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Joyous Windrider Jimenez
Literary Arts: Author/Writer, Poet; Media Arts: New Media/Technology, Voiceover; Multi-Disciplinary: Multiple Art Forms, Performer and Writer; Performing Arts: Director, Performance Art, Spoken Word Artist, Storyteller; Teaching Artist/Instructor; Visual Arts: Constructions/Collage, Mixed Media Artist, Painter, Photographer
Joyous Windrider Jiménez is an improv & performance poet, teatrista, mixed-media visual artist and video creator who blends performance and visual elements into stories that articulate her own journey of healing and emotional literacy. A San Antonio native, she spent nearly a decade abroad on the island of Cyprus, where she helped diverse minority groups tell their stories. Since her return in 2009, she has presented her original poetry, theatre, and visual work in venues around her city, including the historical Guadalupe Theatre, Bihl Haus Arts, Gallista Gallery, Jump-Start Performance Company, UTSA’s Buena Vista Theatre. She was recently anthologized in Puro Chicanx: Writers of the 21st Century published by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts and The Black Earth Institute. Her art and writing grapples with topics such as home, identity, trauma, mental health, and emotional healing.
A teaching artist since 2012, she’s been creating and delivering workshops for organizations such as SAY Sí, Gemini Ink, the Magik Theatre, Teatro Audaz, San Antonio Wolf Trap, the McNay Art Museum, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and most recently Blue Star Contemporary’s MOSAIC program for youth. Her students have been national recipients of the Scholastic Arts & Writing awards, and their performances have been featured in venues across Texas.
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Artist Style: Literary: Non-Fiction, Poetry, Prose; Teaching Artist/Instructor: Group Instruction, Guest Speaker, Instruction for Adults, Instruction for Children, Multi-Day Artist Residency, Private Lessons, Workshop Presenter; Theatre: Drama; Visual Art: Assemblage, Collage, Contemporary, Expressionistic, Interactive, Site-Specific
Artist Statement of Work
Tell us about your work (style, approach, philosophy, subject and/or theme):
"As a storyteller my art & writing process innately incorporates the "rasquachismo" attitude and sensibility of my creative ancestors. I use whatever is available to me at the moment: digital media, physical media, voice, text - often combined. I use my work as a flashlight in my own journey through a vast emotional landscape, and share it in hopes that readers and viewers will find insight into their own landscapes.
I believe in the individual's innate ability to be gorgeously creative with whatever language the heart possesses, no matter how 'rudimentary.' When I shape phrases, common and rough,on paper or in my mouth, I hope to model that words are elevated through authenticity and courage, and not just grammar or academic vocabulary.
As a teaching artist, I believe it is vital that empowering artistic processes be passed on to the young people in our city. I believe our city’s health and vitality is affected by its members’ ability to use their authentic voice in a sense of safety and freedom. This passion has led me to incorporate social/emotional aspects in my facilitation process.
During the pandemic I began to include trauma-informed self-care coaching services for creatives in my community. I share my own self-regulation tools and insights on the healing journey from chronic stress and trauma, and am beginning to bring creative processes and somatic experience processes together into new kinds of creative works and workshops.”
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