The throughline – El hilo conductor
Before it was a service offering, this was a way of working, building bridges across language, geography, and cultural memory.
These two projects are where that practice started.
HOME: Black & Brown Only
Curatorial Direction, Spatial Design & Bilingual Audio Tour
An immersive installation where Black and Brown artists built a home inside a gallery instead of hanging work on white walls. Visitors take off their shoes and live with the art, or walk the outside path and watch, the way our communities are so often watched.
Curating this work meant designing the whole house: laying out the floor with the feng shui bagua, writing and narrating an 18-track bilingual audio tour, and building it with no budget, the artists’ own labor, and borrowed brick. On closing day the furniture was sold like an estate sale, and the home came apart.
43 Voices
Curatorial Direction & Exhibition Narrative
A social justice exhibition connecting Milwaukee’s most segregated corridor to Ayotzinapa, Mexico. Built to hold space for grief, memory, and solidarity across two communities that rarely get to speak to each other directly.
Curating this work meant more than hanging art: it meant building the narrative architecture that let a Milwaukee audience genuinely sit with a Mexican tragedy as their own concern, not a distant headline
Itotia Mexica Xi LLC.
Founder & Director
Founded and led a multidisciplinary Aztec dance and cultural arts organization in Chicago. Defining its mission, visual identity, and branding from the ground up, and directing artistic production including choreography collaboration, set design, lighting, and staging.
Beyond the stage, the org extended into the community: developing youth arts programming with After School Matters and Little Village High School, and collaborating with professional stage crews at Thalia Hall to bring productions to live Chicago audiences.