010: Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik / Colombia, India, Japan / How an artist grew up in her parent's stories

BIO: Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik is an artist whose work has been called a “joyous political critique.” She sparks connection and tells the stories of migration and belonging through collaborative projects such as building a border wall out of piñatas. South Asian and Japanese Latin American, Sita was born and raised in Los Angeles, Tongva Land, and based in Oakland, Ohlone Land. She holds degrees from Scripps College and California College of the Arts where she has taught in Critical Ethnic Studies. Sita is also a co-founder of People’s Kitchen Collective, an organization working at the intersection of art, food, and justice. She has been the Scholar in Residence at the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts, an artist in residence at the Lucas Artist Program at Montalvo and Denniston Hill. She has been an Art Matters Fellow, a Fleishhacker Eureka program fellow, and the recipient of a 2021 Creative Capital Award. She has contributed to many publications including Multiple Elementary and Self Representation in an Expanded Field. We Make Constellations of the Stars is her first book forthcoming from Kaya Press. ROOTS: Colombia, India, Japan FRUIT: Sita writes to her 15 year old self, healing trauma by revisiting her youth in LA, celebrating the constellations of all of the people in her life, and examining her parent's stories and photos that make up their personal and ancestral past. INFO: --- About the Host:

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010: Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik / Colombia, India, Japan / How an artist grew up in her parent's stories is an episode from Roots to Fruit by Momoko Nakamura.

This episode is 00:55:02 long.

This episode was published on Nov 9, 2021.

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