Ceci Méndez-Ortiz
Executive Director, Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP)
She/Her/Hers
I am the Executive Director of MassArt’s Center for Art and Community Partnerships. Together with the CACP team we partner with people and communities within and beyond MassArt to radically expand access to transformative creative experiences. “Ceci Méndez-Ortiz (she/her) is an artist and educator whose creative voice and community building practices advance cultures of belonging, justice, and joy. Ceci is the Executive Director of the Center for Art and Community Partnerships (CACP) at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she collaborates with the CACP team to partner with people and communities within and beyond MassArt to radically expand access to transformative creative experiences. She is also Co-director of the Radical Imagination for Racial Justice regranting program in Boston, a collaboration between MassArt, City of Boston, and the Surdna Foundation designed to support BIPoC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) artists in imagining and creating justice in collaboration with their community/ies. Ceci’s artistic practice centers on drawing, collage, and stop motion animations; her work reflects issues of identity, culture, consumption, invention, collective action, and play.
