Adrienne Skye Roberts
Roberts is a candidate in the Visual and Critical Studies Program at the California College of the Arts where she has spent time researching representations of belonging in urban neighborhoods. Her thesis project, “Homesick: The Search for Belonging in New Orleans’ Landscape of Loss” considers the landscape of post-Hurricane Katrina visually, politically, and sociologically by examining the paradoxical presence of the nonlocal volunteers who migrated to the city after the storm. This project considers themes of home and belonging through the visuality of race, mobility, and the myth of the American frontier.
Roberts’ recent curatorial projects include “For Lovers and Fighters” at The Spare Room, “Sweet and Matchless” at PLAySPACE Gallery, “I thought this was a math class: High School Students Explore Geometry through Art” at the Oakland Musuem of Children’s Art and “Between Memory and Invention” at PLAySPACE Gallery.
Her upcoming curatorial project “Home is something I carry with me” funded by a grant from Southern Exposure, will feature work by local artists that interrogate the concept of home and will transform three homes in San Francisco’s Mission District into exhibition spaces.
Adrienne has BA in Feminist Studies and Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is a native of the Bay Area and currently lives in San Francisco.
