Born and raised in California’s Central Valley, Jennifer Garcia Peacock’s work as a Chicana Environmental Humanities scholar, educator, and curator is rooted in creativity and collaboration, aiming to raise awareness of the rich and nuanced ways Chicanx and Latinx visual artists have advocated for social and environmental justice through their visual material. Trained in American Studies as an interdisciplinary historian, her work utilizes formats as wide-ranging as printmaking, murals, pilgrimage, altars, sculpture, gardens, painting, photography, filmmaking, and roadside shrines to expand our understanding of how Chicanx and Latinx cultural producers have contributed to American environmental advocacy and knowledge production. Recent collaborations have situated these interventions by Chicanx and Latinx ecological advocates in a global visual network, locating points of intersection and solidarity on issues related to biodiversity, climate change, cultural affirmation and resilience, gentrification, health disparities, traditional environmental knowledge, transportation justice, and workplace safety.
- Section Mixed Media Art
- Venue Palazzo Mora
- Based in Davidson, USA
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