In this episode of You Can’t Eat Art, Clara Kamunde is in conversation with Christine Wong Yap a visual artist and social practitioner working in drawing, printmaking, publishing, textiles, public art. Her practice expands and makes visible grassroots perspectives on belonging, resilience and mental well-being through her hyperlocal research projects. Christine was the first artist-in-residence at Times Square, NYC and at the Institute of Othering and Belonging at UC Berkeley.About Christine Wong Yap:  Christine Wong Yap is a 2025 Creative Capital Awardee. She has served as Neighborhood Visiting Artist at Stanford University and Creative Citizenship Fellow at the California College of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the Berkeley Art Center (Berkeley, CA), Bronx Museum of Art (Bronx, NY), Cantor Arts Center (Stanford, CA), Chinese Arts Centre (also known as Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art / esea contemporary; Manchester U.K.), Chinese Cultural Center of San Francisco, John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan, WI), Los Angeles Public Library, Palo Alto Art Center (Palo Alto, CA), Queens Museum of Art (Queens, NY), Times Square Arts (NYC), Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art (San Francisco), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco), as well as in Bangalore, India; Los Angeles; Manila, Philippines; and Portland, OR. For more about Christine Wong Yap visit our webpage here and Christine’s website. Follow @Christine_WongYap About Clara Kamunde: Clara Kamunde is an Oakland-based, Kenyan-born cultural worker practicing at the intersection of arts education and social justice. Her career began with the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles where, as a grantee for the Artist-In-The-Community program, she collaborated with community organizations to produce and present site-integrated programming in urban parks, recreation areas, historic sites, and schools located in communities throughout Greater Los Angeles. A former fellow at the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State University Clara is an inaugural curatorial fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center's Lucas Artists Residency program.About the Lucas Artists Residency Program: Established in 1939, Montalvo Arts Center is home to the third oldest residency program in the United States. In 2004, Montalvo re-committed to its support of artists by opening a new, state-of-the-art facility, relaunching as the Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency Program. The residency is dedicated to providing artists with a flexible and expansive space in which to create, encouraging the creative process, risk taking, collaboration, and cross-disciplinary investigation of contemporary issues. The LAP is a hybrid model that supports uninterrupted time to develop new work, while offering opportunities to share ideas and projects through public programming and partnerships. For more info about the residency, visit our website.  Follow the LAP @lucasartres Credits: “Syndrome” from the album Tide’s Arising Instrumentals (Mashibeats, 2024) used with permission of LAP 2023 CA Fellow Mark de Clive-Lowe; © Mark de Clive-Lowe/Mashibeats Podcast cover art created by Olivia Esparza© Montalvo Arts Center, 2025

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