The Center for Art and Public Exchange (CAPE) invites you to a Listening Session, June 28th, at 5:30 PM to learn more about Yanira Collado; the CAPE Artist-in Residence for 2023.  The CAPE artist residency program at the Mississippi Museum of Art is a community driven yearlong residency that uses art as a tool to explore issues relevant to the Jackson community.

The event is free and open to the public.
Dinner will be provided; registration is required.

For more information, please contact Monique Davis.

About the Artist

Yanira Collado lives/works in Miami FL. Education, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Collado’s Art Residency and fellowships include the African Heritage Cultural Center, Liberty City, FL 2011-2012 and Bridge Red Art Center North Miami, FL, 2013-present, Joan Mitchell Arts Residency, New Orleans, 2020, Oolites Arts, Miami, Fl, 2019-present, Art Pace, San Antonio, Texas, 2022. She was awarded first place in the 2013 South Florida Biennial at the Art and Cultural Center/Hollywood, Hollywood, FL and was a recipient of The Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, 2018. Collado was selected as an Ellies Creator grantee in 2019 and in 2021 was given a South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship.  Yanira’s work attempts to assemble a visual language that reconciles the process in which the history of this information is recorded, stored, and retrieved