Natalia Anciso Presentation

The artist that stood out to me from those that were presented was the artist Natalia Anciso. She is a Chicana-Tejana artist living and working in Oakland, CA. Natalia Anciso work is really exciting to me because I have worked with fabric/embroidery in the past and I can really appreciate the difficulty that comes from creating such beautiful works with such a delicate medium. With pen, watercolor, prisma, and graphite, Natalia Anciso illustrates highly detailed scenes from the black and brown communities and the relationships the state holds with these communities. Relationships that are of violence, oppression, and injustice along with illustrating the resistance and strength the communities have held for so long. Natalia Anciso comes from a line of migrant farmworkers such as myself. Directly from a U.S. / Mexico border town in Texas along the Rio Grande, Natalia Anciso has experienced what it is like to be a Chicana and a minority in this country and has been a witness to the injustices that inflict minority communities. She draws her inspiration from her own culture. Natalia Anciso depicts, at times, really hard images to swallow, because of the nature of their violence, with pen or graphite juxtaposed with vibrantly painted or drawn flower arrangements.