Heart of Deer (the life force of our pueblos) Collaboration Installation at MACLA Chicana/o Biennal Melanie Cervantes, Jesus Barraza, & Celia Herrera Rodriguez Artist Statement There is a connection between making our relatives visible, specifically as the... 
Untitled/Sin Título Installation by Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes Oakland Museum, 2015 This ofrenda is dedicated to our Queer relatives who have passed on. Our intention is to remember them and center the life that was lived in secret and is still unspoken. Each... 
Looking Back Seeing Forward Artist Statement Using screen prints, art workshops, installations and gatherings my work deals the contemporary realities of people who are building a transformative social justice movement while recovering from the distress of a... 
Sitting on Sacred Land The four portraits of ancestors from the Nisenan tribe were placed on the mountain side at the For-Site Foundation in Nevada City. The portraits look out to the buttes situated to the west of the mountain they were sitting on. In this direction... 
A prayer from occupied Nisenan land An alter installation on occupied Nisenan land/Fore-Site Foundation, Nevada City. As a guest on Nisenan land my intention was to create an alter on the mountainside facing the west and the setting sun, the place from where the... 