More than Our Documents: Your Story, My Story

with Mic Diño Boekelmann

Filipino American artist Mic Diño Boekelmann will share how her work with Manila envelopes, family archives and Filipino mythology reveal the deeper connections that live between us.

She will explore how art can hold memory and how our personal histories intertwine in surprising ways. This session offers a creative space to reflect and recognize ourselves in each other.

Bio: Mic Diño Boekelmann (b. 1970, Quezon City, Philippines)
Mic Diño Boekelmann is a Filipino American artist, educator, and facilitator born in Quezon City, Philippines. She was raised in Germany, Israel, and the US and received her BA from UC Berkeley. As the founder of The Orange Door, a contemporary art space in Princeton, she is a dedicated arts advocate.

Her work is included in the permanent collection at Princeton University and has been shown at the at the American University Museum/Katzen Arts Center, the Chautauqua Institution, the NARS Foundation on Governors Island, Princeton University, the Filipino American Contemporary Art exhibit at San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA is a contributing author to “Last Artist Standing: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life over 50” edited by Sharon Louden.

She was awarded the Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, the Chautauqua Visual Arts Residency, the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program and is a founding member of the ERL Collective, emerging residency leaders developing nurturing systems for BIPOC artists. She has facilitated artist talks at the Princeton Public Library and Pratt Institute, NY. Boekelmann lives and works in Princeton, NJ.

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