Cultural Organizing
De La Casa Artist Residency
The De La Casa Residency supports Rio Grande Valley artists to develop and exhibit new work. Over the course of the residency artists are financially and professionally supported to engage in explorations that draw attention to the RGV community, focusing on facets like family, personal histories, visual representation, social dynamics, and identity.
Learn more about the De La Casa artists here:
De La Casa Cohort 2:
De la Casa Cohort 1:
- Interview with Monica Lugo and Sam Rawls
- Frontera Dance Project Performance 1st 1/2
- Frontera Dance Project Performance 2nd ½
- Out in the 956 Interview
Ponte Trucha Print Studio Movimiento
We continue the Chicano tradition of screen printing in movement spaces by engaging the RGV community in poster making and graphic design for local actions, grassroots campaigns and collaborations with social justice movements.
Check out our Projects:
- Movimiento Screen Printing Residency: Aligned Mind
- People Powered Posters
- Pirate Poetry Press
Roots Break Walls
The Roots Breaks Walls Campaign is a multidisciplinary project that enacts narratives of abundance, interdependence and belonging via our connection to native flora and plant systems with the Rio Grande Valley community. In the three part series of events we created a pro-immigrant narrative ecosystem with messaging around tradition, striving, and labor. We’ve collaborated with 6 artists, 2 wildlife centers and a community garden to activate a space for discussion, exploration, art and learning.
- Roots Break Walls
- The Radical Root
- Root Break Walls II: Rooting Abundance
- Roots Fest!
- Roots Break Walls Field Guide Zine
MIRAAA MEDIA FEST
Trucha, with artist Natalia Rocafuerte, and ENTRE Center and Film Archive founded Miraaa Media Festival, a multimedia online showcase of regional experimental video and visual artists. In 2024 the event expanded to Laredo with collaborators the Daphne Art Foundation and the Laredo Film Society. The Fests feature curated collaborations, digital bumpers, short videos and art exhibits.
