Join Los Angeles-based Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez at the National Museum of Mexican Art for a workshop inspired by her current series the Codex Rodriguez Mondragon, and artwork You Will Not Be Forgotten - Mapa for Child Migrants died in Customs Border Enforcement Custody 2018-2019 on view as part of the Dia De Los Muertos exhibition. Participants will observe an artist demonstration on traditional colors of the Americas and use colonial Mexican recipes to produce their own hand-processed watercolors. These watercolors will then be utilized to create an original portrait on amate paper for your ofrenda.

$50 non-refundable registration fee covers all materials needed. Email angela@nationalmuseumofmexicanart.org to register.

About the Artist: 
Sandy Rodriguez (b. 1975, National City, CA) is a Los Angeles-based Chicana artist and researcher. Her ongoing series Codex Rodriguez-Mondragón is made up of a collection of maps and paintings about the intersections of history, social memory, contemporary politics, and cultural production. Her works are in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, AR; Amon Carter Museum, TX; The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, CA; Denver Art Museum, CO; the Mellon Art Collection, NYC, and others. She has been honored with multiple fellowships and awards, including the 2025-2026 Kully Distinguished Fellowship in American Art from The Huntington Library, Art Museum & Botanical Garden, a 2024 US Latinx Art Fellowship, the 2023 Jacob Lawrence Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the 2023 Hermitage Greenfield Prize, the Caltech-Huntington Art + Research Residency 2020-2021, and the Creative Capital Award 2021. Rodriguez and her work have been featured in BBC News: In The Studio, Hyperallergic, LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Spectrum News 1, and others.