Esmeralda Vazquez

Vazquez is a Chicano artist with a BFA in Illustration from the School of Visual Arts, and an MFA graduate and has been involved in the Newark Art for several years. She was born in Texas, and grew up in California. The daughter of migrant field workers, she is rooted in her Mexican-American heritage. Traversing both worlds, she is well aware of the “othering” of migrants. She encompasses her experiences in the fields and migrations in her work of creature making and specimen gathering, depicting her relationship with American society as a symbiotic parasitic necessity.