Chicana Art & Spirituality
University Press Books in Berkeley held a reception for Laura Perez's new book Chicana Art: The Politics of Spiritual and Aesthetic Altarities. Laura is an associate professor at Cal and though I never took a class with her I admired her from afar. (I couldn't cram...
Deporten La Migra
Jesus and I collaborated on creating a poster for a coalition called Tierra y Libertad in Arizona. We met organizers from the organization while eating pozole at a fundraiser for Colective Zapatista Ramona's effort to raise funds for the Cucapa people. It was a super...
In Lak Ech
In Lak Ech is a Maya term for "you are my other me"/tu eres mi otro yo. This Mayan greeting is an honoring for each other and a statement of unity. When I first met jesus this concept really began to mean something to me because I was so amazed by our growing...
Youth Together’s: Triple Threat
Last Saturday was the opening date for my collaborative exhibit with Youth Together. It was a display of posters that I have created over the years and work by YT's 8th grade program at Melrose Leadership Academy. There was also a great silent art auction that was...
Hawaii: A Rez Surrounded by Water
My partner Melanie and I just came back from a trip to Honolulu, Hawaii. We wanted to go on a vacation and we wanted to go somewhere we could just get away and not have to deal with our everyday work lives. We knew that Hawaii was a beautiful place so we got our...
Xicana Moratorium Day Poster
It's August again, you know what that means, time for the Xicana Moratorium! This is the 28th commemoration of the Chicana Moratorium Against the Vietnam War in Los Angeles that happened August 29th 1972. The original Chicana Moratorium was a huge rally held in East...
Posters for Rock the Bells!
Since i was not able to make it to Coachella to see Rage Against the Machine, I was thrilled when i heard about the Rock the Bells line up with Rage headelining. I love Rage, I have been a fan since the early 90s, and have always appreciated their sounds and their...
Tell it like it is
This week me and my friend jose took a week off to help out some friends of ours who run Third World Majority. They were running the 3rd Tell it Like it is, a video making workshop where organizers from around the contry come to learn how to create short digital...
Emory Douglas and the SF8
A few years back I worked on a series of posters for the Center for the Study of Political Graphics from various artists, one of them was Emory Douglas. A whila ago Emory called me up to print a poster for Freedom Archives that would be used to fundraise for the San...
San Diego Comic Con
A family that geeks together stays together. Or something like that. This year the San Diego Comicon became a family affair for me. In years past, before I left home to move to the Bay to study, I had attended the Con with my sister Claudia. In my absence my dad...
Jazzmataz Poster
This summer my friend Estria was approached by Ank Entertainment to create posters and t-shirts for shows his company was promoting at the Mezzanine in San Francisco. We didn't have to think too hard about this one, Estria and another friend (and Tumis partner) have...
Stenciling at Galeria
I have been making stencils for about five years now. It all started out of necessity. A group of us organizing a concert to raise awareness about Ward Connerly's Proposition 54 wanted to have visual art at the event. So I...