Celeste De Luna is a teacher, educator, an artist/printmaker originally from the lower Rio Grande Valley of South Texas and now living in San Antonio, Texas. She is a self-taught printmaker whose work includes large-scale woodcut prints and fabric installation. Celeste has been awarded residencies, fellowships, & grants from Vermont Studio Center, Artplace America, a Blade of Grass, Santa Fe Art Institute Artist Residency and recently showed her work in Vancouver, Canada. Celeste teaches art at Northwest Vista College.
Artist Style: Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Seniors, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Workshop Presenter; Visual Art: Environmental, Icongraphic/Iconoclastic, Landscape/Cityscape, Narrative/Historical, Nature/Wildlife, Political, Social Commentary
Artist Medium: Drawing Media; Fiber/Fabric; Multi-media printmaking,
My work documents individual and collective experiences in my physical/spiritual/psychic environment. I explore the complexity of relationships and power dynamics between people, animals, domestic spaces, and landscape. That landscape and environment is Texas, Tejas, a border space, known by many names. I use futuristic imagery inspired by nature, cultural experiences and science fiction. I work from embodied experiences related to ADD, disassociation, and caregiving. This landscape, infrastructure, and society has deeply impacted how I move through different environments. My work documents this impact, showing a need to escape, feminist and border issues, and my concerns about the environment and future.