CV

Projects

2019

• Dove Love Social/Cultural Equity Speed Dating, Dahlia Heights Elementary School, PTA Cultural Awareness and Social Justice Committee, Los Angeles, CA
• Year of Chicago Theatre Data Drop #1: Cultural Equity Speed Dating, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
• Get Paid: Wage and Benefits Negotiation for Cultural Workers, CUE Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY

2018

• Our Time: An Open Engagement Dinner Conversation on Equity, Kurry Qulture Modern Indian Cuisine, Queens, NY
• About Face, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA

2017

• Common Field National Convening, Los Angeles, CA
• Color:Coded, New Art Center, Newton, MA
• Solidarity Mixer for Equity in NYC’s Cultural Plan, CUE Foundation, New York, NY
• Decolonize Dallas. Various Sites, Dallas, TX
  • Southwest/Redbird Mall
  • West Dallas Multipurpose Center
  • Buckner Train Station
  • Trans.lation Vickery Meadow
  • Mind the Gap. 500x Gallery, Dallas, TX
• Strength in Numbers: Equity and Cross-Racial Solidarity in NYC, CUE Foundation, New York, NY

2016

• Michelada Think Tank: Artist Residency. San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA.
  • Think Tank: THE FRONT, Casa Familiar
  • Think Tank: San Diego Arts Institute
  • Think Tank: Art Produce 
• Michelada Think Tank: Lift Your Voice. Ash Studios and Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX. Support provided by the Lift Your Voice Advocacy Fund, Make Art With Purpose, and the City of Dallas
  • Think Tank: Grassroots Allyship, Ash Studios, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Institutional Allyship, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Survivin’ n Thrivin’, Ash Studios, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: MXXXER, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Against Displacement, Ash Studios, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Shifting Institutional Culture, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Independent Modes of Critique, Ash Studios, Dallas, TX
  • Think Tank: Shifting Institutional Resources, Latino Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
• Declarations for a New Year. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2015

• Race, Art, Survival: Michelada Think Tank & Chats About Change. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA. Project Room Artist in Residence
  • Think Tank: What is the Content of a PoC Survival Guide?, Human Resources, Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA
  • Think Tank: Education, Class, and Radical Practices, CIELO Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
  • Think Tank: Defining Success as an Artist of Color, Multi Cultural Artists United, Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA
• Michelada Think Tank: Race, Community, and Creative Action. Open Engagement, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Support provided by the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
• Otis Tally. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. Michelada Think Tank intervention in front lobby of Otis College of Art and Design.

2014

• Michelada Think Tank Round #3: Dear White People Film Screening and Q&A. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
• Michelada Think Tank Round #2. Ceramics Studio 153, Los Angeles, CA
• Michelada Think Tank Round #1. 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
• Open Engagement. Queens Museum, Queens, NY. Guerrilla project tallying presenter demographics at the Open Engagement conference at Queens Museum.

Grants/Awards

• Foundation Grant, Carnegie Mellon University, A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.
• Lift Your Voice Advocacy Fund. The Boone Foundation. Dallas, TX.

Publication

2017

• Michael Covello, Alison Terndrup, Ed. Color:Coded Catalog. Self Published.
• Darryl Ratcliff, Carol Zou Ed. Decolonize Dallas Catalog. Self Published.
• Darryl Ratcliff, Carol Zou. Exploring Art, Censorship, and Decolonization Through the Lens of Dallas. D Magazine.
• Darryl Ratcliff. April is the Month to Decolonize Dallas. D Magazine.

2015

• Noe Gaytan, Mario Mesquita, Carol Zou. Open Engagement: A Social Response. Temporary Art Review.
• Noé Gaytán. Michelada Think Tank and the PoC Survival Guide. PHONEBOOK 4.

Press

2017

• Gretchen Coombs. OE Ten Year Reflection: Two Images and Ten Years Between. Open Engagement Blog.
• Hady Mawajdeh. A West Dallas Arts Kerfuffle. KERA Art&Seek.
• Hady Mawajdeh. Artists ‘Decolonize Dallas’ With a ‘Super Fantasy Mercado’. KERA Art&Seek.
• Hady Mawajdeh. Fort Worth’s Art Tooth Ventures into Dallas. Art&Seek.
• Justine Ludwig. Michelada Think Tank: A Call to Arms for Cultural Equity. Patron Magazine.
• Anthony Romero. An Alternative History of Thought. MuralArts blog.

2016

• Noni Brynjolson. An Interview with Michelada Think Tank. FIELD.
• Peter Simek. How Dallas is Addressing Cultural Equity in the Arts. D Magazine.

2015

• The Agenda: This Week in Los Angeles. Art in America
• Jen Delos Reyes. Open Engagement: Looking Back and Looking Ahead. Temporary Art Review.
• Corinna Kirsch. Open Engagement: What Happened over the Weekend. Art Fag City.
• Alexandra Oliver. Michelada Think Tank mixes conversation, drinks, and strategies for social practice at Open Engagement. Pittsburgh Articulate.
• Gretchen Coombs. Reflections on a Weekend Devoted to Socially Engaged Art. Hyperallergic.