Beatriz Flores Gutiérrez passed away on Saturday, April 21, 2012 of breast cancer. She attended San Fransisco State University, then completed an MFA in the Department of Media Study at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Between the Fall of 2003 and the Spring of 2009 she taught at the University of North Texas' Department of Radio, Television, and Film, Northern Illinois University's Time Arts program within their School of Art, and Evergreen State College's Media Arts program. Beatriz was an active member of the Evolutionary Girls Club, a collective founded in part by Erica Eaton during their studies in Buffalo. An active chamption of undocumented workers within the U.S., Beatriz developed a series of videos about the experiences of Mexicans working and living in the States. By nature very sweet and approacheable, she was a fierce defender of the everday working Mexican-Americans. In Mexico Beatriz was a theater student before moving north and always loved dance and physical expression. In the North she was profoundly disturbed by the activities of the U.S. border patrol and Immigration authorities. Beatriz never tired of returning to the border, where she had long-standing relationships with Americans working on behalf of migrants. Organizations on the U.S./Mexican border like No More Deaths and Humane Borders were frequent destinations for Beatriz, and some of us received our basic education about the border and the U.S. foreign policy itself on road trips in her company discussing documentary film and the history of activist media. She was a central figure in the organization of the conference Bridges Not Walls, which was held at Evergreen State College May 15 - 18, 2008. Beatriz also loved pioneers, including Beatriz Noronha da Costa, with whom she studied during the latter's year teaching in Buffalo. During her final years Beatriz had many friends in Olympia with whom she shared an interest in movement workshops, yoga, and natural living. She is survived by three sisters, a brother, and her parents, now separated, all of whom live near Mexico City, where Beatriz grew up. She maintained some activity and enjoyment of life until near the end, and passed peacefully, without pain, and among friends. Bernie
_______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list [email protected] https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
