Maria Patricia Tinajero
Maria Patricia Tinajero was born next to an imaginary line, the 0⁰0’0’’ parallel also known as the Equator. This line divides the earth into two halves, a northern and southern hemisphere. In much the same way, Patricia’s artistic world thrives at a place of intersection, in this case the intersection between reality and imagination – actuality and potentiality. It is here in this place that she cultivates and attends to both her artistic and academic work.
Mercedes Falk
Mercedes Falk is the Director of Puentes/Bridges, a non-profit in Western Wisconsin that works to increase cultural understanding between the community that immigrates to work here and the rural and farming community. She facilitates communication between dairy farmers and farmworkers from Mexico and helps them understand each other on a deeper level.