Kapwa Gardens Mural Residency Finalist: Cristine Blanco
Balay Kreative is honored to announce that Cristine Blanco is one of our finalists for the Kapwa Gardens Mural Residency!
The Kapwa Gardens Mural Residency program was designed in collaboration with Kapwa Gardens and Balay Kreative to celebrate the new health and wellness space in the heart of the cultural district. These artworks convey color and joy that will bring energy and life to SOMA Pilipinas and Kapwa Gardens— a new community space from Kultivate Labs. We are excited to present works by Cristine Blanco, Vivian Capulong, and ChiChai Mateo; three talented Fil-Am artists whose experience of community and FilAm identity has made a deep impression on them. We hope you can join us in celebrating community connections through these beautiful creative reflections.
About the Artist
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Cristine Blanco is an interdisciplinary artist who works in sculpture, video and installation. Her works take environmental injustices, the precarity of resources, and familial story as her starting point. Inspired by her grandmother’s home in the Philippines, she explores the impact of rising sea levels and considers how human connectivity and adaptation are essential to recovery and transformation. Through repetition, reenactment and reconstruction, Cristine processes and makes sense of a constantly evolving world by documenting personal and global changes.