Bolsa de Mercado, a serigraph silkscreen encourages the viewer to recycle. Since the 1990s there has been a trend in America to down-size consumption, wastefulness, and space gluttony. As the world faces the ecological upsets of dying species, extreme pollution, and increased blight, conscientious activists are calling for cultural changes to improve world-eco. Growing up in dual cultures, recycling has always been practiced in my family. This Mexican recycling shopping bag used in Bolsa de Mercado, has always been an icon in my atwork. It represents the conscientiousness of working class people.


Victoria Delgadillo, artist and activist, is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

In 2003, Victoria Delgadillo's written account on the curators process for the first international exhibition on the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico was published through the UCLA press. For her work on this record breaking exhibit and for creating public awareness through art, Victoria received awards from the Los Angeles City Council, the University of Sinaloa, Mexico, and the Cultural Institute of Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. Her written work and lectures in art activism are part of the curriculums in of the Universities of California at Berkeley/Los Angeles/Riverside, as well as the Cal-State Universities Northridge/Los Angeles. In 2010, she co-organized an international month of feticide art activism events in Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Fort Worth, Quebec, Mexico City, New Work, Sydney, Los Angeles, and Albuquerque.

As a presenter and panelist, her body of work has been featured on PBS television, National Public Radio, Salon.com, and Duke University's publication "Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations" and numerous periodicals in the United States and Mexico. She has exhibited in the USA, China, Scotland, Cuba, and Mexico. Victoria's work is the in the permanent collections of the LA County Museum, University of Texas Museum, California Printmaking Archive, Orange County Art Museum, Laguna Art Museum, and the Cultural Institute of Baja California. She is also part of a permanent collection exhibition called "Mexicanidad" at the National Mexican-American Museum in Chicago. In addition to printmaking, painting, curating, drawing, production, and lectures, Victoria creates short films and is featured regularly on public radio.