Ricky Yanas
Community Liaison
Ricky Yanas is a Texas-born artist, educator, and curator living in Philadelphia. Working within a pragmatic tradition of problem finding, Yanas aims to create intersectional spaces of inquiry and mutual engagement through art making and art thinking. In 2016 Yanas founded Ulises Books with Nerissa Cooney, Lauren Downing, Joel Evey, Kayla Romberger and Gee Wesley.
As Community Liaison for Lenapehoking~Watershed, he coordinates with various sites and local organizations to produce programming in connection to works by artist Sarah Kavage and in honor of the Delaware Watershed.
Yanas' recent projects include Extension or Communication: Puerto Rico at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery Philadelphia and Taller Puertorriqueno and The Green Sun, a collaboration with artist Kristen Neville-Taylor. He and Neville-Tyalor are the most recent Penn Program in the Environmental Humanities artists-in-residence for which they curated and organized Solar Imaginaries: Play and Pragmatism in Energy Futures, a 3-part program that brings together practitioners from environmental and creative sectors to re-envision the role of energy in our lives.
