This series was created through the Fields Artist Fellowship thanks housed at the Oregon Humanities, in partnership with Oregon Community Foundation. Check it out here.
Día De Los Muertos Printmaking Workshop with Alianza Poder | 2022
Alianza Poder is a collaborative of nine sister organizations, hosted and coordinated by the CAPACES Leadership Institute (CLI), whose serving, organizing, and building the leadership of our comunidades Latinas, indigenas, y Afro-descendientes in Oregon to improve the quality of life for all, especially working families. The nine organizations include: PCUN, Farmworker Housing Development Corporation, Mano a Mano Family Center, Latinos Unidos Siempre, Centro de Servicios Para Campesinos, Mujeres Luchadoras Progresistas, Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality, EVOLVE Property Management and Workforce Development and CLI.
SEIU 503’s Latinx Caucus | 2022
This design was created for the SEIU 503’s Latinx Caucus. SEIU 503 is Oregon’s public services and care provider union that is made up of more than 72,000 people. By joining together, workers are achieving what cannot be accomplished alone. By standing together, workers have a voice in their contracts and daily work lives.
Organizing People Activating Leaders (OPAL) | 2021
OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon builds power for environmental justice and civil rights in our communities.
No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes | 2020 - 2021
No More Deaths/ No Más Muertes is a humanitarian organization based in Southern Arizona. The mission of No More Deaths is to end death and suffering in the Mexico–US borderlands through civil initiative.
Refuge for Families Campaign | 2019
Refuge for Families campaign is a collaborative effort between Alianza Americas, the National Partnership for New Americans, Fair Immigration Reform Movement, and We Are All America. The campaign seeks to raise awareness and educate the public about the underlying causes of migration throughout the region and supports responsible citizen-led foreign policy strategies that address the causes of the exodus along the Central America-United States corridor.
ICE Our of NORCOR | 2018
On May 1st, 2017 a hunger strike was launched by migrants detained at NORCOR, a four-county public jail in The Dalles, OR that had a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). That same week, local organizers with the Gorge ICE Resistance began to host daily vigils outside NORCOR.
These illustrations were created as part of the Interfaith Movement from Immigrant Justice’s (IMIRJ) statewide organizing leading up to a solidarity outside of NORCOR. Clergy members allowed inside heard countless stories of bad conditions, the outrageous cost of phone calls, the profound effect a “No Visitation” policy is having on families and the morale of those detained, and why NORCOR's contract with ICE is in violation of our state’s 30+ year-old sanctuary law. The images are based on compiled stories from migrants detained at NORCOR.
After intensive and consistent organizing by the NORCOR Community Resources Coalition, Gorge ICE Resistance, the Rural Organizing Project and other groups, the NORCOR’s Board of Directors voted unanimously in support of ending the jail’s adult and juvenile contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement on August 20th!
Los Desaparecidos de Ayotzinapa | 2014
On September 26th of 2014, 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgo Rural Teachers' College of Ayotzinapa were disapeared in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. The students were protesting against discriminatory hiring and funding practices from the government at a conference that was being hosted by the mayor's wife. Eyewitnesses state that the Students were forced into vans by the police after a clash. Details remain unclear on what happened during and after the roadblock, but the government investigation concluded that 43 of the students were taken into custody and were handed over to the local Guerreros Unidos drug cartel and most likely murdered.
In solidarity with the disappeared students and their families, Valeria Olguin and I picked up carving tools and taught ourselves how to make linocut prints. We created individual portraits of the students as a way to increase visibility regarding their forced disappearance and as a means to fundraise for their families.
We facilitated two workshops using popular education and art to engage in dialogue with BIPOC middle and high school students regarding Todxs Somos Ayotzinapa, Narco-Governments, and migration. We were part of an organizing collective that hosted an event with the Caravana43 in Eugene, OR. After 6 months, our collective have sent over $1000 to the parents of the missing students.
This was the first time I engaged with blockprinting and was able to combine my passion for art, education, and international solidarity.