{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Jackie Amezquita on migration, memory and making art","description":"When we first heard from Jackie Amezquita four years ago, she was an ArtCenter Fine Art student on the cusp of graduating. In a raw and revealing interview, she traced the arduous path she\u2019d walked to find the stability she needed to risk everything for her art.  Her remarkable journey (captured in E14 of Change Lab) began in her native Guatemala, where surging violence and poverty had forced Jackie\u2019s mother to migrate to the United States to provide for her family. At age seventeen, Jackie followed her mother\u2019s footsteps to the US (quite literally), and barely survived a dangerous border crossing. After years spent working as an undocumented nanny to put herself through community college, Jackie eventually earned her Bachelor of Fine Art at ArtCenter. Her thesis project drew international media coverage when she bravely embarked on a second grueling walk from the Tijuana border all the way to Downtown Los Angeles.  The power of her resilience and grit continues to stand out as an example of a purpose-driven artist whose message brilliantly aligns with her chosen medium. We\u2019ve held her story close to our hearts, and the hardships she\u2019s transmuted into art resonated all the more this season as we explore the alchemy of creativity and adversity. It\u2019s for those reasons that We\u2019ve asked Jackie to join us as Change Lab\u2019s first returning guest, even as she puts the finishing touches on her MFA thesis at UCLA. We waned to know more about her investigation into grief and displacement, and we were fascinated by the bravery and creative energy it took to revisit her trauma and to give depth and dimension to a painful story that needed to be told. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm\/adchoices ","author_name":"Why AxS from ArtCenter","author_url":"https:\/\/www.artcenter.edu\/connect\/podcasts\/why-axs-podcast.html","html":"