Community Faculty, Jose Ortiz- RUAP

Ibrahima (Ibou) N’Gom, a native of Senegal, has been a resident of the Monterey Bay area for five years.

   Born into a Griot family of traditional musicians, Mr. N’Gom has been carrying on his family’s musical heritage since childhood.

   Ibou facilitates community drumming and dancing and has worked with and performed for elementary school through university students, at-risk youth, and adults. His ensemble, Domu Africa, brings the sights and sounds of Senegal alive through performances of traditional music and dance. Mr. N’Gom has also traveled with the Second National Ballet of Senegal and the Ballet d’Afrique Noir.

   While on the CSUMB campus, Ibou taught Senegalese drumming and performance techniques to students in the Music and Performing Arts Institute. The class performed at the 2001 RUAP Community Arts Summit along with Domu Africa.

   Mr. N’Gom was interviewed about his experience with community building. The interview was videotaped and will be added to a resource library that recognizes the valuable funds of knowledge that exist within our communities.

RUAP Community Faculty:
Spring 2003 Sandra Still
Sandra Still is education director at the Monterey Museum of Art, a RUAP community partner. For her residency, Ms. Still gave two lectures and workshops at the Institute for Visual and Public Art that explored clothing and textile techniques developed in several cultures. She also participated in a weeklong colloquium for museum studies students. The words “text” and “textiles” share the same origin, a Latin word meaning to weave into a structure. Throughout history, people have used textiles – and the clothing made from them – to tell the story of who they are, where they come from, and their status in life. It is these stories that were examined. The first lecture/workshop was titled “Scarcity and Innovation: Patchwork Techniques Developed by the Seminoles of Florida and Settlers to the Colonies.” These two groups – both faced with hardship – developed patchwork techniques to protect, identify and adorn. In the workshop, paper (instead of cloth and sewing machines) was used to explore how these groups used color value, composition and repetition to create unique and beautiful one-of-a-kind patterns and designs. The second presentation explored “Independent Innovation: Resist Dye Patterns of Japan, India and Africa.” The workshop used fabric and dyes and examined how three cultures developed similar yet different techniques. Participants experimented with three techniques: adire eleso from Africa, shibori from Japan, and bandhani from India. Ms. Still holds a master’s degree in anthropology and museum studies from the University of Washington and has been on the staff of the local museum since 1989. Widely traveled and bilingual, she has had a longtime interest in textiles, fiber and clothing.

Fall 2001 Ibrahima N’Gom
Ibrahima (Ibou) N’Gom, a native of Senegal, has been a resident of the Monterey Bay area for five years. Born into a Griot family of traditional musicians, Mr. N’Gom has been carrying on his family’s musical heritage since childhood. Ibou facilitates community drumming and dancing and has worked with and performed for elementary school through university students, at-risk youth, and adults. His ensemble, Domu Africa, brings the sights and sounds of Senegal alive through performances of traditional music and dance. Mr. N’Gom has also traveled with the Second National Ballet of Senegal and the Ballet d’Afrique Noir. While on the CSUMB campus, Ibou taught Senegalese drumming and performance techniques to students in the Music and Performing Arts Institute. The class performed at the 2001 RUAP Community Arts Summit along with Domu Africa. Mr. N’Gom was interviewed about his experience with community building. The interview was videotaped and will be added to a resource library that recognizes the valuable funds of knowledge that exist within our communities.

Spring and Summer 2001 Jose Ortiz
Jose Ortiz was the first Community Faculty in residence with RUAP. Mr. Ortiz is a RUAP community partner representative with the Alisal Center for the Fine Arts in Salinas. He is the director and founder of its visual arts and murals program, Hijos del Sol. For his Community Faculty residency, Jose worked on the CSUMB campus with students and faculty at the Institute for Visual and Public Art (VPA) and the Service Learning Institute (SLI). In each instance, Jose contextualized his visit by sharing his philosophies on community based art, particularly murals, on working with youth, and teaching. In the VPA 2D Design class, he instructed students in working with light and shadow or positive and negative space and in the VPA Visual Arts for Teachers class he conducted a workshop that included discussion and activities related to arts education. At the Service Learning Institute, Jose participated as a guest lecturer in what was a semester long series of activities for the University Service Advocate (USA) students. In an interactive exercise involving self portraiture and indigenous Mexican mythology and imagery, he shared his views on community arts, service, and working with youth. During the summer semester, Jose and Hijos del Sol worked on one of their community murals in the VPA 2D mural studio, and as a culminative activity, Jose will be collaborating with RUAP and university staff to curate an exhibition on campus of his collaborative artwork that will be a continuance of a recent exhibition of his individual works at the Monterey Museum of Art. As with all future community faculty residents, RUAP will video document an interview with Jose regarding his expertise in the field of community building. From this first record, RUAP will create a resource library that recognizes the valuable and funds of knowledge that exist within our communities and which RUAP recognizes within the Community Faculty Residency.

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