Angie Eng
Community Development Department
Supervisor Elizabeth Boyd
Artist Background
Angie Eng is a conceptual intermedia artist and designer of cultural programs who has received over fifty awards, commissions, and residencies for her creative work. She has been dedicated to equity and inclusivity, serving underserved communities in programs she designed and implemented in the South Bronx, Axum, Ethiopia, and the outskirts of Paris.
She became a strong advocate of arts education after growing up in Meadowview and Greenhaven Sacramento with little to no fine arts programming for children in the public schools as a consequence of Prop 13.
Having lived in Ethiopia, Switzerland, France, Mexico, Beijing, and New York City, Angie offers an international lens that lends itself to heightened empathy and an ability to assess and adapt creative strategies to the local community's needs.
She holds a Ph.D. in Intermedia Arts, Writing, and Performance from CU Boulder. She’s excited to offer her creative expertise in her hometown that will demonstrate how the arts are a vital tool for the growth of a healthy and equitable society.
‘Rite Ways’ is a live video/music performance of cinepoemes inspired by spiritual rituals. Symbolic objects, such as, the Bagua (Chinese Numerology) rocks (ancestors /American Indian), lingams (Hindu), are manipulated in front of cameras and mixed with footage of shaman rituals, archival footage, and overhead shots of public squares.
During the work in progress at Les Voutes, Paris, musicians, Elisabeth Valletti improvised electronic samples of harp with Theirry Madiot’s bellowing sounds of air compressed in horns, pipes, conch shells and elongated tubes.
