Angeli Clarisse Lata 

Angeli is a local San Francisco Bay Area Artist who, in the Pistahan Innovation Pavilion in 2019, presented Art and Augmented Reality.  For this type of work, you download the app “Artivive” into your cell phone and then point your cell's camera on to the portrait drawing. The drawing comes alive and the person speaks about their personal journey.

From her portfolio:

People say “innovation comes from necessity”. In that sense, creativity and innovative thinking flow from me as an essential means to not only express myself as I see the world but use my individual perspective to contribute to something greater than myself. The driver that motivates me to produce, create, and innovate is driven by three things: intellectual curiosity, the courage to be the change I want to see in the world, and people.

As an artist, my mastery is in my use and expression of color aside from my focus on people as subjects. This is reflective of coming from a culture, being Filipina-American, that is full of intersections as well as growing up in an area where I was fortunate enough to grow up in a community of color where I was able to learn from the diverse perspectives of people around me.