About the project

"Embedded Bricks" is a project inspired by land, labor, and lineage. Working around themes of ritual, protection and care, each brick is made of clay harvested from the artist’s backyard in 2020. The community is invited to inscribe their intentions into a handmade brick. Participants are asked to respond to the question – What is it that you want protected?

This activity will take place during the 10/30 All Souls Day Celebration

All Souls Day is a holiday honoring the dead widely celebrated in the Philippines. It is a public acknowledgment and an opportunity to celebrate those that came before and those that have transitioned on. 

This All Souls Day brings the opportunity to heal through art and community with the intention to celebrate our ancestors, share the stories we learned from them, and show gratitude with love and respect. Join us this October for an afterlife celebration as we listen to live musical performances, reflect together as a community and remember our loved ones.

About the Artist

Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in painting, sculpture and installation. Her works take environmental justices, the precarity of resources, and lineage as her starting point. Blanco's labor intensive practice combines material and weight to explore tension and care.

Blanco holds an M.F.A. in Studio Art from Mills College and is a recipient of California Arts Council Individual Fellowship and a Murphy Cadogan Award. In 2021 through 2022, Blanco was an Artist-in-Residence for Kala Art Institute’s Print Public. Blanco has exhibited works at the Berkeley Art Center, Aggregate Space Gallery, Kala Art Institute, Kapwa Gardens and SOMArts Cultural Center.

Learn more about Cristine’s story, Embracing All the Possibilities of Change.