angel Faz
multidisciplinary artist

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Press & Publication


Print and Digital Publication

2024

Forthcoming
Routledge Companion book on Queer Art Theory and Method
Robb Hernández, Professor of Latinx visual culture at Fordham University
https://www.routledge.com/

Forthcoming
Akokisa River Pedagogies
IJADE - art education journal

Work in Progress with Ángel Faz
https://southwestcontemporary.com/work-in-progress-with-angel-faz/

2023

Where Justice Prevails: a Conversation with Angel Faz
https://glasstire.com/2023/10/20/where-justice-prevails-a-conversation-with-angel-faz/

Joel Murray and Clint Bargers have curated their annual "Chateau Chateau."
show with the work of twenty artists at the Aldredge House
https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/artists-at-the-aldredge-house/6003

TilT Video Series / Episode 1
IF WATER COULD TALK, WHAT WOULD SHE SAY
https://sfai.org/event/tilt-video-series-episode-1/

Gulf Coast Fine Art Journal
35.2 Summer/Fall 2023
https://gulfcoastmag.org/journal/print-issue-35.2-summer/fall-2023/

Artists Contemplate Sovereignty in Santa Fe
https://hyperallergic.com/810927/artists-contemplate-sovereignty-in-santa-fe/

Flowed, Flow, Flowing
https://passagevision.com/faz.html

Santa Fe Art Institue - 2023 Changing Climate Resident
https://sfai.org/alumni/ang%C3%A9l-faz/

2022

We Know We Are And We Know What We Want
https://sightlinesmag.org/who-we-are-and-what-we-want

20 reasons to love the new Women & Their Work Gallery and its first show
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.austin360.com/amp/5420743001

An innovative public art project will brighten Pioneer Tower for 2 nights
https://www.star-telegram.com/entertainment/arts-culture/article253073078.html

Women & Their Work: We Know Who We Are. We Know What We Want.
https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/arts/visual-arts/grand-opening-and-inaugural-exhibition-2828484/

Fort Worth Art Council and AURORA Dallas to Present ‘New Stories: New Futures’ In August
https://glasstire.com/2021/06/12/fort-worth-art-council-and-aurora-dallas-to-present-new-stories-new-futures-in-august/

Women & Their Work Reopens New Building With Group Exhibition
https://glasstire.com/2021/06/10/women-their-work-reopens-new-building-with-group-exhibition/

2020

Curators, Nonprofits & Museums Collaborate to Launch ‘Texas Talks Art’ Conversation Series
https://glasstire.com/2020/12/17/curators-nonprofits-museums-collaborate-to-launch-texas-talks-art-conversation-series/

 
The Reasons Why You Should Be Excited for Dallas Art in 2020
https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2019/12/the-reasons-why-you-should-be-excited-for-dallas-art-in-2020/

Lubbock’s First Friday Art Trail to Feature ‘Ultimate Zine Party’
https://glasstire.com/2019/11/20/lubbocks-first-friday-art-trail-to-feature-ultimate-zine-party/

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Sunday Arts Edition

“Our arts community’s message should be one of anti-racism. This ideology takes the focus off whether a person is individually “not a racist” but instead focuses on what you are actively doing to dismantle the structures of racism. It does not matter if you are black, white, brown, liberal, conservative, Christian, Muslim, atheist, poor, middle class or rich — you can be anti-racist.”

DARRYL RATCLIFF

 
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Dismantling the structures of racism one heart, one mind, one artwork at a time

Writer: DARRYL RATCLIFF

Once we have seen the truth, artists must take action. Artists, at their best, have the ability to make visible what is invisible. We spread ideas, particularly the ideas of who we are, what our values are and who we might want to be in the future. The unrest in our country sparked by the death of George Floyd, the unarmed black man who died May 25 after a white officer pressed his knee into his neck, reveals how much that culture is still divided. What seems clear is that artists, cultural institutions, organizations, media, patrons, collectors and arts leaders can do more to model and espouse strongly that black lives matter as much as white lives.

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Community Beer Co. Celebrates Dallas Art Month With Cans Designed by Local Artist

Writer: LAUREN DREWES DANIELS

Dallas Arts Month is a citywide celebration of art, held during the month of April. Originally established by Mayor Mike Rawlings in 2013, it’s designed to build awareness and appreciation for our local artists and the “cultural renaissance in Dallas.” This year, the city's Office of Arts and Culture is collaborating with Community Beer Company to dabble in a new medium: beer cans. Corey Dickinson with Community explained how it all came together. Through several online outlets, Community put the word out and asked artists who were interested to submit their portfolios of work. “We got a lot of very unique pieces of artwork,” Dickinson says. "Then, we established a panel and narrowed it down to six artists just based on their portfolios and asked them to [mock] up cans based on the question: What does the art community in Dallas mean to you? From there, it was up to them. Moving forward this is a way to get more eyes on the local art scene.”

