Biography:

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Favianna Rodriguez uses the arts as a tool for liberation. Since 1998, Favianna's pieces have been posted on street corners, store windows, telephone poles, raised at mass rallies and community festivals, or may have found their way into your mailbox. Her artwork carries on a Bay Area tradition of designing and printing socially conscious art for progressive political causes and grassroots organizations.

Favianna is a founding member of the EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA), an Oakland-based collective of third world artist and community organizers who use the arts as a tool in the freedom struggle. She is the director of Visual Element a graffiti arts organization that trains young graffiti writers to produce political murals in communities of color. She is also the co-owner of Tumi's Design, a multi-service technology and design firm. Implementing advanced graphic & web technologies with a social consciousness, Tumi's seeks to use multimedia to engender global communication between oppressed communities and to promote political art and open forums of expression.

Favianna is unabashedly committed to the art of political propaganda. She readily assumes that role, utilizing the graphic arts as an educating tool, affirming a progressive cultural consciousness, providing community access to art and technology to assert an independent voice, and producing propaganda for the people.