In this episode we have a conversation with Houston-based Salvadoran artists and teacher Francis Almendárez who has recently been awarded a YES Contemporary Artist Grant to lead a workshop and screening at Cantón San Cristobal neighborhood (Ciudad Barrios, San Miguel, ES) in 2021.
In collaboration with his brother Anthony Almendárez, as well as fellow Texas artists & musicians Abel Cisneros, Sonia Flores, Xavier Gilmore, and Gabriel Martinez, this past September they performed and recorded Navigating the Archives Within. This performance-lecture has been commissioned and produced by Aurora Picture Show and funded in part by a grant from the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance. After being postponed in March, they have reconfigured this work to fit your screen so please look forward to the premiere in December followed by a conversation with curator and critic Laura August.
http://www.yescontemporary.org/2020-artist-grants