Zine #01
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Fall Edition
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Mercatus has dedicated the first zine to celebrating Latin culture and Latin owned-businesses. Artist Savina Monet, shared with us her inspiration for the Somos Latinx campaign and the artwork she created to celebrate intersectionality of Latin culture.
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YANCY HANDMADE
WRITTEN BY DIEGO DIAZ
Yancy Handmade is a family-owned enterprise created in July 2018 by Ana Yancy and her father, Andrés Yancy. They feature handmade crafts made by Colombian Indigenous artisans, but more than that, Yancy Handmade is a catalyst to preserve Colombian Indigenous culture.
BLIND INSECT GALLERY
WRITTEN BY Marina Martinez-Bateman
“You have five seconds to rent a space in another person’s brain,” Pepe Moscoso told me in a cafe across the street from Blind Insect, his gallery on the corner of NE Alberta and 29th.
GUILLÉN FAMILY WINES
WRITTEN BY DIEGO DIAZ
Jesús Guillén was a passionate crafter, artist, and head of Guillén Family Wines—one of the few Latinx-owned wine labels in the United States. A native of Chihuahua, Mexico, Jesús was loved by all those who met him in his meteoric journey in winemaking world.
Meet Hey Doc
Produced by Red Jasper Society
Montserrat Andreys has started an interdisciplinary health clinic that will cater to underserved identities and prioritize the cultivation of safe space. She took time to chat with Mercatus about how the clinic came to be.
Community Grocery Guide
Explore the Latino/a/x/e Grocery Guide
Written by Krista Garcia
Get to know the owner behind our featured grocers through personal interviews or jump right to the grocery guide and get shopping!
Somos Latinx
Just released: the latest installment of the Mercatus Cultural Business Guide, Somos Latinx, with artwork by Mercatus member Savina Monet. All the businesses listed identify as Hispanic or Latino/a/x/e.
A note from the artist: “To try and encompass the Latin American diaspora is like trying to bottle lightning. There’s no one representation for our people, we are every shade, shape, and sure proud of it. Collage is the only medium that can attempt to capture the intersectionality of Latin culture. By using significant images of historical leaders, like Carlota Lucumi, an enslaved Yoruba woman in Cuba who led multiple uprisings against colonizer forces, Roberto Clemente, a Puerto Rican baseball player who was a hero on and off the field, Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan woman who advocated for Indigenous rights and many others, we can begin to paint a picture of what it means to be a Latinx.”
– Savina Monet, artist
