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Rocio
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Raíces del mismo árbol
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"Raíces del mismo árbol" was a four-part workshop series organized by multimedia artist, Rocio Vasquez Cisneros. The project was formed by a community of six women of diverse cultural identities, but all self-identifying as Latina.
The workshops focused on ancestry, storytelling, and healing, and consisted of prompts to guide the group into meaningful conversations on how we can more intentionally bring our ancestors' stories into our present day lives, and how we can find healing through sharing stories of past and present. The last workshop culminated in a picnic organized by the group of women where each participant invited important women in their lives and performed a poem/prayer written in response to the conversations from the group. Ultimately the stories, experiences, and knowledge gained through these workshops were done in an effort to bring symbolic and real healing to the Latino community through individual experiences to explore how intergenerational healing can emerge in wounded places of fragmentation.
2020An Open Letter to the Hijas de Inmigrantes
by Rocio Vasquez Cisneros
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I'm writing to those of us who are terrified that we will be the ones to break the chain in histories of mestizaje
To the daughters who are scared that we can't roll our Erres hard enough.
For the women who carry generations of ancestral history on their backs.
To the daughters who are scared that we can't roll our Erres hard enough.
For the women who carry generations of ancestral history on their backs.
Ballpoint, Ink and Watercolor on Paper
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I have a fear that my future generations won't know how to pronounce tortilla, or frijoles. That they won't know what it feels like to burn your tongue with caldo de res or that they won't know what it's like to scream Bidi bidi bom bom.
We are facing the whips of the "melting pot" that every day take further claim on the lands of our identities. A country who can't decide which new lands to colonize so it turns to its people… to us and robs us of our acentos and tradiciones. This country is hell bent on straightening every rizo and pushing out every last drop of pigment and leaving us for dead. We cannot let this happen.
Escribo para que span que mi abuela Toñis era reiki y mi abuela Maria era cocinera. Declaró sus nombres para que no se desvanezcan con la aurora.
Guadalupe, Eulalia, Pantaleona, Bacilia, Luisa, Margarita, Zeferina, Magdalena.
Guadalupe, Eulalia, Pantaleona, Bacilia, Luisa, Margarita, Zeferina, Magdalena.
Al tomar mis primeros pasos en la vida venidera, espero ser recibida con los abrazos ybesos de estas mujeres. Por ellas yo estoy aqui. No son imaginarias, ni solo nombres enregistros. Son reales. Vivieron para que yo estuviera aquí. Mi existencia es evidencia quesiglos de mujeres han hecho todo lo posible para salir adelante. Somos diosas en ciernes.
Our ancestors knew which yerbas were best for healing our bodies, they were in tune with the moon and the stars. And here we are. Lost in a world that keeps us scrolling through images that make us hate the hips and back rolls our antepasadas gave us
The rails of the bridge
Tremble when I walk by
I love you and you alone
You see me and don’t notice me
Tremble when I walk by
I love you and you alone
You see me and don’t notice me
We are navegantes de nuestro propio viaje. We have the power to seek the knowledge that has been lost and retain the traditions of our people.
Venimos de árboles vivientes. We cannot let our centuries of wisdom and knowledge be washed away. We can see our living tree in the hair that twists and tangles from our scalps. It waves in the wind like the leaves of our living tree. Our tree cannot be broken because it lives.
Venimos de árboles vivientes. We cannot let our centuries of wisdom and knowledge be washed away. We can see our living tree in the hair that twists and tangles from our scalps. It waves in the wind like the leaves of our living tree. Our tree cannot be broken because it lives.
We must look forward to the strength that stands behind us and press on.
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Mantón
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Poetry
Raíces
These poems were written by Rocio's project participants. To view a recording of the poems, click here.
Rocio has also featured this poetry on a website she created for "Raíces del mismo árbol". (Click here to view.)
2020They will call you things you could never imagine for yourself, some good, some bad; the only thing that matters, is what you call yourself in your loneliest moments.
They will call you things you could never imagine for yourself, some good, some bad. The only thing that matters is what you call yourself, in your loneliest moments. They will call you things you could never believe for yourself, knowing yourself, and seeing yourself as you are. I wish I had the wisdom here to tell you something, anything, that would shield you from that fate.
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2020Annie Mae
I have nothing to give. Neither did my Momma. Neither did her Mother, and her Mother before her. But in every instance of maternal love, they gave the next in line something. Is that a paradox, yes. Material wealth is not a pre-scripted line in the narrative of my ebony skin. Nevertheless, I wish to give you the resistance, joy, and victory that is possible in throes of pain.
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2020Weeping May Endureth For a Night
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Rocio Vasquez Cisneros
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about"Into the Deep, Unto the New" is an exhibition that navigates the continuum of collective healing from racial trauma.
Hosted by Inbreak and Dea Studios is the culminating exhibition of the 2021 Inbreak Residency. This exhibition is a virtual showcase featuring works by Inbreak residents Andrew Nemr, Steve Anthony Johnson, Liberty Worth, and Arneshia Williams. Into the Deep, Unto the New provides a lens through which we see the impassioned overflow from art as practice to art as community-building in an effort to bravely uncover racialized trauma and to reimagine a post-racialized society. The reception will feature a brief introduction to the exhibition, interactive activities, and a toast to the artists.
The Inbreak Residency is an incubator for artists of any discipline, writers, curators and preachers to foster a brave space that facilitates a raw exploration of art, faith, and race in the United States. Over the course of three months, residents engage in texts, open dialogue, and somatic practice to metabolize themes surrounding racial trauma in the U.S. Each resident is encouraged to reimagine their individual role in generating social healing through self-led community projects using their practice and tools provided by the residency.
