Britney Garibay
Source 1
Bmg Arts Https://www.bmg-arts.com › about
This source is Garibay’s own website which includes some products she sells and a short biography. Garibay is described to be 17 years old as a Florida based artist. She dedicates her art around her family and culture which comes from her Mexican history and experiences as a self identified Chicana. In her website she also includes some interviews and features she has been in as well as the publications her art has been in.
Source 2
https://da-artisan.org/2020/11/03/love-letters-britney-garibay-and-frida-kahlo/
This source written by Hannah Wehrung, the editor in chief from The Artisan, is titled Love Letters: Britney Garibay and Frida Kahlo. This article describes Garibay’s mixed relationship and feelings with Frida Kahlo’s art styles and artwork. She also desribes how she has a sense of pride in her own art because as a Chicana and as she expresses her Mexican heritage, she enjoys when the Mexican community can relate to her and deliver a message to them. The article also goes into how Garibay felt scared at first to dedicate her art around Mexico because of the politics and judgements, but later grew out of it and learned to embrace it and lose the fear.
Source 3
https://thechicanopost.wixsite.com/website/post/becoming-yourself-britney-garibay
This source is an article from The Chicano Post written based on the artist Britney Garibay titled “Becoming yourself: Britney Garibay”. The article starts off with a brief description of Garibay of who she is, where she is from, and how she began to get noticed by the community of social media. When asked if she had any advice to her past self, she expresses the need of things running their own course and to have faith in herself. She also goes into detail that her topics she paints about includes much about her immigrant parents and their experiences in the US. Garibay is described to be the perfect example of overcoming oppression and using her talent to express her past and present.
Source 4
This source is an article from News 4 Jax titled “ ‘Wait for me’: Teen’s experience inspired beautiful paintings, honors heritage” written by Lena Pringle. The article goes into depth about Garibay’s piece titled “Wait for Me” coming from one of Garibay’s painful experiences including deportation of her stepfather. Another piece titled “Forgotten Farmers” which has received much attention from social media, has also inspired many and express her Mexican heritage and history.
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