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Celina Jara Tovar is a first generation Xicana Mexicana-Americana artist born and raised in Denver, Colorado. Celina considers herself to be an interdisciplinary artist, and is currently engaging with paint and print media materials. She has also previously worked in 3-D art through ceramics and sculpture. Celina's art primarily focuses on artivismo/artivism and family mapping themes, as well as cultural Xicanx and Mexican themes. Artivismo/artivism is a form of activism utilizing one's art work as a resistance against systems of oppression for an individual and/or a community.

As a young woman and artist of color, Celina has utilized her work to resist and advocate for people in her immediate life who have often fallen into the shadow's of American policies because of their culture, their language, their ethnicities, and their legal status. 

Currently, Celina is attending a graduate program in Art Therapy and Counseling at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is expected to finish her program May 2024. Celina is interested in the intersections between art and creative development within community and therapeutic benefits that can happen during collective/community art-making. Art is about making meaning of ourselves, and meaning-making is crucial to art therapy and creative development. 

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