exhibitions + public printing events
2021 “Science Stories: A Collaborative Exhibit of Book Artists and Scientists” co-curated by Lucia Harrison, Peter Wimberger, and Jane Carlin (online: March, in-person: October) | University Of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
2020 “Make Ready for the Revolution” (postponed) | Kent State University, Kent, OH
“De Colores” (postponed) | Maude Kerns Art Center, Eugene, OR
“Tu lucha es mi lucha” | Alder Commons, Portland OR
“Be Ti Mismx and The World Cambiará” | Buckman Middle School, Portland, OR
“Year Of Asé” | Orí Gallery, Portland, OR
2019 Literary Arts Fair | Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
“La Lucha” | Wieden + Kennedy, Portland, OR
“gotxs: antojos sureños” curated by letra chueca press | Milepost 5, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Bark for Change” | Bark’s Base Camp, Mt. Hood National Forest, OR
Steamroller Printing Spectacular | OMSI, Portland, OR
“Americans at Work: United to the Core” | Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA
“Huddled Masses” | Hoxton Hotel, Portland, OR
“The Lushness of Print” | The Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
2018 “Impresionante” | Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del Parque Forestal, Santiago, Chile
“Uncensored Celebration” with ACLU Of Oregon | Lagunitas Community Room, Portland, OR
Steamroller Printing Spectacular | OMSI, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Tú Eres Precious” | Fruit Salad Club, Portland, OR
“Latinidades” curated By Una Gallery | Hispanic Metropolitan Chamber, Portland, OR
“Sí Se Puede” | Madison High School, Portland, OR
Nat Turner Project Book Release | City Hall, Portland, OR
Día del Niño with RACC | Centro Cultural De Washington County, Cornelius, OR
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | AudioCinema, Portland OR
“Barrio Propaganda” curated by Paulina Ramirez | La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
“Printing sin fronteras” with Michele Holands + Idania del Río | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Posamor” curated by Paulina Ramirez | La Leonila, Cuenca, Ecuador
2017 “We the Dreamers: An Art Show to Defend DACA” | Ecotrust, Portland, OR
“Nuestras Victorias” | IPRC, Portland, OR
East Portland Arts & Literary Festival | APANO, Portland, OR
Propaganda Printing With Just Seeds | Paragon Gallery, Portland, OR
“A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Noche de Arte” with Pochas Radicales | Q Center, Portland, OR
“Strange Dreams” | Ecotrust, Portland, OR
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | The Redd, Portland, OR
2016 “A Taste Of Latinoamérica” | Portland Mercado, Portland, OR
“Our Stories” | Centro Latino, Tacoma, WA
Letterpress Printers Fair with Design Week Portland | Bison Building, Portland OR
2015 “Blood Quantum” | 23Sandy Gallery, Portland, OR
teaching
NAYA/Many Nations Academy, Portland, OR | Present
Alder Commons, Portland, OR | 2020—Present
Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR | 2016—Present
Show:tell, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland OR | 2017—Present
Independent workshops:
Living School of Art, Portland, OR | August 2019
Benson Polytechnic High School, Portland, OR | 5 December 2018
Voz Worker Education Center, Portland, OR | 30 November 2018
King School Museum Of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR | 5 October 2018
Benson Polytechnic High School, Portland OR | 29 November 2017
Voz Worker Education Center, Portland, OR | 30 September 2017
The Critical Practice Institute, Portland, OR | 3 June 2017
education + training
2016—2018 Offset Lithography | Scout Books, Portland, OR
2013 Apprenticeship in letterpress printing and bookbinding | Em Space Book Arts Center, Portland, OR
2012 Bachelor of Arts and Sciences in Hispanoamerican Literature; Minor, Studio Art, cum laude | Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR
2011 Facultad de Literatura Hispanoamericana and El Instituto de Arte (Dept. of Hispanoamerican Literature and The Art Institute) Pontificía Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Valparaíso, Chileawards, residencies + honors
awards, residencies + honors
TBD Printing Residency | C.C. Stern Type Foundry, Portland, OR
2021 Artist Relief Award | Funds Awarded by Oregon Arts Commission, Portland, OR
2020 Precipice Fund Round 8: Emergency Relief Grants For Artists | PICA, OR
PDX Area Artist Emergency Relief Fund | Subashini Ganesan + Kim Stafford, Oregon
2019 Project Grant Awarded by Regional Arts And Culture Council, Portland, OR
2018 Golden Spot Residency | Funds Awarded by Caldera Arts Center, Sisters, OR
lectures + press
2020 Diseñar Hoy: conversaciones sobre el cambio | Mes del Diseño presented by the Ministry of Arts and Culture in Chile (online)
“The Ecstasy of Ekphrasis” | Winter Poetry Festival at PNCA, Portland, OR
2019 “La Tienda (The Shop)” | Fort Ripper, Portland, OR
“Buscando América” on KBOO | Tania Gomezdaza, Portland OR
“Show & Tell: Letra Chueca” | Portland State University, Portland, OR
“Poets’ Peace Breakfast: Invocations” | Lawrence-Minh Búi Davis + Fred Sasaki, Poetry Foundation, Chicago, IL
Reed Arts Week | Letra Chueca Press, Portland, OR
Tertulia | Teatro Milagro, Portland, OR
“Poetry Foundation Exhibits Reed Broadsides” Ben Read, The Reed College Quest
2018 “Cultivating A Creative City – Hear What’s Up In Portland’s Arts Ecosystem” Open Signal, Portland OR
“Letra Chueca en la feria de arte impreso y publicación independiente, Impresionante 2018: ‘Lo Personal Es Político’” | Marcela Infante, Zancudo, Santiago de Chile
“Letra Chueca” | Emilly Prado, Mercatus My People’s Market, Vol. 2
2017 “Meet Letra Chueca”, Project Object
“Portland’s Letra Chueca Brings Printmaking Back to the People” | Emilly Prado, Portland Monthly