Cari Borja
Cari Borja approaches her work like an anthropologist — looking at various aspects of cultural production and interaction through the lens of understanding what makes humans human. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley in anthropology and film in 2000. She has spent 20 years thinking about and creating art out of gathering. Whether through her work in fashion, film or food, she has sought to understand the world and its culture through applying her personal twist to style, art-making and creating community.
She has designed clothing collections over the past 16 years inspired by film (My Fair Lady, Dracula, Twilight and Hitchcock Collections), food/drink (Chez Panisse, Coi and wine/cocktail collections) and developed an immersive installation/runway show “Becoming Me” for the Around the World with Oscar series at the De Young Museum. As a salonniere, Cari has curated and hosted 95 salon dinners in the Bay Area, LA and NYC and did an “Art of Gathering” edible installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this past December. Her installation and visual essay “Four Walls’ was exhibited at ArtHotel in Sacramento this past February.
Cari is currently working on a how-to book on the “art of gathering” as well as a novella called “First Kiss.” Most recently she has produced the signature fashion for WorldWideWomen’s Girls’ Festival at Fort Mason, curated the She-Can Gala at the San Francisco War Memorial and is co-rpoducing and costume designing filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw’s second feature film “The Deep Sky."
She has designed clothing collections over the past 16 years inspired by film (My Fair Lady, Dracula, Twilight and Hitchcock Collections), food/drink (Chez Panisse, Coi and wine/cocktail collections) and developed an immersive installation/runway show “Becoming Me” for the Around the World with Oscar series at the De Young Museum. As a salonniere, Cari has curated and hosted 95 salon dinners in the Bay Area, LA and NYC and did an “Art of Gathering” edible installation at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this past December. Her installation and visual essay “Four Walls’ was exhibited at ArtHotel in Sacramento this past February.
Cari is currently working on a how-to book on the “art of gathering” as well as a novella called “First Kiss.” Most recently she has produced the signature fashion for WorldWideWomen’s Girls’ Festival at Fort Mason, curated the She-Can Gala at the San Francisco War Memorial and is co-rpoducing and costume designing filmmaker Frazer Bradshaw’s second feature film “The Deep Sky."