”Clocking In: Labor Defines”, group show at the MINE Factory // Pittsburgh, Pa, 2016. Clocking in, clocking out, changing hats, switching gears. In navigating our place in society, we each create, embrace, and complicate the lines between our varied modes of working. Our attitudes about going to work, however, are dictated by our individual goals […]
Author: zenaruiz
Creative Pollinations
Just Bee Collaborations include: Beautiful Constellations with Michelle King and Kim Moses was born out of a gathering of hearts to hold the questions: Why healing? Why now? What needs to be healed? Through the Climate Healing Incubator funded by the Heinz Endowments *thank you*, we gathered, broke bread, had thought experiments, and offered a […]
Grief
“When Grief is Your Best Friend” was my first solo exhibition at the Braddock Carnegie Library in 2019. The exhibition was a reflection of how any good I experienced came from something – not. so. good. Over the years, I’ve made friends with Grief. I’ve come to appreciate Grief’s theatrical nature and silliness; spontaneity and […]
Gardweeno
Gardweeno, started in 2014 in an empty lot with our young friends in my neighborhood and my friend next door, Lindsey Scherloum. At this time many of my young neighbors were 9-10 years old looking for something to do in the summers. After many experimental pasta dishes and them helping me with my house projects, […]
Wilkinsburg-Flowers
Wilkinsburg, Pa – the first neighborhood I ever lived in where I knew my neighbors and felt part of a community.
I Am the Flux
Practicing and Evolving Reflecting, Rebuilding and Redefining