Natalia Rocafuerte

studio & photo blog

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Writing my thesis and finishing my album! My installation won an Honorable mention and I've been emailing wtih Jonathan Couette, is my life finally mine!?

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My Advisor Phoebe and January 2021

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Self portrait in my room at an anarchist co-op in Austin, circa 2017. Observing yourself is so distorted, I couldn't look at this photo when I took it, now looking back it's not that bad.

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Natalia Rocafuerte graduate crit

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Mexic-Arte Museum Selected as a Grantee of H-E-B’s Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust

Mexic-Arte Museum is pleased to announce that it has been selected as a grant recipient of H-E-B’s Tournament of Champions Charitable Trust for an award of $15,000. This award will be going to funding and revamping Mexic-Arte Museum’s Free Family Sundays into “Familias Bienvenidas al Museo Mexic-Arte, Gratis en Domingo, Cortesía de H-E-B” or “Families Welcome at Mexic-Arte Museum, Free on Sundays, Sponsored by H-E-B”. The new features of our Free Family Sundays will include bilingual tours offered on Sundays year round to improve our visitors’ experience and better serve the community who benefit from this service. Tours begin on Sunday, December 9th with English tours at 2pm and Spanish tours at 3pm. H-E-B’s commitment to supporting projects which focus on education, family, and youth provides Mexic-Arte Museum the ability to keep our Sunday’s free of charge. This reverberates throughout the Austin community by creating family traditions and influencing Austin youth to be active within museums and the arts; all without the need to charge. We thank H-E-B for their generous donation and support of Mexic-Arte’s Mission of cultural enrichment and education of Latinx art for all.  

Image: Visitors gain insights about the Young Latinx Artists exhibition from YLA 23 artist Natalia Rocafuerte. Photo by Sylvia Orozco

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Museum Studies Program Visits Mexic-Arte Museum!

Left: Education Associate, Natalia Rocafuerte, discusses the work of Diego Huerta with students from Govalle Elementary School. Photo by Ariel Kay. Right: Education Coordinator, Stephanie Sandoval, leads a demonstration with students from Govalle Elementary School from the Museum’s indigenous mask collection. Photo by Ariel Kay.

Fifth grade students at Govalle Elementary School had the opportunity to visit Mexic-Arte Museum as part of the Arts and Humanities Museum Studies Program. During their special visit, they received a tour of the Museum’s exhibits and were able to view some of the Museum’s indigenous mask collection to learn about their history. The students have wrapped up their art-making classes, where they created their own paper-mache masks and are now working with Education Coordinator, Stephanie Sandoval, to organize their student-run exhibition at the end of the year. The Arts and Humanities Museum Studies program is made possible by the generous support of Texas Women for the Arts and Michael and Jeanne Klein.

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Lunch at the Museum: Noon Gallery Talk Series

Image Credit: Left to Right Rebecca Gomez and Natalia Rocafuerte. Photograph by Sara Palma

Join us once a month on Fridays at Mexic-Arte Museum for our “Lunch at the Museum” Noon Gallery Talk Series. The monthly talks, led by Curator of Exhibitions and Programs: Rebecca Gomez and Education Associate: Natalia Rocafuerte, will provide insights into our current exhibitions and programming. If you are unable to make it, make sure to catch the Facebook and Instagram live stream.

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at San Diego, California https://www.instagram.com/p/CQr99K5FXE8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#sunliner (at Union Station Los Angeles) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQbhUpXJQxj/?utm_medium=tumblr

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#jung (at San Felipe Pueblo, New Mexico) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQZaPRHJdy8/?utm_medium=tumblr

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On my crosscountry research on the #southwestchief 🚆 boarded at Union Station in Chicago! San Diego bound for the next three days! 👀🎥 ☁️ had the strange realization that my short film Dream of Emma and Tony is set on a westbound train from Chicago. Serendipitous or what!? 🤘 (at Chicago, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQW1SwqpaTM/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Andie and I on film by my brother! Check out @bidibidibummer TONIGHT! In austin at Cyberqueen by @y2kmusic !! Also bobby pulido shirts still available XOXO 👁 (at Austin, Texas) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQBqjG5lEw4/?utm_medium=tumblr

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If ur curious on how I get my visuals 👀👁🎥Check out this podcast for a rundown of my hardware/AV set up for my work! Thank u for having me!! 👋 hi ya'll happy to share EP 003 of the podcast is live on YT! In this episode we are delighted to share the experimental, psychedelic and surreal films and A/V art of Austin,TX based artist Natalia Rocafuerte! This was such a fun and candid chat about being a Latinx video artist and filmmaker and the mainly ups and few downs of life as an experimental artist! We get into some really cool thoughts on how culture infuses itself into your work, art and academia, living in a dungeon, navigating the collective consciousness, glitch art and collecting late night messages from a dream hotline. Hope you all enjoy it as much as we did and thanks for watching! 🔮📺🖤🙌🏽 Check out Natalia Rocafuerte's work online! https://nataliarocafuerte.com/ . . . #videoartist #videoart #videosynthesis #audiovisualart #latinx #film #filmmaker #psychedelicart #bordertown #experimentalfilm #experimental #austintx #dreams #videoproduction #dungeon #glitchart #visualart #lumen #collectiveconsciousness #hotline #latinxartist #xicanx #glitchlab Reposted from @innerfrq (at Tucson, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQBmDSdF-WU/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"Asi soy y que?" 2021 photo collage on fabric with ruffles at the Line Austin Lobby. Excited for tomorrow! rsvp link in bio (at The LINE Hotel Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPjB9XxF2Ho/?utm_medium=tumblr

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"No Lard, Gluten Free" (2021) videsynthesis collage fabric print on display at @thelinehotel (at The LINE Hotel Austin) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPhCQVClAS8/?utm_medium=tumblr