Amy Sanchez is a San Diego-based freelance curator, writer, and arts educator. She is the co-founder and co-coordinator of cog•nate collective, a binational arts collective producing work at and about the US/Mexico border.
LOCATION: San Diego/Imperial Valley/Mexicali
FACEBOOK: www.facebook.com/cognate.collective
WHAT INSPIRES ME: Smart people, kindness, good food, the collision of the aesthetic, pragmatic and conceptual, and my mom.
FAVORITE PLACE TO GET AWAY IN MY AREA: Sandy places, raspado shops, second-hand stores.
FAVORITE WRITERS: Anais Nin, Charles Bukowski, Vladimir Nabokov, Allen Ginsberg, Edna St. Vincent Millay, James Joyce, Susan Sontag, Jorge Luis Borges.
ARTIST/CREATIVE YOU’D WANT TO HAVE LUNCH WITH: Patty Smith…or a Tupac Hologram.
MOST OVER-HYPED ARTIST: Banksy
PERFECT SOUNDTRACK FOR WRITING: The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Bob Marley, and Philip Glass, with some Jazz standards mixed in here and there.
WHY I LOVE WHERE I LIVE: “In order to love something you have to have seen it and heard it for a long time you bunch of idiots.” –Francis Picabia
I’ve seen and heard it for a long time.
ART YOU MAKE (IF YOU MAKE ANY...): Interventions at the US/Mexico Border as part of cog•nate collective. Check out the site for more information.
RSS: KCET Artbound
artbound@kcet.org
Architecture/ Design
California becomes an international export by redefining the concept of city and home.
Community Arts
Through workshops, education and placed based projects, art is the connective tissue of a community.
Cultural Politics
Funding bubbles, cultural deserts and the politics of access to the arts in the 21st century.
Film & Media Arts
At the shadow of the entertainment industry, video artists and underground filmmakers take a stand.
Literature
Noir, sunshine and dystopia create a multi-ethnic narrative that is read, watched and admired around the globe.
Multi-Disciplinary
Multi-hyphenate works that combine disciplines, remix dogmas, and reinvent the wheel.
Music
A dialogue between cultures, the music of our state serves up the California dream like no other artform.
Visual Arts
Breaking away from the European and New York vanguard, California reinvents the art world.
