Speaking Tributaries is a collaboration between artists Ana Labastida, Jesus Landin-Torrez III, and Sadie Harmon. Kate Lee Short has been a collaborator in the early stages of this project. 

Ana Labastida

Ana Labastida is a Mexican artist based in San Francisco, California. She is the lead artist for Speaking Tributaries. Her practice spans site-specific installation, social practice, mixed media sculpture and projection. She is interested in exploring poetic strategies that deal with the forsaken, the intangible, the subtle, and the overlooked. Ana holds an MFA in Social Practice from California College of the Arts. She has exhibited in Mexico, Spain and the United States. Her work has been reviewed by the San Francisco Chronicle.

Jesus Landin Torrez III

Jesus Landin-Torrez III is a multi-disciplinary time-based artist exploring ideas of ritualistic practice and intimacy around memory and death. He's interested in the places and moments in life where the metaphysical is channeled through the physical by ritual and how the abstract telling of that narrative through metaphor can bring better understanding to larger issues.

Landin-Torrez III is an Alaskan artist currently based in San Francisco. He received his BFA in Interdisciplinary Art from the University of Alaska Anchorage and an MFA in Social Practice from the California College of Arts. He's been exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Performance Art International conference at Stanford University, The Anchorage Museum, The Southern Graphics Conference, and at the Wisconsin State Capital when he was 10.

Sadie Harmon

Sadie Harmon is an artist, educator, and writer based in Oakland, California. In 2013, she completed an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at California College of the Arts and currently works with elders diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. She has presented multi-disciplinary events and projects at museums, galleries, and alternative art spaces in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Chicago. Her recent work examines the ways in which social, architectural and linguistic change relate to aging and death.
 

Our cover image is a closeup of a map of Oakland, Alameda and Vicinity, Published by M.G. King C.E. in 1876. It is housed by the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. For more information visit www.davidrumsey.com