Crow Cianciola

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"I consider visual culture and the arts to be areas of collective self-reflection and of innovation for the values we put into social and political practice."

  • Alumni of: 2007 Graduate Scholarship Program
  • Hometown: San Jose

Biography

After years being a part of a small community in Maine, Crow Cianciola began researching educational and vocational opportunities. Crow entered an undergraduate program at Maine College of Art in 2002. During Crow's first year of taking college courses, changes in his life and community radically altered the role he expected himself to play in the world. The first year of college changed Crow's expectations for his future and introduced him to the arts as conceptual strategies for problem solving, learning and alliance building.

In art school, Crow worked as a woodshop studio technician, a campus maintenance worker, a cook, and a bookstore clerk. He exhibited in local art shows, and interned and volunteered with social activist groups, public access television, and cooking for the AIDS Project.

With this scholarship, Crow can pursue career plans that encompass education and art practice. At the same time, he is committed to his own artistic practice, which he uses as a visual form of historical analysis. By challenging his own preconceptions and encouraging others to think critically, he hopes to contribute to improving relations which are often confronted by economic, racial and sexual difference. "I am devoted to 'conceptual strategies' for imagining changing ways for living together in complex cultural and economic worlds."

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