Curriculum Vitae
Cynthia Aurora Brannvall
cynthiabrannvall@gmail.com www.cynthiabrannvall.com
Education
Master of Arts, History of Art, San Francisco State University 2014
Bachelor of Arts, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Practice of Art, University of California, Berkeley 2012
Associate in Arts in Humanities, Foothill College, Los Altos 2009
Teaching Experience
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Foothill College, Full Time Tenure Track 2020
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(adjunct 3+ years full time equivalent)
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Foothill College 2018-2020
Las Positas College 2018-2020
Chabot College 2016-2020
Berkeley City College 2014-2020
San Francisco State University 2015,2016
Courses Taught
Introduction to Art and Art History (Face to Face and Online)
Ancient to Gothic (Face to Face and Online)
Renaissance to Contemporary (Face to Face and Online)
History of Modern Art: 1800 to Present (Face to Face and Online)
Nonwestern Art History
Multicultural Perspectives of American Art (Face to Face and Online)
The Artist in the 20th Centuries: Cultures in Collision; Cultures in Fusion
Introduction to Asian Art History (Face to Face and Online)
The History of Women in Art (Face to Face and Online)
Professional Affiliations
Art Span EDI Committee
AAN African American Network Foothill College
GEN board member, Global Educators Network affiliated with Stanford Global Studies
TAC Textile Arts Council, deYoung Museum
NCWCA Northern California Women's Caucus for the Arts
Chandra Cerrito Art Advisors
Research Symposium Mentor Foothill College
Heritage Lecturer, Foothill College
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Featured Artist in Juried Exhibitions
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23 and Me DNA Data Translations in Color, Nestled in Identities, Generations, 2022
& Mothers, "On the Move: Migration/Emigration/Immigration," Gualala Arts Center
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Crevice, "The Wild Side Exhibition", Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 2022
"The Threads That Bind," solo exhibition MoAD, Emerging Artist Series. 2022
Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, CA
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, 2022
Art of the African Diaspora, Richmond CA
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Pink and Blue, Queer Rain Publication 2022
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Father Figure and Generations, Warehouse 416 Gallery, Oakland CA 2022
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Nestled in Identities, Daughters, Descendants, "The Black Woman is God" 11/2021
SomArts, San Francisco
23 and Me Data Translations in Color and Chromosomes “(UN) Natural Borders” 10/2021
Silverwood Park Gallery, MN
Sisters “Repurposeful,” Scrap Fundraiser in partnership with the Randall Museum. 10/2021
The Passage, “Root Division Annual Auction” 10/2021
Frances, Ellen Watkins Harper, “Women Making their Mark,” 2021
O’hanlon Center for the Arts
Gertrude and Alice, Rosa Bonheur “Small” WCA Peninsula Onine Exhibition 2021
Justice, “Off Center,” Blue Line Arts 2021
Artist talk “Off Center,” Blue Line Arts 2021
Jurisdiction, Arc Gallery, San Francisco CA 12/2020
Continents, The Threads That Bind a Divided Nation, SomArts, San Francisco 11/2020
The Threads That Bind a Divided Nation, 10/2020
“US: What Divides What Unites Us,” Washington DC 9/2020
Present Council, “Politically Charged,” Roseville, CA 10/2020
Truth, “Identity in Clay,” Clay Center, New Orleans 9/2020
Daughters, Father Figure, Generations, and Descendants,
SFMOMA Artists Gallery presents 2/2020
“Contemporary Black Artists, an Exhibition at TPG Global”
Nestled in Identities, and Mothers
SFMOMA Artists Gallery presents 2/2020
“The Act of Living is a Form of Protest –
An exhibition of African American Artists at Asana”
Indigenousness, Kala Art Institute 2019
Indigenousness, Rhythmix Cultural Works, Alameda, 2019
23 and Me DNA Data Translations in Color, Root Division , San Francisco 2019
Honorary Artist in Residency, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, 2019
Continents, Root Division, San Francisco 2019
Blink, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles 2018
Truth, Justice, Love, Protection, 2018
Anchor Artist Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Blink , San Luis Obispo Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo 2018
Continents, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles 2018
Diasporic Drift, ArtWorks Downtown, San Rafael 2018
Condensation, Jerry Adams Gallery, Berkeley 2017
Et Alia, SOMArts, San Francisco
Horizon, San Fernando Valley Arts & Cultural Center, Tarzana 2017
Pink, Wal Public Market Gallery, Sacramento 2016
Truth, Justice, Protection and Love, SOMArts, San Francisco 2016
Portrait Medallions, Galería de la Raza, San Francisco 2016
Continents, MFA Never Archive, Root Division, San Francisco 2016
Someday I’ll Be Whole Again, Art Brokers Gallery, San Rafael 2016
Diasporic Drift and The Passage,
Graduate Assembly First Annual People of Color Art Walk , UC Berkeley 2014
Abstracts, Online Exhibition, Linus Gallery, Los Angeles 2014
Faculty Show, Jerry Adams Gallery, Berkeley 2014
Sediment, Pacific Art League, Palo Alto 2014
Above and Below, Glama-Rama Salon and Gallery, San Francisco 2014
Elixir of Rejuvenation, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley 2011
Line Between, set construction, Ink Boat Production, San Francisco 2011
Public Lectures and Presentations
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Featured luminary, NCWCA Northern California Women’s caucus for art 4th annual 2022
Bay Area Art Stars: Women’s Networking Event.
