ARTIST FELLOW: SANDRA DE LA LOZA Sandra de la Loza utilizes a variety of mediums such as photography, sound, printmaking, video and installation to navigate ideas and spaces. De la Loza received her B.A. in Chicano Studies at the University of California, at Berkeley and her MFA at Cal State Long Beach. She has collaborated with other artists and activists to generate artist-led spaces for practice and critical dialogue. Such efforts have resulted in community centers, conferences, art events and discussion groups including Transitorio Público (2007), From the Barrel (2006-2008), The October Surprise (2004), and Arts in Action (2000-2004). She has received grants from the Center for Cultural Innovation, the California Community Foundation, the Durfee Foundation and the Department of Cultural Affairs. Recent exhibits include, Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk at the Claremont Museum of Art and Puerto Vallarta: Arte Contemporaneo 2008. The Revolution Will… Los Angeles 2019 A Project by Sandra de la Loza and The Pocho Research Society The Revolution Will…looks towards the not so distant future of Los Angeles, to discuss the potential of art and cultural production as generative forces in radical social transformation. Author Edward Said, theorizing about the role of creative and social disciplines in de-colonialist liberation struggles of the 20th century, asserts that art, specifically African literature, serves as a “vital, informing and invigorating counterpoint to the economic, political machinery at the material center of imperialism.” He argues that the creation of liberatory codes, archetypes, images and languages contribute to the invention of new subjectivities that could re-imagine social, economic and political systems. While revolutionary "movements" tend to be dismissed as "utopian", within this project the concept of “revolution” is not understood statically as an actual point of arrival, but rather as a dynamic shape-shifting process that engages the imagination, critical thinking, aesthetic gestures, actions and organizational efforts. This project will explore histories, approaches and discourses related to art and social change, by bringing together contemporary practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. During the residency, the project space will function as a studio-laboratory, workshop space, and meeting place where urbanists, community organizers, activists and cultural producers will be invited to participate in conversations, workshops and an intervention that explore these ideas through theory, dialogue and action. A blog will serve as a “virtual scrapbook” of sorts that includes postings of photographic and video documentation, resources, reflective writings, and other research and archival materials gathered during this project. http://therevolutionwill.blogspot.com/