Coralina Rodriguez Meyer

Born in a car in an Everglades swamp on Miccosukee territory, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer (she/her) is a mixed-race indigenous Andean American Quipucamayoc artist.  Raised in Ital & Tinkuy in the Caribbean, Coralina founded Mama Spa Botanica workshop after her infertility diagnosis in 2007 to offer full-spectrum cultural care for survivors of conflicting man-made and climate crises. Spanning 2 decades and 30 countries, participants from vulnerable yet unvanquished melanated, immigrant, LGBTQIA+ families translate indigenous plantology wisdom to transgress plantation labor systems through installations of collaborative documentary sculpture, photography, and painting, preserving matriarchal sovereignty from archives to advocacy. Their collective works translate mummification rituals from doulas, griots, climate advocates, and her Botanica curandera matriarchs into survival strategies. Coralina received an Architecture BFA from Parsons and an MFA from Hunter College, CUNY. They taught at Pratt, FIU, and Miami-Dade College, and held residencies at Baxter St. at CAM, Ankhlave Arts Alliance, and Bronx Museum AIM. She was featured in the NY Times, Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Guardian & ArtForum, with exhibitions at the Queens Museum, Bronx Museum, Pérez Art Museum & Smithsonian.