Featured panelist Global Educators Network “Globalizing the Curriculum,” 2022
Austin Community College
NCWCA “The Nuts and Bolts of Writing an Artist Statement” 2022
Curatorial talk Arc Gallery The Wild Side 2022
LBGTQIA++ Heritage Month, Foothill College, Artist talk/conversation with Liz Harvey and dani lopez. 2022
LBGTQI++ Heritage Month: “Artist talk/conversation with Tricia Rainwater and Alma Leppla. 2022
Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month, Foothill College Art History Lecture: 2022
"How Asian Labor Built the Infrastructure Necessary for American Industrialization.”
GEN, Global Educators Network panelist, Stanford University 2022
“EPIC Symposium: Integrating Global Topics into Community College Curriculum,”
Artist Talk, In Conversation with Mirka Knaster, MoAD “The Threads That Bind.” 2022
Women’s Heritiage Month Foothill College 2022
“Feminist Art: Then and Now A Panel Discussion with Marguerite Elliot, Karen LeCocq,
participants of the first Feminist Art program founded by Judy Chicago and Miriam Shapiro”
Featured in IAMA International Art Museum of America SF "Celebrating Black Artists" 2022
“Art History Lecture: American Black Portraiture,” Foothill College 2022
Black History Month, Foothill College, 2022
“Changemakers: Creating New Narratives| Creating Community with Panelists:
Idris Hassan, Ayana Ivery, Tiarra Asia Knox, and Karen Seneferu”
Jewish Heritage Month, Foothill College, “Art History Lecture: Marc Chagall, 2022
Claude Cahun and Judy Chicago”
“Globalizing the Curriculum” Austin Community College, Faculty Learning Community Session. 2021
“Intersectionality and new paradigms for Identity and belonging,” 2021
Education Partnership for Internationalizing Curriculum (EPIC) Symposium
“Intersectionality and new paradigms for Identity and belonging,” 2021
Global Educators Network, faculty inquiry
“LBGTQI in Art History” Foothill College 2021
“Mana, Wayfinding and Tattoo in Oceanic Pacific Island Art” Foothill College 2021
“Muslim Heritage Month, Islamic influence in Art History” 2021
“Womens History Month: Artist Talk, Textile Paintings and Sculpture” 2021
Womens History Month: Artist Talk, Textile Paintings and Sculpture 03/2021
Black History Month: Identity Collage Workshop, Foothill College 02/2021
Black History Month: Lava Thomas and Glenn Ligon, Foothill College 02/2021
African American Network Leadership Panel, Foothill College 02/2021
Invited artist panelist, The Act of Living is a Form of Protest: An exhibition
of African American Artists at Asana, San Francisco, CA 02/2020
Post Modern Painting Practices, UC Berkeley 10/2020
Artist Talk, Root Division, San Francisco, CA 08/2019
Artist Talk, Stories of Perseverance, Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland 09/2018
Invited Panelist Impact Hub Oakland, CA 07/2016
The Black Woman is God Film Screening
Artist Talk, Oxtail Studio and Gallery, Berkeley, CA 10/2016
Finding Meaning in Materials and Process
Invited Guest Lecturer, Approaches to Painting UC Berkeley 08/2015
Modernism and Postmodernism
Invited Panelist Berkeley City College 10/2014
Women in Cinema Event: Julia Dash’s Daughters of the Dust
McNair Scholars Symposium, UC Berkeley 08/2011
Traces of the Maternal and African Heritage in a Painting of
the Fathers of the Haitian Revolution: Guillaume Guillion-Lethière’s
Oath of the Ancestors (1822)
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Honors and Grants
CASP, Cubberley Artist Studio Program, 4 Year Artist Studio Residency
CASP, Cubberley Artist Studio Program, 5 month Artist Studio Residency
Artistic Achievement Award, “Art of the African Diaspora” Richmond Art Center
Wildlands Artist Residency
Aninstantia Grant Recipient
Kala Art Institute Artist Residency
Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Grant, SFSU
Phi Beta Kappa Society, UC Berkeley
Honors, College of Letters & Science, UC Berkeley
Departmental Citation Award and Grant, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Honors in the major, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Honors in the major, Practice of Art, UC Berkeley
Maybelle Tombs Award and Grant, History of Art, UC Berkeley
McNair Scholar, Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program and grant, UC Berkeley
Department Award for Excellence in Art History, Foothill College
Honors Scholar in the Honors Institute of Foothill College
Research
MA Thesis in Art, History of Art, San Francisco State University 2014
Revisiting Spiral: The Politics of Identity in the Visual Field
Honors Thesis, History of Art , UC Berkeley 2011-2012
Iconography in the Continental Crossroads of the Sang Mêlé:
Guillaume Guillon-Letière’s Oath of the Ancestors (1822)
Ronald E. McNair Scholars Program, UC Berkeley 2011
Traces of the Maternal and African Heritage in a Painting
of the Fathers of the Haitian Revolution:
Guillaume Guillion-Lethière’s Oath of the Ancestors (1822)
Languages
Spanish Basic Reading/Conversation Proficiency
French Basic Reading/Conversation Proficiency