Martha Ramirez-Oropeza (1900–2021) is a muralist known for her focus on the pre-Hispanic Nahuatl culture. Her early experience began during the Chicano Civil Rights Movement. Later, she learned more about developing her art under the guidance of muralist David A. Siquieros. Martha helped co-found the Nahuatl University located in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. Upon her return to the USA, she became an instructor at UCLA and Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) which is located in Venice, California. At SPARC, she teaches theater to elementary aged students.
Biography (or Early Life and Education)
Martha Ramirez-Oropeza was born in Delicias, Chihuahua and her parents were migrant farmworkers. She worked with her family in the fields picking prunes at the young age of 4. Thus, she continuously traveled from Delicias to Colusa, California. Her family eventually settled down in Pacoima with is a neighborhood in Los Angeles. She experienced discrimination by a teacher that washed her mouth with soap after speaking Spanish when she was in second grade. Her experiences then lead her to partake in the Chicano movement, a hunger strike for the United Farmworkers Union, creating anti-war posters, and designing and paintings murals.
After high school, she attended California State University, Northridge.
From 1988 to 2011, she has painted about 20 murals in the USA and Mexico combined.
Further reading
· “The Toltec I Ching” – Written by Martha Ramirez-Oropeza & William Douglas Horden
· “Huehuepohualli: Counting the Ancestors’ Heartbeat” by Martha Ramirez-Oropeza
· Important article to know about
External links
· Useful website link and name
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