CULTURAL ACTIVISM
NEW YORK SOCIETY OF WOMEN ARTISTS
New York State recognized the organization as a historic organization, founded in 1925. Aldanondo was a member 2019-2024, she was also a Board Member 2020-2024, and volunteered her time to the organization to manage curate their social media feed during exhibitions (2020-2024)
ARTWORKS-NYC
New York, New York - ArtWorks NYC is a nonprofit organization that offers a visual literacy program to underserved public schools throughout NYC’s five boroughs. Volunteer instructors lead classroom workshops along guided visits to either The Met Museum or the Brooklyn Museum. The art in this program reflects NYC’s diverse school population with art from different cultures, from antiquity to present day. There, Aldanondo was a trained museum guide, guiding NYC public school children and their teachers through a walk visiting works of art they were becoming familiar with.This program was geared to third to fifth graders of the NYC Public School system.
CITY AS STUDIO
My work in this project binds the visual and performing arts together, with the aspect of human interaction at its core. I use the opportunity to expose the juxtaposition of street art and fine art, as well as to challenge gender roles and the role of women in abstract expressionism throughout history.
Solitude takes a backseat in this project, though solitude is an important aspect to the creation of most works of art, what we as artists create in solitude is based or influenced by our interactions with the world. My project binds the two together. I access solitude under any circumstances, I carry it within, and can in a crowded space access it, or renounce it as needed. During this ongoing project I created works of art n midtown, Harlem, the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, Central Park, the Lower East Side, the West Village, Chelsea, SoHo, Chinatown, Jackson Heights (Queens), Astoria (Queens), and Brooklyn, bringing my work and my interaction to the people of these neighborhoods. After years of painting at different locations throughout the city, I settled to painting at what I refer to as "my wall" or my "studio in the streets" in SoHo, New York.
ICELAND ART FESTIVAL SPEAKING PRESENTATION
Presented the project she worked on while in Iceland, presenting the art exhibition which consisted of paintings on paper made by the inmates at the local prison and also by the school children at the local school. Through the power of art, these very unique and different groups of individuals came together as creators, demonstrating that a real community can come together through compassion and understanding of different backgrounds, creating conscience that the two co-existed within the same municipality. The works presented shed light on the many similarities in inspiration found in the works, which spoke of hopes, dreams for the future, a love for family and love of the arts, making a clear connection to the shared humanity by both two groups. The exhibition was presented to the public at the local community center. This program was partially funded by the Ministry of Culture in Iceland, through a local organization.
ART FESTIVAL ICELAND
Selected to join a group international artists who came together to explore the sense of time, empathy and compassion. While there, Susana worked closely with the local town, school and with Litla-Hraun the largest prison in Iceland, to help create an art festival bringing together everyone in the community, based on the concepts of empathy and compassion, while learning about Icelandic festivities, Icelandic cultural identity, and the welfare system. There, she led a painting workshop for 40 inmates. She also held a workshop sharing her experience an abstract artist at the local school for the 11th and 12th grades.
SUAREZ PAZ TANGO - PAINT THE MUSIC PROGRAM
Guest Artist - Aldanondo was a guest artist at the painting workshop offered in connection with exploring the visual arts through music offered by NYC based tango orchestra and quartet Suarez Paz Tango, during the Roosevelt Island Arts Festival.
CONTRIBUTOR TO ORGANIZATIONS
Aldanondo believes in supporting organizations that work to improve the lives of others. She contributes regularly to organizations such as Special Citizens, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, recently took part of an exhibition with a mission to support NeonArts/Carnegie Hall through Nippon Gallery for NYC's 19th Annual New York/Tokyo Juried Exhibition.
She is sought after to collaborate with other artists as well as musicians, scholars and composers.
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