Karina Monroy
Artist-in-Residence, Artist Interview, Exhibiting Artist, SOUP Grantee
Karina Monroy is a California born Chicana mixed media artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She holds a B.A. in art and anthropology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently a graduate Art Therapy student at The George Washington University. Karina's work explores the divinity and healing nature of femininity within Chicanx and Mexican/American 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.
