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Wherever walls stand artists use them as a canvas:
Berlin, Palestine, U.S.-Mexico, Chicano Park
Colonizers build walls.
We demolish them with art.
Their Wall, Our Canvas exhibits nearly fifty multimedia pieces by San Diego artists-activists Antonia Davis (b.1955), Bob Davis (b.1952), and natalia ventura (b.1998). Antonia is a founding member of the San Diego Puppet Insurgency, and has led art builds with dozens of local social and environmental justice groups over the last twenty years. Bob has been a lifelong supporter and photo documentarian of local struggles. natalia, an emerging artist-activist from Chula Vista, met the couple in 2023 while leading art intervention projects to save Friendship Park. Since then the three have formed a bond rooted in their shared passions for art and activism. Several of the works on view are products of their collaboration. Spanning across textile, installation, photography, performance, painting, and video, the works in this exhibition aim to deconstruct harmful narratives and replace them with stories and images that heal. These artists contribute to the Collective by helping us imagine a different reality, painting the picture of what liberation looks like, and making the revolution irresistible.
What is your role in the Collective?
Artist
Healer
Advocate
Luminary
Abolitionist
Problem Solver
Communicator
Visionary
Analyst
Negotiator
Architect
Researcher
Developer
Scientist
Engineer
Strategist
Inventor
Writer
Listener
Helper
Power to the people.