Martha Ramierez-Oropeza is an artist and muralist, a bases her beautiful work on pre-colonial/pre-hispanic indigenous Nahuatl culture and philosophy. She is also a Nahuatl Culture professor in a university she co-founded named the Nahuatl University in Ocotepec, Morelos, Mexico. Apart from her artwork she is also a visual arts performer, and taught theater in the Mascarones theatre group for about 32 years as she progressed as a muralist and artist. Her first artistic experience came during the Chicano civil Rights Movement in 1969-71, and specifically used her amazing art skills to bring awareness of the issues being brought forth during the Chicano movement. She then traveled to Mexico in 1971 and became an apprentice to one of the greatest Maestros Artisticos, David A. Siqueiros, and that has been one of her greatest accomplishments as an artist. She is now a professor at the number one public university in the United States, UCLA, and is part of the Chicano/a and Central American Studies Department.
References:
“Nahuatl Philosophy.” Martha Ramirez Oropeza, martharamirezoropeza.com/nahuatl-philosophy/.
“Martha Ramirez-Oropeza.” Martha Ramirez-Oropeza, www.international.ucla.edu/lai/person/1393.
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