This March has been filled with new life. As I was celebrating the one year anniversary of my friend Josh taking his life, I have been tapping into a part of me that is very comfortable with ‘Darkness’. In the past i have suffered from abuse, depression and this has resulted in building strength around my sadness. I use this as a way to transform this darkness into a very positive experience. Thanks to my ARTe. I have been taking fotos of my face, making tons of art. Here are some samples of that:
I took this foto of my Drum in early March. I wrote these words a couple weeks afterwards.I made this drum for midterm art assessment at Alverno. Spring Semester
I made this ofrenda/altar for Cesar Chavez. Thursday, March 26th, 2015 I helped out a fundraiser for building a Cesar Chavez Memorial for Milwaukee, Wi.I am in this group, The Strawberry Moon Woman Singers. I have been part of it since the beginning, January 2013. I make all the graphics, posters. This is our latest one.Foto collage of some of my art so far this year. #makemasarte I also started this hashtage: #makemasarte as a new years resolution to MAKE MORE ART.
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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