Day: February 26, 2022

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Protect Trans Rights!

The wave of anti-trans legislation that the right wing is using to mobilize their base has hit a new, dangerous low. Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans

Day: February 26, 2022

Favi with Protect Trans Rights sign

Protect Trans Rights!

The wave of anti-trans legislation that the right wing is using to mobilize their base has hit a new, dangerous low. Greg Abbot has officially directed Family and Protective Services to begin investigating all trans

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Teachers, I love when you teach about my art! Please visit my RESOURCES page on my website where you can find how-to videos about my art, activities for kids and some slides of my artwork that you could use in an educational setting. Or you can visit my link in bio and click on “Art Resources for Educators” I have many free tools for teachers on my website, including this poster making activity (video and images to print), as well as a slide presentation with images of my work. Visit my website and click under RESOURCES to see what I offer.

Once a year I open my studio. This year’s Open Studio is on Saturday, June 17th all day long! Visit link in bio to RSVP. I’m honored to open my space to returning and new art collectors. This is a great opportunity to see my art works in person and hear about the inspiration behind each piece. There will be one-of-a-kind artworks framed and unframed, and all work will be ready to take home. This is my favorite event of the year because I get to be a host and be surrounded by your lovely energy! See you in a few weeks! Visit link in bio to RSVP or go to: bit.ly/favistudio2023

Just a few more Big Sur collages left! These hand-made collages on wood panels celebrate one of my favorite places to write and reflect. I started going to Big Sur in 2021 as I was working on my film about womb healing. For my creative process to flow, I needed to be at a place where I could delve into my memories and sit with some of the family trauma that I was carrying. I fell in love with the land and it brought out a really beautiful part of my story. These collages are of the stunning ocean. These limited edition wood panels are about the depth of my experience at Big Sur and how fundamental it has been to my creative process. These are ready to hang and have a beautiful finish that protects the work. These wood panels are elaborately created, every single pattern is created through either screenprint or linoleum block printing. All elements are cut out, assembled and pasted with lots of love and care. Available now! Visit link in bio

KIDS WORKSHOP on June 3rd in NAPA! Join me for a free hands-on art making workshop for children and their families on Saturday, June 3, 2023 to celebrate the beauty of migration through the monarch butterfly. RSVP now - visit link in bio Young participants will be able to create their own set of butterfly wings to celebrate the monarch butterfly and the importance of migration. The monarch butterfly is not only an amazing pollinator, it also has a beautiful story of movement that is relevant today. The monarch butterfly represents the beauty of migration. In my art, I elevate the butterfly as a symbol for the right of all living beings to move freely. Each participant will get to paint their own wearable butterfly wings. Each child can participate with 1 parent. There will be two sessions, one at 10 am and one at 12 pm Reservations required, space is limited. Visit link in bio to sign up

Fierce femmes showing out for the amazing work of @youthspeaks ! I had a great time celebrating the groundbreaking herstory and contributions of @chinakahodge and @jkosato , two people who shaped the organization. Thank you @michellemushlee for your leadership, your femme fam has your back 💯!! If you don’t know about @youthspeaks please go check them out now!!

There is nothing more beautiful than building a femme led BIPOC organization working in art and culture! I love what we have created: The Center for Cultural Power! Celebrating a wonderful week with @culturestrike staff and fellows! I feel proud and honored at my life’s work.
@thepeopleslbo @tdorabji @intellectubelle @lexii_renee @beingkrystle @_oro5_ @juliosalgado83 @eslvis @zentronix @tonyfranc14 @erinpotts @toneontop @smatesky

This past week was inspiring and powerful as I participated in a retreat with my entire staff and team at The Center for Cultural Power @culturestrike , an organization I co-founded first in 2011 and then again in 2019. Many of you know me for my art but I am also an executive and institution builder! I feel incredibly proud of this arts organization that I’ve helped build with my sweat, tears and commitment. My experiences have taught me that I cannot do things alone. I’m an entrepreneur with a big vision, and I love to collaborate with other fierce femme leaders of color to co-create BIG things. I feel blessed to work with incredible women in leadership. My organization now employs over 50 people, many of them artists, culture changers, social justice organizers. This blows my mind! Since 2019, we have grown nearly 8 times, which is a testament to our powerful work. I have learned a lot of failure, success, abundance, balance, and the importance of finding the right people to work with. I continue to learn how to grow in my leadership, set boundaries, and be clear about what I can and cannot do. This past week, the team spent time connecting with each other, telling stories, growing trust, dancing, and strategizing around the realities of a growing organization. We have very important work to do, we are literally changing the lives of many artists that we serve, we are bringing new tools to the movement and we are changing the field of art and social justice. Thank you to all who made this amazing retreat possible!

