Artist Lab: In the Studio with Melanie Cervantes
& Marvella Muro
Wednesday, July 22
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Free | 18+
Live on Facebook Self Help Graphics & Art

Bay Area Artist, Melanie Cervantes and Marvella Muro, SHG Director of Artistic Programs and Education, will discuss the design, creation, and production of Melanie’s 2019 Day of the Dead commemorative print, "Light the Way for the Spirit of the Ancestors", as well as the stories behind two earlier portraits. The program will stream live on Facebook and will be available afterward on our SHGTV YouTube Channel.

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About Artist Melanie Cervantes
Melanie Cervantes resides in Oakland where she creates visual art inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical social transformation. Melanie’s intention is to create a visual lexicon of resistance to multiple oppressions that will inspire curiosity, raise consciousness, and inspire solidarities among communities of struggle.

In 2007 she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters, and multimedia projects that are grounded in Third World and indigenous movements, illustrating stories of struggle, resistance, and triumph into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.

Melanie has exhibited extensively nationally including at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco); National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago); and Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY) and internationally at the Musée d’Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France), Galerija Alkatraz (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Museo Franz Mayer (Mexico City, Mexico). Her work is in the permanent collections of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the Latin American Collection of the Green Library at Stanford, the Rauner Special Collections Library, Dartmouth College and the Library of Congress and the as well as various other public and private collections throughout the U.S.