Creative Wellbeing
Mujeres de Maiz (women of corn) is a Chicana/Latina and Indigenous women’s organization since 1997 whose mission is to improve women’s overall and mental health by creating empowering community spaces focused on holistic wellness, health education, cultural arts, art exhibitions, and publishing.
A presentation on how Artivism (art and activism) can educate, empower, inspire and transform people and communities.
A skill-share on discussing and sharing tools for beginning self care and protection. Tools shared benefit all but are specifically supportive of activists and cultural workers.
This workshop will focus on deconstructing the structures and institutions that are barriers to health and wellness in our communities as well as seeking alternative wellness methods including herbalism and other ways of knowing and healing.
A creative writing workshop for all. Share your stories, validate your voices, honor your/his/her/our stories. Writing is a way to do all of this. Professional community poets guide this workshop by sharing some of their own poems and then create space for participants to write their own.
This hands on workshop shares the ancient technique of silkscreening. Posters have been used for centuries to share messages and make statements. Participants will create their own image.
Based on ancestral ways of relating with each other, these circles allow groups and individuals to open up and connect with each other in meaningful ways.
We are proud recipients of the Humanities in Place grant.
With the support from the Mellon Foundation Mujeres de Maiz is able to launch “Rooted and Rising: Cultivating a Movement Milpa,” a three year project which will center on building solid organizational infrastructure, responding to demographic needs, and systematizing programming including our first staff positions in our almost three decade herstory! Learn more here.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities. Since 1969, the Foundation has been guided by its core belief that the humanities and arts are essential to human understanding. The Foundation believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity, and that everyone deserves the beauty, transcendence, and freedom that can be found there. Through our grants, we seek to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Learn more at mellon.org.