NEW WORKS! Check out this new word collages series which I’m creating baked on many of the words that I’m currently using a lot in my vocabulary. I've been thinking about what I say YES to and trying to put my energy towards the people and the experiences towards which I feel an enthusiastic YES towards. I've also been doing a lot of work around my own WOMB healing. And I have been engaging in an active practice of FORGIVEness and letting go You will see these words pop up in these collages. What I love about these word collages is that they bring my two fundamental practices together: the use of text to communicate a social or political theme as well as the use of shapes to communicate a mood. These elements are also very meaningful because they represent the different species that are in my home that I care for, such as plants or flowers. My art is frequently a reflection of how and what I'm experiencing in my life and in my consciousness. I create art to make those ideas real and to reflect them outwards. Visit link in bio to see more!

It’s that time of year when I open the doors to my studio in Oakland! My Annual Open Studio is on Sat. June 17th! Visit link in bio to RSVP. I’m honored to open my space to returning and new art collectors. This is a great opportunity to see my art works in person and hear about the inspiration behind each piece. There will be one-of-a-kind artworks framed and unframed, and all work will be ready to take home. This is my favorite event of the year because I get to be a host and be surrounded by your lovely energy! See you in a few weeks! Photo by @bobbygordonphoto Visit link in bio to RSVP or go to: bit.ly/favistudio2023

NEW WORKS! Check out this new word collages series which I’m creating baked on many of the words that I’m currently using a lot in my vocabulary. I've been thinking about what I say YES to and trying to put my energy towards the people and the experiences towards which I feel an enthusiastic YES towards. I've also been doing a lot of work around my own WOMB healing. And I have been engaging in an active practice of FORGIVEness and letting go You will see these words pop up in these collages. What I love about these word collages is that they bring my two fundamental practices together: the use of text to communicate a social or political theme as well as the use of shapes to communicate a mood. These elements are also very meaningful because they represent the different species that are in my home that I care for, such as plants or flowers. My art is frequently a reflection of how and what I'm experiencing in my life and in my consciousness. I create art to make those ideas real and to reflect them outwards. Visit link in bio to see more!

This weekend I had the honor of co-hosting a Mother’s Day event to address the maternity health crisis affecting Black womb carriers, and to draw the connections between birth justice and abortion. It was very meaningful for me to be the MC because my lineage has suffered womb trauma and it’s important that we create spaces to openly talk about the war on womb carriers, especially BIPOC womb carriers. We have to grieve, heal, and feel joy together. More and more we are getting organized to say ENOUGH of this unjust system that has violated our wombs for centuries and continues to do so through racist medical practices and laws that attempt to limit or take away our bodily autonomy. While I myself have chosen to not be a biological mama and I’ve gas 3 abortions in my life, I have witnessed how racist this medical system is towards womb carriers and I will advocate for womb justice on all fronts. Our struggles are connected. What we want is healthcare for womb carriers that is safe, dignified and respects our bodies and decisions. We want care for the children who are born and that means health and social services for babies and parents! It was a really lovely day in community with amazing organizations doing work around birth justice and abortion, such as @PostpartumJustice
@FeedBlackFuture
@wetestify
@momsrising
@theariahfoundation
@shawneethehealer
@momsrising
@weinspirejustice This amazing event was brought to you by @EngagementLab @culturestrike and @LaGuerrerasKitchen Thank you to all the amazing folks who made this possible!! #AutonomyIsMyJoy
#MomnibusAct
#BMHW23
#BlackMamasMatter
#BirthEquity
#wombjustice

This is tomorrow!! BAY AREA! 🌟Join us Sat. May 13th for a brunch and dance party to advocate for birth equity and womb justice! RSVP at https://bit.ly/OAK-Momnibus Brought to you by @EngagementLab and @LaGuerrerasKitchen, this Mother's Day brunch experience seeks to advocate for the passage of critical Maternal Health legislation, and celebrate the lives of Black Mamas. DJ’s @Sizzle007 @cucucumbiaa and @cozmiiika and more will be bringing the dancing beats, and our special guests @reneebraceysherman @WeTestify, @PostpartumJustice and @FeedBlackFuture will be dropping all the movement knowledge. 🔥 Come eat with us, talk story, grieve, and imagine solutions together! RSVP at https://bit.ly/OAK-Momnibus Partners include @momsrising @theariahfoundation @shawneethehealer @ladyrachie @momsrising @weinspirejustice #AutonomyIsMyJoy
#MomnibusAct
#BMHW23
#BlackMamasMatter
#BirthEquity
#wombjustice

My Annual Open Studio is on Saturday, June 17th! Visit link in bio to RSVP. I’m honored to open my space to returning and new art collectors. This is a great opportunity to see my art works in person and hear about the inspiration behind each piece. There will be one-of-a-kind artworks framed and unframed, and all work will be ready to take home. This is my favorite event of the year because I get to be a host and be surrounded by your lovely energy! See you in a few weeks! Visit link in bio to RSVP or go to:
bit.ly/favistudio2023

Mark your calendars: My Annual Open Studio is on Saturday, June 17th! Visit link in bio to RSVP. I’m honored to open my space to returning and new art collectors. This is a great opportunity to see my art works in person and hear about the inspiration behind each piece. There will be one-of-a-kind artworks framed, unframed and on wood panels, and all work will be ready to take home. This is my favorite event to host all year because I get to be surrounded by all of you in my creative space. See you in a few weeks!

