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Meet Emerald Pellot, the Afro Latina Making Kitschy, Feminist Art for Powerful Women

Yara Simón — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 21:32:33 +0000

The 2016 election changed the trajectory of her career. Before Donald Trump won the presidency, Emerald Pellot, 28, focused on her writing, but the election results angered her so much that she felt the need to start creating art. “I started drawing stuff for the first time in my life,” she says. “I had always

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Meet Crystal Galindo, the Painter Celebrating Chicanas, Chingonas, and Cholas

Barbara Calderón — Wed, 04 May 2016 16:54:33 +0000

Chicanas, chingonas, and cholas deified as fierce queens glare down from the canvas in Crystal Galindo‘s paintings. The rainbow of brown women depicted in her oeuvre are not your typical portrait subjects. They’re artists, immigrants, and activists with an air of nobility, bedecked with beaded jewels in indigenous designs and necklaces of human hearts – similar to

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This Crafty Chingona is Giving Classic Bordado Techniques a Modern, Pro-Mujer Twist

Jennifer Velez — Fri, 22 Apr 2016 17:30:42 +0000

Sandy Perez is using a needle and thread to make a point: you’ve got to love yourself. The full-time nanny, part-time artist has been building a social media following for her eye-catching bordados; hoops that feature body positive statements, music lyrics, and pop culture witticisms that highlight non euro-centric beauty standards. Praising curves, thickness and brown skin, they offer

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Instagram to Follow: The Latina Artists of Colectiva Cósmica

Daniela Cabrera — Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:52:16 +0000

Who: Colectiva Cósmica is a feminist art collective primarily made up of Latinas based in New York, Texas and everywhere in between. Cósmica and its members, including previously profiled multimedia artist Itzel Alejandra Martinez and Barbara Calderón-Douglass, have an inspiring mission statement meant to grow an art movement in their own space. And for the ladies out

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Making Art in Chicago’s Barrios: Meet South-side All-Female Collective Las Artelitas

Bianca Betancourt — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 19:43:36 +0000

When asked how they met, the all-female members of Las Artelitas, a (mostly) Latina Chicago-based art collective, simultaneously respond “the streets,” before bursting into laughter. To hear them tell it, it all started over pizza and beer on the steps of an apartment stoop in Little Village, a neighboring hood south of Pilsen; the growing women’s art collective was once just a group

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After Anti-Domestic Violence Mural is Vandalized, Puerto Rican Women Fight Back

Julie Schwietert Collazo — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:06:27 +0000

Put a bra on that girl!” That’s what one driver screamed at the artists who were painting a mural of two nude women on an underpass along San Juan’s Avenida Fernández Juncos earlier this week. And he wasn’t the only one. While some people beeped their horns and expressed support for the work that was

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Support Your Local Girl Gang: Electric Pussy, an Art Community/Platform for Girls by Girls

Andrea Villalón — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 17:49:15 +0000

Editor’s Note: One of the most exciting things of 2015 so far has been discovering the Electric Pussy tumblr, described as “una comunidad/plataforma para exponer el trabajo de chicas,” that has grabbed our eyeballs by the… well, balls. Part digital gallery, part girls club, it has been a constant source of beautiful, well-curated work that is

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