{"id":39684,"date":"2014-04-10T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T17:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=39684"},"modified":"2014-04-10T11:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-04-10T18:28:12","slug":"artist-and-activist-favianna-rodriguez-speaks-out-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2014\/04\/10\/artist-and-activist-favianna-rodriguez-speaks-out-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist and Activist Favianna Rodriguez Speaks Out on Art and Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140410Uprising\/2014_04_10_favianna_rodriguez.mp3\">Listen to this segment with Favianna Rodriguez <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20140410Uprising\/2014_04_10_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program with Host Sonali Kolhatkar<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/favianna.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Favianna Rodriguez&#8217; political activism informs every aspect of her art. Migration, war, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and economic injustice influence her worldview and her brushstrokes. Describing herself as \u201can artist, agitator, and techie working for social change,&#8221; Favianna Rodriguez has achieved international acclaim for her work.  <\/p>\n<p>Growing up in the predominantly Chicano town of Fruitvale, California Favianna&#8217;s parents are Peruvian immigrants. After spending a few years in Mexico as a teenager, she eventually entered UC Berkeley where she studied art. While it was at Berkeley that she learned print making which helped shape her artistic career, Favianna started winning awards for her art from a very young age.<\/p>\n<p>In 2008 she was named by Utne Reader as one of its &#8220;50 Visionaries Who Are Changing The World&#8221;. In 2009 she co-founded the political group Presente.org.<\/p>\n<p><em>GUEST: Favianna Rodriguez, artist, activist, entrepreneur<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Favianna Rodriguez will be speaking at Pomona College in Claremont on Thursday April 10th at an event from 7:30 to 10 pm at the Edmonds Ballroom, SSC. <\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.favianna.com\">www.favianna.com<\/a> for more information about Favianna Rodriguez&#8217; art and politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Favianna Rodriguez&#8217; political activism informs every aspect of her art. Migration, war, patriarchy, gender, sexuality and economic injustice influence her worldview and her brushstrokes. Describing herself as \u201can artist, agitator, and techie working for social change,&#8221; Favianna Rodriguez has achieved international acclaim for her work. Growing up in the predominantly Chicano town of Fruitvale, California [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39702,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39684\/revisions\/39702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}