Miriam Munguia
1955 - 2021, Honduras ∙ CE artist from 2013 - 2021
Photo by Brian Nguyen
A former laundress in her home country of Honduras, Miriam Munguia was instantly attracted to tapestries, quilting, and weaving upon joining the Creativity Explored studio in 2013. Munguia was a dedicated worker, meditatively weaving together baskets, assembling complex figurative tapestries, or embroidering quilts with lyrical, meandering lines.
Munguia was deaf and used hand gestures and non-linguistic verbalizations to communicate – her art practice was an effective tool to connect with her community.
Graphic forms, which often represent people, houses, animals, and tropical plants, take inspiration from her native home in Honduras, and the people she surrounds herself with here in San Francisco. Munguia's visual language continued to grow as she experimented with new materials and techniques, and collaborated with fellow CE artists.
Mungia's work was included in several exhibitions at Creativity Explored.
Read more about Munguia on our blog here: creativityexplored.org/news/in-memoriam-miriam-munguia
Select Exhibitions & Projects
2021
Mode Brut, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA
2020
Of Here From There | De Aquí Desde Allá, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
2017
Black White, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2016
Celebrating a Vision: Art and Disability San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA
2015
Tree of Life, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
2014
Elemental Renditions, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
A Curious Menagerie, Creativity Explored, San Francisco, CA
