Melanie Cervantes
Bay Area, California, United States
Melanie Cervantes (Xicana) has never lived far from the California Coast having been born in Harbor City, California and raised in a small city in the South Bay of Los Angeles. Now making her home in the San Francisco Bay Area she creates visual art that is inspired by the people around her and her communities’ desire for radical change and social transformation. In 2007 she co-founded Dignidad Rebelde, a graphic arts collaboration that produces screen prints, political posters and multimedia projects that are grounded in Third World and indigenous movements that build people's power to transform the conditions of fragmentation, displacement and loss of culture that result from histories of colonialism, genocide, and exploitation. Dignidad Rebelde’s purpose is to translate the stories of struggle and resistance into artwork that can be put back into the hands of the communities who inspire it.
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El Corazon postcard
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James Baldwin postcard
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Firebrands: Activists You Didn’t Learn About in School
Justseeds Collaboration
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Yolotl
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Rafael Moreno on Indigenous People’s Day
October 9, 2014
From Left to Right: Winona Laduke [Anishnaabe], Wicahpiluta Candelaria [Rumsen Ohlone], and Comandante Ramona [Tzotzil Maya]. Art by Rafael Moreno. I am really pleased to share some beautiful pieces made…
Book: In Our Power
September 30, 2014
I recently completed the art and cover design for an exciting new book by Nora Barrows-Friedman on the U.S. student movement for Palestine Solidarity including the rich history of Palestinian-American…
Reflections of Healing
September 28, 2014
Join me at the Oakland Museum of California for the public unveiling of Reflections of Healing, a large-scale art installation created by artist and educator Brett Cook with participation from…
Dignidad Rebelde…Abolitionist Artists
December 21, 2013
The Abolitionist, a newspaper publication dedicated to the strategy and practice of prison industrial complex abolition has transcribed a presentation I (Melanie Cervantes) did on the collaborative space called Dignidad…
VIDEO: Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color
February 1, 2013
TO WATCH VIDEO CLICK HERE http://youtu.be/0QSor8Va6d8 I gave an interview to Claudia Hernandez as part of her project “Today’s Revolutionary Women of Color”. It reveals a bunch of slices of…
Make A Difference-CA Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights
August 30, 2012
This is big. The California State Senate just passed A.B. 889, the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. The most populous state in the country is on the threshold of changing…
May Day Poster-A Peek into My Process
April 11, 2012
DOWNLOAD MAY DAY POSTER BY CLICKING HERE I was recently invited by the collective members of Indig-nación; a Spanish language newspaper for the Occupy Wall St. movement, written and edited…
Rise Up: The Political Graphics of Dignidad Rebelde
December 4, 2010
Please come Jesus Barraza and Melanie Cervantes of Dignidad Rebelde at our opening at Artillery Gallery in San Francisco on December 4th at 7:30pm. You can support local artists and…
Planeta o Muerte! Venceremos! -Together We Will Save the World
October 9, 2010
Planeta o Muerte! Venceremos! -Together We Will Save the World Last Spring tens of thousands of people from over 150 nations traveled to the World People’s Conference on Climate Change…
Oscar Grant Murals in Downtown Oakland
July 5, 2010
As the city of Oakland waits with anxiety about the decision the jury will come to and the final outcome of the Johannes Mehserle trail verdict artists are busy at…
2010 Socialism Conference
July 2, 2010
This Sunday Jesus and I will be presenting at the Socialism Conference in Oakland. It will be at the Oakland Marriot.Sunday, July 4th at 11:30 am. "Art and Resistance". The…
Because I have roots in Arizona…
May 28, 2010
A Xicanita in the making, Arizona, 1982 My earliest memories of experiencing the Southern Border are of trips to the place where my dad grew up and where my tio…
Palestine will be free! Graphic care-package #2
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Gaza Must Live!
Solidarity with Haiti
Reproductive Justice, Health, & Freedom Care Package
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From Colombia to Palestine Care Package
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Defend Jerusalem
Solidarity with the Rohingya people
Vote for the Many Not the Few!
In Lak Ech
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Assata Shakur postcard
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twLF defend ethnic studies
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Esperanza
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Resilient
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Artists are here…
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Let Go
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El Corazon de Pan Dulce
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Be the Change! a Justseeds Coloring Book
Justseeds Collaboration
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“Heart and Soul” Postcard Set
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Las Plantitas Heal Me
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