LAS IMAGINISTAS

Composed of Celeste De Luna, Nansi Guevara and Christina Patino Sukhgian Houle, Las Imaginistas are a socially engaged art collective based in the Rio Grande Valley.  The trio have worked together and independently attacking a wide range of community development issues including immigration, housing, women's rights, racial justice and education.  

In addition to being practiced artists De Luna, Houle and Guevara are all experienced educators and activists working in collaboration with their community to advance justice and equity at a local level.  Las Imaginistas prioritize skill sharing, community voice and radical imagination.  Using their skills as printmakers, healers, performers and designers they attack civic problems at the local, city and state level.   With residents, activists, planers and educators they are building today towards a better, co-created, equitable tomorrow.  

In 2017 their project concept Taller de Permiso was named as an Artplace America Creative Placemaking Finalist.