Coralina Rodriguez Meyer
Project: Mama Spa Botanica workshop Bedstuy
Mama Spa Botanica Healing Gestures workshop Bedstuy transforms a fertile neighborhood habitat into a public health agency building workshop with a culminating Public Installation in a Bedstuy Community Garden. Open to all ages, the workshop begins with a hands and face casting session lead by artists, fertility health practioners & botanicas. Bedstuy neighbors will collaboratively create fertility effigies as identity reconstructions to take home while, contributing to a larger monument made of weathered construction materials in a Bedstuy garden.
Bio:
Born in a car in an Everglades swamp, raised Ital & Tinkuy between Homestead FL and the Caribbean, Coralina Rodriguez Meyer is a mixed-race indigenous Andean American, Brooklyn based Quipucamayoc artist working across archives, architecture and advocacy. Spanning 2 decades and 30 countries, Coralina collaborates with reproductive and climate justice leaders to build civic agency with their LGBTQIA+ melanated neighbors. They founded Mama Spa Botanica project in 2007 to offer full spectrum cultural care to survivors of conflicting climate & fertility crisis in America. Coralina is a boardmember of Menstrual Market, advocates for Urban Greenworks & Solar Libre climate justice organizations after 2 decades of direct action community organizing. She is currently an artist in residence at Governor’s Island with Ankhlave Arts garden fellowship and has a forthcoming solo show at Thomas Jefferson University.