Paint This: Sun + Moon Mural

When life is a struggle, create something. Make art. Do art. Build something. Paint a wall a bright color. Anything, really. For me, the act of creating something tangible that I can look at every day and glean some inspiration from is an amazing thing. It’s proof that I am able to rise above my […]

Let’s Help Mexico + Puerto Rico: Buy Art

Buy art and 100% of the profits from your purchase will be donated to rebuilding and relief efforts in Mexico and Puerto Rico.

When you’re an artist sometimes you wonder exactly how your art impacts other people. Of course, I want to create what I’m  passionate about, to allow other people to feast their eyes on a beautiful thing. But I also want to uplift people, to make them feel, to make them think.  If you get the opportunity […]

Balancing Motherhood + a Creative Life

This season of my life has me creating art. I know one thing for sure: I couldn't have managed this creative lifestyle when my babies were really young.

This season of my life has me creating art. I’ve had to shift the gears of my creative mind. For years, I’ve been used to working at night, under the cover of the moon, sleeping children finally quiet in their beds, the motions of the day on pause. I would work until the birds were heard […]

Creative Entrepreneurs: Own Your Vision

I’ve spent the last eleven years of my life being a writer. It’s what pays the bills, it’s what keeps this site happening on the innanets. Some days, though, I feel like I’ve written all the words I have inside me. I’m empty. This has everything to do with my season of life at the […]

Frida Kahlo | Be your own muse

Unlike the male artists of the day, Frida Kahlo didn't need any fancy landscapes or ballerinas as her muse -- she had herself. And it was enough.

I love it when Frida —  la Friducha — was chingona. The beautiful, delicate woman husband Diego Rivera used to call his paloma, his dove. She wasn’t always beautiful and delicate. Struggling with her ailing body from a young age, she didn’t have any extra effs left to give. She was herself — unique, raw, […]

Chicano Art at the Museum of Latin American Art

If there is one thing I want to celebrate in the New Year, it’s art. I love art. The power an artist has to make you feel something is amazing. That’s what Chicano art does for me — it makes me feel. Whether it be about my culture, my people, my spirituality, my identity as […]

Coming to So Cal: Frida Kahlo, Her Photos at MOLAA

I’m excited to announce an upcoming exhibit at the Museum of Latin American Art titled, Frida Kahlo, Her Photos. It presents over two hundred images–both traditional images and more candid shots–from Frida Kahlo’s personal Casa Azul archive in Mexico City and I am so excited that I get to attend the preview tomorrow! Frida Kahlo […]

Visiting the Museum of Modern Art New York

  I got to cross something off my bucket list. It was totally one of those serendipity moments. I was set to fly out to NYC for the LATISM conference and one of the first things on my mind was…Museum of Modern Art. I completely and totally geeked out over the prospect that I would […]

Feliz Dia de Tonantzin

Today is the day people celebrate the Virgen de Guadalupe’s feast day — the day in Mexican history when it is believed she appeared to Juan Diego. I’m not Catholic and I wasn’t born in Mexico so I did not grow up recognizing this day but I just wanted to share what the Virgin Mary […]

Crafty Chica sighting

I finally got to meet Kathy Cano-Murillo of the Crafty Chica fame over the weekend. Yay me!  I’ve been such a stalker fan. Ever since I read about her lovely family’s Christmas tradition of tamale-making in Better Homes & Garden, back in 2004. When a brown family is in one of my favorite mags, doing […]