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March 27, 2024 In

Serpent Skirt 2022-2023

 

Serpent skirt, 2022-2023
from the project “The Personification of Memory”
Textile sculpture
300 x 85 x 85 cm
 

 

Ana Quiroz in collaboration with the embroideries by Lucina Galván, Ana Isabel Rangel, Diana Rangel, Erica Ramírez, Sonia Ramírez y Guadalupe Ramírez from the rural community La Huerta in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

 

The snake skirt is an attribute of the Aztec Goddess Coatlicue, the mother, the goddess of fertility, life and death. Seven women from the community of La Huerta were asked to embroider their significant words in their lives in different pieces of fabric. These words hang in the snakes and make a long prayer of their memory, our grandmothers, mothers, sisters and daughters.
 

 

This workshop was part of the PECDA 2022 Grant from the State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

 

March 19, 2024 In

Personification of Memory 3, 2023

 

Personification of Memory 3
Rural Community Agustín González
San Miguel de Allende
 

 

Personification of Memory Workshop at SABES High School in the community of Agustín González.
 

Each participant made an altarpiece with painting, sculpture, collage and mosaic techniques on a wooden screen. The altarpiece is made as a map of individual and collective memory of their natural and familiar environment.
 
35 students participated from seven different rural communities: La Presa, Juan González, Salitre, La Ciénega, Alonso Yañez y Juvenal in San Miguel de Allende.
 

 

This workshop was part of the PECDA 2022 Grant from the State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

 

March 19, 2024 In

Personification of Memory 2, 2022

 

Personification of Memory 2
Fuego Nuevo School
San Miguel de Allende
 

 

Personification of Memory Workshop at Fuego Nuevo Secondary School in San Miguel de Allende
 

Each participant made an altarpiece with painting, sculpture, collage and mosaic techniques on a wooden screen. The altarpiece is made as a map of individual and collective memory of their natural and familiar environment or a special moment in their lives. 40 students participated from ages 10 to 14 years old.
 

 

This workshop was part of the PECDA 2022 Grant from the State of Guanajuato, Mexico.

 

September 30, 2021 In

Memory Atlas 2021

 

Memory Atlas
Residency
Creative Fusion, Cleveland Art Foundation.
Art House
Cleveland, USA
2021

 

 

The Memory Atlas workshops are an invitation for the participants to activate their personal and collective histories, their identities, and places of origin through visual dialogues using collage, drawing, and montage. The purpose is to develop a personal cartography, the remembrance of places and histories as they dwell on their personal memory.
 

One workshop took place at the Natividad Pagan International Newcomers Academy. This school receives immigrant students from all over the world for a period of two years, so that they can learn English, acclimate, and then continue with their education at other schools. I delivered the workshop to students in fifth, sixth and seventh grades as part of their summer curriculum. All of them are immigrants from Congo, Sudan, Chad, Afghanistan, Tanzania, Uganda, Honduras, Puerto Rico and El Salvador.
 

The second workshop was delivered to members of the theatre group called Gumdiptheatre in Akron, Ohio. Gumdiptheatre is a nonprofit organization whose director is Katie Beck. The group works in a beautiful space located in Akron, Ohio. Some of the members of this theatre group are immigrants in the United States. Katie allowed me to work with them for this project, and thanks to her I was able to collaborate with five amazing persons: Neema Bal from Burma, Samantha Byake from Congo, Razya Tazamir from Afghanistan, and Hsa Win from MyanMar.

 

Memory Atlas, 2021
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July 30, 2021 In

Rasquache 2017-2021

 

Rasquache is an artist residency and collective of artists in San Francisco Coapan, Cholula a community on the slopes of the Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl volcanoes in the state of Puebla in Mexico. Coapan, as everyone calls it, is a place like many in Mexico and in the world marked by migration. Currently more than half of Coapan’s population lives in the United States.
 

In 2017, I did an intervention with papel picado and flowers in some of the homes under construction, homes that are the symbols of the future return of the migrants. In 2019 I started a collective map of the town with help of the community and the artists in resemblance to prehispanic maps. The map also depicts by symbols of their names and last names in nahuatl using paint and embroidery. The embroidery was done by Chapis Amantecatl Cuatlacuatl from San Francisco Coapan.