La Peña is bringing our annual Holiday Mercado online this year! Scroll below to browse through all the amazing vendors and click the links to purchase from them!
Aida Salazar
Books
Aida Salazar is an arts activist and an award-winning author whose work focuses on issues of identity and social justice. She is the author of the novels, The Moon Within (International Latino Book Award, Américas Award Honor, Golden Poppy Award), the critically-acclaimed Land of the Cranes and the forthcoming, A Seed in the Sun. She’s also author of the forthcoming picture books Jovita Wore Pants: The Story of a Revolutionary Fighter, and In the Spirit of a Dream: 13 Stories of Immigrants of Color and co-editor of Calling the Moon: Writings on Menstruation by Middle Grade Authors of Color. She is a founding member of Las Musas, a Latinx kid lit author collective. Her story, By the Light of the Moon was adapted into a ballet by the Sonoma Conservatory of Dance and is the first Xicana-themed ballet in history.
Jose Flores Chamale
Art Prints, Shirts, Stickers, Original work
Jose Flores is a self-taught artist based out of New York whose heart and spirit remain rooted in his place of birth, Guatemala, the heartland of the Maya. His homeland’s long and ancient traditions of the Maya is where he draws his inspiration for his work.
He pays homage to his people and ancestors by capturing their sacredness with powerful, dream-like portraits. Rich and lively earth tone colors of blue and green splash behind colors of brown skin to capture the special relationship between indigenous peoples and Mother Earth.
Through his art, Jose revives his indigenous heritage and identity that has long been in a 500-year battle for survival.