Maestrxs Atelier:
This Maestras Atelier is made of a wide range of artists from seasoned to emerging and with varying experiences in screen-printing from well versed to new to the medium. The artists were chosen for the bold attitudes displayed in their creative practices. It was the intention of this atelier to highlight those voices and their thoughts in this strange time of rethinking our lives and creative practices. Because of the pandemic, these artists have all worked with SHG in varying capacities to complete a screenprint for the Maestras Atelier.

Artist Biography:
Yreina D. Cervantez, a Chicana artist, was born in 1952 in Garden City, Kansas, but grew up near San Diego, CA. She is an American painter, printmaker, muralist, and teacher. Yreina received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and later went on to earn her Masters in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1989. She is also currently the multicultural coordinator at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Yreina’s other areas of main interest are visual arts, Chicana/o Art, and Xicana feminist art and aesthetics. Yreina Cervantez is currently an Associate Professor of Chicano/a Studies at the California State University, Northridge. Drawing heavily from her cultural heritage, Yreina Cervantez has become prominent and well respected amongst other Chicana/o artists. She is particularly known for her various self-portraits of Chicana identity, as well as murals that depict struggles within the Chicano/a movement. Some of her most favorite artwork includes La Ofrenda, Homenaje a Frida Kahlo, and her 1995 Nepantla lithograph triptych. Yreina Cervantez has also been featured in art exhibitions, such as From El Corazon de East L.A , Just Another Poster?: Chicano Graphic Arts in California, and 30 Years of Chicano Printmaking & Social Justice.