…My investors: My Mother, Anna & My Husband.
…My support: Teachers who have changed my life and are still in my life. Mrs. Reemer(My middle school art teacher who saved my life), Mrs. Chwala(Grade school art teacher), Mr. Gary Gletty(grade school music teacher), Mrs. Forsyth Katter(High school teacher who helped me study abroad twice), Mrs. Patricia(my first teacher at age 2.5 at MATC daycare center), ศิรินทร์ ตันกุริมาน and ALL My teachers in Thailand, Italy, Mexico, Guatemala.
…My guidance: my heart, my ancestors, prayers from my familia & friends.
…My inspiration: The voiceless. Past abuse. past struggles.
…My spirit: my ancestors walk with mi each and every step of the way.
…My happiness: All comes from overcoming deep-dark sadness. I work towards never returning to the sadness.
…My wealth: I am the richest woman when I show gratitude towards my investors, my support, my guidance, my inspiration, my spirit, & my happiness.
Ometeolt. To all my Relations.
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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.
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