Daniela Naomi Molnar is a visual artist / poet / wilderness guide / educator / essayist / activist / eternal student. She is a member of the third generation of the Holocaust and a daughter of immigrants. She grew up in and around New York City and lives in Portland, Oregon, in the Cascadian bioregion on the unceded land of the Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook, Multnomah, and other Indigenous peoples.
Molnar’s work revolves around intersectional questions of social, political, and ecological justice. She works across forms, melding painting, poetry, writing, curation, editing, site-specific intervention, activism, and teaching.
How to make art that has both spiritual and political agency, that is responsive and engages response? How do we perceive / what do we perceive / what do we fail to perceive?
How to remain porous in a culture obsessed with enclosure? Document, artifact, dirge, trace : what is it I am making?”
Website: danielamolnar.com