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La Valentina, with Vale n' Tina, is a podcast about queer friendship! We celebrate queer Latinx artists and our accomplices! Take a listen queridxs!

Feb 4, 2022

In this week's episode we are joined by the wonderful multidimensional artist Francheska Alcantara. We talk about the multiple uses of soap as a material. We consider how traveling leads to knowledge building. Highlight the importance of taking up public space. We learn what it takes to save a local park. And remind ourselves that community is a conduit for change.

An Afro-Caribbean-Latinx-queer-woman raised-by-their-grandmother and hailing from The Bronx, Francheska Alcantara explores slippages in-between memories, fragmentations and longing. Their aim is to explore the specific social meaning within the realm of the domestic and public life of artifacts and interactions such as: hand-washing their underwear with cuaba soap while taking a shower, setting up buckets to catch rainwater to wash their hair, and peeling plátanos with the knife that has the right sharpness to follow the platano’s curve without cutting their hand. Francheska wants to use these subjective experiences to expand our capacity for pleasure, love and intra-connection. Francheska graduated with a MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA in Painting from Hunter College, and a BA in Art History from Old Dominion University. Alcántara has shared their work at the Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Queens Museum, La Mama Theater, Grace Exhibition Space, and BronxArtSpace.

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