RTS is excited to host Artist Talk with artist in residence Tanna Tucker and guest artist Yetunde Olagbaju on Thursday November 21, 7-9pm.
Tanna is an illustrator and cartoonist living in Oakland CA. She uses comics and drawing as a way to map her relationship to the Black Diaspora, and to interrogate the utility of Black presence (or absence) in historical and mythical narratives. Her work has been featured in the Eisner nominated LAAB Magazine, The Nib and in various anthologies including Black Comix Returns and Cosmic Underground: A Grimoire of Black Speculative Content. She recently concluded her Political Power Fellowship at theYerba Buena Center for the Arts 2018-2019.
Yetunde Olagbaju is a multidisciplinary artist and curator, currently residing in Oakland, CA. Through their work, they utilize performance, emotional excavation, and sculpture as through-line for inquiries regarding Black trauma, labor, legacy and processes of healing.
By creating work that exists within and expands upon nonlinear time, they seek to: create meaningful exchange of narratives, explore methods of emotion-based storytelling and archiving.
They have shown work and projects with Oakland Museum of California, New Image Gallery, Pt. 2 Gallery, Southern Exposure, Guerrero Gallery, SOMArts Cultural Center, The New School, and Art Basel. They have collaborated with institutions such as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Facebook HQ, Museum of the African Diaspora, CounterPulse and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
They are currently co-curator of recurring Black and Brown film night, Opalescent and are pursuing an MFA at Mills College. They are a recipient of a Murphy Cadogan Award as well as the inaugural Nancy Cook Photography Award.