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Rosalia Torres-Weiner: Hold onto your Balloon!
As soon as you sit down with Rosalia Torres-Weiner, you quickly realize we have a visionary in the Charlotte community. Rosalia grew up in Mexico City. Her childhood home was an open brick ranch, which allowed light to stream abundantly into the airy interior. Her home was the first house on the block to have…
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Rosalia Torres-Weiner brings magic kites to children impacted by deportation
Rosalia Torres-Weiner is a multi-media artist, muralist, and activist, but she prefers to call herself an ARTivist. Through her Charlotte, North Carolina-based Red Calaca Studio, Torres-Weiner uses art to tell the stories of the local Latino community. Her work utilizes the colors, themes, and rich symbolism of her native home of Mexico. As a self-taught artist,…
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Rosalia Torres Weiner’s food truck-turned-art studio helps young immigrants cope
A young immigrant girl hides in a dark, empty apartment. A kind woman with a handful of paintbrushes and other art supplies enters the room. She urges the girl to join her for a few hours of time creating art. Together, the girl and woman talk about the young girl’s mother, an undocumented immigrant who…
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Using the term ‘Latinx,’ the “Gateways/Portales” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum shows immigrants who merged into cultures of their new homes
The top 10 U.S. cities with the highest percentages of Latin American residents are, not surprisingly, Texas, California, and Florida. But none of them is featured in “Gateways/Portales” at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. The exhibition sticks closer to home, surveying the Latino surge in Washington and Baltimore, as well as Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.…
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CURRENT ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE – ROSALIA TORRES WEINER
RESIDENCY DATES Apr 14 — Aug 19 2014 Embracing a wide variety of creative outlets from developing murals to organizing community storytelling events, Rosalia Torres-Weiner is an artist/activist who draws on her Mexican heritage to address persistent issues faced by immigrant populations. In addition to prolific studio practice, Torres-Weiner helps young people cope with the…