In the secular pop sphere, Celeste fell in love with Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, the Supremes, Destiny's Child, and Solange. Eventually, Celeste and her mother moved to Brighton, where daily church attendance helped develop her vocals while singing hymns. Surrounded by eclectic characters and unique experiences that informed her young life, she was also shaped by the struggles of being biracial in a homogenous town. Not long after she was born in California, the artist who performs simply as Celeste returned to Essex with her British mother. chart-topping full-length debut, Not Your Muse (2021). Emerging in the late 2010s, she issued her first official short-player, The Milk & the Honey (2017), before signing with the majors for another EP, Lately (2019), and her U.K. but raised in the U.K., soulful R&B vocalist Celeste Waite channels influences such as Aretha Franklin and Billie Holiday to craft languid, jazzy numbers that are elevated by her powerful voice and poetic lyrics. She is currently editing a publication by the Japanese artist Aki Onda (UNAM, 2023) and she has coordinated the catalog of the Mexican Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, 2022, Hasta que los cantos sprout (forthcoming, 2023).Born in the U.S. Additionally, she is the editorial coordinator of the first catalog of the Mexican artist Marcela Armas, entitled Looking with Mountain Eyes (MACG/ Museo de Arte de Guanajuato, 2023). López (PE), of the second volume of Agítese antes de usar: Artistic, educational and social displacements in Latin America (Temblores / Fundación Jumex / PAC / CIAC, 2023). She currently participates as co-editor with Renata Cervetto (AR) and Miguel A. In 2020, she co-curated an online version of the same festival entitled: The Language that Vibrates Before the Word, (UNAM, 2021) with Cinthya García Leyva. She is currently the co-curator of the Festival Poesía en Voz Alta 2023, at Casa del Lago UNAM. She is co-founder and public program manager of Aeromoto, a library specializing in art and independent editions in Mexico City, along with co-founders Maru Calva, Mauricio Marcin and Jerónimo Rüedi. Macarena Hernandez Estrada is an art historian, cultural manager and Mexican editor. Or, feel free to bring your own refreshments. We’ll provide complimentary drinks, tasty tacos from Taco Flats will be available for purchase, and our onsite café, Spread & Co., will be open to take your orders. We invite you to stay after the talk for an evening picnic featuring a special musical performance by Andrea Cortez and Mario Garza. We hope you’ll join us for what is sure to be an enlightening discussion with the artists themselves, their collaborator Macarena Hernandez, and curator Robin K. This will be the third installation site of Manta de cielo. The textile piece was created as a shelter to host gatherings, events, and celebrations. This creates an atmosphere that transforms not only the space, but everything that enters it. The sculpture incorporates the area where it is installed, filtering natural light through dyed fabric and into the space, turning the interior a bright shade of pink. A manta is an ordinary kitchen rag and cielo, which means sky, refers to the fabric of the universe. The title of the piece, Manta de cielo, connects the grandiose to the everyday. Manta de cielo is a portable textile sculpture made up of eight pieces of dyed fabric tied together with knots, creating a flexible space adaptable to a variety of installation sites. Join us on the lower grounds of Laguna Gloria as we welcome creative duo Celeste back to Austin for an artist talk and community picnic, hosted under the shaded space provided by their temporary installation, Manta de cielo. UPDATE: Pre-Registration For This Event Now Closed.
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