Piel con Piel

Yehimi Cambrón is a DACAmented artist, activist, public speaker and entrepreneur born in San Antonio Villalongín, a small town in Michoacán, México. She became undocumented at seven years old when she immigrated to Atlanta, where she was raised. Cambrón’s work elevates the stories of immigrants, celebrates their humanity, and has a special focus on the experiences of Undocumented Americans. 

She has painted landmark murals in Atlanta that unapologetically assert the presence of immigrants, depict the intersectionality, diversity, and complexity of their stories, and challenge the white male-centered history of who is worthy of a public, monumental celebration. 

She is currently partnering with El Refugio to shed light on the stories of those who are being harmed by the Stewart Detention Center, a for-profit immigration detention center located in Lumpkin, Georgia. This public art project will educate and call the public to action to advocate for the closing of the immigration detention centers in Georgia.

Anika Jeyaranjan (b. 2001) is an Indian-Srilankan artist born in New Jersey and based in Chicago, IL. She incorporates fiber techniques into her multimedia sculptures and installations.

Inspired by how her body has reacted to its held generational trauma, Jeyaranjan creates artwork focused on bodily agency. She questions pre-existing western notions of bodily boundaries through distorting objects and environments that have been in contact with her own body. 

Based in Chicago, Adrienne Weiss (she/they) b. 1983 is a multidisciplinary fiber artist and educator whose practice is rooted in the understanding that corporeal awareness, research, ritual, dreams, activism, and art-making are interdependent phenomena that work together in service of personal and collective liberation.

Adrienne’s work is a sensual and earth-facing exploration of the ecological realities of identity, embodiment, and direct experience. She works primarily with filamentous materials and weaving techniques. She is interested in the life of intersecting lines, the metaphors they conjure, and finding a balance between manipulating them and letting them move in their own mystical ways. Adrienne utilizes the visual language of dreams, visions, lineage, and symbols to create a woven world of talismanic art.

Gloria Martinez-Granados is a Phoenix, Arizona-based artist. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, she migrated to the United States of America with her family at 8 years old.

Gloria is an interdisciplinary artist creating with indigenous practices, adding a contemporary approach by including printmaking, assemblage, installation and performance to the more traditional arts of beadwork and weaving. Through this process, she develops themes around identity, dreams, place, home, and land. This merges with her experience growing up undocumented in the United States and the legal limbo she lives day to day as a DACAmented person.

Merryn Omotayo Alaka (b. 1997, Indianapolis, Indiana) is a Nigerian and American artist whose work spans from sculptural works, textiles, to jewelry design and explores realities and identities across the Black Diaspora and the Black female body.

Her works often draw references from West African textiles, Yoruba beaded sculptures and forms of adornment. She uses culturally and historically significant materials such as hair, jewelry, beads, and textiles to do so. Alaka uses this range of materials to address subjective cultural and racial perspectives.

Lucero “Pato” Muñoz Vázquez (She/her) (b. 1998) is an indigenous Mexican artist nomadically based in the USA and born in Progreso de Obregon, Hidalgo, Mexico. At the age of 4, she became an undocumented immigrant along with her mother, father, and older brother. They immigrated to the Deep South.

Pato’s work explores the nuances of being a queer DACAmented immigrant, having grown up in Gwinnett County, Georgia (aka the deep south). With her most recent work, after having a pivotal homecoming to her hometown in Mexico, she began exploring beadwork through a fusion of indigenous and contemporary practices.

Through different techniques her work represents resistance towards the violent lingering effects of colonialism. She challenges the conventional notions of assimilation by disrupting the norm she was taught to follow out of fear of being undocumented, immigrant, and brown.

Chelsea Bighorn (b.1989) was born and raised in Tempe, Arizona, and is Lakota, Dakota and Shoshone -Paiute. 

Bighorn’s work is the result of her combining traditional Native American design with elements from her Irish American heritage. Using this process, she tells her personal history through her art.

Saba Maheen (b.1997 Lawrenceville, GA) is a female, queer, Muslim, Bengali-American, multimodal maker and thinker working with image, reproduction, and participation.

Utilizing multi-medic forms, there is a porosity in the goals of her work: In the wake of the viral-ized Palestinian genocide, Maheen urges her audience to return to a radical, collective humanity for one another, and to understand “here and there-ness” of inter solidarity liberation. 

More specifically, analyzing the diminishing rate of attention in response to short-form media, she believes it is imperative to combat the flattening, desensitizing effect that social media has beyond the screen.