For this episode recurring host Cannupa Hanska Luger speaks with our dear friend and powerhouse artist and activist Tanya Aguiñiga about the cochineal beetle, clay as a healing practice for immigrant detainment camps, Indigenous solidarity and Tanya’s ongoing work with AMBOS: Art Made Between Opposite Sides.

Tanya Aguiñiga is an artist, designer, and craftsperson, who works with traditional craft materials like natural fibers and collaborates with other artists and activists to create sculptures, installations, performances, and community-based art projects. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who daily crossed the border from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

Support the work Tanya is doing with AMBOS which stands for Art Made Between Opposite Sides, or donate directly to the AMBOS Ceramics program, which Tanya speaks of in this podcast.

AMBOS (Art Made Between Opposite Sides): http://www.ambosproject.com

Donate to AMBOS Ceramics program: https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/ambos

Learn More about Tanya’s work: http://www.tanyaaguiniga.com

Music Featured: For The Young by Kindness