Visiting Artist Opening Reception: Leticia Bajuyo
Join us for the opening reception of our recent Visiting Artist's work at The 600 Apartments!
Time & Location
Aug 08, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Birmingham, 600 19th St N, Birmingham, AL 35203, USA
About the event
Join us as we celebrate the newly completed work by our recent Visiting Artist in Residence, Leticia Bajuyo. The reception will be held at The 600 Apartments from 6:00-8:00PM. This event is free and open to the public, but please RSVP to receive the building access code!
About Leticia:
From a small, rural town on the border of Illinois and Kentucky, Leticia Bajuyo began creating art in Metropolis long before realizing what she was tinkering with could be called art. A Filipinx-American interdisciplinary artist and object maker, she creates drawings, sculptures, installations, and public art that highlight crafted materiality, collected stories, and community engagement. Her interest in unpacking value perceptions finds its roots the time and space of quiet landscapes outside and the multi-national dialogues inside her family’s house influenced the development of her critiques of consumer capitalism, fickle domestic desires, and internalized pressures of assimilation.
Currently based in Norman, Oklahoma, Bajuyo is an Assistant Professor of Sculpture at the University of Oklahoma. She has an MFA from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and a BFA from the University of Notre Dame. In addition to exhibitions of her individual artworks, Bajuyo seeks community and welcomes collaboration by participating in artist collectives including the Filipinx Artists of Houston, Land Report Collective, and Project Vortex as well as serving on Boards of Directors for Public Art Dialogue, the Mid-South Sculpture Alliance, and Inclusion in Art in Oklahoma.