it felt critical to mark this moment. While Levine dug everyday, the public was also invited to participate in the digging. Artists Adrienne Adar, Dorit Cypis, Faye Driscoll, Sonia Guiñansca, Asher Hartman, Michele Jaquis, and, hannah rubin each presented new work on site throughout the week.
Documentation credits: Direction by Cara Levine, Videography, Editing and Sound by Nir Yaniv, Additional Still Footage by Shay Myerson and Leda Maliga.
