Arte & Gift Exchange

MURAL MAKING

Mural making as a tool of social activism and environmental justice: When we beautify our environment, our public commitment is an act of care, accountability, and love. Beautification is empowering. Ownership of our spaces can be transformative for the entire community.

What places do you want to beautify?

Murals I've had the honor of directing using anything from paper, bottle lids, and wood to public elementary schools' walls.

MIXED MEDIA ART GIFT EXCHANGE

This is an invitation to join the culture of gift economy! We each have gifts to share that can be exchanged, traded or generously donated for a cause. These are original pieces I've made for donation, exchange/trade, Tshirt/merch printing, and personalized gifts. Some trades have included clothing, roadtrips, bikes, food, or handmade creations. Everybody wins😄 Let's get in touch!

*The Art of Centering, oil, pastel and magazine on canvas. 2020*

*God in the storm, 2008. Oil, pastel and marker con canvass.*

*St. Oscar Romero, violence of Love, 2024. Acrylic, pastel, newsprint and paper on canvas*

*Common Unity, 2023. Acrylic and pastel on canvas.*

*Self regulation in Therapeutic language-2024, woodblock, water based ink on paper.*

Mama Mary Embroidered on Mixed Media Canvas, 2020.

Digestive system etched on copper plate and printed on cotton shirt. Text: St. Bonaventure Ora Pro Nobis (Patron St. of Digestion!)

Sus Infinitas Posibilidades, series #1 -Personalized gift

"Life-giving Cross" 2025, newsprint, tempera, pastel, wood on canvass. -Personalized gift

Sus Infinitas Posibilidades, series #2. 2025. Paper, acrylic on canvass. Personalized gift

“To name the world as gift is to feel one’s membership in the web of reciprocity. It makes you happy—and it makes you accountable. To contemplate abundance, recognize gifts, and feel true gratitude “makes [us] happy—and it makes [us] accountable. God’s economy is a gift economy; an economy of abundance, not scarcity; an economy of generosity, not hoarding; an economy of gracious reciprocity, not obligation."

--Robin Wall Kimmerer