Mark Menjivar
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary School for Engagement
Contact
- Southwest Campus, Urschel 213
- Website
Bio
Mark Menjívar is a San Antonio-based artist and Associate Professor in the Interdisciplinary School for Engagement at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He also serves as Associate Director of UTSA Arts and co-directs the Community Arts BA program. His art practice primarily consists of creating participatory projects while being rooted in photography, oral history, archives, and social action. He attended McLennan Community College, holds a BA in Social Work from Baylor University and an MFA in Social Practice from Portland State University.Mark has engaged in projects at venues including the El Museo del Barrio, Rothko Chapel, Eastern State Penitentiary, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, FOTOFEST, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Haverford College, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, The Puerto Rican Museum of Art and Culture, Sala Diaz, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum and the Krannert Art Museum.
Mark is a long-time artistic collaborator with the After Violence Project, a public memory archive that fosters deeper understandings of the impacts of state violence. He is also a member of Borderland Collective, which utilizes collaborations between artists, educators, youth, and community members to engage complex issues and build space for diverse perspectives, meaningful dialogue, and modes of creation around border issues.
Research Interests
- Art and Social Practice
- Socially Engaged Art
- Photography
- Sound Studies
- Capital Punishment
- Migration
- Ornithology
Degrees
- M.F.A in Art and Social Practice, Portland State University (2014)
- B.A. in Social Work, Baylor University
