Karina Puente

Location
East Falls

What if we knew it’s possible to fall in love with our lives; wherein our work becomes the relief and freedom we seek. When we choose to feel-in-and-on-purpose, we access a pathway that lights up and calls us forward. By intentionally making the choice to care about how we feel, we can choose the course of our lives.

Karina Puente and runs womxn-led visual arts studio. Her studio specializes in producing hand-cut art installations for cultural centers, events, branding and the home. Karina's artwork is anchored in the traditional Mexican folk art called Papel Picado: an art form that translates to “cut paper”. As a Latinx artist (Mexican-American), she contemporize the traditional art form in the scale of work she make and how it's shared. With a background in painting and drawing, I also provide artworks ~such as painted portraits~ directly to art lovers. In summary, Karina an artist-entrepreneur always adapting to new ways of innovating and writing new stories through beauty, joy and focus. 

Awarded Grants

2020
Art and Change Grant (ACG)

$2,500
Discipline(s)
Multidisciplinary
Social Change Intents
Cultural Preservation
Racial Justice

Karina’s project #SisterlyHistory collaborates with nine Black and Brown businesswomen and poets in Germantown to hand-carve the poetic impact statements of each woman on large-scale banners using Papel Picado. These banners will turn the written work of her collaborators into new monuments, displayed where the collaborators live and work in Germantown. In a time where the lives of Black and Brown womxn are erased, #SisterlyHistory will not only document but memorialize the participants.

Naomi Brito, WHHY; (Producer)

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