jina valentine

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jina valentine is a mother, visual artist, and Associate Professor of Printmedia at SAIC. Her practice is informed by traditional craft techniques and interweaves histories latent within found texts, objects, narratives, and spaces. jina’s work involves language translation, mining content from material and digital archives, and experimental strategies for humanizing data-visualization. She is also co-founder (with artist Heather Hart) of Black Lunch Table, an oral-history archiving project. Her work has received recognition and support from the Graham Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, and Art Matters among others. jina received her BFA from Carnegie Mellon and her MFA from Stanford University.

jinavalentine.com

blacklunchtable.com

Heather Hart and jina valentine, “Black Lunch Table” in Zoë Charlton and Tim Doud, eds, Out of Place: Artists, Pedagogy, and Purpose, punctum books, 2021.

jina valentine, eliza myrie, and Heather Hart, “The Myth of the Comprehensive Historical Archive”, Wikipedia @ 20, 2020.