Artist Biography 

Ligaia Meyer grew up in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She has worked as an intern building puppets and sets for a series of award-winning short films, The Love the Would Not Die. She received two Gold Keys and a Silver Key from the 2019 Scholastic Art Awards, and was also featured in UNM’s 2018 Young Artist Exhibition. Her practice utilizes languages of both abstraction and figuration, drawing from an acute interest in the history of art coupled with a love of observational painting. Meyer graduated from the New Mexico School for the Arts in 2019 and is currently pursuing a dual degree in Painting and the History of Art and Architecture at Boston University.

Lex Morris-Wright

Artist Statement

My work honors the revolutionary moments within our everyday lives. I am interested in revealing the extraordinary and uncomfortable within the ordinary and domestic. Working mainly in printmaking, collage, mixed media sculpture, fiber, and video I use the possibilities of multiples to intuitively wander and explore imagery and color, finding new meanings and moments of discovery. 

The work focuses predominantly on experiences of queerness and transness. I use a trans perspective to embrace the body as a site of continual transformation and a porous ecosystem that is in constant conversation with its environment. A queer perspective allows me to explore the home as a space for creating liberating new models of mutual aide and family.  My imagery comes from the New Mexican desert I grew up exploring and from myths, dreams, and memories. These prints draw from the my own experiences and the observed experiences of friends and family to create narratives of gender revolution; they re-connect with queer pasts and re-imagine queer futures. This can involve intergenerational collaboration with queer family members and queer history, as well as collaboration with friends, lovers, and cohabitants. 

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Artist Biography

Lex Morris-Wright is an artist, writer, and community organizer from Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 2018, they graduated from New Mexico School for the Arts with a major in visual arts and a minor in creative writing. Currently, they are working on a BA in American Studies and a BFA in Studio Art from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. They have exhibited work in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, NM, Boston, MA, and New York City, NY. Their work has won awards from the National Scholastic Art Awards and the School for the Museum of Fine Art Print and Paper Department.  

For three years they were also a member of the New Mexico Genders and Sexualities Network Youth council where they helped to teach and develop a curriculum for youth activists by youth activists.  At Tufts, they co-manage the student-run Crafts Center, which provides shared space and materials for Tufts community members to make art and learn together. They are interested in pursuing work that centers art-making as an accessible community resource for healing and change-making.

CARLY TRUJILLO

Artist Statement

I use animation and fashion to heal and deconstruct my colonial trauma by framing the rocky mountains of the southwest as a maternal figure. Rock formations inspired the fabric manipulations and are placed around the body to highlight this relationship while giving movement and life to these large ancient forms in additional animations. Using tea and different herbs I explore the different effects they have on the material, allowing the material to fold toward and away from the body. The drawing and animation display my curvaceous croquis and create a landscape that reflects back onto the garment with its extreme organic silhouettes and warm earth pinks. The crocheted and pieced together strips portray the different layers of the earth. I folded the material onto itself to represent the Rocky Mountains and how the tectonic plates converge there in my homeland. I use animation to show the fluid movement of the seemingly permanent shapes of these ancient rocks and to highlight the need to sustain the environment. They are shaped by our life force:  water. Currently, I am working on 3D rendered compositions that use textures from my textiles and paintings. These present narratives through the use of costumes that take unique bodies into account to honor and cherish our bodies that our ancestors gave us. 

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Artist Biography

Carly Trujillo is a costume and fashion designer as well as animator. She has a background in drawing and fiber. Trujillo currently attends the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  She was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico and raised in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Her native identity informs her art and student group organizing; she channels this into making art about healing ancestral trauma.  The artwork shows the power and beauty of the land, our mother and first ancestor. Involvement in the Chicago Native American community furthers Trujillo’s connection to her indigenous identity through student group and activist organizing. 

Carly Trujillo has art in the Sandor Family Art Collection. Her artwork has been featured in 20 exhibitions in Chicago, IL, Santa Fe, NM, and Washington D.C. along with in her hometown of Las Vegas, NM. She was the winner of the Congressional Art Competition for District 3 of New Mexico in 2018. She received a Merit Scholarship from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago along with a scholarship from ArtSmart of New Mexico. She was also recognized for her student activist work at the School of the Art Institute with the Student Leadership Grant.