Karina Monroy
Artist-in-Residence, Artist Interview, Exhibiting Artist, SOUP Grantee
Karina Monroy is a California born Chicana, mixed media artist and art therapist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in Art and Anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an MA in Art Therapy from The George Washington University. As an artist and art therapist, Karina is process-driven – embodying art-making as ritual, and ritual as art-making. Her work explores, challenges and embraces themes of healing, femininity and matrilineal legacies within Chicanx culture. Through needlework, painting, sculpture and drawing, Karina creates delicate images and objects as sacred restorative offerings for herself and her feminine ancestors.
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Karina won the November 2021 Charlottesville SOUP grant to create Niña de Tierra, a new body of work and community workshop focused on inner child healing through art for Latina women and women of color.
