Family Ties Art Show
Binding Heats, Bridging Cultures
Held on May 28, 2023 on Zoom
What
Showcasing our work Family Ties: Binding Hearts, Bridging Cultures.
Make a commitment to partner with us as we share our intimate art representing what family ties mean to us individually, as a group relationally, and as humanity.
This is an opportunity for us to come together in solidarity around the concept and importance of family and our connection to one another.
Why
At a time when there is chaos, confusion, and disconnectedness, it is critical to explore the concept of family ties and what it means to us individually. We explore our own individual family ties as artists as well as the family ties we all have collectively as humans on this Earth.
Who
An eclectic student collective in collaboration with The Culture C.O.-O.P.
We have been committed to promoting systemic change, inclusion, equity, cultural competency, diversity, literacy, and quality education for all. Our up-and-coming artists come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences in order to create amazing art that impacts communities.
V’Santi Tobey
V’Santi Tobey is a 5th year Majoring in Theater and Dance as well as Art Studio at the University of California- Davis. She is a mixed artist with Cape Verdean, Puerto Rican, and Native American descent that has influenced her work which seeks to uplift POC’s of all communities. She uses her vibrantly graphic art style to depict stories that go untold by her people with conversations relative to American politics, racial identity, and civil rights that are still being fought for today. Using art as a form of activism, Tobey hopes to use her skills to capture her own unique experiences and continue these heavy conversations through multiple visual and performative mediums.
Evelyn Huey
Evelyn Huey is a 4th year student at UC Davis majoring Design and minoring in Technology Management. She will be graduating in June! Evelyn enjoys using UI/UX design and front-end development to create beautiful and usable websites and applications. Evelyn is passionate about empowering and inspiring change in society, she is especially passionate about ethics in technology.. She believes that design and getting involved is a great way to inspire and spread awareness to encourage systematic change in society. Design and art are forms of expression that can act as universal languages at spreading beliefs and messages.
Kristin Ly
Kristin Ly is a 3rd year student double majoring in Design and Psychology at UC Davis. She strives to improve her skills in UI/UX design, front-end development, and graphic design in order to create visuals and designs for organizations that promote change and awareness on mental health, cultural inclusivity, and accessibility. Kristin uses her craft to encourage open-mindedness and positive change upon these topics within society. She hopes that many will resonate with her art pieces, so that her message can reach others within the community. Art can be extremely powerful as it shifts perspectives and evokes emotions necessary for change.
Han Pham
Han Pham is a third-year student double-majoring in Design and International Relations at UC Davis. She loves learning a multitude of design disciplines such as graphic, interior, and web! Pham hopes to know a little bit about everything and be able to create art through various different forms that can engage anybody. Passionate about social justice and politics, she wants her art to be able to educate people and spread awareness. For Pham, design and art are an outlet to lend freedom to the right voices to speak up for change in society.
Carmina Rosales
Carmina Rosales is a fourth-year undergraduate majoring in Human Development with a minor in Technology Management at UC Davis. She has always expressed her creativity through mediums like writing/poetry, fashion, and photography, but she feared creating physical art pieces. It wasn’t until the pandemic three years ago that she took a deep dive and decided to try it by making resin trays. Since then, she has enjoyed making custom resin trays for friends and drawings as her favorite pass time. She hopes to make art her side hustle and make custom commissions for people in the future. Her brand has always been to stay true to who you are, so she hopes her art can inspire others to live up to being comfortable with themselves and their expectations.