Marie Antoinette was accused of heartlessness, ignorance and extravagance. She was much criticized and hated by the French people, but maybe they judged her too harshly. To say there's a lot we can learn from this gracious lady, and it was my pleasure to show her in a different light in my latest performance.

I presented my artwork at the Cultural Arts Commission meeting yesterday, and received the formal recognition of my achievement from the City of South San Francisco. My piece is inspired by José Guadalupe Posada’s "La Catrina", which is the personification of Día de los Muertos.

I am currently having six pieces in a group show called "Future Tense: What has (not) happened (yet)" at the Drawing Room Annex in the Mission. It's a group show of 27 local SF based artists, each independently sharing works reflecting on the election, in the current state of a global pandemic crisis, amidst regional natural disasters such as wildfires, floods and hurricanes.

“Flower Magic and Plant Healing” at Evolved SF is showing the traditional healing practice through contemporary art. The works are linked to the strong connections within the community, and the passing down of cultural knowledge to the next generation.

I am very excited to announce that my work was selected to be shown in The de Young Open. In celebration of the de Young Museum’s 125th anniversary, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are hosting this one of a kind juried community art exhibition featuring 762 local Bay Area artists.

I am especially proud of my latest design project for the San Francisco Girls Chorus and Ars Minerva. They provide access to music education to different communities in San Francisco. Music within these communities brings positivity, long lasting and life changing experiences.

Covid-19 changed all our lives dramatically, and it was time to add a sense of positivity and remind people that there is love in the world. This is why Natalie Fabri initiated “The Mission Kiss”- a public art project to celebrate love, diversity and unity in a time of social and political division, and suffering.

The poster is the very first thing someone sees about the opera. It is setting the tone for what is to come. You have large format prints at the window of the theater venue. You see it on the website and in ads of the event. There will be production photos for the flyers later to expand the campaign, but this is the very first thing people recognize.

Most of my work is around endangered species and extinction. With all the concerns about COVID-19, people have started thinking about what would happen in an even worse pandemic and which creatures would survive an apocalypse.

As San Francisco entered lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, I was in the middle of a public art project for the City of Danville. My heart sculpture, which was centered around the history of Danville, quickly took on a different meaning for neighbors as people were looking for a spark of inspiration.

I wish I would be in a position where I could say I don’t think about my identity as a woman in the art world, but the truth is we are underrepresented and undervalued in museums and galleries.

When the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts published their call for “Darkness & Shadow” I got really excited, because I often have a hard time to find art shows that are a good fit for my work. They were seeking Dark Art that portrayed the theme in their literal and symbolic form. “What do shadows illuminate? What does darkness obscure?”

Yosemite National Park is visited by over 3.5 million people every year and has inspired various artists to create their works. I was deeply pleased and honored to receive an award at the opening reception of the “Yosemite Renaissance 35” exhibition at Yosemite Museum.

Circuit boards are strangely beautiful. If you look at a circuit board from a distance, it looks just like San Francisco from an airplane. On a plane, you get a new perspective on the city that you only see from the great heights. You start to see how it is organized and how its foundation is meticulously planned. Roads, buildings, cars, and people all connected in a complete system.

Theatrical backdrops are often gone unappreciated, but they make opera extraordinary. Backdrops stretch the confines of the stage into endless possibilities - they invite us into secret bedrooms, palaces and courtyards, let us experience idyllic villages or open the horizon with a countryside landscape. They are the cradle of action – the opera singers, conductor and director create the drama, but backdrops build worlds.

Dia de los Muertos is a time to honor, remember and celebrate dead ancestors as their souls are believed to return to Earth. In Germany we also have this holiday. Families head to the cemeteries to pray for their dead loved ones, but Latino people celebrated in a different way. Their holiday celebrates life, rather than mourning death.

Last year, Toll Brothers Builders reached out to me to design some public art for a new neighborhood they are creating, called Parkside at Tarob Court, in Milpitas. They are building a new home community, that also offers a little park for recreational purposes here.

Based on real-life events, my opera mural for the Community Music Center concert hall tells the moving story of a Salvadorian family that immigrates to the United States and puts down roots in the Mission District.

Centuries ago, people thought that the ocean was full of krakens, sea serpents and other monsters. They made sense of the mysterious ocean with these fantastic creatures. Many stories about the danger and adventure of the ocean also involve sirens as a half-fish, half-human creature.

You don’t need my future visions to see the effects of climate change. The state of the world with rising temperatures, arctic ice melting and polluted air affects millions around the globe. But I hope to touch people in a different way, especially those who may not be interested in the issue or motivated to take action.

Breast cancer runs in my family. The sugar skull pattern on the breasts of my sculpture is a hint to my own family history. Doctors diagnosed my mother as well as my grandmother with breast cancer. My piece is not just about death, it’s about how you live when life is out of your control and you can’t do the things you want to do.

Everyone is afraid of something. Most of us have natural fears of the unknown. As a result, there is fear on both sides of the migration experience.

My art is reflective of my personal migration experiences. The Monarch butterflies is a very common symbol for migration. I was drawn to it because of its transformative nature and the fact that they migrate over borders. I think everyone should have the right to freely move.

The Global Climate Action Summit was a great occasion to think seriously about the future of our planet. I participated in the "eARTh" art exhibition at Senator Scott Wiener's offices in honor of the GCAS 2018.

My graphic novel “Queen of Hearts” is catalogued into the Brooklyn Art Library. It is part of their Sketchbook Project, which is a constantly evolving collection of artists’ sketchbooks from around the globe.

When I look at images of Lady Mary, I see my always-suffering mother in her. The woman, who tried so hard to please everyone that she forgot about herself.

"Untold Stories" is going on its last journey! The "Asylum Seekers: Moria" Art Show had its Kickoff in Turlock last weekend. The art show is a traveling exhibition to help people to get a better understanding of the refugee crisis.

Everyone who knows me knows that I hate sports in general. Today tough, it happened that I found myself for the first time in my life on the field of AT&T Park. However, I wasn’t cheering for the Giants – I was cheering for the arts.

“The Color Red” show at Jingletown Art Studios in Oakland is my first exhibit this year. Red represents power and courage. I often use red in my artwork to show the remarkable resilience and fortitude of my heroes. My pieces emphasize the diversity of experiences, that they make on their journey.

I’m honored to show my art at the offices of California’s State Senator Scott Wiener, who is the author of SB 35, which will help California create more housing at all income levels. HOUSING  is an exhibit by 18 Bay Area artists, that is looking at the meaning of this place we call home.