Remix: How Artist Scherezade Garcia Came to Work and Exist on Her Own Terms

Latina to Latina

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4.7 • 624 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Listening to Scherezade Garcia talk about her art and her creative process is watching someone relive the many ways she has made herself free— from other’s scrutiny, from expectations, from the need to justify her very existence. Alicia visited Scherezade’s studio and spoke with her about the notion of selling the Caribbean as “paradise”, the business of being a working artist, and what it means to be home. Follow Scherezade on Twitter @scherezade_art and IG @scherezadegarcia. If you loved this episode, listen to Ramona Rosales and Susie Jaramillo for more on visual mediums. Show your love and become a Latina to Latina Patreon supporter!

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0:00.0	We continue with our special playlist to celebrate the incredible women who've been on this show.
0:05.3	Enjoy.
0:12.1	Cherissa Garcia-Garcia tells stories of migration and colonization.
0:16.3	As an interdisciplinary visual artist, a painter, a printmaker, an installation master,
0:21.6	she uses objects like life jackets, suitcases, mattresses, tents, umbrellas, and newspaper clippings
0:26.6	to evoke powerful questions of what it means to belong.
0:30.6	Hi.
0:34.6	Hi.
0:35.6	This is so beautiful. I love this.
0:39.3	So we careful with your head, please.
0:41.3	I will.
0:42.3	Because you're tall.
0:43.3	I don't have that issue.
0:45.3	So do you live here as well or you just work?
0:49.3	No, no, no. This is our house.
0:51.3	No, this is a home and studio.
0:57.0	So what do you want to do?
0:59.0	You want to go downstairs to show you some of the work or...
1:01.0	Let's sit down and let's talk.
1:03.0	And then we can do that.
1:06.0	So you tell me when I am speaking too fast.
1:10.0	There's no such thing. No? Okay, good, because you when I am speaking too fast. There's no such thing.
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