Presentation: Kim Bjanes

Because I am not so artistically inclined, I do not know many artists especially artists of color. That being said. I came across Latina/ Chicana artist Kim Bjanes while scrolling through Instagram one day and felt an automatic connection to her and her work. I have had very few experiences where I see myself being represented in public and she made me feel like I had a voice and that there other women of color like me. She was born and raised in Los Angeles, specifically North Hollywood. She uses her personal experiences being a women and color and other marginalized communities. While her focus is her poetry, she incorporates her own artwork to make her poetry more visual and has created her own clothing line with phrases that I grew up and have helped me push forward in life. She incorporates the nature she sees and her own inspiration and puts them in her work. This picture I took off her Instagram page and you can see while the main focus is her words, she uses herself very often as a visual as well as her own artwork to make her work come alive. I am looking forward to focusing on her work and how she helped and inspired young women of color.