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NIAD Virtual Gallery

curated by Sandra Ono

a flat ceramic square glazed in warm black. curling leaf forms rise from the surface and drape over the sides

About the Exhibition

Earth Piece

Listen to the sound of the earth turning. 

1963 spring

-Yoko Ono

About the Artists

MiaMya Dawson

Sylvia Fragoso

Marlon Mullens

Dorian Reid

Shantae Robinson

Esmerelda Silva

Jonathan Velasquez

About the Curator

Sandra Ono (lives and works in Berkeley, CA) received her MFA from Mills College, following undergraduate studies at UC Davis and Imperial College, London. Ono's work has been exhibited at Bibeau Krueger, New York, NY; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; Et al, San Francisco, CA; Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Personal Space, Vallejo, CA; Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA;  St. Joseph’s Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA; Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; and Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA among others. She has completed residencies at lower cavity, Holyoke, MA; University of Texas at Dallas, Dallas, TX;  Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA; Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; Winslow House, Vallejo, CA; Mascot Studio, in Berkeley/LA, CA;  Minnesota Street Project as a recipient of the TOSA Studio Award, Vermont Studio Center as a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship Award, and Kala Art Institute as a recipient of the Kala Fellowship Award.