The visual
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Anna Nguyen (she, her) is a freelance artist and children protective services social worker. She enjoys long walks, minimalist design, jazz music, and heart to hearts. She is from Orange, CA and is currently based in San Francisco, CA.
MOON.
Cynthia Lin (she/her/hers) hails from Southampton, New York and is a student at Yale with interests in English, Art, and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration. She is an aspiring writer and artist whose creative work primarily focuses on portraying the subtleties in societal behavior and culture. Her artwork and writing is rooted in her family’s stories, experiences, and Asian American identity. She hopes that her pieces will add one more perspective to the wealth of beauty and stories found in the womxn of color community, and that through her creations, others will find resonance.
UNTITLED.
Alice Mao, masthead member of CWC.
Ellika Edelman
Untitled (movement in green)
December 2021 & January 2022
9” x 15”
Pen and Marker on paper and cardboard
RIBBON SKIRT. Summer Jones (she/her/hers), also artist of TRADITIONS WE CARRY.
SHE IS POWERFUL.
Jessica Horne is a Native American enrolled with the tribes Ponca and Norther Arapaho. She is basic in North Louisiana. Jessica is a wife and mom of two little ones. Jessica Horne creates art about her ethnicity as a Native American. Native peoples are not defined by colonization or genocide, but by the strength and beauty of their own identities and cultures. This is expressed in Jessica’s paintings with her use of symbols and saturation expressionism mark making.
People of Color's Perennial Dreams of a New Reality.
Neha Misra I नेहा मिश्रा (she/her/hers) is a contemporary visual folk artist, poet, and an award winning climate justice advocate. A Presidential Leadership Scholar, Neha has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Forbes, Ms. Magazine, and Mothers of Invention. She is the Global Ambassador for Remote Energy committed to making the global solar movement inclusive for people of color, especially women.
SHUNKU.
Adina Farinango is a Kichwa Artist using art as an act of resistance, healing, and self-expression. Her illustrations are a way to navigate and strengthen her own identity as an urban Indigenous part of the Kichwa diaspora. Her work is heavily influenced by the resilience and strength of matriarchs in her community, past, present, and future. Through this practice, she seeks to Indigenize digital spaces as a way to reclaim her narrative as an Indigenous woman. She is currently based in Lenapehoking Territory (New York City).
UNTITLED.
Juliza Garcia is a twenty year old artist from Dallas, Texas who specializes in oil and watercolor painting. Her pronouns are she/her. She is currently attending community college and is graduating next year with an Associates of Arts. Juliza Garcia draws inspiration for her art from her own experience growing up with an immigrant family and her family’s homeland of Mexico. She also enjoys portrait paintings of people that inspire her.
TRADITIONS WE CARRY. Summer Paa'illa-Herrera Jones (she/her/hers) is a mixed race Native, indigenous to Payómkawichum (Luiseño) lands. Summer is currently enrolled at MiraCosta Community college as a studio art major where she is learning to develop the skills to depict the themes she feels most passionate about. Summer comes from a family that was disenrolled from the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians in 2004. The colonial erasure Summer's family, community, and culture has faced from both inside and out of the Native community echoes within her work as an artist. Summer considers herself a modern warrior, fighting against systematic oppression through a decolonizing lens; art is simply her weapon of choice.
AT ONE WITH NATURE.
Sarah Louise Wilson is an artist based in California. She writes, directs, produces, paints, and acts. Throughout her career, Sarah wrote and directed short films, plays, music videos, documentaries— Anything she could get her hand on. In early 2016, when Sarah was living in Almaty, Kazakhstan, she shot her feature film “No Exit” entirely on location. The movie went on to win multiple awards and was written up by Esquire, Good Housekeeping, and Variety.
TAKE OFF.
Nazrene Alsiro(she/her) is an artist located in Atlanta, GA. Her interdisciplinary work is rooted in her studies of Photography, Video and Sculpture at Florida State University. Much of her work is drawn to the gaps between mental health and societal normalcy. Personal in nature, her work is also reflective of both her mixed-race as well as her Palestinian-American identity, addressing the turmoil in the West Bank. Nazrene continues her search for the unidentifiable through exploration, observation, and experience.
MAYA NEW YEAR.
Saira Coye-Huhn (she/they) is a junior at NYU, co-majoring in Global Public Health & Anthropology and double minoring in Native American & Indigenous Studies and Chemistry. She is a Belizean-American artist and activist who grew up in Houston, Texas and is the President of NYU’s Native American and Indigenous Students Group (NAISG). Saira has always used art to connect with their Afro-Caribbean and Yucatec Maya identities through her multimedia pieces. They also create cute digital art pieces for her friends/peers that center Indigenous characters. You can find them on their insta, @sairacoyehuhn.
MIXED. Nazrene Alsiro.
WHO ARE YOU.
Cynthia Lin, member of Changing Wxman.
UNTITLED.
Alice Mao (2021), member of Changing Wxman.
BLUEBERRY FIELDS.
Racquel Banaszak (She/hers) is an Anishinaabe visual artist and Indigenous education advocate based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned a graduate certificate in Native American Studies from Montana State University (2018) and a Bachelor of Science degree from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2012). She studied Aboriginal Visual Culture at the Ontario College of Art & Design University in Toronto, Canada.