Art Platica with Amanda Ayala
Sat, Aug 02
|Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore
Join us for an afternoon art talk with Amanda Ayala whose solo exhibit LIBROS is currently up in our galeria.
Time & Location
Aug 02, 2025, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Medicine For Nightmares Bookstore, 3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
About the event
Amanda will be in conversation with Josiah Luis Alderete about her beautiful y chinogn exhibit, her art practice, her inspirations, her suenops and her hustle as a working class artist. Expect lots of love and chisme for real.
Amanda Ayala is an interdisciplinary Xicana Indigenous artist and maker who centers people targeted by oppression and acknowledges their brilliance. Amanda leads and facilitates workshops that combine artist liberation and social justice for people of all ages. She creates within community as a way to heal and transform society. linktr.ee/xicanaollin
“Here are some of my books…sketchbooks, notebooks, journals, books I sewed together, books gifted and filled, books that hold things I want to remember, things others have shared with me and commitments I have made to and for myself. When we create, these pieces of ourselves are reflections of hours and generations of thinking, feeling, trying, changing, experiencing and dreaming. These books…