Fuentes, Fibiana (Fibi)

 

        Hello everyone! My name is Fibiana Fuentes but you can call me Fibi (pronounced: fee-bee)! My pronouns are she, her, and hers. I identify as a Latina because my mother is Salvadorian, and my father is from Mexico. I was born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. I like to travel, read, paint, listen to music, run, and spend time with family and friends. I transferred from College of the Canyons to UCLA in Fall 2020. I am a Pre-Global Studies Major and I am considering minoring in Chicanx and Central American Studies. I am a 3rd year at UCLA. I hope to use my major to work at organizations like UNICEF or The Gates Foundation. I am excited about this class because I love art and I love learning more about my Latinx culture. It seems as if the Latinx community does not get much recognition so whenever I have the chance, I like to learn more about my own Latinx community. When I have time, I like to paint and go to art exhibits. In high school, I had one of my drawings published in a book about the history of Black History Month. I hope to discover more artists from the Latinx community in this class. 

     In regard to this week's reading, "Printing and Collecting the Revolution" by E. Carmen Ramos, I found the artist Sandra C. Fernandez in the reading very interesting. Ramos describes how Fernandez who is an Ecuadorian American created an art piece to reflect the debate about immigration in The United States. Her work called Mourning and Dreaming High is a reflection of her political views about immigration. The work seems to be an homage to DACA recipients. Nowadays, immigrants are criminalized, but Fernandez seems to criticize the discourse that immigrants are inferior. In her work, she expresses how people should be more compassionate towards immigrants and seems to echo hope for the future of immigrants. Many of the Latinx artists noted in the reading use their artistic abilities to reflect the political problems of their time.