Of Art and Spirit: A Conversation with Artists, Viviana Paredes and Dominick Porras

Viviana Paredes is a San Francisco-based artist who works with glass and organic materials steeped in cultural and medicinal traditions to create mixed media glass sculptures and installations. Her artwork has been widely exhibited in California, nationally, and throughout Mexico.

Dominick Porras is a multi-disciplinary and lens-based artist based in Sacramento. His work in new media infuses Indigenous cultural recovery and vitality through animation, non-linear timeline 35mm photographic essays, and mixed media sculpture works. For more than over a decade, he has also worked in collaboration with Inter-tribal communities in new media storytelling.

Moderated by Terezita Romo

Co-presented by Sol Collective, La Raza Galeria Posada, and Kingsley Art Club

Left: Viviana Paredes, Alma, 2010. Right: Dominick Porras, Lechusa Cape, 2024