Yoltetik: Corazón Fuerte

Taller Arte Del Nuevo Amanecer (TANA) cordially invite you join them on Friday, June 3, 6 PM - 8 PM for the opening reception of "Yoltetik: Corazón Fuerte", an end of the year exhibition showcasing the works of Carolina Castillo, Marina Contreras, and Marisela Featherstone. The posters in this exhibition were produced during their time as TANA interns and undergraduate students at UC Davis. All works in this exhibit are a declaration of the desire to build a better future through heart, spirit, and mind.

Castillo, Contreras, and Featherstone, all use their corazón to offer a visualization of a decolonial world and future. Each artist works from personal issues in their lives and contextualizes the topics into a larger social political context of the Chicanx community. Castillo highlights her family and community in East Los Angeles, to talk about issues of patriarchy, gentrification, and celebrates the role of strong matriarchs in her family. Contreras highlights the topics of health, resilience, and connection to the earth in their work. Featherstone centers a re/connection to indigenous epistemologies and cosmologies through a gender-queer lens. By means of the hearts, minds, and spirits of these three artists, a reimagination of Chicanx-indigenous futures begins to take place.  

The works in Yoltetik: Corazón Fuerte, give the viewer an insight into the trauma, pain, and suffering that the Chicanx-Latinx community faces. Yet, Castillo, Contreras, and Featherstone, refuse to let the fire in their hearts give out, instead they show us that through consciousness, action, and healing, we can begin to put ourselves and our communities together once again. Yoltetik: Corazón Fuerte reminds us that our corazónes will be the ones that will continue to light us into new ways of being and transform the future for those that are to come. 

There will be music by DJ Novela, Mexican antojitos by Laura, and tacos by Tacos911.