**Shirin Towfiq,** ‘Looking for a Sign,’ 2022

Shirin Towfiq | Saturday, December 7

Shirin Towfiq (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist working with an emphasis on installation, sculptural photography, textiles, and printmaking. Drawing from her positionality as a second-generation Iranian refugee, her artwork explores the complexities of belonging and placemaking through archival research and intergenerational communication with a diasporic lens. She focuses on everyday practices of belonging and visual culture, as produced by migrants, and reflecting on the traces of diaspora to investigate cultural memory, history, and temporality. Currently, Towfiq is featured in exhibitions at ICA San Jose, New Museum Los Gatos and USC Roski School of Art and Design and is earning her PhD from UC Santa Cruz.

SEE(d) and Towfiq engaged in a moderated conversation with Cultural Anthropoligist, Cari Borja, Ph.D at CLIO’s Oakland on Saturday, December 7th. Delicious wines and bites and artworks were offered. ALL ticket proceeds go to support the artist’s studio practice.

Macro Waves | stay tuned for date

Macro Waves is a Bay Area, CA-based creative collective made of artists, designers, and technologists of color, producing experiences centered on social practice, conceptual art, new media, and design. The collective was founded in 2015 and includes members Anum Awan, Robin Birdd David, Dominic Cheng, Tina Kashiwagi, and Jeffrey Yip. Macro Waves projects examine systems, infrastructures, and processes of future world-building through storytelling from a science fiction-based lens. Their practice focuses on introspective work around ancestry, intergenerational experiences, and collective care.

Macro Waves invites SEE(d) Creative Network to an engaging studio visit of new works in production. Boutique wines and delicious bites will be offered in the spirit of belonging. Stay tuned for date in 2025.