Indira Allegra | Artist and Founder
Indira Allegra is a conceptual artist and founder of Cazimi Studio. Allegra's work has been featured in The Art Newspaper, Artnet, Art Journal, BOMB Magazine, SF Chronicle, e-flux, All Arts and ARTFORUM and in exhibitions at the Museum of Arts and Design (New York, NY); Center for Craft Creativity and Design (Asheville, NC); John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI); Gray Area (San Francisco, CA); the Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA) and San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles (San Jose, CA) among others.
Allegra's writing has been featured in Theater, TEXTILE: Cloth and Culture, American Craft Magazine, Panorama Journal, Leonardo and Material Intelligence among others. Their monograph Blackout (Sming Sming Books) is in the collection of major art museum libraries nationwide. Allegra has been the recipient of numerous awards including the Burke Prize, Creative Capital, United States Artists Fellowship, Gerbode Choreographer Award, Art Matters Fellowship and CripTech Metaverse Fellowship.
Shushan Tesfuzigta | Thought Partner
Shushan is a poet and alt-text writer with a background in art, craft, education, environmental design, and community planning. Her areas of interest span from queer black feminist thought to mapping waste streams. Her work considers the relationships between all spheres of the social ecology model and honors the dignity of living things and their environments. Her hope is to make our individual and collective right to well-being more accessible. For we all have a right to experience pleasure, clarity, safety, and justice.
She holds a Masters in City & Regional Planning from UC Berkeley and a Bachelors of Fine Art from California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of the African Diaspora, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, IDEO, and Recology San Francisco Artist in Residence Program, among others.