Céline Cuadra celinecuadra4@gmail.com
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Céline Cuadra is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. A 2022 graduate of Harvard College, they wrote their thesis “Displacement and Dispossession in the Los Angeles Whiteness Project” alongside their creative thesis in textiles called “Map X: A LAbor of Love.” These projects were produced with the Department of History and Literature as well as the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard.

Céline currently teaches 6th grade science at Paul Cuffee Middle School.


More about my work

1. Exhibitions
2. Resume
3. Other Works

Carpenter Center Thesis Exhibition: What Goes Up Keeps Going Up  / Group Show 
 
This quilt was handmade using data sets published both by the Los Angeles Police Department and Los Angeles Housing Authority. Using their scattered data points, an ArcGIS heat map was created which visualizes the density of houseless people in Los Angeles County per square mile. 

This map has been rendered using the fabric of LAPD and LA Sheriff’s department uniforms. The darker colors represent a higher density of houseless people and consequently a higher police presence in those areas of Los Angeles. In 2022, over 69,000 people were counted as houseless in Los Angeles County. The LA Housing Authority believes there are likely many more unhoused people who went uncounted. The dark navy pocket patch towards the center of the quilt (representing the Downtown LA region) holds 8,727 counted unsheltered unhoused people.