ABOUT THE ARTIST

photographed by Brooke Holm (2024)

Frances Grace Mortel (b. 1987, Manila) is an artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. She is the Co-Executive Director for Asians for Collective Liberation in Spokane and Asians for Collective Action, a member of Washington Filmworks Equity Committee, serves on the board of Spokane Film Project, and programs films at Spokane International Film Festival. Her site-responsive installations involve unmaking and perpetual maintenance—exploring labor and care through digital and physical archives—often thinking about displacement and extraction while mapping out collective memory through moving image and placemaking. Fran lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family and completed her MFA at Bard College in New York.

curriculum vitae
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