Upper school visual arts teacher Pilar Agüero-Esparza is being featured in an exhibition at UC Santa Cruz’s Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery. Titled “Cut/Woven/Spoken,” the exhibition draws on Agüero-Esparza’s experience growing up in a family of shoemakers and utilizes the techniques and materials found in the making of indigenous Mexican sandals, known as huarache, to communicate “ethnic roots and indigenous aesthetics,” according to the description on the gallery’s website. An alum of UC Santa Cruz, Agüero-Esparza visited the campus last weekend to view the exhibition, alongside her high school art teacher, Ann Storc, as well as her former student, Nidhi Gandhi ’11, now the curator of California art at the Oakland Museum of California.
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More information about “Cut/Woven/Spoken,” which will be exhibited through this Saturday, is available at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery’s website.
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