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Dorothy R. Santos

2020 YBCA 100 Honoree

Dorothy R. Santos is a Filipina American writer, artist, and educator whose academic and research interests include feminist media histories, critical medical anthropology, technology, race, and ethics. She is a Ph.D. student in Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz as a Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellow. She received her Master’s degree in Visual and Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts and holds Bachelor’s degrees in Philosophy and Psychology from the University of San Francisco. Her work has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and the GLBT Historical Society. Her writing appears in art21, Rhizome, Hyperallergic, Ars Technica, Vice Motherboard, SF MOMA’s Open Space, and Art in America. She is a co-founder of REFRESH, a politically-engaged art and curatorial collective and serves as the Executive Director for the Processing Foundation.

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Art & Civic Experience

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A Digital Art & Civic Experience

April 1–October 1, 2020

Public Programs

Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists

November 18–20, 2021, 12–5 PM

Public Programs

Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists

Saturday, October 16, 2021, 12–4:30 PM

Public Programs

Interactive Studio Hours with the YBCA 10 Artists

March 11–13, 2022

Photo of YBCA 100 Honoree Dorothy R. Santos

“A lot of my own practice, I make things based on feeling because sometimes that’s where the greatest kernels or nuggets come from.”

YBCA 10 Protoype

Dorothy R. Santos’s Mahiwagang Libros (Magical Books) is a set of four books based on the four directions and elements. Each book contains loose pages of spells, recipes, incantations, and images that visitors are welcome to take to build their own spellbook. 

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

Dorothy Santos walks fellow members of the YBCA10 through her prototype in process, a spell book connected to the elements of water, fire, air, and earth. November 20, 2021. Photographs by Mabel Jiménez.

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