Meet MR Barnadas! She is an interdisciplinary artist who is dedicated to collaborative production in the public domain. MR was born in Montreal to parents from Trinidad and Peru and grew up across North America. She holds a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in Painting/Art & Technology; conducted Regional Studies in Mexican Art and Craft at the Universidad de las Américas, Puebla, and holds an MFA in Visual Arts with a Public Culture focus from the University of California San Diego. Melinda has been a multi-year fellow of the UCSD Center on Global Justice and has instructed courses with Woodbury University School of Architecture; Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana; University of California, San Diego and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany. She is currently residing in the borderland city of San Diego where she is producing commissioned public art works with the City of San Diego and Port of San Diego on behalf of Collective Magpie.
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Chapter 4 - Connecting Across the Border Through Art
In this panel discussion, she shares about her bi-national art series Poetic Exploration of Race Survey and how it speaks to the power of art, culture and self identity beyond borders. Her work has been featured across the country including installations in New York’s El Museo Del Barrio. Read more about it also in this featured Wall Street Journal Article
