Join us for a space of personal healing, clarity, and transformation.

This workshop will take place on Saturday, March 1st from 4pm to 6pm at Monterroso Gallery (3911 Main St, Houston, TX 77002)

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Join our workshop with a minimum contribution of $25. If you’d like to support further, additional donations help us keep these sessions accessible to more people!

About Stalina

Stalina Emmanuelle Villarrealsees, hears, feels, and communicates across mediums and cultures. She’s a deep-watching ekphrastic poet, a photographic eco-essayist, a broad-stroke sketch artist, a sonic improv performer, a sound-sensitive literary translator, and an assistant professor of English. Her bilingualism stems from her 1.5-generation experience being both Mexican and Xicanx. Her debut collection of poetry and creative nonfiction is called Watcha (Deep Vellum). Her poetry can be found in the Rio Grande Review, Texas Review, The Acentos Review, DefunktMagazine, and elsewhere. Her published translations of poetry include Enigmas by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Photograms of My Conceptual Heart Absolutely Blind by Minerva Reynosa, Kilimanjaroby Maricela Guerrero, and Postcards in Braille by Sergio Pérez Torres. Stalina is the recipient of the Inprint Donald Barthelme Prize in Poetry. Her visual poetry—spanning queer erotica, interactive digital art, and video installation—was part of the Antena@Blafferexhibit at University of Houston’s Blaffer Art Museum. She is currently writing ekphrastic elegies about her interpretative drawings of portraits and a memoir about her photographs of nature—revealing her ability to look backward and within, to write new ways forward.

About Zulma

Zulma Vega is a Colombian Houston-based artist whose sculptures and installations investigate migration, ancestral culture, and the human experience. Through material exploration and viewer interaction, her work invites reflection on interconnection and memory as acts of resistance against oblivion.

She is currently an artist-in-residence at Lawndale Art Center. Her work has been exhibited in juried exhibitions at the Holocaust Museum Houston, The Glassell School of Art, the Blaffer Art Museum, the Houston Symphony, and The Modern Art Gallery. She has also shown at the Amarillo Museum of Art, as part of Biennial 600, and at Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio for the Contemporary Month Perennial exhibition in 2024.

Vega was awarded the Cynthia Wood Mitchell Fellowship in 2022-2023 and holds an MFA from the University of Houston. In addition to her practice, she serves as a teaching artist at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.