Building Utopia: Stitching Lessons from Stories and Visions of Women in Our Lives (2013)

Graphic art created for Barnard College’s Utopia Building Utopia: Stitching the Lessons from Stories and Visions of Women in our Lives, Pam McMichael, Highlander Research and Education Center and Melanie Cervantes, Dignidad Rebelde Scholar and Feminist Conference at the Diana Center on March 1-2, 2013.

Happy to have presented a more personal account of the women who have influenced my development as a woman, an artist and a human being.  From left to right, top to bottom: My maestra Celia Herrera Rodriguez, my mother Juanita Cervantes, my abuelita Agustina and my great grandmother Julia.