Indira Allegra: May the hope of my heart be woven into the waters

In partnership with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and KADIST 

Date:

Friday, January 17, 2025 | 2pm-4pm

2:00pm: First Performance begins
Intermission
2:30 pm, Second Performance
2:50pm, Artist Q&A and Talkback with Toni Valle (Professor of Practice, Dance, School of Theatre & Dance)

Location:

Blaffer Art Museum

Format:

Two performances and Q&A with Toni Valle (Professor of Practice, Dance, School of Theatre & Dance) starting at 2pm with a short intermission

Indira Allegra Performance: May the hope of my heart be woven into the waters

In partnership with the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts) and KADIST

Austin Lewellen, Corey De’Juan Sherrard Jr.

About the Artist

Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Cazimi Studio uses weaving as a framework to creatively transform tension within different sites. The studio is unique in its emphasis on performance, publication and the integration of spiritual care as preferred design solutions. Thinking as a poet, threads of connection are discovered between seemingly disparate experiences. Moving as a weaver, these connections are interlaced into a greater whole.

Allegra’s work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Art Journal, BOMB Magazine, SF Chronicle, e-flux, All Arts and ARTFORUM and in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY); Blaffer Art Museum (Houston, TX), Center for Craft Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Gray Area (San Francisco, CA); the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, CA) among others.

Allegra is the author of Tension Studies and Dispersal of a Feeling: Bloodnotes on Choreography and Illness (Sming Sming Books). Their writing has been featured in Theater, TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, American Craft Magazine, Panorama Journal, Leonardo and Material Intelligence among others. Their monograph Blackout (Sming Sming Books) is in the collection of major art museum libraries nationwide. Allegra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Burke Prize, Creative Capital, United States Artists Fellowship, Gerbode Choreographer Award, Art Matters Fellowship and CripTech Metaverse Fellowship. cazimistudio.space | @indiraallegrastudio

Photo courtesy: Jennifer Bootwala