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Tanya Aguiñiga
Tanya Aguiñiga is a Los Angeles–based artist, designer, and compassionate activist. With a range of natural materials -- from wool to beeswax to human hair -- she crafts furniture, textiles, and sculptural works. Born in San Diego and raised in Tijuana, much of her work is shaped by her experience growing up within a binational, working - class family. Addressing cultural prejudice, gender disparities, and other urgent injustices, Aguiñiga advocates for social change through community - based projects, particularly within communities that neighbor the US-Mexico border. She strives to create dialogue, collaboration, and interconnectedness in everything she creates, whether she's making a chair, organizing a community project, or designing a hotel lobby. Her work becomes an extension of her life, and in response to those who find it difficult to define her with any convenient classification, she simply responds, "I am whatever you need me to be." |