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2018
Grand Prize Lux → Consumed
Grand Prize Lux → Terroir
Lux → Travel Design Awards
2017
Applied Arts → Make-Up
Applied Arts → Interior design
Lux → Interior design
2016
Grand Prize Lux → Agnus Dei
Lux → Food Carving
Applied Arts → Food Carving
Lux → Pur Vodka
Lux → Formes et Réflexions
Applied Arts → Shapes
Lux → Le Beurre allume vos aliments
Lux → Les fromages d’ici
Applied Arts → Les fromages d’ici
Grand Prize Lux → Consumed
Grand Prize Lux → Terroir
Lux → Travel Design Awards
2017
Applied Arts → Make-Up
Applied Arts → Interior design
Lux → Interior design
2016
Grand Prize Lux → Agnus Dei
Lux → Food Carving
Applied Arts → Food Carving
Lux → Pur Vodka
Lux → Formes et Réflexions
Applied Arts → Shapes
Lux → Le Beurre allume vos aliments
Lux → Les fromages d’ici
Applied Arts → Les fromages d’ici
Events
- Some Studio Name
— Designer, Head of Design2019—Present - Some Studio Name
— Partner, Lead Designer, Art Director2015—2019 - Freelance
— Graphic Designer, Web Designer2012—2015 - Some Studio Name
— Designer, Co-founder2012—2015
About"
Residency Year: 2022
Rocio Cisneros-Vasquez is a 23 year old Mexican-American, Utah-Based artist. She was born and raised mostly in Utah. She will be graduating from Brigham Young University with a bachelors in fine arts and a minor in sociology in April 2022.
Cisneros-Vasquez has been featured in numerous exhibitions at Brigham Young University and has received multiple grants to create videos about the immigrant experience, including a grant that took her to Tijuana, Mexico. Cisneros-Vasquez also received a jurors choice award in the annual student show at BYU. She currently has work in the Spiritual and Religious show at the Springville Museum of art, where out of over 500 submissions only 80 were accepted by the jury. Cisneros-Vasquez actively pushes to show more diverse voices at BYU where 81% of the student body is caucasian. She has done so by advocating for diverse speakers to be invited at artist lectures and she is currently working on curating an exhibition that will feature the work of women of color in the art program at BYU.
Cisneros-Vasquez’ work is centered around her life experience, and issues regarding race and immigration. She explores the intersection of family history and spirituality and how these themes can help heal generational trauma. She finds inspiration from plights that she, her family, and millions of other migrant families have endured at the hands of strict US immigration laws. She works primarily in photography and video but also takes an interdisciplinary approach to her artmaking, including soft fabric sculptures and oil painting. Her work is narrative, and includes elements such as self portraiture. Much of her work takes on performative rituals and is documented through photo and video. Cisneros-Vasquez merges religious symbols and imagery with the voices of real people who deal with issues of racism and immigration daily.
Rocio Cisneros-Vasquez is a 23 year old Mexican-American, Utah-Based artist. She was born and raised mostly in Utah. She will be graduating from Brigham Young University with a bachelors in fine arts and a minor in sociology in April 2022.
Cisneros-Vasquez has been featured in numerous exhibitions at Brigham Young University and has received multiple grants to create videos about the immigrant experience, including a grant that took her to Tijuana, Mexico. Cisneros-Vasquez also received a jurors choice award in the annual student show at BYU. She currently has work in the Spiritual and Religious show at the Springville Museum of art, where out of over 500 submissions only 80 were accepted by the jury. Cisneros-Vasquez actively pushes to show more diverse voices at BYU where 81% of the student body is caucasian. She has done so by advocating for diverse speakers to be invited at artist lectures and she is currently working on curating an exhibition that will feature the work of women of color in the art program at BYU.
Cisneros-Vasquez’ work is centered around her life experience, and issues regarding race and immigration. She explores the intersection of family history and spirituality and how these themes can help heal generational trauma. She finds inspiration from plights that she, her family, and millions of other migrant families have endured at the hands of strict US immigration laws. She works primarily in photography and video but also takes an interdisciplinary approach to her artmaking, including soft fabric sculptures and oil painting. Her work is narrative, and includes elements such as self portraiture. Much of her work takes on performative rituals and is documented through photo and video. Cisneros-Vasquez merges religious symbols and imagery with the voices of real people who deal with issues of racism and immigration daily.
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I draw intimate scenes in an effort to reframe the way we talk about Blackness. Through strokes of charcoal and graphite, I make Blackness and darkness the protagonist. In this manner I shift the paradigm which considers whiteness/ light the dominant formal aspect across paper. Working from memory, interviews, verbal histories, and family keepsakes, I navigate a cross-generational, cross-cultural, and cross-diasporic hypothesis of what I would say to a biological child of mine—unbesmirched by the colonized imagination. Some of these materials are fragmented or damaged, told secondhand, or else gleaned from painful memories half-remembered; others are passed down by elders to metabolize inherited trauma. I then transmogrify these artifacts into a visual love letter to possible inheritors of that trauma . Channeling intergenerational resistance, wisdom, and resilience, my drawings and activities explore the counter-narrative necessary to eclipse the burden of inherited and bestowed trauma central to Black and Othered bodies. In other words, my drawings transform histories, artifacts, spatially dependent histories, and biographical fragments into tactile, metabolic renderings of an inward reflective state.
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Maria Fernanda Morales
Marybel Vasquez
Raquel Astrid Yánez
Emily Yánez
Alejandra Ramos
Rocio Vasquez Cisneros
Marybel Vasquez
Raquel Astrid Yánez
Emily Yánez
Alejandra Ramos
Rocio Vasquez Cisneros
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Events With Rocio
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— Partner, Lead Designer, Art Director2015—2019 - Freelance
— Graphic Designer, Web Designer2012—2015 - Some Studio Name
— Designer, Co-founder2012—2015
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