spaces for healing
Working with attendees at Pueblo Action Alliance’s annual Healing Circle Event, April 2023
It’s feeling like summer, and that means more art outside. I was gifted with opportunities to work on a few large scale outdoor projects this month. Everything we’ve produced has been amazing! With each project, our skills grow, and I’m pretty proud of how far I’ve come as a designer and facilitator of community art since last year.
Part of the magic in working with community, is meeting like minded people- especially people who want to make creativity a lifestyle. Another thing i really enjoy is when people who are a little shy or apprehensive get really into their work and end up enjoying themselves. i’m a pretty shy person, so the socialization in creation is an easier way for me to connect with new people.
Poster for ReUnite: Welcome to the Mycorverse, an original Wise Fool Production, directed by Dr. Christina M .Castro
This month, I had the honor of designing the logo, playbill, and ad layouts for Wise Fool New Mexico’s original circus theater production of ReUnite: Welcome to the Mycorverse, featuring an amazingly talented cast and directed by Dr. Christina M. Castro herself! With multi talented dancers and circus performers, ReUnite is a story of an earthly answer to nuclear colonialism, which is in effect here in northern new mexico.
Environmental wellness was a main theme in many of the pieces I took on the past few weeks. Many of the projects i am asked to join in on entail some sort of message about caring for Mother Earth. The most recent being “Land.Water.Us",” a giant chalk triptych of sorts created by (from west to east) Selena Fernandez, Joycelyn Shroulote, and me, and curated by Rafa :) all of our pieces celebrated the river that still passes through O’Ga P’Ogeh/ Santa Fe and were located at Alto park, on the river’s bank. My piece focused on the white shell, the storms and snowpack that create the water source, and the corn that emerges from being nourished by the water cycle. it was a beautiful day, led by the local danza capulli, Danza Tonazin de Analco.
There’s one more project that we’ve been working on in may, but that’s gonna need it’s own post. here’s a little teaser, and the future is looking bright xo
artist Pola Lopez assess her next large scale piece in O’Ga P’Ogeh/Santa Fe, NM