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M. Jenea Sanchez (born 1985) is a
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artist, photographer, and educator. She co-founded the nonprofit arts organization Border Arts Corridor.


Biography

Sanchez was born in 1985 and raised in Douglas, Arizona, and nearby
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, in the state of
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,
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. Her mother was born in Mexico, and Sanchez was born in the United States. She received her
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degree from Arizona State University (ASU) in 2011. Her work is centered around the intertwinement of these two geopolitical settings, and explores different modes of the "domesticana" expression.


Advocacy and education

In her hometown of Douglas, Sanchez has taught photography at
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and graphic design at a local high school. Sanchez co-founded Border Arts Corridor (BAC), based in Douglas, with her husband, Robert Uribe, in 2015.


Art

Sanchez thinks of her home as a site for art making. She works in both Mexico and the United States. She considers the community in these landscapes and sustainability through crafting and harvesting from the environment. In an interview with Kent State University in fall of 2020 she says, "I reflect on my family and the people who came and walked the deserts before me. How did I get to this place and moment with this privilege?” Sanchez has exhibited her work at the
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (SMoCA) in the state of Arizona is a museum in the Old Town district of downtown Scottsdale, Arizona. The museum is dedicated to contemporary art, design, and architecture. The Museum has five galleries t ...
and the
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Museum of Art. She has frequently collaborated with artists who also work on the border of Mexico, such as her fellow ASU alum Gabriela Muñoz. Together they bring different approaches to processes and have been collaborators since graduate school. They have created large-scale installations centered on women, identity, and the borderlands, and produced ''Caldo de Pollo'' in 2020, a video and installation on foodways and shot with their families and members of ''DouglaPrieta Trabajan'', a woman-run collective based in Agua Prieta, Mexico. Sanchez also photographed women of DouglaPrieta in her 2017 portrait series, ''The Mexican Women’s Post Apocalyptic Survival Guide in the Southwest'', and received a Research and Development grant from the Arizona Commission on the Arts for her digital media work with and about the collective. According to Sanchez, the women of DouglaPrieta have determination that is "representative of millions of women around the world who face extreme oppression and poverty."


Selected awards and distinctions

* National Association of Latino Arts and Culture’s Leadership Institute * Mellon-Fronteridades Creative Scholar


See also

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Ecofeminist art Ecofeminist art emerged in the 1970s in response to ecofeminist philosophy, that was particularly articulated by writers such as Carolyn Merchant, Val Plumwood, Donna Haraway, Starhawk, Greta Gaard, Karen J. Warren, and Rebecca Solnit. Those ...
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Ecological art Ecological art is an art genre and artistic practice that seeks to preserve, remediate and/or vitalize the life forms, resources and ecology of Earth. Ecological art practitioners do this by applying the principles of ecosystems to living species a ...
* Environmental art *
Environmental sculpture Environmental sculpture is sculpture that creates or alters the environment for the viewer, as opposed to presenting itself figurally or monumentally before the viewer. A frequent trait of larger environmental sculptures is that one can actually en ...
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Land Arts of the American West Land Arts of the American West is a studio-based field program that seeks to construct an expanded definition of land art through direct experience connecting the full range of human interventions in the landscape—from pre-contact indigenous to ...
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Site-specific art Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. Site-specific art is produced both by commercial artists, and independently, and can ...


References


External links

* Artist's website: http://mjeneasanchez.com/ * Border Arts Corridor: https://www.bacaz.org/ * ''Skinning to Whiten'': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo7GGM4JA7g&feature=youtu.be * Video work by M. Jenea Sanchez on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/jenea777/videos {{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, M. Jenea 1985 births Living people 21st-century American women artists American artists of Mexican descent American contemporary artists American performance artists Arizona State University alumni Artists from Arizona Chicano art People from Cochise County, Arizona People from Douglas, Arizona Southwestern artists