If you know much about me and my art, you know that I love to talk about pleasure and all the juicy joyful moments that our bodies can bring us. I work on the daily to embody the wild creature that I am, and reject the colonial programming that teaches me to exploit and shame my body. To create a liberated framework for me to accept my full self has taken me years! I am so thankful that I am an artist so that I can be fully expressed. And thank you to the people and organizations who invite me to speak about my pleasure activism work such as @thriveeastbay . I’ve never before been able to include a vibrator in my Google slides presentation! Wow! Thank you to those who see the connections between social Justice and sexual freedom/liberation. Thank you @adriennemareebrown for giving this work a name and a framed and for including my poosie art in your book. Thank you to my friends who teach me so much about sensuality, such as @icy.lotus (photographed here) Thank you to those who ask me about this work and get really curious about it. Photo by @bobbygordonphoto who has been documenting my wild body for 3 years now. Someday we will show the full body of work, Bobby!

Sending love to my dear sister @shawneethehealer for her birth justice work. Aftershock had won a Peabody Award. Watch it!
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Shared from @favianna1 Don’t miss AFTERSHOCK film premiere tomorrow on @hulu !! It’s one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen and it was so powerful that it ignited a commitment inside of me to fight for birth justice. Aftershock, the award winning documentary, premieres tomorrow on Hulu. The film addresses the disturbing rate at which Black women are dying during or after childbirth – about 4 times the rate of white women in America I’m honored that a few months ago I was able to meet the amazing birth justice activists whose stories are featured in the film - @shawneethehealter and @m_u_z . I encourage folks to attend the virtual healing space with Shawnee Benton Gibson @shawneethehealter and Omari Maynar @m_u_z which will take place July 19 at 7pm EST. Swipe to see info.
I can’t stress how important this film is! There’s a crisis in our health care system in which pregnant folks are being driven to rush their natural birthing process and have c-sections, all because of the ability for hospitals to profit. Since the 1970’s, C-sections have gone up over 500%. This practice, combined with the racist medical system, puts Black pregnant womb carriers at tremendous risk. Watch Aftershock on @hulu on Tuesday, July 19th. Don’t miss it! Thank you @shawneethehealer and @m_u_z for your tenacity in lifting up these stories through your grief.

Come thru this Sat. May 13th for a dance party and brunch to advocate for womb justice and birth equity especially for Black Mamas! Brought to you by @EngagementLab and @LaGuerrerasKitchen, this Mother's Day brunch experience seeks to advocate for the passage of critical Maternal Health legislation, and celebrate the lives of Black Mamas. @Sizzle007 @cucucumbiaa and @cosmiiika will be bringing the beats, and our special guests @ReneeBraceySherman @WeTestify @PostpartumJustice and @FeedBlackFuture will be dropping all the movement knowledge. 🔥 Come eat with us, talk story, grieve, and imagine solutions together! RSVP at https://bit.ly/OAK-Momnibus #AutonomyIsMyJoy
#MomnibusAct
#BMHW23
#BlackMamasMatter
#BirthEquity
#wombjustice

I’m loving the flowers and the heat that is slowly arriving, along with the rains that continue to nourish our water ways. The Spring season always inspires me to create. This is the season when I make art about the natural world, the coastal areas and the mountains I get to visit, the flowers that I get to bring to life. For me, making art is a mirror of what I get to experience in real life. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to witness natural beauty and then create from that inspired place. Especially because I grew up in a neighborhood full of concrete. Slowly I’ve been breaking through the concrete to help the soil come alive. Here are some new pieces about some of my favorite places: Big Sur, Colorado Mountains, and the coasts of Northern California. Visit link in bio for more about these works. Thank you for supporting my art!

This Sunday!! May 7th @ 4pm PT / 7pm ET ~ "Creation + Liberation: Art, Trauma, Healing & Joy" with celebrated artist, activist & cultural strategist Favianna Rodriguez (co-founder of The Center for Cultural Power) and award-winning poet & multi-disciplinary artist @alixagarcia_ (co-founder of Climbing PoeTree). Brought to you by @thriveeastbay RSVP in link in bio

What on honor that my art is supporting teachers in their fight for living wages. 😍 I stand with Oakland teachers on strike! Shared from @oakland_ea Educators from all over Oakland are on strike due to OUSD’s bad faith bargaining, which denies our schools supports for student mental health, improved services for students with disabilities, school safety and teachers who can stay in Oakland. 💚✏️💛 #Unite4OaklandStudents

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