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Storytelling Through Repujado

A Teen Summer Reading Program

Use repujado (Mexican tin embossing) to explore the cultural significance of the sacred heart and make your own heart to take home.

Join IndigiQueer artist Eileen Jimenez (Ñätho) as they lead this workshop, where participants will create corazones sagrados (sacred hearts) using simple tools, texture, and rich colors to learn the traditional art of Mexican tin embossing. We will explore the cultural significance of the sacred heart, often offered as a gesture of gratitude, protection, or an expression of deep emotional connection.   

Eileen uses printmaking and mixed-media techniques to develop her own ways of telling stories in the complex layers that they exist in, as well as to demonstrate the ways that we are connected to the Land and to each other. In her current body of work, she focuses on the embodiment of the divine that is manifested through our bodies and our hands specifically. In her work, you will also see her commitment to centering the stories of joy that flow through our communities.  

Eileen's mother is Maria Cruz, her grandmother is Eloisa, and her great grandmother is Ysidora, matriarchs of the Ñätho (Otomi Peoples of Michoacan/Guanajuato, Mexico). As an IndigiQueer leader, community member, educator and as an artist, everything she does and creates is influenced by her many intersecting identities and lived experiences.

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