Racquel De Anda Research Paper

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Nowadays, I start to question myself that can two unrelated disciplines have some sort of relationship? Raquel de Anda provides the answer. Anda recently attended to my class as aa speaker. She is an experienced independent curator and cultural producer, whose projects has a wide range: such as producing trans-media film, organizing public interventions, mass mobilizations, and curating exhibitions at art-related spaces. Based on her childhood. She lived nearby the border of Mexico and the United States. It influences her that her project always responds to the environment, local issues, and immigration.
One remarkable project that she curated with the Washington Project for the Arts called The Ripple Effect: Currents of Socially Engaged Art.

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