One goal of mine is to make more art in 2015, so i painted a piece of paper with the words, MAKE MAS ARTE and have pinned it to my art desk to remind me to MAKE MAS ARTE! So far it’s day 4 of the new year and this is what I have created so far. Paper collages.
Celeste Contreras is a Xicana - Indigenous artist who works in mixed mediums to share stories of ceremony, culture and tradition. Her work includes illustrations, print, book arts and animation. Her research includes storytelling through images and objects, exploring the condition of the book and book form and recalling the palimpsests of intergenerational trauma from migration and genocide of ancestors to relearning and decolonizing through ceremony. Currently enrolled as an MFA student at UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts, focused in Print and Narrative Form and holds a BFA from Alverno College. Contreras was the 2019 Gathering Art, Stories and Place Artist-in-Resident with the Milwaukee Public Library where she published a 200 edition box set of artists’ books, Artist in the Library, that will be distributed throughout libraries in Milwaukee and libraries around the country. Contreras is based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where she lives with her husband and cats in the Riverwest neighborhood.
www.celestecontreras.com
Email: celestazuchitl@gmail.com
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One goal of mine is to make more art in 2015, so i painted a piece of paper with the words, MAKE MAS ARTE and have pinned it to my art desk to remind me to MAKE MAS ARTE! So far it’s day 4 of the new year and this is what I have created so far. Paper collages.
