MALA HORA (the witching hour) is the studio name for my visual artwork. As an interdisciplinary & archival artist, I look toward my ancestors and family for inspiration. My true passion lies in telling our stories, ones I didn’t see represented in books or media growing up.
We are the descendants of writers and painters, cantadoras, curanderas, rancheros, pachucas, genízaros, and vaqueros. Staying true to my namesake, my visual work explores this context of intertwined memory, mythology & magic. It is with the traditions handed down through my maternal line that I am able to connect my art practice to my family tree. I try to highlight the energy of the past with my unique drawing style and a vibrant, nostalgic color palette.
My work has been sought out in the past for exclusive collections, with groups like LucasFilms Ltd (Star Wars), Urban Outfitters, and Society6. Between client work and private commissions, I try to spend time with my pets, plants, friends and family.
xo,
Let’s work together creatively.
photograph by Jesse Ponkamo
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Education:
Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art - University of Missouri, Kansas City
Foundations - Kansas City Art Institute
Art Lab - Kansas City Art Institute
Features, exhibitions, & special projects:
2024
• All my Mexican Blues - Barbacoa, Kansas City
2023
• Society6’s Pride Collection, featured artist, June
• Promises of Gold, José Olivarez, featured prints in press release, February
2022
• Advertising Artist Guild Grant, recipient, April
• Urban Outfitters: Home/Wall Art - featured artist, March
• Society6 & officially licensed Star Wars™/Lucasfilm Ltd. Collaboration, featured artist, January
2021
• Society 6, Mala Hora: Artist Feature, Art as an Ancestral Love Letter, June
• The Tap Room, solo exhibition of selected prints, June, Kansas City
2019
• MUJER: Women’s History Month group show, Mattie Rhodes Center, March, Kansas City
2018
• CONTENTIOUS - self-released EP (bass/back up vocals), April, Minneapolis
2017
• Gob Guerra & Joy Spika: Decolonize Your Magic, duo exhibition, Seward Café, July, Minneapolis
• NNT#52 Lemonade - Pink EP (vocals/lyrics), January, Minneapolis
• Maximum Rocknroll Magazine - t-shirt design, Archive Benefit, Los Angeles
• Tigress EP, NotNormalTapes, EP art and album insert, Chicago
2016
• ALIEN: Undercurrents, Windhorse Gallery, Kansas City
2014-2018
• worker/owner of the Seward Cafe, oldest collectively owned restaurant in the country, Minneapolis
2012
• Mudjackin (Christopher Good) – actor, “Susan”
2009-2012
• design & maintenance of kcdiy.org - local website listing all ages shows/events
• KC Books for Prisoners, founder
• KC Free Skool, co-founder
