Biography

I am a ceramic artist, teaching artist, and healing facilitator born in Lima, Peru and rooted in the Twin Cities, Minnesota. I come from a family of thinkers, community-driven activists, and makers – a household grounded in the tradition of craft that drew me first to fashion design and then, inevitably, to clay. So similar but so different.

I received a BA in Art with a focus in ceramics from Central Connecticut State University and completed the MN NICE residency program at Northern Clay Center in 2020 under the mentorship of Ursula Hargens. Currently, I work as a Studio Technician at Macalester College, as a Teaching Artist at Northern Clay Center, and as a ceramics instructor and studio manager at Twin Cities Maker – where I helped establish the organization's ceramics studio in 2025.

My practice embodies the cosmovision of the indigenous people of Peru. Through community, ritual, and the craft, we stay connected to one another and to the whole of the cosmos. This is why I’m drawn to wood and soda firing – the communal vigil of tending the fire through the night, reading the fire together, surrendering the work to the flames and the atmosphere. My ceramic work, organic in form, becomes the physical vessel that holds it all – and from which I pour what I am able to give back.

As a healing facilitator, I am extending my ceramic practice into ceremonial community spaces that look like equinox workshops, altar-building gatherings, and healing circles that bring together the political and the spiritual, the material and the sacred.

I am currently developing a body of work for exhibition and a growing series of ceremonial offerings rooted in the connection we have to each other, connection to the land, and our shared cultural inheritance. I am embodying art as healing, gaining self-knowledge through the slow making process, and helping build a stronger, more resilient community.

I live in Saint Paul. I am building toward downtown Minneapolis.