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Mija folk art is a San Antonio, Texas based mother, Liz Balderas and her three daughters, Mia, Nadia and Olivia, celebrating their Mexican American culture and traditions with whimsical and magical handmade art and original designs. Liz is a self employed licensed interior designer and a self taught paper mache artist and painter, she loves to create and make paper mache pieces that reflect motherhood and faith. Mia is the staff director for Move Texas and is a textile artist, she has taken weaving classes at the Southwest School of Arts and loves to create textile weavings and pieces using handmade pompoms. Nadia is an educator and a ph0t0grapher, she runs and maintains the social media aspect of Mija folk art. Olivia is a licensed paramedic and a digital artist, she has created sticker designs for Mija folk art.
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Artist Medium: Acrylic; Colored Pencil; Fiber/Fabric; paper mache
Artist Statement of Work
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Mija folk art celebrates their Mexican American identity by creating works of art that represent our love for vibrant colors and vintage Mexican graphic patterns as inspiration. We love to use iconic imagery such as La Virgen in our work, for us she celebrates motherhood and our faith. We are pretty much self taught so we call ourselves folk artists, because there is a very handmade sensibility to our work except of course for the digital illustrations we create as well. There is no greater satisfaction then creating something from practically nothing. The paper mache process utilizes readily available and very inexpensive material, it is reused cardboard for the templates and newspaper for the building of the forms and the paper mache layering process. From these simple materials we create 3D works of art that most think are carvings of wood.
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Select Culturally Specific Art Category:: Hispanic or Latino/a/x