2019

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New Hecho a Mano Exhibition Is ‘a Journey About Colonization’

Writer: ANA ASTRI-O'REILLY

An indigenous woman bending over a loom. A bleeding heart with a political message. An altar with a Hamsa Hand, a snake, a candle. A tangle of cut braids of hair. A naked female torso. A projection of digital illustrations with a dream-like quality. These symbols and images from the Hecho a Mano / Made by Hand show invite viewers to make connections, to explore identity, to challenge established narratives.

According to curator Angela Faz, founder of Radical Love Art Collective, Hecho a Mano is a “journey about colonization,” where artists “unpack their identities in ways that are reflective of them.”

The works express many themes, like identity, "Latinidad," ancestral healing, family and roots, immigration, and the African Diaspora. The display comprises different printing techniques, such as linocuts, woodcuts, posca on canvas, digital prints and animations, photography, ink drawings and illustrations. Art installations also interact with the prints, as not all artists are printmakers. One of the installations represents ancestral healing.

 
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Latina artists in Dallas showcase 'were told ‘no,’ and they triumphed anyway’

Writer: DARRYL RATCLIFF

A new exhibition at the Latino Cultural Center in Dallas presents a diverse sampling of art with a decidedly feminine bent.

“‘Diez Latinas’ is about the role of women in the world, Latina women in the world,” says curator Viola Delgado. The art in “Diez Latinas: One Common Thread” centers on abstraction, form and resilience.

The works in the exhibition are full of energy and transformation, of duality, of covering and uncovering.

Fabrics and the symbology of the dress are repeated themes. The feminine form emerges again and again as an abstract symbol in both paintings and sculptures. Many of the pieces in the show revel in a ritual of work and craft that reveals the hand of the artists.

Delgado and the 10 Latina artists have given us something both accomplished and confident, soft yet powerful.

 

2017

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Exploring Art, Censorship, and Decolonization Through the Lens of Dallas

Writer: DARRYL RATCLIFF AND CAROL ZOU

On April 4, we finished installing six banners at West Dallas Multipurpose Center as part of a month long Decolonize Dallas initiative, which was presented by the city of Dallas’ Office of Cultural Affairs. On April 5, we received a frantic email about the content of three of the banners. On April 6, before the artist or organizers could respond onsite, all of the banners were taken down.

The banners in question were woodcut prints created over the course of four months by local artist Angela Faz, exploring migration and displacement in West Dallas. Three of the banners depicted house silhouettes with text written inside the silhouettes. Some of the text was specific to West Dallas, such as, “This house has a lot of value to me,” a direct quote from bcWorkshop interviews with West Dallas residents.

Others were more general, and pointed to language used in national debates over housing insecurity in Oakland, Portland, Brooklyn, and other neighborhoods. Faz drew upon her personal history as someone with local ties to the community, interviewing family members who had lived in the area and were at the risk of losing their homes. The same blood, sweat, and tears that went into her work were the same blood, sweat, and tears that went into building West Dallas.

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Why Did the City of Dallas Censor (and then Reinstate) a Public Art Project It Helped Fund?

Writer: LYNDSAY KNECHT

Artist Angela Faz installed six cloth banners with woodcut prints at a community center in a working-class West Dallas neighborhood on April 4. The colorful banners — three of which were printed with images of local fauna, such as crawfish and salamanders, and three with slogans like “Aquí estámos y no nos vamos” (“We are here and we are not leaving”) — hung from the ceiling over a room where people wait for health screenings, legal aid and senior services. Faz’s piece was one part of a multi-venue art project called Decolonize Dallas that asked local artists of color to create works based on neighborhoods they had ties to.

The next day, however, one of the project’s curators, Carol Zou, received an email from Silvia Ulloa, an employee at the West Dallas Multipurpose Center, with the subject line “Banners????” “Please call me, urgent!” the message read. Zou says Ulloa told her that a supervisor at the center had a problem with the phrases on the banners. The city’s Office of Cultural Affairs had contributed $7,500 toward Decolonize Dallas, about half of the project’s total funding.