Fundraising Campaign by Edmund Arevalo
https://www.edmundarevalo.com
@edmundarevalo

"A Love Carried Across" (The Sweet Inheritance)
Exhibition Opening: February 11th, 2027 6pm-9pm
Location: USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles
                  1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles, CA 90013

Fundraising Goal: $20,000

ABOUT THE PROJECT
For the past several years, I have been developing an interdisciplinary body of work examining Filipino diasporic identity, and the experience of living in an "in-between" space.

As a Filipino American artist, I have often found myself thinking about what it means to belong to more than one place. My relationship to the Philippines is shaped by memory, family, distance, and stories passed down to me. America is where I have built my life, yet the Philippines remains present through the people, traditions, objects, images, and memories that have traveled with my family.

Filipino diasporic identity is not a fixed or divided identity; it is a continually reconstructed conditioned and shaped through culture, and lived experiences. This thesis investigates the idea of liminality in Filipino American experience identifying the condition of cultural negotiation, fragmentation, and agency. 

Drawing from my experiences between Filipino and American culture,  I examine these tensions of belonging, assimilation, language, migration, memory, and cultural authenticity. This experience of feeling “not Filipino enough” or “not American enough,” is what this thesis exhibition will be investigating. 

This exhibition represents an important milestone in my development as an artist and brings together years of research, experimentation, personal history, and studio practice.

SO WHY I AM FUNDRAISING? Well first of all USC is sooo dang expensive! but worth every penny.

Secondly, I want to create a large-scale MFA thesis exhibition which requires significant amount of resources. This fundraising campaign will help me produce, install, document, and present the work at the level I envision

Funds raised will directly support: 

Every contribution, regardless of size, helps make this exhibition possible.

All donations made will be processed by Fractured Atlas. Fractured Atlas is a 501(c)(3) public charity; all donations are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Fractured Atlas will issue tax receipts for all donations made through a campaign.

This exhibition is deeply personal, but it is also part of a larger conversation about Filipino diasporic experience. For many people living between cultures, identity is not always a fixed category. It can be fragmented, reconstructed, remembered, inherited, questioned, and continually negotiated.

My work explores that space through material and image. I use fragments, layers, transfers, found objects, family photographs, archival imagery, painting, sculpture, and video as ways of thinking through memory and displacement.

The exhibition becomes a physical environment where these fragments can come together.

My goal is not simply to tell a story about Filipino identity, but to create a space where questions of belonging, inheritance, migration, memory, and transformation can remain open.